Health, Sports & Psychology
Meet the academic - Dr Claire Rostron
Dr Claire Rostron talks Health Science and Neuroscience with Janet Sumner.
Health, Sports & Psychology
Introduction to mental health science
...neurosciences and mental health...This suite of three courses focuses first on anxiety (Exploring anxiety), then depression (Exploring depression), and finally explores the relationship between these conditions (Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression). They will help you to consider some of the key issues around diagnosis, causes and interventions for...
Health, Sports & Psychology
There is a biological reason why teenagers struggle to wake up early!
...Neuroscience, Dr Paul Kelley...In societies the world over, teenagers are blamed for staying up late, then struggling to wake up in the morning. While it’s true that plenty of teenagers (like many adults) do have bad bedtime habits, researchers have long since proven that this global problem has a biological cause. In 2004, researchers at the University of Munich proved...
Society, Politics & Law
Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
...neuroscience study, which claimed to reveal marked differences between the brains of men and women. This study, published in late 2013 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), applied a brain imaging technique called Diffusion Tensor Imaging to model the neural connectivity of the brains of 949 young people. Statistical analysis suggested...
Health, Sports & Psychology
What can lucid dreaming teach us about consciousness?
...neuroscience. But it has been suggested that studying lucid dreams could pave the way for new insights into the neuroscience of consciousness. This is because lucid and non-lucid REM sleep are two states where our conscious experience is markedly different, yet the overall brain state remains the same (we are in REM sleep all the time, often dreaming). By comparing...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Schizophrenia: Beyond science
...relying on advances in neuroscience and psychopharmacology. Useful links: Improving Mental Health through Social Support: Building Positive and Empowering Relationships Psychiatry in Context: Experiences, Meaning and Communities Recovery from Schizophrenia: Psychiatry, and Political Economy The Mental Health Foundation Critical Psychiatry Network Hearing Voices Network...
Languages
Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
...neuroscience over the past decade or two. It’s now clear that many of our most sophisticated abilities are made possible not by specialist brain areas dedicated to specific tasks, but by lightning-fast coordination between areas that control more general tasks, such as movement and hearing. Simultaneous interpretation, it seems, is yet another feat made possible by our...
Health, Sports & Psychology
How to support neurodivergent mothers during pregnancy and birth
...Accessed: 14 March 2025). Zupo, R., Castellana, F., Boero, G., Matera, E., Colacicco, G., Piscitelli, P., Clodoveo, M.L., Rondanelli, M., Panza, F., Lozupone, M. and Sardone, R. (2024) ‘Processed foods and diet quality in pregnancy may affect child neurodevelopment disorders: a narrative review’, Nutritional Neuroscience, 27(4), pp. 361–81....