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Verdun Memorial.

Do Memorials Matter?

21 Oct 2011

For the Festival of Ideas, Dr Dacia Viejo-Rose, a researcher on the CRIC research project, will discuss the unexpected impact and diverse use of...

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fMRI of individual without a PCS

Keeping track of reality

05 Oct 2011

A new study of the brain explains why some of us are better than others at remembering what really happened.

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Brain scans

Test could detect Alzheimer’s disease earlier

16 May 2011

Innovation on the strength of a simple test identified in a new study would enable intervention before damage is done.

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Addiction treatment – genes can play a part

04 Jan 2011

Imagine a one-off cure for drug addiction or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) instead of today’s life-long therapy regimes.

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'Memory wars' of Eastern Europe

01 Apr 2010

A €1 million study will shed light on the role of cultural memory of the soviet era in Russia, Ukraine and Poland.

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Dr Mate Lengyel 'in search of lost memories'

In search of lost memories

01 Feb 2008

‘I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. […] And suddenly the memory returns.’ À la Recherche du Temps...

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