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Gaming Research Debunks Notion of Left-Handers Being Superior Spatially
The research, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, also sheds light on how left-handedness varies by country, with the highest rates in the Netherlands and lowest in China.
The study involved 422,772 people from 41 countries…
Advancements in AI: Faces Appear More Realistic Than Actual Human Faces
In the study, led by the Australian National University researchers and published in Psychological Science, more people thought AI-generated faces were human than the faces of real people.
Co-author Dr Eva Krumhuber (UCL Psychology &…
Study Suggests UK Soft Drinks Levy Associated with Decrease in Child Hospital Admissions for Tooth…
The research, published in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health, found that the largest reductions were in children aged up to nine years old and estimated that more than 5,500 hospital admissions for tooth extraction may have been…
Alarming Global Projections Emphasize ‘Enormous Human Cost’ of Climate Inaction
The 2023 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change delivers a concerning health stocktake, with new global projections revealing the grave and mounting threat to human health as a result of climate inaction.
Key…
UCL Scholars Embedded in Government Offices via UKRI Policy Fellowships
Dr Chloe Park (UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science), Dr Jack Blumenau (UCL Political Science), Dr Lucy Irvine (UCL Institute for Global Health), Dr Neave O'Clery (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis), Dr Keri Wong and Dr Laura…
Study Reveals Decline in Mental Health Among Unpaid Carers
The research, published in The Lancet Public Health, used data from more than 17,000 people in the UK Household Longitudinal Study between 2009 and 2020 to investigate mental and physical health changes around the transition to becoming a…
While Air Purifiers Help Air Quality, They Might Not Prevent Illness, Studies Suggest
The study, published in Preventive Medicine, concluded that technologies designed to make social interactions safer in indoor spaces, including air filtration, germicidal lights and ionisers, are not effective in the real world.
The…
Promising Trial: Investigating the Impact of Music Therapy on Brain Injury Recovery in Patients
The trial at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) will involve patients recovering in hospital following conditions such as stroke and aphasia.
There is already some evidence that music therapy can be beneficial…
UCL Academics Honored in Annual Global List of Influential Researchers
UCL has the second most researchers listed in the UK behind the University of Oxford, and has moved up in the global ranking from 15th to 12th.
UCL researchers were present in 12 of the 20 academic fields listed, namely: Biology &…
Hunger Hormones Influence Decision-Making Brain Regions, Steering Behavior
The study in mice, published in Neuron, is the first to show how hunger hormones can directly impact activity of the brain’s hippocampus when an animal is considering food.
Lead author Dr Andrew MacAskill (UCL Neuroscience, Physiology…