How to fix a spinal cord injury
Spinal cord injuries have the potential to be devastating and life-changing events. After an injury has taken place, clinicians decide
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Brain Leeds Undergraduate Neurology & Neurosurgery Conference
This year was the first year Leeds ever hosted an undergraduate Neurology and Neurosurgery Conference. This was funded by sponsorships
Read moreThe road to research in non-traumatic spinal cord injury
Think of the spinal cord as a busy motorway, and cars as the electrical signals travelling from distant sites to
Read moreThe Science of Humour Appreciation
In 1929, German neurologist Otfrid Foerster was operating on a patient to remove a tumour when suddenly, the patient started “a
Read moreAre we defined by our mental health?
Let’s face it. Nobody really knows what is and isn’t acceptable to say about mental illness. A couple of years
Read moreMental illness – Just another physical illness?
I quite frequently hear mental health activists and advocates complaining about how mental illness isn’t given the same funding as
Read moreDoes our brain define who we are?
It is an uneasy thought that who we are and what we think about is all hardwired into a three
Read moreNeuroplasticity – remoulding our brain’s neural pathways
A medical concept that has truly fascinated me over the past few years is neuroplasticity, which is the idea that
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