The Brain Repair and Intracranial Neurotherapeutics (BRAIN) Unit is a research group based at Cardiff University. Funded by Welsh Government via Health and Care Research Wales, the Unit works to develop new therapies for brain diseases. The BRAIN Unit believes that active involvement with members…
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BNA welcomes applications for neuroscience prizes
The British Neuroscience Association (BNA) is urging neuroscientists to apply for a range of prizes that recognise, promote and support neuroscientific excellence. Each year, BNA awards prizes to UK neuroscientists in the following categories: Outstanding Contribution to Neuroscience Public Engagement of Neuroscience Postgraduate Prize Undergraduate…
SEE MOREOperation Brain awarded top prize at Wales conference
A creative engagement activity developed by the Brain Repair and Intracranial Neurotherapeutics (BRAIN) Unit has won the Best Interactive Stand award at this year’s Health and Care Research Wales Conference. The success marks the second year running that the BRAIN Unit has claimed this particular…
SEE MOREInternational BRAIN Unit neurosciences doctor wins national neuro-competition
A neurosciences doctor based at the Brain Repair and Intracranial Neurotherapeutics (BRAIN) Unit has won the National Anatomical Society’s Postgraduate Neuroanatomy Competition 2017. Ronak Ved, a Neurosciences Doctor at Cardiff and Vale Neurosciences Directorate in the University Hospital of Wales, was awarded first prize after competing in…
SEE MOREThe most detailed scan of the wiring of the human brain
An incredible new film shows the human brain in unrivalled detail, thanks to a partnership between Cardiff University and Siemens Healthineers. BBC Medical Correspondent Fergus Walsh's brain was scanned at Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) using Europe’s most powerful MRI scanner – the…
SEE MORECUBRIC shortlisted for National Eisteddfod Gold Medal
Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) is one of just four projects shortlisted for this year’s National Eisteddfod Gold Medal for Architecture. The Gold Medal for Architecture recognises the importance of architecture in the nation's culture and celebrates the highest standards of architectural design…
SEE MOREParticipants needed for epilepsy trial
Cardiff University’s Fluoxetine, Learning and Memory in Epilepsy (FLAME) team invites people with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) to take part in a research study. The trial explores a potential treatment to improve learning and memory difficulties in people affected by TLE, a common problem…
SEE MORERising stars of microstructural MRI
Three talented rising stars of microstructural MRI have each secured highly prestigious fellowships to study at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC). Maxime Chamberland (Sherbrooke University, Quebec), Erika Raven (Georgetown University, Washington DC), and Chantal Tax (Utrecht Medical Centre, Utrecht) will start their…
SEE MORE‘Hereditary HD gene cast a shadow over our lives’
Retired Civil Servant Pam Thomas, 74 and from Cardiff, was married with two children before she became aware that the hereditary and currently incurable neurodegenerative condition, Huntington’s disease, ran in her family. After watching her aunt and mother develop symptoms of the disorder, Pam has…
SEE MORENeuroimaging Huntington’s disease
Dr Hannah Furby's work focuses on Huntington's disease, a highly heritable neurodegenerative disease, for which there is currently no cure. It is characterised by cognitive decline, loss of motor control and psychiatric symptoms, and it affects around 7,000 people in Wales and England. "My research…
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