LonDownS PhD student Ros Hithersay wins £48k grant

A team of researchers from the Division of Psychiatry have been awarded £48,000 from the Baily Thomas Charitable Fund to investigate the feasibility of using functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to identify differences in cortical activity that may relate to differences in cognitive abilities and predict later cognitive decline, in adults with Down syndrome. Rosalyn Hithersay will develop and conduct the study as part of her PhD. She is supervised by Dr Andre Strydom and Dr Carla Startin, with support from Professor Clare Elwell’s team in UCL’s Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering. This work will further develop the ongoing research into individual differences in Down syndrome that is currently being conducted by the London Down Syndrome Consortium (LonDownS). You can hear more about LonDownS through their study websitehttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/london-down-syndrome-consortium or twitter feed @LonDownS.