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Public Communication of Science
Selected examples:
The Economist, Therapist-free therapy. March, 2011
BBC Knowledge Magazine, Living with Fear. 2011
Open Access Success Stories. October 2011
New Scientist Online, When it comes to traumatic flashbacks, Tetris blocks. November 2010
BBC Radio 4, Fry’s English Delight. Winter special – Word Games. December 2010
BBC Radio 4, All In The mind; November 2010: Preventing Flashbacks.
BBC World Service, World Update, Tetris and Flashbacks. 15th November 2010
BBC Radio 5, Up All Night. Tetris research featured. 15 November, 2010.
BBC World Service, World Update, (2010) ‘Neuroscientists explore erasing trauma memories.’ Thursday 25th March.
BBC Radio 4, The Today Programme; Thursday 25th March; Events 'erased' from memory, with Tom Fielden.
BBC Radio 4 News Online; The Today Programme Tetris, trauma and the brain. . Thursday 25 March 2010.
BBC Radio 4, “The Memory Experience” with Dr Mark Porter and Esther Freud.
BBC "Players had fewer "flashbacks", perhaps because it helped disrupt the laying down of memories..."
Daily Telegraph "Those who had played the computer game experienced significantly fewer flashbacks over the next week..."
New Scientist "Tetris is so engrossing and mentally taxing that geometric shapes replace images of exploding grenades..."
NHS "aspects of human memory may be influenced using cognitive stimulation..."
Reuters "Playing Tetris... immediately after traumatic events appears to reduce flashbacks..."
University press office "...could inform new clinical interventions for use immediately after trauma..."
Magazine article in "Oxford Today"
"Oxford psychologists believe mental images of past and future events may be a powerful route to treating psychological disorders...."
Research profile and video, part of the Royal Society's 350th anniversary celebration
"Cognitive Psychology is a discipline that seeks to use scientifically rigorous methods to investigate mental processes..."
Profile highlighting the MP-Scientist Pairing Scheme
"Other Research Fellows at the Royal Society had spoken highly of their experiences of the scheme..."
Research profile from the Royal Society "Excellence in science" publication
"One aim of cognitive therapy (also known as "CBT")..."
Newspaper Interview for the Times Higher Educational Supplement
"Mental imagery can have a particularly strong impact on our emotions..."
Radio interview for "the Making of Memory" on BBC Radio 4
"Research into PTSD has given us insights into how we lay down memories and the relationship between emotions, stress and memory pathways..."
Radio Interview for "All in the Mind" on BBC Radio 4
"Flashbacks are sudden and vivid sensory reminders of traumatic situations..."
Telephone Web Interview for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
"In some cultures, people handle worry beads to ward off stress. A new scientific study suggests they're on to something...."
Press release from the American Psychological Association (APA)
"The same types of memory resources may be involved in processing both particular visuospatial tasks and the sensory aspects of traumatic stimuli..."
Press Release from the British Psychological Society (BPS)
"Madame Defarge and the other women who knitted while they watched people being guillotined during the French Revolution were probably not troubled by flashbacks of the event afterwards..."
