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Using MRI to investigate the effect of COVID-19 on the brain
Coronavirus Integrative Neuroimaging Research
1 May 2020
A team of our neuroimaging researchers will lead this study, which has received a grant from the University of Oxford's COVID-19 Research Response Fund.
Studying the impact of COVID-19 on epilepsy
Clinical Neurology Coronavirus Research
30 April 2020
NDCN researchers lead a global study based on analysing survey data
Tim Behrens elected Royal Society Fellow
Award Integrative Neuroimaging
29 April 2020
Professor Tim Behrens is a new Fellow of the Royal Society.
Using simulated scenarios to train front-line staff in the COVID-19 response
Anaesthetics Coronavirus
29 April 2020
The Oxford Simulation, Teaching and Research Centre has been busier than ever during the coronavirus pandemic
Sleep and stress - journal special issue
Ophthalmology Research SCNi
27 April 2020
Royal Society Publishing has recently brought out a special issue of 'Interface Focus' on sleep and stress, past and present
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.
BRC funds new COVID-19 research projects
Anaesthetics Coronavirus Research
7 April 2020
The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has allocated funding to three COVID-19 research projects in an attempt to improve treatment, understand how the virus interacts with chronic diseases, and the longer-term effects of infection on organs.
Seminar Summary: Unravelling the inflammatory neuropathies
Clinical Neurology Event Research
6 April 2020
Dr Alexander Davies summarises a departmental seminar by Dr Simon Rinaldi
NHS staff across England get free access to wellbeing apps
Coronavirus Ophthalmology Research SCNi
6 April 2020
NHS England has announced a programme to provide NHS staff with evidence-based digital programmes to protect their mental health during the COVID-19 response. The apps are designed to help maintain healthy sleep, and reduce anxiety.
Using wearable technology to monitor COVID-19 patients
Anaesthetics Coronavirus
1 April 2020
System being used in John Warin isolation ward at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital
NDCN welcomes the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit
MRC BNDU Research
1 April 2020
We are pleased to announce that today the University of Oxford MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit joins the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences (NDCN) as a sixth division.
Developing a prototype for rapidly deployable ventilator
Anaesthetics Coronavirus
20 March 2020
An interdisciplinary team of engineers and medics is addressing ways to increase the UK’s capacity for ventilator manufacture.
Shared Parental Leave
Staff development
12 March 2020
An interview about one couple's experience of shared parental leave at the University of Oxford.
International Women’s Day Wikipedia Editathon 2020
Staff development
10 March 2020
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2020, this year NDCN teamed up with the Radcliffe Department of Medicine to host a Wikipedia Editathon
School students help with sleep research
Ophthalmology Public engagement
9 March 2020
A group of students got a taste of research at Oxford earlier this month when they spent a day analysing data at our Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute.
Wolfson Building housing stroke centre opens
Event Research
6 March 2020
Research into strokes and vascular dementia took a major step forward on Thursday 5 March with the official opening of our Wolfson Centre for the Prevention of Stroke and Dementia (CPSD) based at the new Wolfson Building.
Gene therapy shows promise in tackling common cause of childhood blindness
Ophthalmology Research
27 February 2020
The results of a first-in-human clinical trial of gene therapy to treat a common cause of genetic blindness have shown partial reversal of sight loss in some patients.
Gift boosts research into UK’s biggest cause of sight loss
Ophthalmology Research
18 February 2020
£277,000 from the estate of Jean Williams will support cutting-edge studies into macular disease, which affects nearly 1.5 million people.
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.
Our researchers test ‘Viagra’ drug to prevent recurrent strokes
Research Stroke & Dementia
17 January 2020
Researchers in our Centre for the Prevention of Stroke and Dementia have begun a clinical trial to assess whether the drug sildenafil could improve blood flow to the brain.