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Professor Aikaterini Fotopoulou Awarded 2025 ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize
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.
23 Jun 2025
New study targets neurocomputational root cause of depression’s most debilitating symptom: Anergia
An international team will study why effort feels overwhelming in depression, using neuroscience and AI to develop better treatments for anergia.
20 Jun 2025
BSL GCSE: New CPD Courses for Deaf Teachers
Calling all deaf teachers!
19 Jun 2025
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