Dr Samantha Brooks gave a presentation on Monday 11th September about our relationship with food, and how this can branch into disordered eating. Dr Brooks informed us about formal diagnoses of eating disorders, including anorexia and bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. She showed us how cases of eating disorders are rising globally, especially for…
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The Brain Basis of Consciousness: 9th October 2023
Prof Mark Solms Monday 9 October 2023 7.00pm – 8.00pm BST Perceptual imagery and language dominates our conscious experience. These functions are performed by the cerebral cortex. Understandably, for this reason, we have for the past two centuries considered the cortex (which is uniquely well developed in human beings) to be the ‘organ of consciousness’….
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NWRPA Newsletter July 2023
The Early Years of the NWRPA Frank Kelley Monday 10 July 2023 Summary by Frank Kelley It was good to see Eileen Ainsworth at this seminar. We are both long standing members and joined the NWRPA around 1991 or 1992. At that time the Association was already around ten years old and so we have…
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