Twitter account for the Parkinson's North East & Cumbria Research Interest Group (NEC-RIG) Promoting research engagement for people with #Parkinsons
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Joined October 2021
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And that’s a wrap! Thank you to our inspiring speakers today!
Dr Laura Wright & @FGerakios from @NCL_medscience, @PH_Hodgson from @TEWV, Sarah Fraser from @Gateshead_NHS. We heard about speech & language interventions, brain imaging, non-motor symptoms & #delirium in #Parkinsons
Good luck to @NE_Parkies_Utd playing today at their first national competition at St George’s Park!
North East Parkies United is a walking football team with players from across the region and train at the Beacon of Light in Sunderland.
Hope you all enjoy the tournament! 🍀🍀
We’re at the regional Parkinson’s 3 Rivers meeting today. Fantastic talk from our Co-Lead @RVarden taking about her PhD findings on the prevalence of #Parkinsons in North Cumbria. Some interesting findings & ideas for the future care in Cumbria.
@ParkinsonsEN @NCL_medscience
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This is a great article which clarifies the potential of adaptive DBS, who will benefit and at what stage of development this new technology is at. Great work @ParkinsonsUK Research Communications team!
Research News 📣
An individual’s life-changing experience of a new form of deep brain stimulation has hit the headlines.
Kevin, a person with Parkinson’s in Sunderland, was one of the first people to experience the BrainSense technology.
Read more 👉🏻 prksn.uk/3EkjV9W
ALT Hands holding a Medtronic device for adaptive deep brain stimulation, with text 'Adaptive deep brain stimulation in the news' displayed above on a blue background.
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Out tomorrow - Thursday the 16th Enjoy folks
@ParkinsonsEN @ParkinsonsENEx
NEW YEAR - NEW RESEARCH PODCAST!
Release: Thursday 16th January 2025.
If you’re struggling to stick to your New Year’s resolution to be more active our latest #Parkinsons research podcast focusing on exercise should give you all the motivation you need.
Parkinson's North East & Cumbria RIG retweeted
Interested in cognitive decline in #Parkinsons? Listen to the @ISTAART featuring Dr Dana Pourzinal.
We collaborated with Dana and @NadeekaDissa from @UQ_News using data from #ICICLE study from @NCL_medscience and @PDandHDLab to look at congnitive subtypes over time. Link below 👇
Have you heard the latest episode of ISTAART Voices?
Here's a little snippet from Dr. Dana Pourzinal, on the impact of collaboration in her work!
Out now at alz.org/ISTAARTpodcasts 🎧
Congratulations to our Co-Lead @Rosiemo24 who has been awarded an @NIHRresearch fellowship to improve #mobility in #Parkinsons! Hugely well deserved and we’re looking forward to hearing more!
Northumbria’s @Physio_In_Lab director, Dr @Rosiemo24, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship by @NIHRresearch worth over £1m to lead research which aims to improve the mobility of people living with Parkinson’s disease.
@NUSportEx
📰Discover more: northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/n…
Last month we had our first #Parkinsons Research Engagement Day in Darlington. It was such a wonderful and positive day, including hearing about the brilliant work at @SouthTees from our keynote @dr_wiblin.
Check out our gallery capturing the day 👉
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Well done @STSFTrust! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
#getitontime
Using internal audit data, @STSFTrust started benchmarking their delivery of Time critical medications against our 10 recommendations for hospitals.
The project has had significant impact so far and it's a great example to follow.
Read how they did it: bit.ly/4fytBv8
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Delighted to receive a platform poster presentation award at the @EDA_delirium 2024 conference for our work on #digital_outcomes of #delirium in #Parkinsons
@BAM_Research @FGerakios @rachaellawson85 @sil_bam @AlisonYarnall
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BRC PhD student Nana Aboagye has been accepted into the 2025 intake for the Venture Building Incubator 5.0 at the @BayesCentre @EdinburghUni.
“I am thrilled to have been accepted into the VBI 5.0 Programme this year."
newcastlebrc.nihr.ac.uk/brc-…
@gillbarry1 from @NorthumbriaUni, @Alchev_ from @durham_uni, @AnnetteHand13 from @NuTHResearch and @NorthumbriaUni & @Emma__Packer from @BAM_Research & @NCL_medscience. We heard about exercise interventions, support for carers, emotion recognition & self management in #Parkinsons
Thank you to our keynote Dr Lou Wiblin from @TEWV, to Kate from @NuvoWellbeing for waking us up after lunch with some exercise, to our organisers @rosanna_varden @rachaellawson85 @Rosiemo24 @FishQuayKirsty Cara, David 📸, Tim, Susan, Adrian and John for all your hard work.
After lunch we had Kate from @NuvoWellbeing getting the blood flowing with some seated exercises! This was so much fun, everyone got involved and had a brilliant time doing seated exercises. Thank you Kate!
We’ve had a fantastic morning! Healthcare professionals & researchers from around the region have been talking about a range of topics. From self management of medications and SLT to supporting carers. Ready for more this afternoon!
@ParkinsonsUK @Emma__Packer @AnnetteHand13
Kicking off today’s #Parkinsons research day is Dr Lou Wiblin, Consultant Neurologist at @TEWV. She gave a fantastic talk about their award winning PASU service and how prescribing Clozapine can help with Parkinson’s psychosis.
@PDNEC_RIG @ParkinsonsUK @ParkinsonsEN
Today’s the day! We’re in Darlington today at the Darlington Arena for our #Parkinson’s North East Research Day! Excited to hear from research from across the North East.
@ParkinsonsUK @PDNEC_RIG @BAM_Research @NIHRNewcBRC @NCL_medscience @NorthumbriaUni @TEWV @ParkinsonsEN
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Join our free South East Scotland @ParkinsonsUK Excellence Network meeting on 5 Nov 2024. Our multi-professional meeting will bring together healthcare professionals with an interest in Parkinson's
Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/scotland-…
🚨Due to popular demand, we have been able to release some additional tickets to our #Parkinsons NEC-RIG Research Day! Register now to join us and hear about fantastic Parkinson's research around the North East!
Registration is open now via this link: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-parki…
