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We must enhance environmental policy coherence to meet Sustainable Development Goals – new research

Economic, social, and environmental policies must be aligned and share common — and not contrasting — goals for this to happen.

29 Mar 2021

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The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan 2021-2025: an ambitious new plan to save our bees

The plan provides a new five-year roadmap to help bees, other pollinating insects, and our wider biodiversity – and promises to engage more stakeholders and address more specific actions.

26 Mar 2021

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Pandemic negatively affecting children and young adults from low-income families

Pandemic affects children and young adults from low-income families negatively in terms of internet access, quiet places to study and higher likelihoods of living with someone vulnerable to severe COVID-19 disease.

26 Mar 2021

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Pandemic experiences of older people brought to life through Poemathon

The Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) at Trinity collaborated with Poetry Ireland and Neuroscience Ireland to create a poem of 355 contributors which captures the mood of our older population.

24 Mar 2021

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Brain Awareness Week 2021: The developing brain’s response to stress

Dr Eva Jimenez-Mateos is bringing her knowledge of seizures in adults to neonatal care in order to understand how the brain responds to our first days of life.

21 Mar 2021

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Brain Awareness Week 2021: The lesser known Lewy Body Disorder

Researchers at the Global Brain Health Institute and St James Hospital are attempting to raise awareness of the disorder in Ireland and provide an education forum for the public and health professionals in Ireland,

19 Mar 2021

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Scientists find that binding iron improves the effect of the anti-TB drug Bedaquiline

Scientists at Trinity and St James's Hospital have recently applied the 'trick' of binding iron to support the immune system to the treatment of TB,

18 Mar 2021

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Brain Awareness Week 2021: Understanding rare genetic changes in brain biology

Professor Louise Gallagher and her research group are looking at rare genetic changes to understand the biology of psychiatric and neurological conditions.

18 Mar 2021

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Brain Awareness Week 2021: Tackling Motor Neurone Disease through research

Professor Orla Hardiman and her team’s world class MND research strengths are in clinical evaluation, epidemiology, neuropsychology, genetics, brain imaging and neural engineering.

17 Mar 2021

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National Brain Awareness Week: Arresting brain tumour related seizure activity

Professor Mark Cunningham's research aims to develop better ways to arrest seizure activity in patients with tumour related seizures which are more difficult to control with conventional anti-seizure drugs.

16 Mar 2021

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