As notified in our news article below entitled “SRHSB Manchester 2024 Conference Prizes”, we were very fortunate, and most grateful, to receive funding support from the Geoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre (GJBRC) for the prizes awarded for the ‘Best Basic Science Talk 2024’, ‘Best Clinical Talk 2024’ and ‘Best Patient Perspectives Talk 2024’ at the SRHSB Manchester 2024 Conference. The GJBRC have now published their Annual Report 2024/2025 and their support and prize sponsorship to SRHSB is acknowledged on page 23 of their report. The full GJBRC Annual Report is available here for further information and interest.

We are very pleased to announce that Abstracts for the presentations at the SRHSB Manchester 2024 Conference (where authors agreed to publication) have now been published in Brain and Neurosciences Advances Journal. The citation for this is: Abstracts from the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida Annual Conference Meeting 4th-6th September 2024, Manchester, United Kingdom. Brain and Neuroscience Advances. 2025;9. doi:10.1177/23982128251339055 The journal link for this is given below: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23982128251339055 Thank you very much for sharing your work and for all your contributions! As we believe such SRHSB Conference Proceedings are a very valuable resource, we hope to facilitate...

We extend our warmest congratulations to Albert Isaacs, MD, PhD on his recent success as the recipient of the 2024 Epidemiology Challenge Award from the Hydrocephalus Association Network for Discovery Science (HANDS) to investigate: Comprehensive Epidemiological and Economic Assessment of Non-Normal Pressure Adult Hydrocephalus (NNPAH) in the United States Dr. Albert Isaacs is an Assistant Professor in Genomic Medicine at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. His study aims to estimate how many people have non-NPH adult hydrocephalus, identify patterns across different age groups and causes, and explore the economic burden, including medical expenses, lost income, and costs related to disability. The results of this...

The Executive Committee of SRHSB would like to acknowledge and express their gratitude to the late Linda Mary Welburn who made a legacy bequest to SRHSB in her will. We would like to express our thanks for her generosity. Bequest gifts made to SRHSB are rare, but they afford us the opportunity to strengthen our many exciting programs and foster connections within the communities affected by hydrocephalus and spina bifida, and more broadly, neural tube defects. This legacy will endow the activities of SRHSB, and we believe that through such activities, this will impact positively on those who are affected by these conditions.

We are delighted to announce and share the many successes of Mr Ashwin Kumaria who received the SRHSB/Integra Travelling Fellowship in 2023 to undertake a project entitled “Observership in Paediatric Neurosurgery: A comparison of the management of hydrocephalus associated with paediatric brain tumours”, under the supervision of Dr (Prof) Sanjay Behari (Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, India).

We congratulate Carola McDonald (Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands) on being awarded the Dr Richard Morgan Prize, by Shine for her talk at the SRHSB Manchester Conference 2024 entitled: “Implementation of the Ready Steady Go transition program for youth with spina bifida: user-friendliness and role in transition from a patient perspective”.

We are delighted to announce the following prizes that were awarded in respect of outstanding presentations at the SRHSB Manchester Conference 2024. We extend our warmest congratulations to them all.

New paper on Accumulation of Cerebrospinal Fluid, Ventricular Enlargement, and Cerebral Folate Metabolic Errors Unify a Diverse Group of Neuropsychiatric Conditions Affecting Adult Neocortical Functions