Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Our mission is to improve the lives of people with neurological illness and injury through discovery, innovative treatments and training the next generation.
We are embedded within Cambridge University Hospitals, allowing our research questions to stem from problems we have encountered in the clinic, and to directly address the needs of patients and families. We work in partnership with the Departments of Psychiatry, Genetics and Paediatrics, to improve brain and mind health, through life, together.
We investigate the mechanisms of brain disease and injury, to devise new diagnostics and treatments, as well as using large data to improve the way we deliver current treatments. Our work has already led to new treatments in use world-wide.
Our community of principal investigators work together finding new projects to explore the horizons of neuroscience and how we can improve both brain and mind health.
Our major research themes include: traumatic brain injury, dementia and neuro degeneration, hearing and vision, neuroinflammation, rare neurological disorders, stroke, and stem cell neurobiology.
Researchers are supported by the latest neuroimaging technology and science, led by the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre.
Our centres of excellence include the John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, the UK Dementia Research Institute at Cambridge, the Cambridge Centre for Frontotemporal Dementia, and the Cambridge Centre for Parkinson’s Plus, amongst others.
"Our mission is to improve the lives of people with neurological illness and injury through discovery, innovative treatments and training the next generation."
