Binge drinking is bad for the brain
Dora Duka’s research is pushing the boundaries of what we know about the brain and offering hope both to those who binge drink and alcoholics.
Psychology and Neuroscience research
Podcast: Anil Seth on his innovative approach to public engagement
Recorded in March 2019
Welcome to Impacted, our new podcast series about research for real change. Listen to the first episode where Anil Seth explores consciousness and shares his innovative approaches to public engagement and education.
- Read about the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science
- Find out more about our Psychology and neuroscience research
Features
Dr Richard de Visser, Reader in Health Psychology, describes how his research into the effectiveness of stop-drinking campaigns is helping raise awareness of the benefits of cutting back on alcohol.
Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and Co-Director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, describes how technology can now illuminate what’s happening in our brains when we have experiences.
Giving children better life chances
Gordon Harold is a man on a mission – a mission to improve children’s mental health and their life chances.
Focusing on what helps children’s development rather than on what hinders it, he’s taking his research findings to parents, children, professionals and policy-makers.
See how our research on crowd behaviour has helped shape procedure for mass decontamination
Case studies
Related research centres and schools
- Related research centres
- Sussex Neuroscience
- Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science
- Centre for Cognitive Science
- Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics
- Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience
- Cognitive Psychology
- Dementia Research Group
- Developmental and Clinical Psychology
- Neurodegenerative disease and aging research centre
- Social and Applied Psychology
- Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre
- Related research in our schools
News
Psycho-oncologist receives prestigious award
Dame Lesley Fallowfield has been recognised for her leading role in advancing the science and care of breast cancer patients.
Analysing the 2011 riots: Why the emotional impact extended far beyond the affected communities
New research investigating the emotional effects of the 2011 riots in England has found that black neighbourhoods were particularly severely impacted.
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