UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences

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Diabetes and depression predict dementia risk in people with slowing minds

Published: Feb 20, 2015 4:47:05 PM

UCL awarded £10m to develop new dementia treatments

Published: Feb 16, 2015 10:36:42 AM

UCL and QMUL agree to establish a new institute to tackle cardiovascular disease

Published: Feb 4, 2015 5:00:00 PM

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Having a romantic partner present can make pain feel worse

Published: Jan 21, 2015 12:13:01 PM

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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences

The Faculty of Brain Sciences brings together expertise at the forefront of neurology, ophthalmology, audiology, psychology and language sciences, cognitive neuroscience and mental health sciences.

The Faculty brings together six Institutes and Divisions, each of which excels in its own area of expertise. It is one of four faculties within UCL's School of Life and Medical Sciences.

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PhD Research on Display at the Annual Faculty PGR Symposium

On 11 February 2015, the Faculty displayed a record 60 posters from our PhD students from across all six Institutes and Divisions. More...

Faculty of Brain Sciences rated top for research strength in the REF2014

UCL is the top-rated university in the UK for research strength in the new Research Excellence Framework 2014, by a measure of average research score multiplied by staff numbers submitted. More...

Meet the Researcher: Students and Staff Enjoy a Unique Opportunity to Engage

In a new initiative, piloted by the Faculty of Brain Sciences Tutor's Office, newly arrived undergraduate students had the chance to meet some of the Faculty's top researchers. More...

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27 February, 2015	Brain Meeting Seminar Series: A whole brain model of resting functional connectivity fluctuations
27 February, 2015	Friday special seminar: Synaptic mechanisms of learned timing in the cerebellum
27 February, 2015	Spring ceilidh with folks and engineers
2 March, 2015	Farr Short Courses: Answering Clinical Research Questions with Health Records
2 March, 2015	Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar: Mapping Memories
2 March, 2015	MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases Seminar Series: Imaging in polyneuropathies: The sonographic neural map
2 March, 2015	SEVEN the play
2 March, 2015	UCL Division of Infection & Immunity External Speaker Programme: Title TBC
3 March, 2015	Cell type specific markers expression patterns in the human aging brain: from precursors to mature
3 March, 2015	Screening and panel debate: Honor Diaries
4 March, 2015	Farr Short Courses: Using Primary Care EHRs for Research
4 March, 2015	GLOW 2015 - Reaching Every Woman and Every Newborn: The Post-2015 Research Agenda
4 March, 2015	Institute of Movement Neuroscience (IMN) Series - Development of an adaptive neural interface to restore natural movement during paralysis
4 March, 2015	Let's talk about sex ed
5 March, 2015	Does egg-freezing enable women 'to have it all'?
5 March, 2015	Farr Short Courses: Hospital Episode Statistics
5 March, 2015	How to get a good influenza vaccine?
5 March, 2015	Viva la Vulva
6 March, 2015	Ear Institute Seminar Series: Prior information effects on sensing elapsed time to target
6 March, 2015	Farr Short Courses: Phenotyping Linked Primary and Secondary Care EHR Data
9 March, 2015	A scientific portrait of old age
9 March, 2015	Farr Short Courses - National Registries: from Audit to Research
9 March, 2015	Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar: Competition and cooperation in social interactions
9 March, 2015	Institute of Movement Neuroscience (IMN) Series - Enhancing neuroplasticity induction in human cortex – from observing actions to sleep rhythms
9 March, 2015	UCL Division of Infection & Immunity External Speaker Programme: Title TBC
10 March, 2015	Farr Short Courses: Hospital Patient Records for Audit and Research
10 March, 2015	Increasing public health with reducing budgets: How evidence can help
10 March, 2015	UCL Women: Guest Lecture
11 March, 2015	Centre for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience speaker programme: Title TBC
11 March, 2015	Division of Psychiatry seminar: Social inequalities in mental health and mortality among refugees and other immigrants to Sweden - Epidemiological studies of register data
11 March, 2015	Farr Short Courses: Genomics and E-health Research
12 March, 2015	Enhancing physical activity in people with MS: An overview of current evidence
12 March, 2015	Farr Short Courses: Visualising Health Informatics Research
12 March, 2015	Science for policy: addressing the scientific challenges of resource efficiency and sustainable development
13 March, 2015	Farr Short Courses: SQL for Biomedical Researchers
13 March, 2015	Professional Careers Beyond Academia
13 March, 2015	SLMS Introduction to Information Governance
16 March, 2015	CLS conference 2015: the value of cohort studies for social investigation
16 March, 2015	Farr Short Courses: Public Trust and Public Engagement
16 March, 2015	Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar: Evaluating social threat without awareness
16 March, 2015	Regulation and pathogenicity of Th17 lineage cells in RA
16 March, 2015	The 2010 Parliament — and a look forward
18 March, 2015	Farr Short Courses: Information Governance
18 March, 2015	Imaging Lecture Series - Current Trends in Retinal OCT
18 March, 2015	PHE Applied Epidemiology Scientific Meeting
19 March, 2015	Crick Workshop: Workshop on Crispr/Cas Technologies
19 March, 2015	Farr Short Courses: Designing Apps
19 March, 2015	Funding Health Research in the UK: the view from the MRC, the Wellcome Trust, and the ESRC
19 March, 2015	UBhave Conference: Cross Disciplinary Research - From Inception to Impact
19 March, 2015	UK Neuromuscular Translational Research Conference 2015
19 March, 2015	Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research Seminar: Recent progress in understanding the mechanism of frontotemporal lobar degeneration
20 March, 2015	Farr Short Courses: Record Linkage
20 March, 2015	The International Association for the Study of Affective Touch: Inaugural Congress
23 March, 2015	UCL Division of Infection & Immunity External Speaker Programme: Title TBC
24 March, 2015	World TB Day 2015: What do we need to know to reach, treat and cure everyone with TB?
25 March, 2015	Division of Psychiatry seminar: The role of treatment beliefs in treatment adherence and outcomes
30 March, 2015	UCL Division of Infection & Immunity External Speaker Programme: Title TBC
1 April, 2015	The role of glucocerebrosidase in Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis
8 April, 2015	Centre for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience speaker programme: Title TBC
9 April, 2015	Habilitation: the art of person-environment interactions, or rehabilitation before you need it
13 April, 2015	MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases Seminar Series: Whole Body MRI and Pattern Recognition
22 April, 2015	Institute of Movement Neuroscience (IMN) Series - ‘Bidirectional interactions between the brain and implantable computers’
22 April, 2015	MRC Prion Unit Events and Seminars: Title TBC
24 April, 2015	Neuroscience Career Network: Grant Writing Workshop
25 April, 2015	Implications of Research on the Neuroscience of Affect, Attachment and Social Cognition
28 April, 2015	ALS Seminar Series: Modulation of axonal retrograde transport in health and disease
28 April, 2015	UCLP Centre for Neurorehabilitation symposium: goal-setting in neurorehabilitation - consensus and controversies
5 May, 2015	MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases Seminar Series: Investigating the Relationship between Skeletal Muscle Mass and Metabolism
5 May, 2015	MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases: Update in Neuromuscular Disorders 2015
12 May, 2015	ALS Seminar Series: FUSsion of physiological RNA granules and pathological aggregates
13 May, 2015	Centre for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience speaker programme: Title TBC
13 May, 2015	Division of Psychiatry seminar: TBC
13 May, 2015	The Use of Incentives in Health
14 May, 2015	What do we mean by brain plasticity, and is there more of it than usual after stroke?
18 May, 2015	5th Digital Health: 5th International Conference on Digital Health
27 May, 2015	Division of Psychiatry seminar: TBC
29 May, 2015	Queen Square Symposium
2 June, 2015	Immunology Conference 2015
8 June, 2015	MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases Seminar Series: Molecular promiscuity: serine-palmitoyltransferase – the unfaithful enzyme
10 June, 2015	Centre for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience speaker programme: Title TBC
11 June, 2015	The trials of conducting trials – practical problems encountered in rehab research and possible solutions
16 June, 2015	ALS Seminar Series: GENFI – the Genetic FTD Initiative, a multicentre biomarker study of MAPT, GRN and C9orf72 mutations
19 June, 2015	2015 Neuroscience Symposium
23 June, 2015	Planetary Health
24 June, 2015	Division of Psychiatry seminar: TBC
6 July, 2015	Changing Perspectives: 1st International Conference on Transport and Health
6 July, 2015	MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases Seminar Series: Novel Treatments in Huntington’s Disease
8 July, 2015	Centre for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience speaker programme: Title TBC
9 July, 2015	Cognitive Rehabilitation
21 July, 2015	Longitudinal studies: maximising their value for ageing research
17 August, 2015	CBC Summer School 2015: Behaviour Change - Principles and Practice
7 September, 2015	MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases Seminar Series: How to develop therapies for NM disease
10 September, 2015	Integrating the management of bladder dysfunction in the rehabilitation of neurological patients
8 October, 2015	Progress in rehabilitation research: what have we learned from the RCT? Where to from here?
12 November, 2015	CNR@UCLP Seminar Series 2015: Title TBC
16 November, 2015	MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases Seminar Series: Axonal signalling endosomes: trafficking sorting and disease
10 December, 2015	Therapy for cognitive impairment in TBI