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• Dataset will help advance research into neuro-degenerative diseases

  Date: 22 May 2025

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  A platform set up to help researchers look into the causes and treatments for neuro-degenerative diseases has released its first biomarker dataset...

• Ever wondered why laughter is good for you?

  Date: 12 May 2025

  /news/2025/may/sluckin-lecture-psychology-vision

  World-leading neuroscientist and stand-up comedian, Professor Sophie Scott, CBE (University College London), is bringing her unique perspective on...

• New database could accelerate research into brain-related conditions

  Date: 14 Mar 2023

  /news/2023/march/database

  The Â鶹ÊÓƵ has co-launched the first database of its kind to help researchers look into the causes of neuro-degenerative diseases...

• Research to develop revolutionary framework for assessing wellbeing in residents with dementia

  Date: 27 Jun 2022

  /news/2022/june/dementia

  Specialist neurological care provider, PJ Care, has partnered with the Â鶹ÊÓƵ in a unique research project that could...

• New robot to detect Parkinson’s disease could be used on humans in the next 5 years

  Date: 7 Jun 2022

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  Researchers at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ have created the world’s first artificial intelligence system capable of detecting Parkinson’s disease.

• Research aims to improve sleep for people with dementia

  Date: 11 Feb 2022

  /news/2022/february/dementia-sleep

  Leicester expertise in behavioural science will feed into a research programme helping to find new ways of supporting people with dementia who...

• University-supported enterprise picks up regional award

  Date: 9 Dec 2021

  /news/2021/december/brainberry

  An innovative healthcare collaboration supported by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been recognised with a regional award.

• New approach provides potential vaccine and treatment for Alzheimer’s

  Date: 16 Nov 2021

  /news/2021/november/tapas

  A promising new approach to potentially treat Alzheimer’s disease – and also vaccinate against it – has been developed by a team of UK and German...

• Psychologists create first-ever body-maps of hallucinations

  Date: 27 Oct 2021

  /news/2021/october/psychosis-hallucinations

  Leicester psychologists have, for the first time, created body-maps of the sensations which arise during hallucinations in people experiencing...

• Human intelligence just got less mysterious, according to Leicester University’s neuroscientists

  Date: 5 Nov 2020

  /news/2020/november/human-intelligence

  Neuroscience experts from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ have released research that breaks with the past fifty years of neuroscientific opinion,...