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Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre have discovered a brain mechanism that enables mice to override their instincts based on previous experience.

Patients who experience long COVID have reported more than 200 symptoms across 10 organ systems*, in the largest international study of ‘long-haulers’ to date, led by UCL scientists together with the Patient-Led Research Collaborative.

We are excited to announce that Andrew Saxe has been appointed Joint Group Leader at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit and Sainsbury Wellcome Centre. His lab will focus on the theory of deep learning and its applications to phenomena in neuroscience and psychology.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Viviana Gradinaru will be joining SWC as a Resident Scholar from April–August 2021. Professor Gradinaru is at the forefront of developing cutting-edge tools for systems neuroscience and we are really excited to have her visit us and share her expertise in neurotechnologies.

In her new book, Models of the Mind, Grace Lindsay, joint SWC-Gatsby Research Fellow, describes how the elegant language of mathematics provides the tools required to understand the machinery of neuroscience.

We are thrilled to announce that Dr Chunyu Ann Duan will be joining the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre in summer 2021. Her lab will focus on understanding how animals make flexible decisions under risk and social influence, and the neural circuit mechanisms underlying these choices.

Study sheds light on how the brain represents causally-controlled objects.

Researchers at UCL find reduced social preference in isolated zebrafish is caused by stress and anxiety, not observed anti-social patterns.

A team of scientists at UCL, University of Cambridge and Radboud University developed an innovative method of studying naturalistic eye movements in mice and discovered similarities and differences with human eye movements.

Researchers identify specialised neural circuits that control reward-seeking and punishment-avoiding behaviour

While scientists have spent years mapping anatomical projections and monitoring activity from individual neurons, little is known about how signals sent by individual neurons relate to the larger, bidirectional communication that underlies complex behaviour. Neuroscientists at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre report in Nature Neuroscience on a new approach that offers insight into these complex neural conversations.