2019

The brain tumour patient experience of ketogenic diet therapy

Susan Wood*, Specialist Dietitian; Ketogenic Diet Therapies and Catherine Zabilowicz, Nutritional Therapist. ABSTRACT: Background Ketogenic diet therapy (KDT) is creating immense interest across the brain tumour community, but it is currently ...(read more)

Cancer and the ketogenic diet: A current perspective

Louise Henry, MSc RD Senior Specialist Dietitian and Clare Shaw PhD RD, Consultant Dietitian Cancer is a complex disease. As our understanding of the genetic makeup of cancer cells improves treatment can be refined to provide targeted therapies ...(read more)

Insomnia: Does it keep the GP awake at night?

Healthcare professionals can watch this 30 minute presentation by Dr Roger Henderson. See ...(read more)

Gut microbiota and Parkinson’s disease: background and rationale of the SymPD study

Dr Valentina Leta MD Neurologist is a PhD Clinical Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, London.1,2 Prof K Ray Chaudhuri DSc FRCP MD is Clinical Director Parkinson’s Foundation Centre of Excellence, King’s College Hospital, London.1,2 ...(read more)

It’s your future… and allied healthcare professionals are here to help you make everything of it that you can.

Helen Spear, Speech and Language Therapist, North Bristol NHS Trust. About Helen… I qualified as a speech and language therapist in 1987. Since then I have worked across the South West region of England, mainly between Gloucestershire and ...(read more)

Living through and learning from a brain tumour experience

Neil Bindemann PhD, Executive Director, Person-Centred Neurosciences Society If you have landed on this page having read my article in the International Brain Tumour Alliance (IBTA), annual journal, and you’re curious to learn of what I ...(read more)

Neurodigest Issue 4

A big welcome to our Winter 2018 edition of Neurodigest. We have once again scoured the UK for the best examples of great care within the neurology community, to inform the reader and hopefully stimulate improvement in the service we provide to our ...(read more)