Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Purpose: To provide financial support for a medical student training in a UK university to undertake a period of elective study in neuropathology or in neuroscience related to neuropathology during their training. The attachment may be in the UK or elsewhere in the world.

Up to 2 grants of £600 each are available each year. Applications must be made before the start of the project/elective period to the Chair of the Academic Committee (currently Prof. Silvia Marino –s.marino@qmul.ac.uk).

A letter of support of the supervisor must be included.

A written report of the elective period must be submitted within 2 months of the end of the elective. This will be published on the Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology website. A poster presentation at the next annual BNS meeting (March of the following year) is encouraged.

For more information, and to access the application form, please click here.

Read the top 10 most cited articles that contributed NAN's 2016 Impact Factor here.

Read the top 10 most downloaded articles in 2016 here.

Editor's Choice papers will be made freely available to read for 3 months.

August 2017
Microinfarcts in an older population-representative brain donor cohort (MRC CFAS): Prevalence, relation to dementia and mobility, and implications for the evaluation of cerebral Small Vessel Disease
P. G. Ince, T. Minett, G. Forster, C. Brayne, S. B. Wharton and on behalf of the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Neuropathology Study

June 2017
Progression of alpha-synuclein pathology in multiple system atrophy of the cerebellar type
J. Brettschneider, D. J. Irwin, S. Boluda, M. D. Byrne, L. Fang, E. B. Lee, J. L. Robinson, E. Suh, V. M. Van Deerlin, J. B. Toledo, M. Grossman, H. Hurtig, R. Dengler, S. Petri, V. M.-Y. Lee and J. Q. Trojanowski

April 2017
Clinicopathologic heterogeneity in frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17) due to microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT) p.P301L mutation, including a patient with globular glial tauopathy
P. Tacik, M. Sanchez-Contreras, M. DeTure, M. E. Murray, R. Rademakers, O. A. Ross, Z. K. Wszolek, J. E. Parisi, D. S. Knopman, R. C. Petersen and D. W. Dickson

February 2017
Non-motor involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: new insight from nerve and vessel analysis in skin biopsy
M. Nolano, V. Provitera, F. Manganelli, R. Iodice, G. Caporaso, A. Stancanelli, K. Marinou, B. Lanzillo, L. Santoro and G. Mora

December 2016
Roles for astrocytes in epilepsy: insights from malformations of cortical development
M. Kielbinski, K. Gzielo, Z. Soltys

October 2016
Prevalence of brain and spinal cord inclusions, including dipeptide repeat proteins, in patients with the C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion: a systematic neuropathological review
L.J. Schipper, J. Raaphorst, E. Aronica, F. Baas, R. de Haan, M. de Visser, D. Troost

August 2016
Audit of practice in sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) post mortems and neuropathological findings
Maria Thom, Zuzanna Michalak, Gabriella Wright, Timothy Dawson, David Hilton, Abhijit Joshi, Beate Diehl, Matthias Koepp, Samden Lhatoo, Josemir W. Sander and Sanjay M. Sisodiya

June 2016
Review: A neglected Flavivirus: an update on Zika virus in 2016 and the future direction of research
T. Bharucha and J. Breuer

April 2016
Molecular characterization of disseminated pilocytic astrocytomas
M. Gessi, A. C. Engels, S. Lambert, T. Rothämel, S. von Hornstein, V. P. Collins, D. Denkhaus, A. Gnekow and T. Pietsch