In New York we're doing a campus for Columbia University and a fantastic centre for brain research.
The association of bunkers with central command centres, and our own internal control centre – the brain – was too good to pass up.
At the centre of Brain Activity, last year's Shrigley show at the Hayward Gallery, stood a small, apparently stuffed Jack Russell dog holding a sign that proclaimed "I'm Dead".
Even the victim of a car crash, needing urgent treatment for serious head injuries, would do better bypassing the local hospital for a trauma centre where brain surgeons are available 24 hours.
The early parts of the research – which also involves academics from the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development at Birkbeck, University of London – have shown that babies are not always most interested in the things that best engage adult attention spans.
Dr Melissa Andrews, from the Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, said that while the study was a "little bit mind blowing" people should not say this is a cure.
Our work is supported by grants from the UK Medical Research Council (MRC, G0500247); Newcastle Centre for Brain Ageing and Vitality (BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC and MRC, LLHW); and the Alzheimer's Research Trust (UK).
The Wellcome Trust, Wolfson Foundation Marriott Foundation and Newcastle Centre for Brain Ageing and Vitality (supported by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council and Medical Research Council).
While most analyses are centred on brain, in some instances peripheral analytes are also assessed.
According to some investigators from research centres and brain banks it comprises up to 20% of all dementia cases [ 1].
