We investigate how the human brain generates behaviour, thoughts and feelings and how to use this knowledge to help patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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What is human neuroimaging?
Human neuroimaging allows us to non-invasively investigate brain structure and function.
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What we study
Human brain functions we study include; Action, Decision Making, Emotion, Hearing, Language, Memory, Navigation, Seeing, Self awareness, Social Behaviour and the Bayesian Brain.
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How does human neuroimaging make a difference?
Understanding how the human brain normally generates our behaviour, thoughts and feelings helps us to identify what goes wrong in neurological and psychiatric disorders and how these disorders might best be treated.
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Statistical Parametric Mapping
Our leading software for analysing neuroimaging data was developed at FIL.
*New Paper* by @mazormatan @smfleming & Karl Friston examines the neural drivers of subjective confidence in two types of perceptual tasks. They found some unexpected effects in brain regions that are associated with higher-order cognition. Read here: https://t.co/qB2ayDGPJn
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*New paper* co-authored by @LitvakVladimir discussing how sedation modulates frontotemporal predictive coding circuits and the double surprise acceleration effect. Read here: https://t.co/wVRHlFbKiP
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This week for #AphasiaAwarenessMonth we would like to introduce you to Richard and Adele. Richard stresses the need for optimism, hope and determination. "Things can always improve, you musn't give up". Watch here: https://t.co/g7GouGSPDq @PLORASResearch
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