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Ed Needham

@needhamneuro.bsky.social
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Neurologist treating and researching neuroimmunology and neurocritical care

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Cambridge Clinical Mitochondrial Research Group @mitocamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
📢 We are recruiting a post-doctoral clinical research associate to join the @lifearc.bsky.social Centre for Rare #Mitochondrial Diseases, supported by @mdukcharity.bsky.social It's an exciting time in mito research! For further details and to apply visit: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/clinica...
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Clinical Research Associate (Fixed Term)
This is a unique opportunity to carry out a period of clinical postdoctoral research focused on developing and validating new treatments and biomarkers for mitochondrial disorders, as part of a new
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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · 10/03/2025
IL-1- and IL-6-related systemic inflammation in #COVID19 is associated with #microglia dysfunction, neurovascular inflammation, and focal neuropathologies 🧪🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Microglia dysfunction, neurovascular inflammation and focal neuropathologies are linked to IL-1- and IL-6-related systemic inflammation in COVID-19 - Nature Neuroscience
The authors show that brain inflammation in COVID-19 correlates with viral load, systemic inflammation and virus-sensing pattern recognition receptors. Microglial dysfunction occurs at sites of vascul...
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Ed Needham @needhamneuro.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Ketamine to help rehab from severe FND? academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
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N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor hypofunction causes recurrent and transient failures of perceptual inference
Perception combines external sensory signals with internal predictions that reflect prior knowledge about the world. Weilnhammer et al. show that the NMDAR
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Ed Needham @needhamneuro.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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Why inflammatory reductionism is a threat to psychiatry (and the rest of medicine)
A new world-view is emerging, one which attempts to explain all manner of ills as the result of inflammation or immune dysfunction. While motivated by some
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