Professor John Pickard

Interests

Advancing the care of patients with acute brain injury (trauma, haemorrhage and hydrocephalus) from initial ictus, neurointensive care, recovery from coma and rehabilitation to final outcome through the study of pathophysiology (multimodality bedside monitoring, PET and MR imaging - Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre), randomised controlled trials, UK Shunt Evaluation Laboratory and Shunt Registry and refining the rehabilitation pathway for our 2.6M population in the Eastern Region. Discoveries have included definition of how early insults to the brain in both childhood and later life may lead to late changes and cognitive outcome, new ways of detecting when the blood supply to critical areas of the brain become at risk, which treatments may be helpful (acute statin, decompressive craniectomy) and which counterproductive, detection of awareness in the 'vegetative ' state (fMR), which parts of the brain are affected in normal pressure hydrocephalus and novel treatment for pseudotumor cerebri.

Research Focus

Equipment

Computational modelling

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Multimodality bedside monitoring (microdialysis, intracranial pressure, transcranial Doppler).

Positron Emission Tomography (PET)