• Question: what do you think your work has helped us and the people around you so far?

    Asked by anon-188640 to Warren, Shanti, Pizza Ka Yee, Paul, Alex, Nadine on 6 Nov 2018. This question was also asked by anon-188258.
    • Photo: Paul Matusz

      Paul Matusz answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      Hi Loisf,

      Thanks for this important question. I think that my project on children with amblyopia (“lazy eye”) could be providing soon some results that could help those children – have a look for more info here, on the page of our website with summary of this project – https://groupforrealworldneuroscience.wordpress.com/understanding-the-role-of-attention-in-visual-rehabilitation-amblyopia-as-a-model-gambly/ 🙂

    • Photo: Nadine Mirza

      Nadine Mirza answered on 7 Nov 2018: last edited 7 Nov 2018 3:49 am

      My work so far is doing two things:
      a) It’s brought more awareness about dementia to some South Asian communities. We’ve convinced people that dementia is not the same as regular ageing and they need to go get a proper diagnosis and seek help as soon as possible. We’ve also encouraged people to work on things that could prevent dementia.
      2) I made a test that will more accurately diagnose South Asians with dementia- this means people who do have it won’t be left out and will get the help they need. And people who don’t have it won’t get accidentally diagnosed and have to go through a lot of stress, and waste of resources.
      Find out more here: https://www.insight.mrc.ac.uk/2017/11/07/avoiding-gibberish-when-assessing-for-dementia/#more-7361

    • Photo: Alex Reid

      Alex Reid answered on 9 Nov 2018:

      Hi, thanks for the question. I have worked on a couple of projects I am proud of. A few years ago my lab group ran a huge study on sleep and dyslexia in children. As a lab group we look at memory consolidation and sleep, and this is a process (or series of processes) where your sleeping brain helps optimize memories for future use. We were looking at dyslexic children because we were interested if sleep-dependent memory consolidation was working properly. We found that, compared to children without dyslexia, consolidation behaved differently and was possibly working less effectively. This may help us develop new interventions and ways of helping children with dyslexia in the future.

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