Alexis explaining our findings to ECVP 2024 in Aberdeen
The PSP project reached a major milestone this summer when Alexis reached our recruitment target of 27 participants with PSP and 27 with Parkinson’s disease. We are tremedously grateful to all the people who took time to volunteer for the project, to Susan Wilson, Bryony Storey, Faye Robinson and Angela Green in the NHS trusts who recruited patients at thier clinics and to Maria Rodrigues-Hancock from the Durham PSPA for helping us to reach out to people with PSP in County Durham. We are now in the final stages of recruitment for our group of age matched controls and hopeful to complete all data collection soon.
Alexis has also been been busy reporting the preliminary results at conference. He was invited to be part of a symposium on “Perception, cognition, and action in neuropsychological patients: Bridging science and practice” at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), where he joined scholars from across europe to discuss how best to translate lab-based science into practical benefits for people with brain injuries. He will also be presenting our findings at Neuro 2024 in Toronto (Neuro2024: The PSP and CBD International Research Symposium – Campaign (curepsp.org)), and Dan will present the findings at the British Neuropsychological Society meeting in November.
Unfortunatley Dan was not successful with a grant application to support a PhD project examining the efficacy of prism glasses for people with PSP, but the hunt for funding goes on!
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