Actively doing clinical and lab-based research on both Parkinson's and Huntington's disease at the John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair. NIHR Investigator.
The day is FINALLY here! The green light has been given by Swedish authorities for a first-in-human clinical trial with the stem cell therapy STEM-PD for treatment of Parkinsons disease! https://t.co/WgNC6SM4pf @ParmarLab@SCICambridge@BrainRepair_VGB@Kirkeby_Lab
So excited to share our paper showing how blood neurofilament light levels could help predict proximity to disease onset in #Huntingtons
A mammoth 14 year study!
A spin off from our sleep work, TL:DR summary below…🧵
@PDandHDLab@HDBuzzFeed
https://t.co/SPMbRBnp2u
Thrilled to share the preprint of our 12-year polysomnography study in Huntington's!
TL:DR: 1) insomnia affects 90% early stage patients and links to greater cognitive problems and disease activity, independent of disease stage/meds/mood 🧵
@PDandHDLab
https://t.co/RrOZmrlOMc
Members of the Roger Barker and Jo Jones team attending the annual meeting of the EU funded programme of work looking at brain repair and how we can do this better.
Trevor Elliott, a research volunteer with Parkinson's disease, is walking 120km from Newcastle to Carlisle in June to raise money for our research at the John Van Geest Centre for Brain Repair. If you would like make a donation to support him, please visit his JustGiving page -
Congratulations to the newest Dr in the house! Well deserved celebrations after many years' great work on the gut-brain axis in Parkinson's @Marta__Camacho
Couldn't be happier with my PhD viva experience, a critical scientific discussion of my PhD work, followed by cake and amazing people that I am lucky enough to call friends.
Happy World Sleep Day! 🌎 😴 and what a great way to mark it with a whole session dedicated to sleep at #BrainConf2024 with
@zanna_voysey
presenting our HD-sleep work in the ECR session.
Slow-wave sleep affects synucleinopathy and regulates proteostatic processes in mouse models of Parkinson’s disease | Science Translational Medicine https://t.co/BEDnm9jXCM