By Alexandra Taylor On January 18th, 2021, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) released the ‘APA’s Apology to Black, Indigenous and People of Color for Its Support of Structural Racism in Psychiatry‘. The letter from its Board of trustees aimed to…
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Mitigating the new variant SARS-CoV-2 virus: How to support public adherence to physical distancing
By John Drury Journalists often ask me how the public will behave when the next set of Covid-19 restrictions begins. Will they accept the rules or ignore them? This matters crucially right now. With rising infections in many areas of…
Alcohol Addiction Research
By Dr Bryan Singer The Sussex Addiction Research and Intervention Centre (SARIC) is made up of a collection of investigators who are dedicated to understanding the biopsychosocial underpinnings of addiction and developing rational therapies for its treatment. Over the years,…
Tagged with: addiction, alcohol, Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience, Dry January, SARIC
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Posted in Faculty research
The Privacy Mismatch: Evolved Intuitions in a Digital World
By Joe Green Imagine you’re on a busy train texting a friend when you notice a stranger sneakily reading your texts from over your shoulder. Your natural response would probably be to recoil as you realise your privacy is being…
Understanding collective fear responses to perceived terrorist threats
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…
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
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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
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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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