Sleep research: Can sleep improve our memory?
For World Sleep Day 2022, Bernhard Staresina discusses research into the effects of sleep on memory consolidation.
Celebrating sensory processing with Sensory Street
This week is World Autism Week and we hope this blog is a useful resource to help people better understand what it means to be an autistic person with sensory processing difficulties.
Racism is racism: The impact of “every day” racism on the mental health of young people
1 February 2021
To mark Children's Mental Health Week, this blog explores themes around racism and young people, based on the Emerging Minds' Voices, Powers and Attitudes Challenge. Written by Fiyory Ghezae, an intern with the Emerging Minds Network.
Science reveals secrets behind the success of Game of Thrones
Emeritus Professor Robin Dunbar discusses how the book's complex character networks are kept within limits of what human minds are designed by evolution to cope with.
Light at the Right Time
30 April 2020
Time your outside activity during the lockdown to take place in the morning hours.
Latest news
Brian Parkinson joins Emotion Review Editorial Team
26 July 2023
The Professor of Social Psychology joins other established experts on the incoming editorial team.
Professor David M Clark joins Oxford Health as Non-Executive Director
20 July 2023
The Emeritus Professor of Experimental Psychology took up his role on 17 July 2023.
The impact of childhood and teenage anxiety disorders on later life – new research
26 April 2023
New research has found that the consequences of anxiety disorders in young people can include mental health issues in adulthood, lower grades at school and lower earnings.
Elephant seals drift off to sleep while diving far below the ocean surface
21 April 2023
A new analysis of elephant seal brainwave patterns has revealed that these mammals take short naps while holding their breath on deep dives, averaging just 2 hours of sleep per day during their long trips at sea. The findings have been published today in the journal Science.