By Dr Dermot Barr The UK national threat level was raised to ‘Severe’, the second highest level, on the 3rd November 2020 after a series of terrorist attacks in France and Austria. This level means an attack is thought to…
Yearly Archives: 2020
Ho, ho, ho… it’s beginning to look a lot like (a Green) Christmas
By Maruša Levstek With Christmas songs on repeat, a tree in the corner waiting to be decorated and an apple pie in the oven, I still struggle to comprehend how the year has come around so quickly. Although this is…
Reducing patterns of brain hyperactivity in individuals at genetic risk of Alzheimer’s disease: an important avenue for early-life risk reduction?
By Dr Claire Lancaster Fifty million people live with dementia worldwide, the most common cause of which is Alzheimer’s – a progressive, neurodegenerative disease. Although the past 12-months have seen Aducanumab expediated for FDA approval – the first new drug…
Tagged with: Alzheimer's, Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience, Dementia, Neuroscience
Posted in Faculty research
Posted in Faculty research
Alzheimer type dementia
by Prof Jennifer Rusted Age is not synonymous with poor health, but Alzheimer type dementia (AD) is a disease of the brain for which age is the biggest risk factor – the older you are, the greater your risk of…
Tagged with: Ageing, Alzheimer's, Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience, Dementia
Posted in Faculty research
Posted in Faculty research
Enhancing Essay Feedback
By Dr Dave Smalley The topic of student perceptions of written feedback is an under-researched area which is surprising given that universities typically struggle disproportionately with the Assessment and Feedback questions in the National Student Survey (NSS). We know that…
Do Changes in Emotion Regulation Affect Decision-Making in People with Alzheimer’s Disease?
by Dr Rotem Perach, Prof Jennifer Rusted, Prof Pete Harris, Dr Eleanor Miles Ever felt so excited that you found yourself telling your life story to a stranger? Or so anxious about something that you could think about little else?…
Tagged with: Alzheimer's, Decision-Making, Dementia, Emotion
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Posted in Faculty research, Uncategorized
Do bad blood vessels trigger dementia?
By Dr Catherine Hall Dementia affects increasing numbers of people as they age (one in 14 people over the age of 65 suffer from dementia). It changes how the brain functions, gradually stopping brain cells and brain connections from working so…
“They don’t know we’ve got legs”: meeting online and in-person
By Prof Nicola Yuill Covid-19 restrictions haven’t just stopped us meeting in person – instead, they have nudged us into new ways of connecting. Humans are the ultimate social species: evolutionary biologists regard the human tendency towards cooperation as having…
Tagged with: COVID-19, Developmental Psychology, Interaction, Therapy, Video Interaction Guidance
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Posted in Faculty research
Do you know what I’m thinking? – a Journey from Mozambique to Sussex
Paloma Manguele is a PhD student in the Attention Lab. She studies mind wandering, a concept she is cautious to translate into her first language, Portuguese. “I guess the word could be ‘divagaçao’ – digression – but not exactly,” she…
Celebrating the 25 Black women making history in UK’s Professoriate
By Dr Varuni Wimalasiri Overall there were 85 Black Professors in the UK’s Professoriate of 21,000 in 2019 (Rollock, 2019). Whilst 11.2% of White faculty occupy the senior role of Professor, at 4.6%, Black faculty are two and a half…
Tagged with: BAME, Black History Month, Decolonising the curriculum, Higher Education, Organisational Psychology, Psychology
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