How do other illnesses affect stroke treatment and outcomes? A study using national datasets
Research institution:
University of Aberdeen
Principal investigator:
Dr Melanie Turner (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Region:
Scotland
Research area:
Prevention
Status:
Closed
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This study will investigate how other illnesses can affect stroke treatment and outcome. It will involve the analysis of electronic, linked datasets of health information from stroke patients in Scotland.
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Can we improve the experience of disease management in those with stroke?
Research institution:
University of Glasgow
Principal investigator:
Dr Katie Gallacher
Region:
Scotland
Research area:
Community care
Status:
Closed
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This project aims to develop a way of measuring the workload and potential difficulties encountered of stroke survivors when managing their health problems.
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Understanding and treating biological changes after a bleed in the brain
Research institution:
University of Manchester
Principal investigator:
Dr Paul Kasher
Region:
North West
Research area:
Applied neuroscience
Status:
Closed
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This research on Intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) will use zebrafish models so that we can gain a better understanding of how cells of the brain respond to the bleeding.
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Psychological, educational and social support for people after TIA and minor stroke
Research institution:
University of Nottingham
Principal investigator:
Dr Eirini Kontou (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Region:
Yorkshire and East Midlands
Research area:
Rehabilitation
Status:
Closed
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This fellowship aims to develop, tailor and target the delivery of a 6-week group intervention that offers educational, psychological and social support for people following TIA and minor stroke.
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Can early, high repetition arm training make the unaffected side of the brain form new connections after stroke?
Research institution:
University of Manchester
Principal investigator:
Dr Ulrike Hammerbeck (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Region:
North West
Research area:
Rehabilitation
Status:
Closed
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This study will test arm training to encourage a functionally useful contribution to recovery from the side of the brain unaffected by stroke (the 'non-stroke hemisphere'), and whether this is only possible early after stroke.
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Developing a new screening process to help paramedics distinguish patients with stroke from other conditions
Research institution:
Newcastle University
Principal investigator:
Graham McClelland
Region:
North East
Research area:
Acute care
Status:
Closed
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Testing a new screening process to give paramedics a probability rating, for individual patients, that stroke might not be the cause of their face, arm or speech problems.
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After stroke, some speak in a way which is jumbled up: Is there a way to help them un-jumble their words?
Research institution:
University of Reading
Principal investigator:
Dr Holly Robson (Supervisor)
Region:
South East
Research area:
Rehabilitation
Status:
Closed
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Exploring the causes of ‘jargon speech’ through electrophysiology and using it to help stroke survivors that deal with it.
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Building the field of research to support people coping with psychological difficulties after stroke
Research institution:
University of Manchester
Principal investigator:
Professor Audrey Bowen
Region:
North West
Research area:
Rehabilitation
Status:
Closed
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Stroke survivors and healthcare professionals have identified problems with thinking and mood after stroke as some of the most important issues faced after a stroke. This Lectureship aims to test treatments to help stroke survivors with their cognitive (thinking) difficulties.
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How to improve trials of new treatments for stroke and dementia
Research institution:
University of Edinburgh
Principal investigator:
Dr Fergus Doubal
Region:
Scotland
Research area:
Prevention
Status:
Closed
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Small Vessel Disease (SVD) is a disease of the small blood vessels in the brain and can lead to stroke and dementia. At the moment, we don't know how to stop SVD developing, or how to treat it. This Lectureship aims to improve future clinical trials that aim to prevent SVD.
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Linking formal and functional measures of cognition after stroke and the prediction of long-term recovery
Research institution:
University of Oxford
Principal investigator:
Dr Nele Demeyere
Region:
South Central
Research area:
Rehabilitation
Status:
Closed
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This Lectureship will explore the link between tests that are used to assess cognition (memory and thinking) after a stroke and measurements of a stroke survivor's functional abilities. It will also investigate how cognition and functional ability change over time.
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