UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences

Professor Patrick Haggard (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) talks about free will and conscience thought. Listen: BBC Radio 4 Today (from 21min 42s)

 “Our results show that social conformation is, at least in part, hard-wired in the structure of the brain,” says Professor Chris Frith (UCL Institute of Neurology). Read: Daily Mail

Professor Chris Frith (UCL Institute of Neurology) discusses the emerging scientific understanding of this mysterious human faculty. Listen: Guardian Science Weekly, Guardian (2)

MedFest - the UK’s first National Medical Film Festival - will be hosting a film screening and panel discussion at UCL on 1 March.

Familiarity with your partner is usually thought to promote teamwork, but new research has found that on coral reefs at least, female cleaner fish are more cooperative with unfamiliar males than their breeding partner.

UCL student Anna Rose (UCL Medical School) has been awarded the Tony Jackson Memorial Prize for 2011 for her work with HIV positive children in Zambia.

The UCL Institute of Neurology has now opened the Queen Square Clinical Trial Centre (QSCTC).

Listen to Dr David Werring from UCL Institute of Neurology and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery’s Stroke Research Group, as he discusses the importance of recognising cerebral amyloid angiopathy, a neurological condition that doctors believe increases the risk of haemorrhagic stroke and dementia. Listen: The Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry podcast

How do you remember where you parked your car? Watch UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience's Dr Neil Burgess as he tells us how, at this TED Salon talk filmed in November 2011. Dr Burgess studies the neural mechanisms that map the space around us, and how they link to memory and imagination.  Watch: TED

 “Our subjective sense that our map is three-dimensional is illusory,” says Professor Kate Jeffery (UCL Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences). Read: Scientific American More: UCL press release