Author: psychmedcomms

Purple Day for Epilepsy takes place every year on March 26. To mark the global awareness day this year, Peter Roberts from BRAIN Involve has kindly shared his own story of being diagnosed with epilepsy and how he has supported neuroscience research at Cardiff University…

In the 2018-20 award, the BRAIN Unit received funding to develop an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system supporting clinical care and deep patient phenotyping in Multiple Sclerosis (Cardiff and Vale and Aneurin Bevan), Parkinson's Disease (Abertawe Bro-Morgannwg) and Epilepsy (Cardiff and Vale). The system is…

BRAIN Involve would like to help researchers consider the benefits of involving the public in forming their research into neurological and neurodegenerative conditions. BRAIN Involve is a public involvement group made up of people who are, or have been, directly affected by neurological diseases such…

A researcher from the BRAIN Unit and Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI) at Cardiff University has been awarded the Guarantors of the Brain Fellowship. Dr. Malik Zaben works across the Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences at Cardiff University. He is a…

We're looking for a Research Assistant to work in an exciting collaboration between two Health and Care Research Wales funded infrastructure centres: the Wales Cancer Research Centre and the BRAIN Unit. The post is available immediately and is fixed-term for one year. The successful candidate…

Dr Zaben is a lecturer in neurosurgery with a special interest in understanding neurogenesis and neuroplasticity after traumatic brain injury (TBI). His research explores potential therapeutic approaches targeting neuroinflammatory pathways to limit brain damage after injury, and enhance repair. This year has been another successful…

Our Public Involvement lead Dr Emma Lane, is inviting researchers to meet our public involvement group, BRAIN Involve. Are you interested in meeting members of the public? Do you want to find out about the lived experience of someone with the disease you are studying?…

As people around the world mark Purple Day to raise awareness of epilepsy, we took a moment to catch up with our experts who are working to better understand the condition as well as researching new treatments. Over 600,000 people in the UK have epilepsy.…