News
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Blog: World Bipolar Day
30 March 2021
World Bipolar Day is celebrated each year on 30th March. At the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, our researchers are investigating the brain mechanisms which drive bipolar disorder, to help predict future manic and depressive episodes.
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This is why your teenager is ignoring you
25 March 2021
A new study from researchers at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging shows that teenagers’ ability to judge the quality of their own decisions drives their tendency to ignore advice.
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Centre gains funding to co-produce film script on awareness and dementia
4 February 2021
A project aiming to develop a feature film exploring self-awareness in dementia has been funded by the UCL Knowledge Exchange Fund.
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Dr Quentin Huys awarded Wellcome Investigator Award to study how maladaptive thinking patterns arise and cause emotions.
19 January 2021
Dr Quentin Huys, Principal Investigator of the Applied Computations Psychiatry Team at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging has received a Wellcome Investigator Award funded until 2026 to study the neurobiology of maladaptive thinking patterns in people with depression, and how they increase the risk of relapse.
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Dr Steve Fleming Co-PI on new EPSRC Programme Grant
18 January 2021
With significant support from EPSRC, UCL together with the University of Oxford and a cohort of academic, industrial and deployment partners are embarking on an ambitious five-year programme of work on Engineering, Exploring and Exploiting the Building Blocks of Embodied Intelligence.
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Learning boosts happiness more than rewards do
7 January 2021
How we learn about our world may be more important for how we feel than the rewards we actually receive.
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New app designed to help scientists figure out what determines happiness though fun games
6 January 2021
The Happiness Project turns neuroscience experiments which could previously only be conducted in the lab into fun games which anyone can play at any time on their phone.
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The Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging successfully renews its funding until December 2023
4 January 2021
We are delighted to announce that the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology funding has been renewed until 30th November 2023.
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Hallucinations in Parkinson's disease might happen as a results of shifts in the strengths of different brain networks
15 December 2020
There is new evidence that hallucinations might happen as a results of shifts in the strengths of different brain networks, but until now, it was not clear how that happened.
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A new citizen science app explores the link between brain development and mental health
14 December 2020
Why do most mental health illnesses first manifest before adulthood? Neuroscientists from UCL have launched a smartphone app to investigate how brain development is linked to mental health in a new citizen science project.