UCL in the media
Neuroaesthetics is killing your soul
Professor Semir Zeki (UCL Institute of Neuroesthetics) says: "It is only by understanding the neural laws that dictate human activity in all spheres - in law, morality, religion and even economics and politics, no less than in art - that we can ever hope to achieve a more proper understanding of the nature of man."
Read: NatureUCL Professor shortlisted for the Asian Women of Achievement Award
Professor Usha Menon (UCL Women's Cancer) is shortlisted for the Asian Women of Achievement Award. She is one of Britain's foremost specialists in gynaecological cancer.
Read: IndependentParkinson's drug 'helps' the elderly think younger
Dr Rumana Chowdhury (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience), who led the study, said: "We found that when we treated older people who were particularly bad at making decisions with a drug that increases dopamine in the brain, their ability to learn from rewards improved to a level comparable to somebody in their twenties and enabled them to make better decisions."
Read: Daily Mail More: SagaWelcome to Friday frolics, team building at its best
We need to take under-performing teams and sprinkle some magic dust on them so that they become happy, healthy and productive, writes Professor Adrian Furnham (UCL Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology).
Read: Sunday Times (£)Immigration Phone-in
"There is no single immigration problem, immigration comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes," says Professor John Salt (UCL Geography).
Listen: BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast (from 9 mins) More: BBC Radio Wales Breakfast Show (from 1 hour, 7 mins) BBC Radio 4's PM (from 5 mins)Binaural beats EP designed to send listeners into 'altered states of consciousness'
Professor Sophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) comments on a new EP that aims to send listeners into a trance state: "Rhythm seems to be very strongly associated with sensory motor processing in the brain. So going from a sound and reacting to that sound, it's still a motor system."
Read: WiredCalorie Counting does a fat lot of good, scientists say
"Rather than populations failing to heed governments' public health advice, governments are currently failing the public," says Professor Jonathan Wells (UCL Institute of Child Health).
Read: The NationalForeign bodies: When the outside world intrudes
UCL's Researchers in Museums team have curated an exhibition about foreign objects in the body, inviting us to "explore the idea of what is alien - biologically, psychologically, socially and politically".
Read: New Scientist More: Independent Culture 24Young entrepreneurs need to think small
In east London, small businesses are the agile, fast-growing businesses of the future, a beacon in an economy striking for its sluggishness, writes Professor Stephen Caddick (UCL Enterprise).
Read: Tech City NewsBig data and crime prevention
"There's an opportunity to draw from larger volumes of data, to unpick that data to understand patterns, and then use that to influence day to day operational strategies and longer term crime prevention initiatives," said Spencer Chainey (UCL Security & Crime Science).
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