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A new model developed by UCL researchers to predict the persistence of stuttering could be used to screen all children at school age, according to new research in the Journal of Fluency Disorders.

Researchers from UCL have found that lonely people have less grey matter in a part of the brain associated with decoding eye gaze and other social cues.

Professor Monty Mythen (UCL Institute of Child Health) and Dr Dorothy Wade (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) discuss their  study which shows that 55% of people who survive intensive care treatment go on to develop psychological disorders. The research, published in Critical Care Journal, was led by Professor Rosalind Raine (UCL Applied Health Research). Read more on BBC News...

Dr Joanna Atkinson (UCL DCAL) talks about her department's work on dementia in the deaf community. Watch BBC 2's See Hear...

A European team of scientists have built the first atlas of white-matter microstructure in the human brain. The project’s final results have the potential to change the face of neuroscience and medicine over the coming decade.

Professor Alan Thompson, Dean of the Faculty of Brain Sciences, has been awarded a lifetime Honorary Membership from the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS) at its 28th Congress on 13 October 2012 in Lyon, France. This is the first time this award has been given in the 28 year history of the largest international multiple sclerosis (MS) organisation and reflects Professor Thompson’s outstanding international reputation within the field of MS research and his extraordinary contributions to ECTRIMS, an organization which brings together European researchers in MS and connects MS researchers worldwide.

Dr André Strydom (UCL Mental Health Sciences Unit) and Professors Elizabeth Fisher and John Hardy (both UCL Institute of Neurology) have been successful in their application to the Wellcome Trust for a Strategic Award to understand the processes involved in the Alzheimer’s Disease that often occurs as people with Down Syndrome age.

The Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre (LWENC) at UCL recently launched a new 4 year PhD and 3-4 year clinical fellowship programme in neurodegeneration.

Dr Tiago Branco, Senior Research Fellow at the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, talks to The Scientist about his career so far. Read more

A new book chronicling the life of distinguished clinical neurologist, William Richard Gowers, was launched yesterday at Queen Square at the Third International Workshop on Functional Neurosurgery. William Richard Gowers (1845-1915): Exploring the Victorian Brain is co-authored by UCL Institute of Neurology’s Professor Andrew Lees, Ann Scott, Gowers great granddaughter, and Mervyn Eadie, a neurologist from Brisbane.