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| Grants
made in 2008 |
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| Magnetoencephalography
and functional magnetic resonance
imaging as predictors of memory
change following mesiotemporal
epilepsy surgery: non invasive
alternatives to the Wada test |
| £20,000
over 24 months (project grant) |
|
Dr Steven Kemp, Departments
of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology,
St. James's University Hospital,
Leeds; Professor Gary Green,
York Neuroimaging Unit, York;
Professor Gus Baker, Department
of Neurological Science, Walton
Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery,
Liverpool
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| Lay
summary |
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| Extrasynaptic
GABAA receptor-mediated gain-of-function
in absence seizures |
| £184,017
over 36 months (fellowship grant) |
| Dr David
Cope and Professor Vincenzo Crunelli,
School of Biosciences, Cardiff
University |
| Lay
summary |
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| Calcium
channel alpha2delta subunits in
epilepsy |
| £80,000
over 18 months (project grant) |
| Professor
Annette Dolphin, Department of
Pharmacology, University College
London; Professor John Jefferys,
Department of Neuroscience, University
of Birmingham |
| Lay
summary |
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| Association
analysis and mutation screening
of TRAK1 in childhood absence
epilepsy |
| £54,340
over 12 months (project grant) |
| Dr Kate
Everett, Institute of Child Health,
University College London |
| Lay
summary |
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| Cognitive
behaviour therapy for epilepsy:
improving seizure control and
quality of life |
| £79,823
over 18-months (project grant) |
| Dr Laura
Goldstein, Department of Psychology,
Institute of Psychiatry, King's
College London; Dr Alicia Deale,
Centre for Anxiety Disorders and
Trauma, South London and Maudsley
NHS Foundation Trust; Dr John
Mellers, Department of Neuropsychiatry,
Maudsley Hospital; Dr John Moriarty,
Department of Psychological Medicine,
King's College Hospital; Dr Robert
Delamont, Department of Neurology/Institute
of Epileptology, King's College
Hospital; Dr Paul McCrone, Health
Service and Population Research
Department, Institute of Psychiatry,
King's College London |
| Lay
summary |
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| High-frequency
activity and transition to seizure
in experimental temporal lobe
epilepsy |
| £191,468
over 36 months (fellowship grant) |
| Dr Premysl
Jiruska and Professor John Jefferys,
Department of Neuroscience, University
of Birmingham |
| Lay
summary |
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| Identifying
depression in people with epilepsy
attending their general practitioners |
| £74,268
over 24 months (project grant) |
| Professor
Mike Kerr, Welsh Centre for Learning
Disabilities, Cardiff University;
Dr Ajay Thapar, Taff Riverside
Practice, and Department of Postgraduate
Medicine, Cardiff University;
Dr Seth Mensah, Welsh Neuropsychiatry
Service, Whitchurch Hospital,
Cardiff |
| Lay
summary |
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| Detection
of autoantibodies in patients
with epilepsy |
| £55,258
over 12 months (project grant) |
| Dr Bethan
Lang, Department of Clinical Neurology,
University of Oxford; Dr Yvonne
Hart, Department of Neurosciences,
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford;
Dr Steven Howell, Department of
Neurology, Sheffield Teaching
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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| Lay
summary |
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| Memory
fMRI as a clinical tool: establishing
reliability |
| £85,681.77
over 14 months (project grant) |
| Professor
Mark Richardson, Professor Gareth
Barker, Dr Alejandro Caceres,
Dr William Crum, Dr Robert Elwes
and Dr Mitul Mehta, Department
of Clinical Neurosciences, Institute
of Psychiatry, King's College
London; Dr Sergi Costafreda, Department
of Biostatistics and Computing,
Institute of Psychiatry, King's
College London |
| Lay
summary |
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| Grants
made in 2007 |
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| Regulation
of cortical excitability and seizure
activity by purines |
| £69,950
over 36 months (project grant) |
| Professor
Bruno Frenguelli and Professor
Nicholas Dale, Department of Biological
Sciences, University of Warwick |
| Lay
summary |
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| Fast
network activity and neuronal
aggregate formation preceding
epileptic seizures: combined in
vitro and in vivo study |
| £74,932
over 24 months (project grant) |
| Professor
John Jefferys, Dr Premysl Jiruska
and Dr John Fox, Division of Neuroscience
(Neurophysiology), University
of Birmingham |
| Lay
summary |
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| Human
GM3 synthase deficiency, a new
severe epilepsy syndrome |
| £79,997
over 22 months (project grant) |
| Dr Frances
Platt and Dr David Priestman,
Department of Pharmacology, University
of Oxford; Dr Andrew Crosby and
Dr Michael Simpson, Medical Genetics,
St George's Hospital, University
of London |
| Lay
summary |
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| The
effect of status epilepticus-induced
neuroinflammation on brain injury
and epileptogenesis |
| £79,937
over 24 months (project grant) |
| Dr Rodney
Scott, Neurosciences Unit / Radiology
and Physics Unit, Institute of
Child Health, University College
London; Dr Mark Lythgoe, Institute
of Child Health, University College
London; Dr Daniel Anthony, Department
of Pharmacology, University of
Oxford; Professor Matthew Walker,
Department of Clinical and Experimental
Epilepsy, Institute of Child Health,
University College London; Professor
David Gadian, Radiology and Physics
Unit, Institute of Child Health,
University College London |
| Lay
summary |
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| The
impairment of memory in epilepsy:
the significance of autobiographical
amnesia |
| £18,000
over 36 months (collaborative
ESRC
CASE studentship) |
| Professor
Adam Zeman and Dr Catherine Haslam,
Department of Neurology, Peninsula
Medical School, Exeter |
| Lay
summary |
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| Grants
made in 2006 |
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| The association between febrile
seizures and temporal lobe epilepsy
and the role of inflammation |
| £59,518 over 36 months
(project grant) |
| Dr Stuart Allan, Faculty of
Life Sciences, University of Manchester
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| Lay
summary |
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| Refractory convulsive status
epilepticus |
| £6,657 over 3 months (project
grant) |
| Dr Richard Appleton, Roald Dahl
EEG Unit, Department of Neurology,
Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital
(Alder Hey); Dr Timothy Martland,
Department of Neurology, Royal
Manchester Children's Hospital
(Pendlebury), Manchester; Dr Robert
Tasker, Department of Paediatrics,
Clinical School, Addenbrooke's
Hospital, Cambridge |
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| Does restoration of neurogenesis
in chronic TLE improve spatial
learning and behaviour? |
| £60,515 over 36 months
(project grant) |
| Professor William Gray, Division
of Clinical Neurosciences, University
of Southampton; Dr Edward Redhead,
School of Psychology, University
of Southampton |
| Lay
summary |
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| Quality of life outcomes
for new-onset epilepsy |
| £57,554 over 36 months
(project grant) |
| Professor Ann Jacoby, Division
of Public Health, University of
Liverpool; Dr Carrol Gamble, Centre
for Medical Statistics and Health
Evaluation, University of Liverpool;
Professor Gus Baker and Dr Anthony
Marson, Division of Neurosciences,
University of Liverpool and Walton
Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery |
| Lay
summary |
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| Storage capacity for an Epilepsy
DNA Biobank |
| £9,600 (equipment grant) |
| Professor Mark Rees, School
of Medicine, University of Wales
Swansea |
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| Electrical and magnetic brain
stimulation studies of the epileptogenic
zone in man |
| £59,992 over 12 months
(project grant) |
| Professor Mark Richardson,
Dr Gonzalo Alarcon, Professor
Kerry Mills and Dr Antonio Valentin,
Department of Clinical Neuroscience,
King's College London School of
Medicine |
| Lay
summary |
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| The role of Ih in the entorhinal
cortex during the latent period |
| £60,000 over 12 months
(project grant) |
| Dr Mala Shah, Department
of Pharmacology, University College
London; Dr Matthew Walker, Department
of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy,
Institute of Neurology, University
College London |
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| Women with epilepsy preparing
for pregnancy; A qualitative analysis
of perceptions of risk information
and its communication |
| £86,779 over 36 months
(fellowship grant) |
| Miss Janine Winterbottom, Department
of Epilepsy, Walton Centre for
Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool;
Professor Gus Baker, Department
of Neuroscience, University of
Liverpool; Professor Ann Jacoby,
Division of Public Health, University
of Liverpool |
| Lay
summary |
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| Grants
made in 2005 |
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| Long-term neuropsychological
follow-up of children who had
neurosurgical treatment for the
relief of temporal lobe epilepsy |
| £64,828 over 18 months
(project grant) |
| Dr Torsten Baldeweg, Department
of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience,
Institute of Child Health, University
College London; Dr J Helen Cross,
Neurosciences Unit, Institute
of Child Health, University College
London; Professor Alan Connelly,
Radiology & Physics Unit,
Institute of Child Health, University
College London; Professor Faraneh
Vargha-Khadem, Department of Developmental
Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute
of Child Health, University College
London |
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| Neurotransmitter receptor
distribution in patients with
TLE due to hippocampal sclerosis |
| £45,316 over 18 months
(project grant) |
| Dr Nicholas Barnes, Department
of Pharmacology, Medical School,
University of Birmingham; Professor
John Duncan, Department of Clinical
and Experimental Epilepsy, Institute
of Neurology, University College
London |
| Lay
summary |
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| Mechanism of synaptic vesicle
recycling in epilepsy |
| £59,963 over 36 months
(project grant) |
| Dr Michael Cousin, Department
of Biomedical Sciences, University
of Edinburgh |
| Lay
summary |
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| High density SNP screen of
sodium channel genes for association
with idiopathic generalised epilepsy |
| £46,260 over 12 months
(project grant) |
| Dr Andrew Makoff, Department
of Psychological Medicine, Institute
of Psychiatry, King's College
London; Dr Lina Nashef, Department
of Neurology, King's College Hospital;
Dr Nicholas Moran, Department
of Neurology, Kent and Canterbury
Hospital; Dr Philip Asherson,
Social Genetic & Developmental
Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute
of Psychiatry, King's College
London |
| Lay
summary |
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| Evaluation of anti-epileptic
drug action using in vivo micro-SPECT
imaging |
| £59,382 over 12 months
(project grant) |
| Dr Graeme Sills, Division of
Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences,
University of Glasgow; Dr Deborah
Dewar, Division of Clinical Neuroscience,
University of Glasgow; Dr James
Patterson, Department of Clinical
Physics, University of Glasgow;
Dr Roderick Duncan, Division of
Clinical Neuroscience, University
of Glasgow |
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| Grants
made in 2004 |
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| Epilepsy in infancy: spectrum
of aetiologies, natural history
and outcome predictors - a population-based
study |
| £54,352 over 12 months
(project grant) |
| Dr J Helen Cross and Dr Christin
Eltze, Neuroscience Unit, Institute
of Child Health, University College
London |
| Lay
summary |
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| Neuronal aggregate formation
in epileptic foci: a combined
clinical and experimental study |
| £65,202 over 24 months
(project grant) |
| Professor John Jefferys, and
Dr John Fox, Division of Neuroscience
(Neurophysiology), Medical School,
University of Birmingham |
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| The role of plasma membrane
Ca2+ ATPases in the regulation
of neuronal [Ca2+]i in an in vitro
model of epilepsy |
| £23,000 over 24 months
(fellowship grant) |
| Mr Thomas Jensen and Dr Ruth
Empson, School of Biological Sciences,
Royal Holloway University of London |
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| Tonic GABAA receptor signalling
in epilepsy |
| £49,023 over 12 months
(project grant) |
| Dr Matthew Walker, Dr Dimitri
Kullmann and Dr Alexey Semyanov,
Department of Clinical and Experimental
Epilepsy, Institute of Neurology,
University College London |
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