SINAPSE scientists from the University of Stirling discovered changes in brain function and memory test performance following routine football heading. Using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), an increase in cortical silent …more
The EASTBIO (East of Scotland BioScience) Doctoral Training Partnership, funded by the BBSRC, offers an excellent programme of collaborative training for PhD students within the Biosciences. The programme includes the …more
The EASTBIO (East of Scotland BioScience) Doctoral Training Partnership, funded by the BBSRC, offers an excellent programme of collaborative training for PhD students within the Biosciences. The programme includes the …more
A recent Stroke Association article highlights Professor Joanna Wardlaw’s research into the mechanisms of cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) through the major EU Horizon2020-funded programme SVDs@Target. Article: Targeting interventions for …more
For details of this project with Dr Gabriella Baio, Dr Georgina Hold and Dr Roger Staff at the University of Aberdeen (funded by the EASTBIO BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership), go …more
Courtesy of Prof Edwin van Beek and Prof Grace Parraga from the University of Western Ontario, these pulmonary MR images with inhaled hyperpolarized 129Xe gas show the lungs of a …more
MIUA 2017 is the 21st conference of the Medical Image Understanding and Analysis series organised in the United Kingdom for communicating research progress within the community interested in biomedical image …more
A recent article in Business Quarter reports on the soon-to-be-opened Imaging Centre of Excellence at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow and the first 7T clinical MRI scanner in Scotland …more
The EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) funded a working group on vascular contributions to neurodegeneration organised by Professor Joanna Wardlaw, which brought together 55 international experts in …more
The latest issue of the quarterly magazine Research Matters published by NHS Research Scotland includes an article featuring the start-of-the-art medical imaging facilities being opened at SINAPSE centres, including the …more
Courtesy of Dr Jamie Murray, this image shows topographic maps of scalp-recorded EEG illustrating a Left Parietal effect associated with recollection in an episodic memory task, during the time window …more
A Newton Mobility Grant awarded from The Royal Society to SINAPSE researcher Dr Maria Valdés Hernández and Dr Esin Öztürk Işık from Bogazici University in Turkey supported a workshop on …more
Edinburgh Imaging Academy offers two successful online Master programmes through a virtual learning environment. Candidates can choose either the online MSc/Dip/Cert in Neuroimaging for Research, the online MSc/Dip/Cert in Imaging …more
The first fMRI study of experimentally-generated déjà vu, conducted by SINAPSE researchers from the University of St Andrews, is featured in a New Scientist article. The article highlights work by …more
Courtesy of Dr Pauline Hall Barrientos, this animated image demonstrates the 3D PC-MRI technique which visualises blood flow through vessels. This image illustrates 3D blood through a carotid with stenosis, …more