UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences

Source: The Lancet/The Lancet Neurology Press Release

TRACK-HD investigators, including UCL Institute of Neurology researchers have identified a set of objective, validated measures that can be used to assess new treatments for Huntington’s disease (HD). The study, published last week in The Lancet Neurology, should increase the likelihood of success of future trials of new drugs to delay the onset and reduce the severity of HD.

Helen Davy, a UCL BSc Speech Sciences Graduate (2011) has been awarded the Student Project Prize of the British Aphasiology Society for her project entitled ‘Getting into shape: The effect of Shape Coding on the spoken language production of a man with chronic aphasia’.

UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience's Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore gave a talk on the teenage brain at the BBC Free Thinking Festival, broadcast on Radio 3 on 23 November 2011. Listen here

Congratulations to UCL’s Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging Research Fellow, Klaus Wunderlich, who has won the Lloyd’s “Science of Risk” Prize in the category of Behavioural Risk. His paper was also voted “Best Overall Paper”.