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Irreversible tissue loss seen within 40 days of spinal cord injury
Publication date: 2 July 2013
The rate and extent of damage to the spinal cord and brain following spinal cord injury have long been a mystery. Now, a joint research effort by UCL, the University of Zurich and University Hospital Balgrist has found evidence that patients already have irreversible tissue loss in the spinal cord within 40 days of injury.
Director appointed to Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
Publication date: 26 June 2013
UCL is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor John O'Keefe as Inaugural Director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.
TRACK-HD study identifies early predictors of disease progression in Huntington's disease
Publication date: 9 May 2013
An international team led by researchers at the UCL Institute of Neurology has identified a set of tests that could help identify whether - and how - Huntington’s disease (HD) is progressing in groups of people who are not yet showing symptoms.
Call for proposals: UCL–French Embassy science and technology workshops
Publication date: 26 March 2013
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The Great Brain Experiment: crowdsourcing data on how we think and act
Publication date: 11 March 2013
A new mobile app developed by UCL scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging will enable the team to carry out on an unprecedented scale experiments that previously could only be conducted on small groups of volunteers in the lab.
Psychogenic diseases linked to abnormal brain activity
Publication date: 25 February 2013
Individuals with psychogenic disease (i.e. physical illness stemming from emotional or mental stresses) have brains that function differently to people with organic diseases, according to new research from UCL and the University of Cambridge.
Participants sought for neuropsychology research project
Publication date: 21 February 2013
Healthy young people (aged 5-16 years) are wanted to take part in a UCL research project: Neuroimaging investigations of language to aid paediatric neurosurgical decision-making.
Disabled at greater risk of violence and subsequent mental ill-health
Publication date: 20 February 2013
People with disabilities are at a greater risk of being the victims of violence and of suffering mental ill health when victimised, according to research published today in the open access journal PLOS ONE.
Human Brain Project wins major EU funding
Publication date: 28 January 2013
The Human Brain Project has been officially selected as one of the European Commission’s two FET Flagship projects. The new project will unite European efforts to address one of the greatest challenges of modern science: understanding the human brain.
Record number of Marie Curie Fellowships for research at UCL
Publication date: 18 December 2012
23 postdoctoral
researchers from 14 different countries have been awarded Marie Curie
Individual Fellowships. The awards will enable researchers to spend up to two
years working with research teams across all schools at UCL.

