This section is a whistlestop tour, as more of our members fund research into disorders of the brain and nervous system than any other single area. This is perhaps unsurprising: 10 million people in the UK live with a neurological condition. These disable over 2 per cent of us at any given time, 1 per cent of us are newly diagnosed every year, 10 per cent of visits to A&E departments are for a neurological condition, and about 850,000 of us care for someone affected.

Stroke, the brain infection meningitis, a range of movement disorders, a rare genetic condition and the control of pain are just a few of the areas that our members focusing on this field are pursuing.