Faculty news

Professor Aimee Spector (Division of Psychology and Language Sciences) is collaborating with Menopause Mandate to investigate the link between hormones, brain fog and cognitive health

Researchers at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology have discovered that the amyloid precursor protein (APP) family is essential for healthy communication between brain cells.

Every year the Dean recognises the top postgraduate students, in terms of academic performance, from across the Faculty.

We spoke to the winner of UCL's 2025 Three-Minute Thesis competition about her research on anxiety disorders.

Professor Aikaterini Fotopoulou from Division of Psychology and Language Sciences has been awarded the ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies meeting.

Dr Gargi Banerjee (MRC Prion Unit at UCL) has received the prestigious fellowship to support her research which aims to better understand amyloid-related diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.

Researchers at UCL and the NIHR Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre have developed an artificial intelligence tool, Eye2Gene, that can predict the cause of genetic eye diseases.

Measures of a biomarker may help to improve diagnosis and predict future cognitive outcomes in Parkinson’s disease finds a large-scale study by UCL researchers.

Researchers in the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology find that the hippocampus sends signals to the visual cortex to predict what we are about to see.

Two community engagement initiatives have been launched by UCL researchers and students to tackle longstanding issues of trust in health data research among London’s global majority populations

Dr Edwin Jabbari (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) has received the prestigious fellowship to support his research in movement disorders.

Researchers in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences have revealed that our brains process the voices of people we know well differently to those we are unfamiliar with.

UCL researchers and other academics have shared new recommendations to improve mental health support for children in care at a Parliamentary event.

The Reta Lila Weston Trust for Medical Research has awarded the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology more than £5 million for initiatives to prevent, diagnose and treat neurodegenerative diseases.

'Everything is Connected' is an exhibition celebrating neurological research and collaborations between artists, researchers and communities.