/taxonomy/people/amy-milton en /stories/mental-health-illness-research <div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>A new Cambridge network is turning to basic science in a bid to advance our understanding and treatment of mental health disorders</p> </p></div></div></div> Fri, 04 Oct 2024 08:43:46 +0000 jg533 248131 at /research/discussion/novel-thoughts-8-amy-milton-on-hubert-selbys-requiem-for-a-dream <div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="cam-scale-with-grid" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/research/discussion/150615-novel-thoughts-amy.jpg?itok=B_A3qhFv" alt="Amy Milton" title="Amy Milton, Credit: 探花直播 of Cambridge, Nick Saffell" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Dr Amy Milton from Cambridge鈥檚 Department of Psychology relates how Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby鈥檚 bleak portrayal of drug addiction, motivated her to dedicate her academic career to finding treatments for addiction.<br /><br />&#13; Here she talks about this favourite book as part of 鈥楴ovel Thoughts鈥�, a series exploring the literary reading habits of eight Cambridge scientists. From illustrated children鈥檚 books to Thomas Hardy, from Star Wars to Middlemarch, we find out what fiction has meant to each of the scientists and peak inside the covers of the books that have played a major role in their lives.<br /><br />&#13; 鈥楴ovel Thoughts鈥� was inspired by research at the 探花直播 of St Andrews by Dr Sarah Dillon (now a lecturer in the Faculty of English at Cambridge) who interviewed 20 scientists for the 鈥榃hat Scientists Read鈥� project. She found that reading fiction can help scientists to see the bigger picture and be reminded of the complex richness of human experience. Novels can show the real stories behind the science, or trigger a desire in a young reader to change lives through scientific discovery. They can open up new worlds, or encourage a different approach to familiar tasks.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>View the whole series:聽<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoEBu2Q8ia_OJey8wqE7pyczqsQ8BFrx3">Novel Thoughts: What Cambridge scientists read</a>.</p>&#13; &#13; <p><a href="/research/news/novel-thoughts-what-cambridge-scientists-read">Read about Novel Thoughts</a>.</p>&#13; &#13; <p><strong>Is there a novel that has inspired you? Let us know! #novelthoughts</strong></p>&#13; </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>New film series Novel Thoughts reveals the reading habits of eight Cambridge scientists and peeks inside the covers of the books that have played a major role in their lives. In the final film, Dr Amy Milton talks about how Hubert Selby's Requiem for a Dream has inspired her pursuit of treatments for addiction.</p>&#13; </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-media field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div id="file-84752" class="file file-video file-video-youtube"> <h2 class="element-invisible"><a href="/file/84752">Novel Thoughts #8: Amy Milton on Hubert Selby鈥檚 Requiem for a Dream</a></h2> <div class="content"> <div class="cam-video-container media-youtube-video media-youtube-1 "> <iframe class="media-youtube-player" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/PXjWzLxrtx0?wmode=opaque&controls=1&rel=0&autohide=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-credit field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/" target="_blank"> 探花直播 of Cambridge, Nick Saffell</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-desctiprion field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Amy Milton</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cc-attribute-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="license"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" style="border-width:0" /></a><br />&#13; 探花直播text in this work is licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>. For image use please see separate credits above.</p>&#13; </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-show-cc-text field-type-list-boolean field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Yes</div></div></div> Fri, 03 Jul 2015 11:00:43 +0000 lw355 154622 at