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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up 09/06/14
Our fortnightly round-up up of news from the Wellcome Trust research community. ‘Map of pain’ reveals sensitivity in forehead and fingertips “Where does it hurt?” is the first question asked of anybody...
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Molly Crockett
Dr Molly Crockett is a research fellow at University College London and the University of Oxford. She currently holds a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship and works on the neural basis of human...
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The Great Brain Experiment: Mobile gaming provides robust scientific results
A team of neuroscientists from the Wellcome Trust Centre of Neuroimaging at UCL used Wellcome Trust funding to create a smartphone app that allows people to play games and contribute to science. With...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up: 21/07/14
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome community.. Same genes drive maths and reading ability Around half of the genes that influence how well a child can read also play a role in their...
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Nichola Lax
With mitochondrial replacement therapy in the news at the moment, following a positive government response to the public consultation on the technique, we thought it would be good to talk to someone...
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Researcher Spotlight: Professor Scott Waddell
Professor Scott Waddell (Credit: Wellcome Images) Professor Scott Waddell is a Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Oxford and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow. Scott studied...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 18/08/14
Our fortnightly round-up up of news from the Wellcome Trust research community… Mind and body: link between immune system and mental health The immune system may have a role to play in mental illness,...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up: 08.12.14
Our fortnightly round-up of research news from the Wellcome Trust community… Competition and climate change may help exotic parasites spread to UK honeybees Scientists have found that an exotic...
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Julija Krupic
Dr Julija Krupic developed a fascination with the way the brain maps the environment during her MRes. Since then she’s not looked back – securing a PhD with Prof John O’Keefe and a Sir Henry Wellcome...
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Mental health: how much does the UK spend on research?
Mental health issues affect millions of people in the UK, but comparatively little is spent on research into these conditions. Wellcome Trust funding helped establish the charity MQ, with the aim of...
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Rebeccah Slater
Dr Rebeccah Slater is a Research Career Development Fellow based at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on understanding infants’ experience of pain using brain-imaging and how we can...
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Caswell Barry
Dr Caswell Barry is a Sir Henry Dale Fellow based in the Cell and Developmental Biology Department at UCL. His research focuses on understanding the brain and how we create memories. Here he tells us...
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Image of the Week: Donating your brain to science
Our image of the week shows coronal slices of a donated human brain during dissection at the Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s Tissue Bank at Imperial College, London. Vanessa Shepherd, a final year...
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Ivana Rosenzweig
Dr Ivana Rosenzweig is a Wellcome Trust Career Re-entry Fellow based at King’s College London. As Consultant Neuropsychiatrist she investigates the role of sleep on our brains and the rare and complex...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 26.10.15
Our fortnightly round-up of research news from the Wellcome Trust community… Picture perfect? Some people are more prone to hallucinations than others, according to research published in Proceedings of...
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