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A new blood-based test to help predict Parkinson’s disease
Clinical Neurology Research
14 April 2020
Research carried out by George Tofaris and his team has led to the development of a new way to test for Parkinson’s disease before the main symptoms occur. This could allow clinicians to identify patients who would benefit from precision therapies that are currently at clinical trial stage.
Seminar Summary: Unravelling the inflammatory neuropathies
Clinical Neurology Event Research
6 April 2020
Dr Alexander Davies summarises a departmental seminar by Dr Simon Rinaldi
Improving epilepsy treatment in Africa
Clinical Neurology
11 February 2020
The NIHR Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) programme has awarded £4.9 million to help fund a project investigating epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa.
Testing epilepsy drug on people with Alzheimer's disease
Clinical Neurology Research
17 January 2020
Dr Arjune Sen is leading a new six-month trial funded by the MRC Confidence in Concept scheme. The study is known as IliAD (Investigation of Levetiracetam in Alzheimer's Disease).
Parkinson's research group receive data sharing award
Award Clinical Neurology
18 December 2019
The Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre received the award for their contribution to the Critical Path for Parkinson’s initiative
Angela Vincent honoured for excellence in epilepsy research
Award Clinical Neurology
17 December 2019
Emeritus Professor Angela Vincent received the Research Recognition Award, clinical science, at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society.
Ground-breaking study for Huntington’s disease under way
Clinical Neurology Research
11 November 2019
NDCN’s Associate Professor Andrea Nemeth is leading the Oxford part of a clinical trial for Hungtinton’s disease.
Sarosh Irani wins Graham Bull Prize
Award Clinical Neurology
8 November 2019
The Graham Bull Prize in Clinical Science / Goulstonian Lectureship is a prestigious annual prize awarded by the Royal College of Physicians
Oxford is joint top recruiter to drug-resistant epilepsy study
Clinical Neurology
20 October 2019
The Oxford Epilepsy Research Group is at the forefront of some potentially ground-breaking work with patients who have drug-resistant epilepsy. Epilepsy affects over 50 million people worldwide and nearly one in three people with epilepsy are resistant to current drugs.
Advances made in understanding how eye movements are affected by medication in Parkinson's
Clinical Neurology Publication Research
14 October 2019
Our Neurometrology Group has published findings from its OxQUIP study looking at how eye movements are affected by medication in Parkinson's.
Ruxandra Dafinca awarded Oxford-Celgene Fellowship
Award Clinical Neurology Research
1 August 2019
This is one of six new Oxford-Celgene Fellowships, which give postdoctoral researchers exposure to the field of commercial drug discovery and development.
Smartphone test predicts how symptoms develop in Parkinson’s
Clinical Neurology Research
31 July 2019
Our researchers have found that a simple test carried out on a smartphone can help to predict future change in people in the early stages of Parkinson’s.
Oxford partners with Quinnipiac to improve neuro-rehabilitation
Clinical Neurology Teaching
25 July 2019
The delivery of clinical care, research, and education in neuro-rehabilitation in Oxford will be revolutionised by an innovative partnership with Quinnipiac University, Hartford, USA.
Research leads to drug discovery programme for treating pain
Clinical Neurology Research
16 April 2019
LifeArc, one of the UK’s leading medical research charities, has signed a deal to license an ion channel drug discovery programme to Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited.
New insights into how we learn payoffs and costs of actions
Clinical Neurology Research
4 April 2019
How do we decide what to do in any given situation? We need to work out the payoffs and costs of actions – what we will gain and what it might cost us. But what is the exact nature of the mechanism in the brain which weighs up these payoffs and costs?
Professor Tipu Aziz recipient of Britain's highest neurosurgery honour
Award Clinical Neurology
28 March 2019
Professor Tipu Aziz from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) has been awarded the Medal of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS) for his lifetime achievement in neurosurgery.
Brain Awareness Week activities engage the public
Clinical Neurology Integrative Neuroimaging Public engagement
21 March 2019
Brain Awareness Week is an annual global initiative designed to raise awareness among the public about brain-related research and the impact that neuroscientists are having on the world.
More insights gained into the sensory nervous system's response to harmful stimuli
Clinical Neurology Research
8 March 2019
NMDAR-Antibody Encephalitis: A new clinical way to identify patients
Clinical Neurology Research
21 February 2019
Paper published in Lancet Psychiatry may help with the accurate detection of this form of autoimmune encephalitis
New research to investigate role of blood-brain barrier in neurological conditions
Clinical Neurology Research
12 February 2019
A new consortium of 27 partners coordinated by our department will tackle the challenge of discovery and characterisation of blood-brain barrier targets and transport mechanisms for brain delivery of therapeutics to treat neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases.