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Adam Al-Diwani

MA BMBCh DPhil MRCP MRCPsych

NIHR Clinical Lecturer

  • Honorary psychiatry specialist registrar (general and older adult)
  • Tutor Oxford medical school brain and behaviour rotation

Neuroimmunology in Neuropsychiatry

I am a clinician-scientist interested in leveraging neuroimmunology to better understand neuropsychiatric disorders. This includes encephalitis, dementia, and brain injury.

During my Wellcome DPhil I made discoveries about how antibodies against the NMDA glutamate receptor can be made - just outside the brain in neck lymph nodes. Together with patients we showed that this sampling was not only safe and acceptable but gives a highly informative sample. 

I have since shown that these samples can teach us about brain waste clearance in people. We are now working to learn from people across the age span with and without cognitive impairment to see how this relates to their clearance system. The first disease-modifying treatments in Alzheimer's disease are targeting this clearance - so we anticipate this could be a valuable tool to read out the effect of emerging therapies.

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