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Research output per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neuron Disease Research is based at the University of Edinburgh and is a not-for-profit, charitable network of over 200 researchers across Scotland. We use research to improve the lives of people living with motor neurone disease (MND) and related conditions.
The Centre's mission is to
- undertake research into MND, both laboratory-based and patient-centred projects
- deliver training for the next generation of MND research leaders
- provide a network for those involved in MND research across Scotland
- work with Scottish healthcare professionals and other charities to increase awareness of MND and MND research among the public
Launched in 2007 following a donation by Euan MacDonald and his father Donald MacDonald, the Centre aims to make discoveries that will slow, stop and eventually reverse MND.
Keywords
- RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
- motor neurone disease
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- spinal muscular atrophy
- QH301 Biology
- BF Psychology
- HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
- QH426 Genetics
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Profiles
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Sharon Abrahams
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Personal Chair of Neuropsychology
- Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neuron Disease Research
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- Edinburgh Neuroscience
Person: Academic: Research Active
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Siddharthan Chandran
- Deanery of Clinical Sciences - MacDonald Chair of Neurology
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neuron Disease Research
- Centre for Regenerative Medicine
- Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic
- Edinburgh Neuroscience
- Edinburgh Imaging
Person: Academic: Research Active
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Richard Davenport
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- Deanery of Clinical Sciences - UoE Honorary staff
- Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neuron Disease Research
- Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic
Person: Affiliated Independent Researcher
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Divergent actions of physiological and pathological amyloid-β on synapses in live human brain slice cultures
McGeachan, R. I., Meftah, S., Taylor, L. W., Catterson, J. H., Negro, D., Bonthron, C., Holt, K., Tulloch, J., Rose, J. L., Gobbo, F., Chang, Y. Y., Elliott, J., McLay, L., King, D., Liaquat, I., Spires-Jones, T. L., Booker, S. A., Brennan, P. M. & Durrant, C. S., Dec 2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, 1, p. 1-22 22 p., 3753.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Impact of apathy over the course of disease in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Radakovic, R., Gray, D., Trucco, A. P., Bregola, A., Mioshi, E., Copsey, H., Dick, D., Newton, J., Colville, S., Pal, S., Chandran, S., Simmons, Z. & Abrahams, S., 29 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration. p. 1-10 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Headache and progressive visual loss
Watson, N., Moullaali, T., Casado, A., McAuley, S., McDonald, J., Smith, C., Dobson, R. & Davenport, R., 22 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Practical Neurology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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CReATe Author Series Ep. 10 - Drs McHutchison and Benatar on Cognitive and Behavioural Changes in MND
McHutchison, C. (Advisor)
15 Feb 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
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The Temporal Course of Cognitive and Behavioural changes in Motor Neuron Diseases
McHutchison, C. (Assessor)
14 Jul 2023Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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2021 Virtual World Congress on Brain Injury
Poveda, B. (Presenter), Abrahams, S. (Contributor), Baksh, A. (Contributor), MacPherson, S. E. (Contributor) & Evans, J. (Contributor)
28 Jul 2021 → 30 Jul 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Prizes
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Appointment to European Dana Alliance of the Brain Term Member
Spires-Jones, T. (Recipient), Sept 2018
Prize: Appointment
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Award from Edinburgh Neuroscience RS MacDonald Seedcorn Fund
Stavrou, M. (Recipient), 2 Nov 2020
Prize: Fellowships awarded competitively
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EthnoCC: An ethnographic approach to intimate experiences of early-stage cervical cancer and fertility sparing surgery
Ventura Garcia, L. (Principal Investigator) & Pickersgill, M. (Sponsor)
1/09/23 → 31/08/25
Project: Research
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Psychosis Recovery Orientation in Malawi by Improving Services and Engagement
Lawrie, S. (Principal Investigator), Allardyce, J. (Co-investigator), Jain, S. (Co-investigator), Macbeth, A. (Co-investigator), McIntosh, A. (Co-investigator) & Pickersgill, M. (Co-investigator)
1/03/22 → 28/02/27
Project: Research
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One Health Models of Disease: Science, Ethics and Society
Fitzgerald, R. (Principal Investigator), Gray, G. (Co-investigator) & Pickersgill, M. (Co-investigator)
1/10/20 → 30/09/28
Project: Research
Datasets
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Amyloid Beta and Tau Cooperate to Cause Reversible Behavioral and Transcriptional Deficits in a Model of Alzheimer's Disease - RNAseq data
Spires-Jones, T. (Creator) & Dando, O. (Creator), EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute, 2019
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/arrayexpress/studies/E-MTAB-7856
Dataset
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The Voice Conversion Challenge 2016
Toda, T. (Creator), Chen, L.-H. (Creator), Saito, D. (Creator), Villavicencio, F. (Creator), Wester, M. (Creator), Wu, Z. (Creator) & Yamagishi, J. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 23 Jun 2016
DOI: 10.7488/ds/1430
Dataset
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LTP data from MAPT-AD experiment and APP/PS1 experiment
Oren, I. (Creator) & Spires-Jones, T. (Owner), Edinburgh DataVault, 2018
DOI: 10.7488/bacc399c-0d03-41d6-92b9-a180d6dc7b84, https://datavault.ed.ac.uk/
Dataset
Press/Media
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Dementia test can predict illness nine years before symptoms
6/06/24
11 Media contributions
Press/Media: Research
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Alzheimer's disease: A study identified a new genetic form present in millions of people
6/05/24 → 7/05/24
11 Media contributions
Press/Media: Research
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