Adisa Broadhurst, our Education Supervisor and Wellbeing Advocate shares her experience as a refugee escaping Yugoslavia and coming to Cambridge “The year was 1992. Exactly 30 years ago. Overnight, my world was turned upside-down. The country that I was born in, Yugoslavia, was literally falling apart. One day I was living a carefree childhood, […]
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Elijah Mak wins Silver prize Rising Star award
Elijah Mak has won the Silver prize Rising Star award at the International Lewy Body Dementia Conference Elijah is a post-doctoral researcher investigating the interplay between distinct pathological processes (e.g. amyloid burden and cortical thinning) and how they map onto clinical impairment in Down’s Syndrome. Specifically, in the use of multivariate approaches to delineate […]
Exploring the lived experience of hallucinations
Hallucinations involve perceptions of stimuli that do not exist in the physical world. They occur not only in schizophrenia but are experienced by people with other psychiatric disorders, neurological and neurodegenerative conditions, and among the general population. Understanding what it is like to experience hallucinations and whether the experience of hallucinations is similar for […]
Seven hours sleep is ideal amount in middle to old age, study finds
Seven hours of sleep each night is the ideal amount in middle to old age, research suggests. “For every hour that you moved away from seven hours, you got worse. It’s very clear that the processes that go on in our brain during sleep are very important for maintaining our physical and mental health” says […]