Newcastle University

Anna Basu is an academic clinical lecturer, paediatric neurology at the Great North Childrens Hospital, RVI and an honorary clinical lecturer at Newcastle University.

Qualifications

BMBCh (Oxford 1997)

MA (Cambridge 1998)

MRCPCH (London,2000)

PhD (Newcastle, 2007)

Peer Review Activity

I have reviewed articles for journals including the Lancet, Human Brain Mapping, Cell Transplantation, European Journal of Neuroscience, Clinical Neurophysiology, Journal of Anatomy and Disability and Rehabilitation as well BMJ Best Practice, and reviewed for grant awarding bodies including the Wellcome Trust.

Seminars at international meetings

Corticospinal tract development and its plasticity after early injury. 20th Annual meeting of the European Society for Movement Analysis, Vienna, 2011 

Memberships

British Paediatric Neurology Association (BPNA)
British Neuroscience Association (BNA)
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)

British Medical Association (BMA)

Research Interests

My research is in neurological disorders of children, particularly those of cerebral palsy and neurocognition. I am working on projects which address the way in which the motor system can adapt to early damage and the role of the mirror neuron system to motor learning, as well as ways of assessing motor function and motor planning.

Funding

2012: Paul Polani Research Award, British Association of Childhood Disability (PI). The use of taping to improve thumb and wrist posture and hand use in infants with non-progressive brain lesions affecting hand function. £7473.

2011: Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University (PI): A tool for measuring motor planning deficits in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. £1000. 

2011: WellChild Trust (PI): to study a play-based therapy approach for the upper limb in hemiplegic cerebral palsy. £46 733

2010: Special Trustees, Newcastle Healthcare Charity (PI). Development of an electronically instrumented pegboard test for assessing manual dexterity in children including those with significant motor disability. £4334 

2009: Special Trustees, Newcastle Healthcare Charity. Study of effect of face training on face perception in prosopagnosia and in healthy controls (£1228). 

I co-supervise PhD student Emma Kirkpatrick (Henry Miller Research studentship, 2008).  

I have helped a number of students to apply successfully for vacation studentships including Kelvin Leung (Newcastle university studentship 2011), Grace Tan (Wellcome Trust studentship 2008) and Matthew French (Newcastle university studentship, 2008).

Contributor to  Oxford Specialist Handbook of Paediatric Neurology second edition, Oxford University Press (in press)

Facilitator, National Paediatric Epilepsy Training course (PET1), British Paediatric Neurology Association

Supervisor for SSC module for Newcastle medical students

Medical student seminar "Faints, fits and funny turns", Newcastle University 

• Basu AP, Bellis P, Whittaker R, McKean M, Devlin AM. Alternating ptosis and Marcus Gunn jaw-winking phenomenon in Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome. In: Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology: Annual Meeting of the British Paediatric Neurology Association. 2012, London: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
• Abdel-Salam F, Basu AP, Johnson S, Devlin AM. Phaeochromocytoma in a child with Guillain-Barre syndrome?. In: Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology: Annual Meeting of the British Paediatric Neurology Association. 2012, London: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
• Basu AP, Eyre JA. A plea for consideration of the less-affected hand in therapeutic approaches to hemiplegia. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 2012, 54(4), 380.
• Lazner MR, Basu AP, Klonin H. Non-invasive ventilation for infants with severe bronchiolitis: analysis and evidence. Paediatric Pulmonology 2012, (epub ahead of print).
• Basu AP, Pearse J, Kirkpatrick EV, Ling ITC, Tan GSL, Eyre JA. Raising awareness of the myth of the “unaffected hand” in childhood hemiplegia. In: Pediatric Research: 52nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Research. 2011, Newcastle upon Tyne: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
• Kirkpatrick EV, Basu AP, Eyre JA. Comparison of Electroencephalography and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as Downstream Measures of the Neurophysiological Response to Action Observation. In: British Neuroscience Association Biennial Meeting. 2011, Harrogate, UK.
• Ling ITC, Basu AP, Kisler J, Kelly S, Gibson M, Pang K. Is Botulinum Toxin A (BTXA) to calf muscles as effective for children with Hereditary Spastic Paraparesis as for those with cerebral palsy?. In: Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology: Abstracts of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the European Academy of Childhood Disability 23rd Annual Meeting. 2011, Rome, Italy: Mac Keith Press.
• Basu A, Horvarth R, Esisi B, Birchall D, Chinnery PF. Recurrent stroke-like episodes in X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Neurology 2011, 77(12), 1205-1206.
• Basu AP, Graziadio S, Smith M, Clowry GJ, Cioni G, Eyre JA. Visual Cortical Neurophysiology with Ipsilateral Sensorimotor Cortical Lesions Response. Annals of Neurology 2010. DIV JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA: WILEY-LISS, 68(1), 118-119.
• Basu AP, George SM, Udpa G, Friswell M, Devlin AM, Abinun M, Pang KK. Spotting the wolf in sheep's clothing. Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition 2010. London: BMJ Group, 95(4), 105-111.
• Basu A, Graziadio S, Smith M, Clowry GJ, Cioni G, Eyre JA. Developmental Plasticity Connects Visual Cortex to Motoneurons After Stroke. Annals of Neurology 2010, 67(1), 132-136.
• Graziadio S, Basu A, Tomasevic L, Zappasodi F, Tecchio F, Eyre JA. Developmental Tuning and Decay in Senescence of Oscillations Linking the Corticospinal System. Journal of Neuroscience 2010, 30(10), 3663-3674.
• Basu A, Brown S, Kirkham N, Venkateswaran R, Leech S, Devlin A. Coma blisters in two children on anticonvulsant medication. Journal of Child Neurology 2009, 24(8), 1021-1025.
• Irving C, Basu A, Richmond S, Burn J, Wren C. Twenty-year trends in prevalence and survival of Down syndrome. European Journal of Human Genetics 2008, 16(11), 1336-1340.
• Basu AP, Kumar P, Devlin AM, O'Brien CJ. Cystic fibrosis presenting with bilateral facial palsy. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology 2007, 11(4), 240-242.
• Gittins N, Basu A, Eyre J, Gholkar A, Moghal N. Cerebral vasculitis in a teenager with Goodpasture's syndrome. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2004,19 12 3168-3171.
• Basu AP, Carey P, Cynober T, Chetty M, Delaunay J, Stewart GW, Richmond S. Dehydrated hereditary stomatocytosis with transient perinatal ascites.. Archives of Disease in Childhood (Fetal and Neonatal edition) 2003, 88(5), F438-F439.
• George S, Basu AP, Forsyth RJ. Self-Assessment (paediatric neurology MCQs). Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2010, in press. In Press.
• Basu A. Book Review: The Clinical Neurophysiology Primer. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology 2008. , 12(2), 148.
• Graziadio S, Basu AP, Zappasodi F, Tecchio FM, Eyre JA. Development of contralateral and ipsilateral cortico-muscular coherence from childhood to old age. In: Neuroscience 2008: 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. 2008, Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience.
• Basu AP, Biagi L, Tosetti M, Kirkman M, Green G, Eyre J. Induced gamma oscillations and fMRI BOLD response are inversely related to difficulty of speech perception task. In: Neuroscience 2008: 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. 2008, Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience.
• Basu A. Child Neurology; Menkes, JH; Sarnat, HB; Maria, BL (eds.). European Journal of Paediatric Neurology 2007. , 11(1), 58.
• Basu AP. [PhD Thesis] Development of paradigms for future assessment of cortical plasticity during development and following early lesions. Newcastle upon Tyne: University of Newcastle, 2007. Clinical Medical Sciences (Child Health).
• Basu AP, Kelly T, Greening N, Mafeld S, Eyre JA. Evidence for a lack of early structural facial encoding in a child with prosopagnosia acquired in infancy. In: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health 11th Annual Spring Meeting. 2007, York, UK.
• Basu AP, Mafeld S, Eyre JA. Evoked potentials reveal a smaller P2 to photos of own face compared with famous and unknown faces.. In: Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. 2007, San Diego, CA.
• Basu A. Paediatric Neurology; Forsyth, R; Newton, R; 2007. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology 2008, 12(1), 61.
• Irving C, Basu A, Wren C. Twenty year trends in live birth prevalence of Down’s syndrome: an analysis of influences in 1985-2004. In: Archives of Disease in Childhood: Abstracts of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health 10th Spring Meeting.2006,University of York, UK:BMJ Group
• Basu AP, Greening NJ, Green GGR, Fisher K, Edwards K, Eyre JA. A face-specific potential identified by independent component analysis distinguishes between upright and inverted faces in individual subjects. In: British Neuroscience Association Abstracts.2005,:British Neuroscience Association
• Basu A. [Review] Child public health. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 2005. ,52 2 152.
• Basu AP. Essential sources in the scientific study of consciousness (book review). European Journal of Paediatric Neurology. 2004., 8(4), 226.
• Basu AP, Green GGR, Eyre JA. Gamma oscillations induced by speech recognition. Program number 486.6 2004 Abstract viewer/Itinerary planner, Society for Neuroscience. 2004. Available at: http://web.sfn.org/.
• Basu AP. [Book review] Neuroanatomical basis of clinical neurology. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology 2002, 6(4), 237.
• Basu AP, Posner E, McFarland R, Turnbull DM. Kearns-Sayre Syndrome. eMedicine, 2010. Available at: http://www.emedicine.com.
• Basu A, Ramesh V, Goonetilleke A, Gardner-Medwin D. Novel phenotype of respiratory muscle weakness, optic atrophy, deafness and neuropathy. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology 2001, 5(5), P338.
• Crowley JJ, Huang CL-H, Gates ARC, Basu A, Shapiro LM, Carpenter TA, Hall LD. A quantatitive description of dynamic left ventricular geometry in anaesthetised rats using magnetic resonance imaging. Experimental Physiology 1997, 82, 887-904.
• Basu AP, Turton AJ, Lemon RN. Activation of ipsilateral upper limb muscles by transcranial magnetic brain stimulation in man. Journal of Physiology 1994, 479.P, 144P.