Clinical Neuroscience

Centre For Clinical Neuroscience

This Centre brings together a number of groups with internationally competitive programmes of research in areas of Clinical Neuroscience, with particular strengths in stroke including subarachnoid hemorrhage, brain imaging including MRI methodology, and epilepsy.The centre is closely linked with the South West Thames Regional Neuroscience Centre which is housed within new facilities in the Atkinson Morley Wing on the St George’s Hospital site.This serves a population of 2.5 million and provides both an excellent clinical resource, and state-of-the-art diagnostic facilities.

Within Clinical Neuroscience we have particular expertise in the following areas:-

• Brain Imaging including MRI (diffusion tensor imaging, spectroscopy); Transcranial Doppler ultrasound including embolic signal detection; Cerebral blood flow techniques including xenon-CT, CT perfusion, and perfusion MRI.

• Molecular Genetics of Stroke

• Experimental epilepsy, including studies on seizure related brain damage and neuroprotection, and on novel treatment approaches for refractory cortical epilepsy

The Centre leads a number of national and international studies including the asymptomatic carotid emboli study (ACES), the UK stroke genetics group (DNA Resource), and the South London Stroke and Ethnicity project.