Welcome to the eleventh Reading Emotions meeting. This year, we focus on the topic of exposure and avoidance: from the brain to the clinic. Learning to avoid potential threats is…Read More >
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Brain cells long thought of as passive play key role in memory – study in mice
Microglia – cells long thought to be solely the brain’s support network – may actually play a key role in retaining memories, a new study in mice shows. Writing for…Read More >
Defeating dementia
From finding brain changes decades before dementia strikes to exploring the protective effects of speaking another language, Reading researchers are targeting the disease on several fronts. For World Alzheimer’s Day,…Read More >
Our brain-computer interfacing technology uses music to make people happy
Music can have a powerful effect on our emotions. Reading cybernetics professor Slawomir Nasuto and colleagues are developing systems that can monitor activity in the brain and use this information…Read More >
How speaking another language is good for your brain
Speaking more than one language can change the physical structure of your brain. How and why does this happen, and what implications might this have across our lifetimes from a…Read More >
Pint of Science: Senses, Cyborgs, and Mind Control
Hack the Senses, Cyborgs, and Mind Control! Can we hack the brain and link it with technology to advance mankind? These talks will see Karl Sanz Martinez explain his work…Read More >
