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Welcome to ThInk
Drawing of the head, showing cells of brain ventricles, circa 1347. ThInk is an exciting new project for the Wellcome Trust. The Wellcome Trust Blog has been running successfully for several years and...
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Introducing the Festival of Neuroscience: Q & A with Ian Varndell
Dr Ian Varndell Neuroscience research in the UK is highly fragmented – with over 150 different organisations funding, supporting or advocating this essential branch of life science. The British...
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An introduction to Wonder: art and science on the brain
ThInk was created to coincide with, and complement, the ‘Wonder’ season – a programme of public events produced by the Wellcome Trust in partnership with The Barbican and the British Neuroscience...
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Moving Parts: A lecture on the adolescent brain
Teenage boys with a mobile phone If there was one key message from Jay Giedd’s lecture at UCL, it was this: teenagers, and particularly their brains, deserve more credit. Simple, but with the constant...
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Brains in motion: Inside the Brain
About the film For this film, the Big Picture team met Sarah Scott, a charming young woman who experienced a stroke at the age of 18 whilst still at school. Now 22, Sarah is slowly recovering but...
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Education and neuroscience: An expert review
Introduction By Moheb Costandi Our understanding of how the brain works has advanced rapidly in the past few decades, and there is now more public interest in neuroscience than at any time in the past....
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Adolescent brain development
By Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Royal Society Research Fellow and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. 1. Adolescent brain development: What have we learned in the past 15 years? Until about 15 years...
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Attention and Motivation
Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention and Motivation By Masud Husain, Wellcome Trust Principal Fellow, University of Oxford. Recent developments in the neuroscience of attention and motivation have...
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Educational Neuroscience: Implications for deaf children
By Mairéad MacSweeney, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. I work with people who are born severely or profoundly deaf in order to inform our...
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Neurogenesis: state of the field and implications for education
By Lisa M. Saksida, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge. Nearly everything that we do has an impact on our brains. Changes in our behaviour and in our environment can lead to...
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Education and Neuroscience
With new findings from neuroscience catching the headlines every day, surely we can tap into these results to improve our education system? The Education and Neuroscience Initiative hopes to address...
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Teensleep: The Neuroscience of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Adolescent...
By Dr. Christopher-James Harvey At its simplest, sleep is driven by two broad systems working symbiotically: sleep/wake homeostasis and biological circadian rhythms. Sleep/wake homeostasis tells us...
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Educational neuroscience in the media
Written by Annie Brookman, a PhD student at the Centre for Educational Neuroscience On Monday 25 April 2016, researchers interested in educational neuroscience were invited to an ‘Introduction to the...
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Welcome to ThInk
Drawing of the head, showing cells of brain ventricles, circa 1347. ThInk is an exciting new project for the Wellcome Trust. The Wellcome Trust Blog has been running successfully for several years and...
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Empowering Teachers with the Science of Learning
Written by: Joe Miller Many teachers say their practice is influenced by their understanding of neuroscience, however ‘neuromyths’ and misinterpretations around how students learn are widespread. This...
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