UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences
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We are a global leader in research and education into the mind and brain.
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Middle-aged adults with biological signs of poor heart health are more likely to go on to be diagnosed with dementia in later life, according to a new study from @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social.
Biological signs of poor heart health linked to later dementia diagnosis – study
Researchers found the link is evident up to 25 years before a dementia diagnosis.
www.independent.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Middle-aged adults with biological signs of poor heart health are more likely to go on to be diagnosed with dementia in later life, according to a new study from @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social.
🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Sarah Tabrizi ( @ucl-hd.bsky.social, @uclqsion.bsky.social) who has won the prestigious @britishneuro.bsky.social prize for her outstanding contributions to neuroscience!
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
November 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Sarah Tabrizi ( @ucl-hd.bsky.social, @uclqsion.bsky.social) who has won the prestigious @britishneuro.bsky.social prize for her outstanding contributions to neuroscience!
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
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Congratulations 👏👏👏 to @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social who has been selected as one of @thetransmitter.bsky.social Rising Stars of Neuroscience, 2025!
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www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
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The Transmitter’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025
We recognize the outstanding achievements of 25 neuroscientists who stand to shape the field for years to come.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Congratulations 👏👏👏 to @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social who has been selected as one of @thetransmitter.bsky.social Rising Stars of Neuroscience, 2025!
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For our next UCL #NeuroAI online seminar, we are happy to welcome Dr Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social (EPFL)
🗓️Wed 19 Nov 2025
⏰2-3pm GMT
Neuro -> AI and Back Again: Integrative Models of the Human Brain in Health and Disease
ℹ️ Details / registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-neuroa...
🗓️Wed 19 Nov 2025
⏰2-3pm GMT
Neuro -> AI and Back Again: Integrative Models of the Human Brain in Health and Disease
ℹ️ Details / registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-neuroa...
UCL NeuroAI Talk Series
A series of NeuroAI themed talks organised by the UCL NeuroAI community. Talks will continue on a monthly basis.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
For our next UCL #NeuroAI online seminar, we are happy to welcome Dr Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social (EPFL)
🗓️Wed 19 Nov 2025
⏰2-3pm GMT
Neuro -> AI and Back Again: Integrative Models of the Human Brain in Health and Disease
ℹ️ Details / registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-neuroa...
🗓️Wed 19 Nov 2025
⏰2-3pm GMT
Neuro -> AI and Back Again: Integrative Models of the Human Brain in Health and Disease
ℹ️ Details / registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-neuroa...
What do near-death experiences teach us about the mind’s fight to hold on to life? Dr Christopher Timmermann (@uclpals.bsky.social) explores the insights these moments reveal. (listen from 20 mins)
BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Are near-death experiences real?
Are near-death experiences visions of an afterlife?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
What do near-death experiences teach us about the mind’s fight to hold on to life? Dr Christopher Timmermann (@uclpals.bsky.social) explores the insights these moments reveal. (listen from 20 mins)
👩🔬 Meet Dr @giuliaderossi.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow at @ucleye.bsky.social.
She speaks to us about her career highlights and why it's such an exciting time to work in the field of Ophthalmology.
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
She speaks to us about her career highlights and why it's such an exciting time to work in the field of Ophthalmology.
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
November 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
👩🔬 Meet Dr @giuliaderossi.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow at @ucleye.bsky.social.
She speaks to us about her career highlights and why it's such an exciting time to work in the field of Ophthalmology.
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
She speaks to us about her career highlights and why it's such an exciting time to work in the field of Ophthalmology.
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
🤔 What has been the lasting impact of Anna Freud and Melanie Klein on child psychology?
Dr Nick Midgley contributes to this fascinating discussion.
Dr Nick Midgley contributes to this fascinating discussion.
Archive on 4 - Freud v Klein: The Battle For Our Children's Minds - BBC Sounds
Tanya Byron explores how two remarkable women transformed the way we understand children.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🤔 What has been the lasting impact of Anna Freud and Melanie Klein on child psychology?
Dr Nick Midgley contributes to this fascinating discussion.
Dr Nick Midgley contributes to this fascinating discussion.
🎉 16 UCL Brain Sciences academics have been named in Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers List 2025, recognising their exceptional global research impact.
👏 Congratulations to all!
Read the list in full:
👏 Congratulations to all!
Read the list in full:
16 UCL Brain Sciences academics recognised in 2025 annual global list of influential researchers
A total of 16 academics from the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences have been identified in Clarivate’s annual ‘Highly Cited Researchers List’ 2025.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🎉 16 UCL Brain Sciences academics have been named in Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers List 2025, recognising their exceptional global research impact.
👏 Congratulations to all!
Read the list in full:
👏 Congratulations to all!
Read the list in full:
👂 Thinking about a career in audiology?
Join us at the UCL Ear Institute Information Day to explore our programmes and meet the experts!
📅 26 November 2025
📍 Grays Inn Road
👉 Find out more & register: ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/events/2025/nov/ucl-ear-institute-information-day
Join us at the UCL Ear Institute Information Day to explore our programmes and meet the experts!
📅 26 November 2025
📍 Grays Inn Road
👉 Find out more & register: ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/events/2025/nov/ucl-ear-institute-information-day
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
👂 Thinking about a career in audiology?
Join us at the UCL Ear Institute Information Day to explore our programmes and meet the experts!
📅 26 November 2025
📍 Grays Inn Road
👉 Find out more & register: ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/events/2025/nov/ucl-ear-institute-information-day
Join us at the UCL Ear Institute Information Day to explore our programmes and meet the experts!
📅 26 November 2025
📍 Grays Inn Road
👉 Find out more & register: ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/events/2025/nov/ucl-ear-institute-information-day
➗ Dyscalculia affects around 6% of the global population.
Professor Brian Butterworth (UCL ICN) joins this discussion about how exactly the condition manifests itself in children and adults.
Professor Brian Butterworth (UCL ICN) joins this discussion about how exactly the condition manifests itself in children and adults.
Lost in the Equation: Exploring Dyscalculia - BBC Sounds
Documentary exploring the learning disability dyscalculia.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
➗ Dyscalculia affects around 6% of the global population.
Professor Brian Butterworth (UCL ICN) joins this discussion about how exactly the condition manifests itself in children and adults.
Professor Brian Butterworth (UCL ICN) joins this discussion about how exactly the condition manifests itself in children and adults.
🎓 Interested in Linguistics?
Join us for an in-person taster lecture at UCL!
📅 17 November 2025
📍 Bloomsbury
Explore what it’s like to study Undergraduate Linguistics and meet our expert faculty.
👉 Register here: ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/events/2025/nov/ug-linguistics-person-taster-lecture
Join us for an in-person taster lecture at UCL!
📅 17 November 2025
📍 Bloomsbury
Explore what it’s like to study Undergraduate Linguistics and meet our expert faculty.
👉 Register here: ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/events/2025/nov/ug-linguistics-person-taster-lecture
November 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🎓 Interested in Linguistics?
Join us for an in-person taster lecture at UCL!
📅 17 November 2025
📍 Bloomsbury
Explore what it’s like to study Undergraduate Linguistics and meet our expert faculty.
👉 Register here: ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/events/2025/nov/ug-linguistics-person-taster-lecture
Join us for an in-person taster lecture at UCL!
📅 17 November 2025
📍 Bloomsbury
Explore what it’s like to study Undergraduate Linguistics and meet our expert faculty.
👉 Register here: ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/events/2025/nov/ug-linguistics-person-taster-lecture
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Very pleased to share our new review in @natrevpsychol.nature.com on integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives of metacognition in mental health! With @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social, Lena Jelinek, and Steffen Moritz. (1/3)
Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
Integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives on metacognitive mechanisms in psychopathology - Nature Reviews Psychology
Cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology have made substantial advances in knowledge about metacognitive processes, but these fields have progressed in parallel. In this Review, Seow et al. inte...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Very pleased to share our new review in @natrevpsychol.nature.com on integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives of metacognition in mental health! With @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social, Lena Jelinek, and Steffen Moritz. (1/3)
Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
People with signs of damage to their heart during middle age are more likely to develop dementia in later life, according to a new study led by @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social researchers.
Poorer heart health in middle age linked to increased dementia risk
People with signs of damage to their heart during middle age are more likely to develop dementia in later life, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
People with signs of damage to their heart during middle age are more likely to develop dementia in later life, according to a new study led by @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social researchers.
🎉 Congratulations to Dr Rachel Honeyghan-Williams (@sciwithrach.bsky.social) on receiving the @womeninneurouk.bsky.social award for Neuroscience Communicator of the Year 2025!
We've loved working with Rachel this year. Check out some of the content we've made together below: 👇
We've loved working with Rachel this year. Check out some of the content we've made together below: 👇
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Dr Rachel Honeyghan-Williams (@sciwithrach.bsky.social) on receiving the @womeninneurouk.bsky.social award for Neuroscience Communicator of the Year 2025!
We've loved working with Rachel this year. Check out some of the content we've made together below: 👇
We've loved working with Rachel this year. Check out some of the content we've made together below: 👇
The UK Dementia Trials Network, led by a @uclqsion.bsky.social professor is establishing a dedicated nationwide network of Dementia Research Nurses.
Dedicated national network of Dementia Research Nurses launches
The UK Dementia Trials Network, led by a UCL professor of neurology, is establishing a dedicated nationwide network of Dementia Research Nurses.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The UK Dementia Trials Network, led by a @uclqsion.bsky.social professor is establishing a dedicated nationwide network of Dementia Research Nurses.
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Senior Research Fellow Dr Yukun Zhou (@ucleye.bsky.social, @insighteyehub.bsky.social and @uclbrainscience.bsky.social) is using AI and eye imagery to develop early screening for a range of diseases – supported by a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Early-Career Award ⬇
#UCLandChina
#UCLHealth
#UCLandChina
#UCLHealth
Using retinal images to predict disease across the world
Senior Research Fellow Dr Yukun Zhou (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) – a Wellcome Early-Career Award recipient – is using AI and eye imagery to develop early screening for an array of diseases.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Senior Research Fellow Dr Yukun Zhou (@ucleye.bsky.social, @insighteyehub.bsky.social and @uclbrainscience.bsky.social) is using AI and eye imagery to develop early screening for a range of diseases – supported by a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Early-Career Award ⬇
#UCLandChina
#UCLHealth
#UCLandChina
#UCLHealth
🏆 Huge congratulations to Dr @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social and the RE-STAR team at @uclpals.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Lionel Hersov Memorial Award from @acamh.bsky.social!
www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🏆 Huge congratulations to Dr @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social and the RE-STAR team at @uclpals.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Lionel Hersov Memorial Award from @acamh.bsky.social!
www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
🎙️ Professor Sir John Hardy’s journey at @uclqsion.bsky.social reshaped Alzheimer’s research. Discover the thrill of gene-hunting and the future of brain science in Episode 5 of Faces of UCL: “The Neuroscience Rockstar”.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🎙️ Professor Sir John Hardy’s journey at @uclqsion.bsky.social reshaped Alzheimer’s research. Discover the thrill of gene-hunting and the future of brain science in Episode 5 of Faces of UCL: “The Neuroscience Rockstar”.
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A team involving @uclqsion.bsky.social scientists has, for the first time, directly visualised and quantified the protein clusters believed to trigger Parkinson’s disease.
Parkinson’s breakthrough could unlock treatments for devastating disease
Scientists have developed a groundbreaking new technique to visualise the brain clusters that may trigger Parkinson’s
www.the-independent.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
A team involving @uclqsion.bsky.social scientists has, for the first time, directly visualised and quantified the protein clusters believed to trigger Parkinson’s disease.
A team led by @ucleye.bsky.social scientists has identified a key protein that triggers diabetic retinopathy – a condition caused by high blood sugar damaging the retina’s blood vessels and a leading cause of sight loss among working-age adults.
Early trigger of diabetic eye disease identified
A team led by UCL scientists has identified a key protein that triggers diabetic retinopathy – a condition caused by high blood sugar damaging the retina’s blood vessels and a leading cause of sight…
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A team led by @ucleye.bsky.social scientists has identified a key protein that triggers diabetic retinopathy – a condition caused by high blood sugar damaging the retina’s blood vessels and a leading cause of sight loss among working-age adults.
📻 Tune in to Times Radio to hear Professor Nick Fox (@uclqsion.bsky.social) discussing early onset dementia and what he hopes the new Hilary and Galen Weston Rare Dementia Support Centre at UCL will achieve.
Listen from 57 mins:
Listen from 57 mins:
Times Radio Drive with Carolyn Quinn | Times Radio | The Times and the Sunday Times
Listen to Times Radio live for the latest breaking news, expert analysis and well-informed discussion covering the biggest stories of the day.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
📻 Tune in to Times Radio to hear Professor Nick Fox (@uclqsion.bsky.social) discussing early onset dementia and what he hopes the new Hilary and Galen Weston Rare Dementia Support Centre at UCL will achieve.
Listen from 57 mins:
Listen from 57 mins:
The world’s largest collection of curated eye imaging and linked clinical data is expanding across the country, in an initiative led out of Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and @ucleye.bsky.social.
Transforming UK eye health research by linking national data resources
The world’s largest collection of curated eye imaging and linked clinical data is expanding across the country, in an initiative led out of Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The world’s largest collection of curated eye imaging and linked clinical data is expanding across the country, in an initiative led out of Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and @ucleye.bsky.social.
A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can help visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by @uclqsion.bsky.social researchers.
New brain atlas offers unprecedented detail in MRI scans
A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can help visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by UCL researchers, in a major step forward for neuroscience and neuroimaging.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can help visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by @uclqsion.bsky.social researchers.
It's #StressAwarenessDay and we're highlighting @uclpals.bsky.social and Anna Freud research which found that schoolchildren who are taught that stress and sadness are normal parts of life are likely to have better mental health.
Intervention that helps pupils normalise everyday emotions leads to better wellbeing
Schoolchildren who are taught that stress and sadness are normal parts of life are likely to have better mental health, finds a new study led by UCL and mental health charity, Anna Freud.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
It's #StressAwarenessDay and we're highlighting @uclpals.bsky.social and Anna Freud research which found that schoolchildren who are taught that stress and sadness are normal parts of life are likely to have better mental health.