This studentship will examine effects of early schooling on children’s cognitive control and its related changes in the brain. Our recent work showed that, due to increased demands on sustained …more

1. Anthony Chalmers welcomed the delegates and speakers and gave a brief overview of the history of the meeting and the main aims of the initiative. This meeting had a …more

The BBC documentary “Alan Shearer: Dementia, Football and Me”, in which former professional footballer Alan Shearer investigates the current state of research into consequences of football heading on brain health, …more

There is much progress to be made in the early diagnosis of dementia. Dementia is a global challenge (e.g. a relatively high percentage of HIV infected individuals get the disease) …more

This project will suit a Physicist, Engineer or Mathematician with a knowledge of scientific programming and an interest in developing novel imaging methods that can be used directly in clinical …more

It is now possible the capture the brain signature of behaviour while people are going about their everyday business. At Stirling we have pioneered some of these techniques and look …more

Courtesy of Prof Inke Näthke and Prof Sandy Cochran, this image shows precancerous changes in intestinal tissue detected by microultrasound scanning. Altered properties of precancerous tissue not identified by conventional …more

The identification of myocardial infarction (MI) patients who can benefit from revascularisation remains one of the most challenging aspects of cardiology. Ideally, an assessment of viability following myocardial ischaemia requires …more

The SPRINT-MND/MS (Scottish PhD Research & Innovation Network Traineeships in MND/MS) programme is a network of PhD studentships across Scotland, to promote research into all aspects of motor neurone disease …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

SINAPSE researchers welcomed image analysis experts from National Taiwan University (NTU) to Scotland in September 2017, as part of an international research collaboration on diffusion MRI data analysis supported by …more

The ‘Women in Medicine’ project, coordinated by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), showcases a number of today’s leading female clinicians and the women from the history of medicine who …more

Members of the newly-revived SINAPSE Image Analysis topic group gathered at the University of Dundee for an inaugural meeting of researchers from around Scotland presenting and discussing work on the …more

Courtesy of Dr Jonathan Fallowfield, this image shows LiverMultiscan MRI axial T1 relaxation maps of liver in the same patient before [left] and 4 weeks after [right] treatment of portal hypertension with non-selective …more