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Medical School Faculty receive grant from the Alzheimer’s Association
Does the administration of probiotics to patients with mild Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) reduce neuroinflammation, improve cognitive functioning and positively affect neurophysiological measures? The Alzheimer’s Association has recently awarded Dr Nicoletta Nicolaou an Alzheimer's [...]
Piloting of Curriculum Work Area 3 for the Erasmus+ Project EmpathyInHealth
22 March 2022 The University of Nicosia Medical School is participating in the project ‘Curriculum Development using VR technology to enhance empathetic communication skills in future health care professionals’ (EmpathyInHealth) which is funded by [...]
C-MOR data used by ABC Australia for a 2-year COVID anniversary article
ABC News, one of the leading news media in Australia, recently published an article titled ‘Life. Death. COVID-19’ to mark two years since the first reported COVID-19 death in the country. While acknowledging that [...]
Piloting of Curriculum Work Area 2 for the Erasmus+ Project EmpathyInHealth
26 February 2022 The University of Nicosia Medical School is participating in the project ‘Curriculum Development using VR technology to enhance empathetic communication skills in future health care professionals’ (EmpathyInHealth) which is funded by the [...]
Piloting of Curriculum Work Area 1 for the Erasmus+ Project EmpathyInHealth
5 February 2022 The University of Nicosia Medical School is participating in the project ‘Curriculum Development using VR technology to enhance empathetic communication skills in future health care professionals’ (EmpathyInHealth) which is funded by the [...]
The complexity of Vitamin B12 diseases untangled
January 2022 A recent article in the journal Nature Communications offers insights into the complexity of vitamin B12, or cobalamin, diseases while revealing potential therapeutic avenues for the patients suffering from this family of [...]
Deep brain electrophysiology in freely moving sheep
January 2022 A newly published article in Current Biology demonstrates that sheep can be a powerful animal model for brain function that can bridge the translational gap between rodents and primates. [...]
The C-MOR project at the 14th European Public Health conference
The 14th European Public Health (EPH) conference took place virtually on 10-12 November 2021. This year, the conference theme was “Public health futures in a changing world”. At the conference, two faculty members of the Department [...]
Beyond Pre-Accelerator Programme
The Junior Achievement Cyprus in collaboration with eight stakeholders: The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Karaiskakio Foundation, Cyprus Oncology Society, Cyprus Federation of Patients’ Associations, Cocoon Creations, IDEA, Cyprus [...]
Development of VR and Educational Videos for the Erasmus+ Project EmpathyInHealth
15 November 2021 The University of Nicosia Medical School is participating in the project ‘Curriculum Development using VR technology to enhance empathetic communication skills in future health care professionals’ (EmpathyInHealth) which is funded by [...]