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Adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have widespread learning and memory problems, according to research published today. ̽»¨Ö±²¥findings have already been used to assist adolescents with OCD obtain the help they needed at school to realise their potential – including helping one individual go on to university. 

Brain imaging can reveal a great deal about who we are and what is going inside our heads. But how far can – and should – this research take us? Julia Gottwald and Barbara Sahakian, authors of Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans: How fMRI Reveals What Really Goes on in our Minds, investigate for ̽»¨Ö±²¥Conversation.

̽»¨Ö±²¥male and female brains have more in common than media reports often suggest, argues , a third year PhD student at the Department of Psychiatry. Writing in the student science magazine , she explains what we understand about the similarities and differences in our brains and why this is an important area of research.