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PhD Studentships funded 2007-08

Project title Disease £ Spent
Total   259,207
The social modulation of emotion Social phobias, autism, Williams syndrome 1,939
The influence of dopamine in trigeminal nociceptive neurotransmission and migraine Migraine 18,971
Understanding cellular mechanisms in prion-mediated neurodegeneration vCJD 35,430
Role of metabotropic glutamate receptors in controlling microglial activation and neurotoxicity in neuro-inflammatory diseases Alzheimer's, MS 5,329
How are memories made? Hypoxia, dementia, epilepsy 38,517
Understanding cognitive dysfunction and localising the epileptogenic zone Epilepsy, memory disorders 24,554
Misregulation of alternative splicing in neurological disorders: predictions for treatments ALS, Parkinson's, epilepsy 32,370
The effects of attentional and working memory load on feature processing in the human brain Stroke 23,978
Mutations in P/Q-type calcium channels and molecular mechanism of migraine Migraine, ataxia, epilepsy 22,330
Counterfactual thinking and behaviour regulation Prefrontal dementias, Parkinson's, depression 23,930
Intracellular trafficking of the abnormal prion protein (PrPSc) and the subcellular compartments where PrPSc mediated neurotoxity occurs Prion disease, neuro-degenerative disease 31,859