Brain Infection & Inflammation Group

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🎉 Congratulations 🎉 to @sarahaimeeb.bsky.social on her review paper in looking at Viral Infections and the Blood-Brain Barrier: academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...

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The @brainiigroup.bsky.social is happy to welcome Anne Caroline from Brazil to join the lab for 6 months during her PhD on tropical medicine! 🌎🧠

✨ Welcome Anne! ✨

What is the cost of delaying treatment of HSV Encephalitis in the UK? Read our latest paper to find out more about the impact on quality of life and cost to the NHS.
👉💷🧠 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40973386/

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@benedictneuro.bsky.social highlights in @uk.theconversation.com how SSPE affects 1 in 600 infants that contract measles before turning 1. The sad death of a child in LA serves as a reminder that measles is not a benign childhood illness. #VaccineSaveLives

Read👉 theconversation.com/child-dies-f...

Watch @encephalitisint.bsky.social
explain how important PPI is to research and the impact patients can have on studies
👉📺https://youtube.com/watch?v=m6z00F3f5zc
👉📑 Read the article: tinyurl.com/2s3d9r39

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After years of campaigning by PATIENT groups &
@brainiigroup.bsky.social, the #chickenpox #vaccine is going to be offered on the #NHS.

No longer will this only be accessible to those able to afford it.

This will save lives from #Brain #Infection #Encephalitis

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Encephalitis: global threats, trends and public health implications: a technical brief Encephalitis is a serious, life-threatening neurological condition characterized by inflammation of the brain. Prioritizing encephalitis within global and national health agendas and promoting collabo...

🧠 #Encephalitis is a deadly brain inflammation. Cases are rising due to climate change, vaccine gaps & population growth.

Shaped by many experts, including CPP Awardee @benedictneuro.bsky.social, the @who.int has issued a global call to improve care.

➡️ Full WHO technical brief: shorturl.at/triO2

Join us as we come together today on #WorldBrainDay2025 to raise awareness of brain health and champion lifelong brain wellness through childhood, adulthood and into older age. 🧠🧑‍⚕️

📅22 July, 1pm UK time

Register for @wfneurology webinar: tinyurl.com/3zxvspxe

Nursing patients with encephalitis | British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing Encephalitis is a complex syndrome with many aetiologies and presentations. Nurses play an integral role in the diagnosis, treatment and management of patients with encephalitis during both the acute and long-term stages of the condition. Diagnosis hinges on clinical assessments including cerebrospinal fluid testing and brain imaging, and antivirals remain as first-line treatment for suspected cases. Lack of awareness or education can limit the effectiveness of the nurse's delivery of care. However, multidisciplinary team input can bridge this divide and provide a person-centred approach to meet the variable and individual care needs that present with each case. The COVID-19 pandemic also demonstrated how nurses need to remain vigilant in considering encephalitis when caring for such patients, in understanding the condition's interaction with the virus, and the impact this may have on the management and long-term care of these patients.

Read our article on "Nursing patients with encephalitis" highlighting the importance of providing a person-centred approach to care with nurses playing a pivotal role. tinyurl.com/4j94tw2v 👏 Hannah Castell
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@brainiigroup.bsky.social were proud to be part of the @lincneurosci.bsky.social launch 🧠🎉and are excited for future collaborations. Watch this space...

We invite you to the LINC launch:
9 July, 5-7.30pm at Yoko Ono Lennon Centre, Liverpool. Keynote talks & drinks reception. Register for the event today! tinyurl.com/3maaxvvc

LINC: Excellence in brain and mind research: from molecules to outcomes.

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Clinical prediction models for diagnosing scrub typhus & doxycycline-treatable causes in children with acute #encephalitis syndrome in India.

OUT NOW 👉 tinyurl.com/jh2826nn

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@brainiigroup.bsky.social & Liverpool Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Centre (LINC) hosted Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to showcase our #Neuroscience and research facilities. liverpool.ac.uk/liverpool-in...

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Well done to Louise Osborne on being awarded her Association of Physician's award for a Summer Studentship with @brainiigroup.bsky.social

👉Read more about the studentship: liverpool.ac.uk/medicine/new...

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We are thrilled @brainiigroup.bsky.social to congratulate a double PhD success with Corey Ratcliffe and Cory Hooper. Both have done tremendously well and passed their VIVAs.👨‍🎓🧠🎉 @livuni-ismib.bsky.social @livuni-ives.bsky.social

☕ Kickstart your #ABN2025!

Don't miss our 7:50am SIG sessions with leaders in neurology 🧠:

🦠 Neuro Infection - Thurs, 8 May
Dr Bhagteshwar Singh , Dr Laura Benjamin, and Dr Matt Jones!

🧩 Cognitive - Fri, 9 May
Dr Mark Ellul, Prof @benedictneuro.bsky.social and Dr @dravaeaston.bsky.social !

📢 Just published in @TheLancet @LancetGH:

🧠 New insights into non-traumatic & febrile #coma in #Africa

Read more:

🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Huge thanks to all speakers, attendees & organisers #BNA20025!🧠

🎉 Huge shoutout to @clairehetherington.bsky.social for her fantastic poster presentation at #BNA2025 yesterday! 👏

Today, we're cheering @sarahboardman.bsky.social — good luck! 🍀

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NeuroNights at LEAF (BYOB Liverpool) Join us for NeuroNights, where science and comedy come together for two entertaining evenings at LEAF on Bold Street, Liverpool this April. Expect laughter, fascinating ideas, and a fresh take on how ...

NeuroNight!

Excited to share a fun Neuro-comedy night — where science meets stand-up — all part of the countdown to #BNA2025 in Liverpool!

📅 Apr 24 – Battle of the Brains
📍LEAF, Bold Street, Liverpool
🎫 Tickets: lng.org.uk/byob-leaf

Please share – everyone’s welcome! 🙌

Congratulations to Dr Wood on her NIHR Invention for Innovation award 🧠🏆🎉

Happy World Encephalitis Day #Red4WED
Watch our video & help to raise awareness of #Encephatlits: a growing global threat. 👀 🧠 https://youtu.be/d_y8f6065Lc @encephalitisint.bsky.social

Encephalitis - A Growing Global Threat - Global Policy Launch Event | Encephalitis International Encephalitis – a growing global threat Global Policy Launch Event Wednesday 19th February 2025, 6pm GMT – click the link below to join virtually.  Global Policy Launch | Encephalitis International Ins...

Last chance to book your FREE place to the launch of the World Health Organization’s technical brief on encephalitis and find out what global future actions are needed to help reduce death and disability from this condition.
www.encephalitis.info/news/encepha...

Patients with neurological or psychiatric complications of COVID-19 have worse long-term functional outcomes: COVID-CNS- A multicentre case-control study. In this study, we focused on to the functional outcomes of patients affected with neurological complications of COVID-19 and risk factors associated with poor outcomes among the vulnerable group to h...

New publication highlights that patients with neurological or psychiatric complications of COVID-19 had worse long term functions outcomes which impacted their activity of daily living (ADL), employment & mental health. Read more... tinyurl.com/mva4hrbb

Frontiers | Editorial: Immune studies of SARS-CoV2 and vaccines using preclinical modeling Preclinical animal models remain essential for understanding viral pathogenesis as well as for the development and assessment of vaccines and therapeutic str...

Congratulations to @immunecord.bsky.social
for the Editorial in Frontiers Immunology on "Immune studies of SARS-CoV2 and vaccines using preclinical modeling". Click for full article...
frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

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