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The Big Brain: Size and Intelligence

For centuries, scientists have tried to identify what is special...

Pilgrimages, Pandemics and the Past

Between us and the medieval men and women who went...

Sleep and Mental Health

In recent years, the links between sleep and mental health...

Anxiety in Children

Anxiety is part of the normal human experience and children...

Living with Mental Health

There is a rising number of people of all ages...

Lottery-Winning Maths

The field of probability started when a French nobleman asked...

The Death of Richard III: CSI Meets History

The skeleton of Richard III was discovered beneath a Leicester car park in 2012. Forensic techniques were used to analyse injuries to the skull, rib and pelvis.

What Clinicians Can Learn From Forensic Scientists

Clinical practice depends on the acquisition and analysis of evidence - detailed information from each patient’s clinical history, laboratory tests, imaging scans and biopsies. Yet data on its own is not enough, and must always be interpreted in the context of each unique person.

The Psychology of the Stock Market

The Efficient Market Hypothesis argues that stock markets are rational – they take into account all relevant information, and incorporate it in an unbiased way. This talk will present evidence that stock prices are instead driven by human psychology.

Psychosis: Making and Inhabiting a Different Reality

Professor Fletcher proposes that it can be understood in terms of the normal functioning of the mind, which seeks to construct a working model of reality even though it has very little direct contact with that reality.

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