Edinburgh Neuroscience

13/04/2026

13/04/2026

✨Wee scientists needed!✨
🔎Looking for wee scientists aged 17-19 months 🔎 You and your child can help us understand how children learn new words by taking part in a 30-min study in our lab at the University of Edinburgh. Please follow this link to register your interest: https://forms.gle/67sE5A5oPRAD8cnK9 or email us directly at ppls.phonotactics@ed.ac.uk
We look forward to welcoming you and your child to our lab!

13/04/2026

Research is strongest when shaped with patients, not just for them. Read how lived experience leads to better care in this blog by Rowling Scholar Johnny Tam
📄 Link in comments.

The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Neuroscience The Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neuron Disease Research

10/04/2026

Brain swelling in the days following a stroke caused by a brain bleed is linked to a higher risk of death and disability, a study suggests.

09/04/2026

A single dose of an innovative gene therapy could eliminate hard-to-treat brain tumours and prevent them from coming back, according to new research 🧠

The findings, based on a study in mice, provide compelling evidence for a ‘one and done’ approach to treating human glioblastoma, the most lethal form of brain cancer, experts say.

The innovative treatment is built on more than a decade of research led by Professor Steve Pollard of the Institute for Regeneration and Repair, spun out into biotech company Trogenix in 2023, with in-human trials planned for 2026.

Tap the link in the comments for the full story 👇

08/04/2026

07/04/2026

Big congratulations to James Boardman, Sue Fletcher-Watson and Tara Spires-Jones. Fellowships to Scotland's national academy are given in recognition of academic excellence as well as an ongoing commitment to advancing knowledge for the benefit of society as a whole. 👏 🧠 👏 🧠👏 🧠👏 🧠👏 🧠👏

New Fellows 2026 🎉

Today, the RSE has announced that 43 individuals deemed excellent in their field were elected as Fellows, who will use their knowledge for the public good as part of Scotland’s National Academy.

Read the full announcement: https://rse.org.uk/global-leaders-in-health-science-and-research-elected-as-rse-fellows-in-2026/

03/04/2026

Emily Sena, Catherine Heymans and Janey Jones were centre stage at last night's opening gala of 2026. A panel discussion on the 'First women of Science', hosted by Nicola Sturgeon, explored some of amazing women who changed the scientific path of history forever but whom were barely recognised in their own time. They considered the modern era and if there has been much progress in women's voices being heard. A fascinating and thought-provoking discussion to launch this fantastic Edinburgh festival. It runs from 4 to 19 April at various venues across the city.

Emily Sena is Professor of Meta-science and Translational Medicine in the Institute for Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research at the University of Edinburgh. She is also the EDI lead for the Institute, ensuring that best practice is embedded in our culture as well as our activities.

01/04/2026

Breaking new ground in this landmark, staggering work of discovery science, the Spires-Jones lab have today published this seminal work on one the greatest mysteries of their scientific careers:

Spires-Jones and Tulloch conducted an experiment studying teaspoon pilfering from their departmental common room. They observed 66% of teaspoons disappeare

28/03/2026

🌟 Training the next generation of MND researchers 🌟
Over the past week, we have followed four Euan MacDonald Centre funded PhD students at different stages.

In this final article in the series, we look back and reflect on their journeys 👇
https://www.euanmacdonaldcentre.org/about/news/training-next-generation-mnd-researchers-reflections-funded-phd-journey
Edinburgh Neuroscience The University of Edinburgh University of St Andrews

26/03/2026

It's Purple Day! Discussing ion channels, the menstrual cycle, sleep, and genetic epilepsies, Lucy, Daniel, Tina and Jessica give us a glimpse of the diversity and complexities of this wide-ranging, multi-faceted disorder as well as approaches to treatment.

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edneuro/2026/03/26/purple-day-2026-highlighting-some-of-the-many-aspects-of-epilepsy-research-taking-place-at-edinburgh/

24/03/2026

Why do some people stay cognitively sharp in later life while others decline? Come and hear Simon Cox deliver his inaugural lecture where he will explore this very question. Free and open to the public. 1 April 2026 👇🏼

Fool’s Gold, Marginal Gains, and Magic Bullets (in neurocognitive ageing research)