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NEWS During the presentation lecture Professor Marwan Hariz was acknowledged by past and present Deans as having led his team to make an outstanding contribution to patient care and scientific learning. To coincide with the anniversary of the unit the occasion was marked with an International Conference attracting over 170 leading neurologists, neurosurgeons and others from around the world. True testament to the acknowledgment of the team as a centre of world excellence. Widespread media coverage of the teams success at treating Tourette's. SKY News, Five, The Telegraph and Evening Standard are just some of the media reporting on the pioneering treatment for Tourette's by the Unit of Functional Neurosurgery. Progress Report - Nov 2011 Team’s work heralded as a new benchmark for DBS. The unit of functional neurology has just received the highest independent praise for its recently published paper on subthalamic stimulation for Parkinsons’s disease. The publication in the prestigious Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry was a follow up of the first 79 patients operated with DBS in the subthalamic nucleus for advanced Parkinson’s disease. The lead author on the publication Dr Tom Foltynie expressed delight that the teams work had been described as setting a new benchmark in the editorial by Professor Paul Krack, neurologist in Grenoble. This public recognition by Professor Krack in the internationally recognised journal is a fantastic achievement for the team and credit for all the hard work under the leadership of Professor Marwan Hariz who expressed his personal pride for the unit, the patients and the Parkinson’s Appeal click here to read the paper >> click here to read the editorial >> click here to listen to a podcast by Dr Tom Foltynie >>
Exciting new collaboration with physicists and radiologists. In September 2010, the Unit of Functional Neurosurgery team will be joining forces with the physicists and radiologists at Queen Square to start a project called –“The Assessment of changes in brain activation patterns in response to Deep Brain Stimulation in patients with Parkinson's Disease, using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.” Having performed extensive safety studies, we have concluded beyond doubt that we can safely perform fMRI scans among patients with fully implanted DBS systems. We now wish to study the change in brain activity that occurs in response to the stimulation being activated. The principal objective is to identify which brain areas increase their activity and which brain areas decrease their activity when the deep brain stimulation is switched on compared to when switched off. We hypothesise that patients with an excellent response to DBS will have greater normalization of brain activity with DBS switched on than patients with a less impressive response to DBS, both at rest and during movement. This will help identify whether differential response to surgery depends more on surgical factors or patient related factors (e.g. patient genotypes). Understanding the mechanism of action of DBS in PD will have potential benefits for those patients who are already recipients of DBS, and will ultimately help in the selection of the most appropriate future recipients of DBS. Prestigous Swedish Award from Ulmea University honours Professor Hariz International Parkinson's researcher and neurosurgeon The Swedbank´s scientific prize to the memory of Amanda and Per Algot Mangberg is awarded to Marwan Hariz, an international authority in Functional Neurosurgery. "Marwan Hariz has had a very significant contribution in surgical treatment of patients with Parkinson's disease. He has been instrumental in successful development of stereotactic neurosurgery" says Professor Tommy Bergenheim, chairman of the Amanda and Per Algot Mangberg´s memorial foundation Hariz is awarded for his outstanding contributions to the development and the international spread of this technique. Marwan Hariz is since 2001 adjunct Professor at Umea University and since 2002 professor at the prestigious Institute of Neurology, University College London.
Progress Report - Oct 2009 Progress Report - Oct 2008 Award Winning Film - 'RUTH' screening Progress Report - Nov 2007 Meeting of Minds - Auction at Christie's
Basal Ganglia Speech Disorders and Deep Brain Stimulation 1st International Symposium, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London. 2 & 3 July 2007 International Workshop on Functional Neurosurgery for movement disorders and mental illness - Feb 2007 organised by the Functional Neurosurgery Unit at Queen Square, London was a huge success attracting almost 200 delegates along with eminent speakers from around the world. Progress Report - Nov 2006 9 Nov 2006 - 10 Centre study across Germany, Norway and Austria published in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes that bilateral deep
brain stimulation of the globus pallidus is effective in the
reduction of dystonia symptoms and disability in people with primary
generalized and segmental dystonia. 23 August 2006 - The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) issue full guidance to the NHS in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on deep brain stimulation for tremor and dystonia (excluding Parkinson's disease) Martyn Lewis CBE has generously given his support to the appeal by making a video and radio advert at BT Centre in London to promote the work of the appeal and its new donate by text service which was made possible by a BT Community Champion Award.
Her Majesty's Ambassador Anthony Brenton 29 June 2006 - presented Amy Westall (UK) and Oksana Zabelina (Russia) awards for courage and raising awareness about Dystonia in the UK and Russia. The Ambassador praised the UK scientists involved with Deep Brain Stimulation and collaboration between the two countries.
Progress Report - June 2006 The latest report on the work of the Unit of Functional Neurosurgery Download the report ( 51KB PDF) >> ************************** ************************** Organised by The European Dana Alliance for the Brain and the British Neuroscience Association to celebrate Brain Awareness Week, the evening was chaired by Mary Baker, President of the European Parkinson's Disease Association. Speakers include two members of the Functional Neurosurgery Unit at the National Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London: Amy Westall (20) dystonia and Fergus Henderson International Chef with Parkinson's Disease, patients of Professor Hariz. Webcast archive now available from ************ 'Marvellous; Informative; Enjoyable; Excellent; We gained so much; Outstanding; Thank you so much' said delegates from America , Holland , Belgium and across the UK Attending the UK 's first International Deep Brain Stimulation for Dystonia Conference held at Belvoir Castle on 3 September 2005 organised by four people with Deep Brain Stimulation, family and friends. You can share in this unique event thanks to the generosity of Medtronic who paid for the professional DVD of the day which brought together patients and contributions from: Mr Richard Selway, Functional Neurosurgeon, Kings College *Functional Neurosurgery Unit, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. Copies of the DVD were distributed to library authorities across the UK
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