Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences

Projects

Projects per year 1996 2007 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2028

• 10 Not started
• 51 Active
• 524 Finished

Projects per year

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  Speak:Unique, The Voicebank Project

  Chandran, S.

  UK-based charities

  6/08/18 → 31/01/19

  Project: Research

• What is the best brain imaging strategy for patients with suspected minor stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA)?

  Whiteley, W., Dennis, M., MacLeod, M., Salman, R. & Wardlaw, J.

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  1/08/18 → 31/01/21

  Project: Research

• Symptoms of SVD: identifying non-traditional neurological and cognitive symptoms of cerebral small vessel disease

  Clancy, U., Doubal, F. & Wardlaw, J.

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  1/08/18 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

  • Apathy 100%
  • White Matter 91%
  • Disease Progression 80%
  • Parturition 69%
  • Memory 32%

• The eye and brain: Evaluation of the retinal nerve fibres and vessels as markers of small vessel disease progression or regression on neuroimaging

  Wiseman, S., Dhillon, B., Doubal, F., MacGillivray, T. & Wardlaw, J.

  UK-based charities

  1/07/18 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

• Cognitive and behavioural symptoms in motor neurone disease and their assessment: The Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS Screen- Hindi and Urdu

  Abrahams, S.

  1/07/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Motor Neuron Disease 100%
  • Behavioral Symptoms 97%
  • Neurobehavioral Manifestations 96%
  • Organized Financing 94%
  • Financial Management 91%

• Imperial College London: follow up of ASCOT

  Whiteley, W.

  1/06/18 → 1/06/20

  Project: Research

• Brain imaging and cognitive ageing in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936: IV

  Wardlaw, J. & Bastin, M.

  MRC

  1/05/18 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

• Scoping a greenspace intervention for stroke survivors to support improved long-term recovery outcomes

  Morton, S., Mead, G. & Ward Thompson, C.

  1/04/18 → 31/07/18

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • greenspace 100%
  • art 17%

• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of brain vascular changes and white matter hyperintensities (WMH) in humans

  Meijboom, R., Thrippleton, M., Waldman, A. & Wardlaw, J.

  MRC

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Neuro-Inflammation after Cerebral Haemorrhage In Edinburgh (NICHE)

  Salman, R., Hughes, J., McColl, B., Norrie, J., Rodrigues, M., Samarasekera, N., Smith, C., Wardlaw, J. & Williams, A.

  UK-based charities

  1/04/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• PD COMM: PD COMM: A Multi-Centre Randomised Controlled Trial to Compare the Clinical and Cost Effectiveness of Lee Silverman Voice Treatment Versus Standard NHS Speech and Language Therapy Versus Control in Parkinson’s Disease

  Duncan, G.

  1/03/18 → 6/02/21

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

• Tracking progression from normal to pathological ageing using neuroimaging markers

  Valdes Hernandez, M. & Parra, M. A.

  1/01/18 → 31/03/18

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Atrophy 100%
  • Gray Matter 46%
  • Brain 33%
  • Globus Pallidus 26%
  • Corpus Striatum 22%

• Neurodegeneration in Huntington disease: unveiling neural correlates of neurocognitive dysfunction

  Valdes Hernandez, M., Parra, M. A. & Priller, J.

  1/01/18 → 31/03/18

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Huntington Disease 100%
  • Gray Matter 91%

• Striatal Brain Iron Deposition, Microbleeds and Cognition 1 year after Minor Ischaemic Stroke

  Valdes Hernandez, M., Wardlaw, J. & Doubal, F.

  1/01/18 → 31/03/18

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • benzo(g)isoquinoline-5,10-dione 100%
  • Corpus Striatum 80%
  • Iron 34%
  • Cognition 32%
  • Stroke 28%

• Structural, functional and metabolic brain differences between groups with opposite sexual attitudes. A systematic review of the neuroimaging literature

  Valdes Hernandez, M.

  1/01/18 → 31/07/18

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • homosexuality 100%
  • brain 85%
  • neurosciences 49%
  • Group 30%
  • gender 24%

• Developing and implementing a framework for evidence based practice for technology relevant for autism

  Fletcher-Watson, S.

  1/12/17 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

• Maximising a Small Vessel Disease Brain Bank Resource

  Smith, C., Salman, R. & Wardlaw, J.

  UK-based charities

  1/12/17 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

• RADAR: RADAR - Reducing pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease through Angiotensin Targeting

  Duncan, G.

  1/11/17 → 25/04/19

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

  • Angiotensins 100%
  • Alzheimer Disease 67%
  • Pathology 55%

• Crowd-sourcing the aural identities of places by evolutionary optimisation

  Brownlee, A., Kim, S., Wang, S. & Chan, S.

  3/10/17 → 2/10/18

  Project: Research

• Identifying and targeting neuroprotective pathways in motor neurons

  Gillingwater, T. & Becker, C.

  UK-based charities

  2/10/17 → 1/10/20

  Project: Research

• LIFT: Delineating the Neural Mediators of Rheumatoid Arthritis Related Fatigue (LIFT Trial Add-On)

  Wiseman, S. & Wardlaw, J.

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  1/10/17 → 30/09/20

  Project: Other (Non-Funded/Miscellaneous)

• Rates, Risks and Routes to Reduce Vascular Dementia (R4VaD)

  Wardlaw, J.

  UK-based charities

  1/10/17 → 30/06/19

  Project: Research

  • Biobank 100%
  • Brain 89%
  • Brain Imaging 79%
  • vascular factor 72%
  • White Matter 64%

• Maximising a small vessel disease brain bank resource

  Smith, C., Salman, R. & Wardlaw, J.

  MRC

  29/09/17 → 28/03/21

  Project: Research

• Delineating the neural mediators of rheumatoid arthritis related fatigue

  Wiseman, S. & Wardlaw, J.

  1/08/17 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

• Developing SFXN3-targeted therapies to prevent neurodegeneration

  Gillingwater, T. & Wishart, T.

  MRC

  1/07/17 → 30/06/18

  Project: Research

• ESRC Impact Grant: The impact of language learning in early dementia on well-being, confidence, and cognitive functions in patients and on the satisfaction and empowerment of the carers

  Bak, T.

  1/06/17 → 31/03/18

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Caregivers 100%
  • Language 69%
  • Nursing Homes 59%
  • Dementia 48%
  • Cognition 46%

• ESRC Impact Grant

  Bak, T.

  1/06/17 → 31/03/18

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Dementia 100%
  • Cognitive Function 78%
  • Language Acquisition 70%
  • Empowerment 70%
  • Confidence 61%

• IAD Academic Network Fund

  Bak, T., Cram, L., Dunbar, R., Henderson, A., High, C., McLeod, W., MacInnes, J., MacPherson, S. E., Molony, T. & Vega Mendoza, M.

  1/05/17 → 30/06/17

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • multilingualism 100%
  • networking 82%
  • event 54%

• Develop Sensitive Behavioural And Neuroimaging Markers In Detecting Cognitive Ageing

  Wang, S. & Valdes Hernandez, M.

  BBSRC

  4/04/17 → 25/04/19

  Project: Research

  • Magnetic resonance imaging 100%
  • Magnetic resonance 99%
  • Gray Matter 97%
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy 91%
  • Short-Term Memory 89%

• ISP 2017/22-McColl Barry

  McColl, B.

  BBSRC

  1/04/17 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

  • Encephalitis 100%
  • Myeloid Cells 95%
  • Transcriptome 86%
  • Inflammation 66%
  • Brain 56%

• Electrophysiological function of interneuron types generated from schizophrenia patient-derived human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs)

  Livesey, M.

  UK-based charities

  1/04/17 → 31/03/18

  Project: Research

• ISP 2017/22-Manson Jean

  Manson, J.

  BBSRC

  1/04/17 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

  • Spermine 100%
  • Prions 95%
  • Tubulin 82%
  • Acetylation 81%
  • Neuroglia 68%

• Develop sensitive behavioural and neuroimaging markers in detecting cognitive ageing

  Valdes Hernandez, M., Wang, S., Tavares, A. & Holmes, M.

  1/04/17 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

• Optimise catFISH technique for studying neuronal networks in memory representation

  Gros, A. & Wang, S.

  1/04/17 → 31/03/18

  Project: Research

  • Organized Financing 100%
  • Scotland 97%
  • Memory 61%

• LACI-2 Trial

  Wardlaw, J., Cvoro, V., Dennis, M. & Doubal, F.

  UK-based charities

  1/03/17 → 28/02/21

  Project: Research

• Synaptic Proteins that engage Amyloid Beta in the human brain

  Spires-Jones, T., Chandran, S. & Smith, C.

  UK-based charities

  1/03/17 → 14/08/20

  Project: Research

• How Should Social Science Inform Policy? Engaging Across Academia and Society

  Pickersgill, M.

  Learned Societies

  1/03/17 → 31/03/18

  Project: Research

  • sociology of law 100%
  • sociology of science 91%
  • Health Policy 69%
  • Brain Diseases 64%
  • health policy 64%

• Identification of new candidate drugs for treatment of moderate or severe brain injury through automated testing in zebrafish

  Herrgen, L.

  UK-based charities

  1/02/17 → 31/01/20

  Project: Research

• SSI Fellowship: Software Sustainability Institute Fellow

  Pernet, C.

  2/01/17 → 2/03/18

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

  • Sustainable development 100%

• Quantifying Language Behaviour in Bi-/Multilinguals

  Bak, T.

  1/01/17 → 31/07/17

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• An evidence-based evaluation of the clinical and cost effectiveness of foot ulcer risk assessment and structured care interventions for people with diabetes.

  Chappell, F.

  Other

  1/01/17 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• On the intelligence of men and women: A systematic review on gender differences on brain MRI structures and connectivity

  Valdes Hernandez, M.

  1/01/17 → 31/03/17

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • brain 100%
  • gender-specific factors 71%
  • honor 30%
  • integrity 25%
  • literature 24%

• Can subtle changes in global atrophy and the superior frontal gyrus be indicative of the differences between cognitive groups in late adulthood?

  Valdes Hernandez, M.

  1/01/17 → 31/03/17

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Adulthood 100%
  • Medical Sciences 98%
  • Indicative 91%

• PPLS Pilot Project: Quantifying Language Switching Behaviour in Bi-/Multilinguals

  Bak, T.

  1/01/17 → 31/07/17

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• Evaluating the High Life Highland Exercise Classes to Support Falls Reduction in Older Adults

  Morton, S.

  1/12/16 → 15/12/17

  Project: Project from a former institution

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• BBC Consultancy: making CBBC and CBeebies games more autism-friendly

  Fletcher-Watson, S.

  14/11/16 → 18/11/16

  Project: Non-Funded Commission or Consultancy work

• Investigating deleterious signalling between astrocytes and motoneurons in human iPSC-based model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

  Chandran, S.

  10/10/16 → 9/10/19

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

  • Organized Financing 100%
  • Scotland 97%
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 91%
  • Motor Neurons 82%
  • Astrocytes 78%

• Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology Phase 2 PILOTS BUDGET (Genotyping and Brain Imaging).

  Wardlaw, J.

  MRC

  1/10/16 → 31/08/19

  Project: Research

• Network for the development, validation and implementation of new methods to measure vascular dysfunction in dementia

  Smith, C. & Wardlaw, J.

  UK-based charities

  1/10/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Dementias Platform UK MR-PET Partnership

  Wardlaw, J.

  Other

  28/09/16 → 27/09/21

  Project: Research