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…
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Reducing patterns of brain hyperactivity in individuals at genetic risk of Alzheimer’s disease: an important avenue for early-life risk reduction?
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
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
Posted in Faculty research, Uncategorized
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
Posted in Faculty research
Posted in Faculty research
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
Posted in Faculty research
Posted in Faculty research
Why does civil unrest spread between cities?
By Prof John Drury Protests and riots that began in Minneapolis after police killed an unarmed African American have now spread to over 23 states. I recently led a large-scale programme of research on the wave of riots in England…
Are your clients being defensive? If so, self-affirmation may help.
by Prof Pete Harris and Ian Hadden, from the Self-Affirmation Research Group. Have you ever been reluctant to face up to something you’d rather ignore? Maybe your fondness for something bad for you that you eat too often or your…
Tagged with: Kindness, motivation, Self-affirmation, Social Psychology, Therapy
Posted in Faculty research, PhD research
Posted in Faculty research, PhD research
Ten things I learned from being editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology
By Prof John Drury On 31st December 2019) I stepped down from being editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology (BJSP), a post I occupied for three years, shared with Hanna Zagefka (Royal Holloway University of London). The occasion…
The Psychology of Driving
By Dr Graham Hole My recently-published book,”The Psychology of Everything: Driving” is one in a series of short books by Routledge that show how psychology can provide insights into every aspect of our daily lives. My book deals with a…
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