Professor Joanna Wardlaw discusses her research into small vessel disease (SVD), stroke & dementia. HTML Transcript - Prof Joanna Wardlaw, 2012 “Hello, my name is Joanna Wardlaw, I am Professor of Applied Neuroimaging, at the University of Edinburgh. I am interested in how blood vessels can affect the brain, and particularly in using modern medical imaging techniques to help us understand how those blood vessels are causing things like stroke, and small vessel disease, how that damage can build up over a long time, and how that can affect brain function. Modern medical imaging techniques can tell us all about different things in the brain like the wiring in the brain, how fast you’re thinking, it can look at thinking patterns and it can tell us about different parts of the brain and how well they’re surviving or not surviving. Imaging has been incredibly important in understanding and developing new treatments for stroke, and we’re hoping that we can now use it also to start developing new treatments for small vessel disease, and this is particularly important, because small vessel disease causes about 45% of all dementias that we see today.” Relevant links Professor Joanna Wardlaw Brain & nervous system Stroke Small Vessel Disease Dementia Imaging techniques 09 Aug 22. Prof Joanna Wardlaw interview 25 Apr 22. STV at Edinburgh Imaging 21 Apr 22. STV Scotland Tonight dementia special 12 Apr 22. Edinburgh’s stroke research 14 Dec 21. BNA Outstanding Contribution to Neuroscience award 25 Mar 21. Featured update: stroke 08 Dec 20. Insights into Imaging ranking 08 Sep 20. SDRC Conference 25 Feb 20. Prof Joanna Wardlaw & the UK DRI 23 May 18. New trial for stroke - LACI-2 07 Feb 18. STRIVE Guidelines for SVD 24 Jan 18. Prof Wardlaw gains Feinberg Award 02 Nov 17. LACI-1 trial complete 05 Oct 17. Women in medicine 02 Aug 17. Leducq SVD website 16 May 17. Award to Prof Wardlaw Relevant Edinburgh Imaging publications 02 Sep 22. Featured Paper. Associations of peak-width skeletonized mean diffusivity and post-stroke cognition 01 Sep 22. Featured Paper. Deep attention super-resolution of brain magnetic resonance images acquired under clinical protocols 26 Aug 22. Featured Paper. Topological relationships between perivascular spaces and progression of white matter hyperintensities: A pilot study in a sample of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 17 Aug 22. Featured Paper. Clinical diagnosis and magnetic resonance imaging in patients with transient and minor neurological symptoms: a prospective cohort study 16 Aug 22. Featured Paper. Epigenetic and integrative cross-omics analyses of cerebral white matter hyperintensities on MRI 12 Aug 22. Featured Paper. Integrated methylome and phenome study of the circulating proteome reveals markers pertinent to brain health 05 Aug 22. Featured Paper. Assessment of perivascular space filtering methods using a three-dimensional computational model 21 Jul 22. Featured Paper. The Boston criteria version 2.0 for cerebral amyloid angiopathy: a multicentre, retrospective, MRI–neuropathology diagnostic accuracy study 18 Jul 22. Featured Paper. The Open-Access European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia (EPAD) MRI dataset and processing workflow Please view all our publications, here This article was published on 2024-08-22