Inside Neuroscience

Does what the eye sees in the first few days of lifeinfluence how it processes information later on? A new study from Reynolds et al., reveals that in developing zebrafish, growing up in horizontal or vertical stripey ‘worlds’ can drastically affect how neurons in the eye function and even change the shape of neurons in the retina. Professor Robert Hindges, senior author on the study,discusses the...

Compulsive traits are tendencies to repeat patterned behaviours. They are often seen in psychiatric conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), addiction and eating disorders. But what drives compulsive traits? In this episode, Dr Toby Wise, Senior Research Fellow in Neuroscience at King's College London, talks about a new study which used an online video game played by 2000 people...

Sleep problems affect more than 80% of children with neurodevelopmental disorders including epilepsy. Children who sleep poorly can have problems with learning and behaviour. It can also have a knock-on effect on the whole family’s sleep. Professor Deb Pal, Professor of Paediatric Epilepsy at King’sCollege London, recently published the results of the CASTLEOnline Sleep Intervention study. In the...