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 publication in @FrontNeurosci 📑@ekert_justyna, Mohammed Seghier, Cathy Price & colleagues aimed to identify robust object naming paradigms which activate classical language regions, improving #LanguageMapping sensitivity.
— Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (@WCHN_UCL) December 3, 2021
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Huge congratulations to Tricia Seow (@seowxft) for being awarded the Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship! 🎉
— Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (@WCHN_UCL) December 3, 2021
Tricia's successful application was titled: 'Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) in Silico: Neurocognitive mechanisms of OCD treatment failure'. @MPC_CompPsych pic.twitter.com/6BKWTwXqym
#MemoryReplayed offers an immersive audio-visual experience of how neurons in the brain recall places visited and paths taken.
— Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (@WCHN_UCL) November 30, 2021
Opening 9th December at the Florence Trust in Highbury.
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