Barbara Sahakian
@BJSahakian
Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge. Author of 'Bad Moves', 'Sex, Lies, & Brain Scans' and 'Brain Boost'
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Our new article: Accelerated continuous theta burst stimulation targeting left primary motor cortex for children with autism spectrum disorder: multicentre randomised sham controlled trial bmj.com/content/393/bm…
www.bmj.com Accelerated continuous theta burst stimulation targeting left primary motor cortex for children... Objectives To investigate the efficacy and safety of a five day accelerated continuous theta burst stimulation (a-cTBS) protocol in improving social communication impairment in children with autism... I'm looking forward to being a part of the discussions for the brilliant 'A gap in the clouds' exhibition. Friday 30th January at the Heong Gallery, Downing College
Huntington’s disease: treatments are finally on the horizon after research breakthroughs theconversation.com/huntingtons-di… via @ConversationUK
theconversation.com Huntington’s disease: treatments are finally on the horizon after research breakthroughs Sadly, there is no cure for Huntington’s disease. But a couple new research papers suggests this may be about to change. Discovery of disrupted sustained attention and altered functional connectivity in far‐from‐onset Huntington's disease gene‐expanded young adults - Langley - 2026 - Alzheimer's & Dementia - Wiley Online Library alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/al…
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com Discovery of disrupted sustained attention and altered functional connectivity in far‐from‐onset... BACKGROUND Cognitive impairments are a hallmark of Huntington's disease (HD). METHODS Seventy-one participants (43 HD gene-expanded [HDGE], 28 healthy controls) from the HD-Young Adult Study at two...