ESRC Studentships Main Competition The UBEL DTP’s fully funded ESRC studentships cover full payment of tuition fees per year and an annual maintenance stipend. What’s on offer UBEL DTP studentships co...

A $333 monthly check didn't change poor children's test scores, yet it slowed how fast their cells were aging.

The recoverability, reliability, and generalizability of reward processing parameters and relation to mental health symptoms - Volume 56

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The cognitive processes driving social media use could be key to understanding social media’s impact. Here, the authors develop a computational model of real-world social media behaviour, identifying ...

The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is the principal source of dopaminergic input to the human prefrontal cortex and is hypothesised to play a central role in reward‑based learning. However, direct elect...

by Paul Grossman, Gareth L. Ackland, Andrew M. Allen, Gary G. Berntson, Lindsea C. Booth, Gordon M. Burghardt, Julie Buron, Vladimir Dinets, J. Sean Doody, Mathias Dutschmann, David G.S. Farmer, James...

The Huo Family Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 20 major multi-year research grants, totalling $17.6 million, through its inaugural Science Programme on the Effects of the Usage of Digit...

The verdict is in on Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation,” and it’s devastating. A new piece in TES Magazine systematically demolishes Haidt’s claims by doing som…

The newspaper is revered and reviled for its unflinching coverage of the Gaza war. Can it survive a possible future succession crisis?

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How do major political events affect our mental health? Professor Jonathan Roiser and Dr Luca Bernardi have received funding from UCL Grand Challenges and the University of Liverpool to find out.

The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.