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The one relationship you’re stuck with, and why it’s important
The one relationship you’re stuck with, and why it’s important Afiqah Abdul Hamid discusses the importance of mental health on Valentine’s Day Lockdowns can be lonely, especially with the extension of our recent lockdown coinciding with Valentine’s Day, a time brimming with expectations of love and romance. In this period of isolation, it’s okay to […]
Grow a Brain
How do you make a mini-brain? Methods vary, but you want to start with some human pluripotent stem cells, stem cells that can split into multiple cells when you put them in the right environment – for some other organs, you can use adult stem cells too – and let them multiply. This means that […]
University of Exeter receives £10 million for new Mireille Gillings Neuroimaging Centre
On the 18th of April, the University of Exeter announced that it had received its biggest ever single donation of £10 million from the Dennis and Mireille Gillings Foundation. The sum will be used for the new Mireille Gillings Neuroimaging Centre, which will focus primarily on dementia research and diagnosis. The facility will be built […]
Brain Awareness Week to bring Neuroscience to the Masses
Members of the public are being invited to campus to learn more about the marvels of the human brain as part of Brain Awareness Week at the University of Exeter. A diverse programme of events will be running across the week (12th – 18th March), which focus on increasing public awareness of the benefits and […]
Athletes Beware
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive degenerative disease found in the brains of athletes with a history of repetitive brain trauma, has been known to affect sportspeople such as boxers since the 1920s. Repeated traumatic events such as punches lead to the progressive degeneration of brain tissue that can begin years or even decades after […]
Failed Theories – Scientific theories from history
The planet Vulcan W hat is the closest planet to the Sun? If you said Mercury, then you’d be correct. However, if you had said Vulcan in the 19th century then you’d still be correct. Sort of. Though the name may conjure images from Star Trek, in actuality the mathematician Urban Jean Joseph Le Verrier posited […]
The corruption and the complexities of memory
Do our memories define who we are? Does memory contain all our experiences, and if not, why do some memories get encoded and others don’t? Once forming a memory, can we erase it? These are all questions we must ask when examining our brain attempts to encode all the bits and pieces from our daily […]
Smashed on Science: Tempted, sugar coated and emotional!?!
SMASHED ON SCIENCE The debut of the ‘Pint of Science‘ festival recently took over Exeter pubs, and Exeposé Science and Tech are here to give you the best bits, and fill you in on what you may have missed. Jenya Siryk provides a short snippet from the presentation “Tempted, sugar coated and emotional!?!”, hosted by Prof. Noel Morgan at […]
Anyone up for a pint of politics?
Pavel Kondov catches up with Exeter lecturer Dr. Darren Schreiber after the ‘Pint of Science‘ presentation, discussing the topic of how your brain is built for politics. Dr. Schreiber began the interview by explaining how his political research relates to neuroscience. ‘I use brain imaging to study how the human brain thinks about political information. The […]