Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience news

UCL researchers will receive £8.1m in funding to embark on cutting edge research to help overcome neurodegenerative diseases.

Leonora Ross Skinner, who studied MSc Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL, recently earned a place in Forbes’ annual Top 30 Under 30 list of leading entrepreneurs and creatives in Europe.

People with early Alzheimer’s disease have difficulty turning when walking, according to a new study using virtual reality led by UCL researchers.

Tomorrow marks the start of Mental Health Awareness Week. According to the World Health Organisation, around one in eight people around the world are living with a mental health condition – representing a global challenge that requires urgent action.

Dr Dennis Chan (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) is leading a £2m project to develop tests using augmented reality that could be widely used to detect Alzheimer’s disease in its earliest stages.

Professor Patrick Haggard (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience), has received the Reimar Lüst Award 2022, which honours outstanding research on Franco-German history and Neuropsychology.

UCL’s research power in Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience has been recognised as the best in the UK by today’s Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) results across the three elements of ‘output’, ‘impact’ and ‘environment’.

Dr Dennis Chan (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) is leading a study investigating how virtual reality (VR) could help improve the diagnosis of early Alzheimer’s disease.

A period of rest following a traumatic event can reduce the subsequent development of involuntary ‘memory intrusions’*, one of the hallmark symptoms in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a new UCL study has found.

Congratulations to Sarah White, who has been awarded an Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard Award!

Susanne Schweizer was one of the panellists at Mental Health Question Time, where she discussed what should be the priorities for mental health in schools.

Congratulations to Prof Sarah Jayne Blakemore on her successful grant application!

Congratulations to Sarah Peters who has won a $1,000 Preregistration Challenge prize for her MSc project with Oliver Robinson.

Congratulations to Dr Susanne Schweizer on being awarded the Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Wellcome fellowship!

Camilla Nord has been awarded a clinical poster prize at the British Association for Psychopharmacology 2017 meeting in Harrogate.