• Question: The work that you do can it save lives and help people with diseases?

    Asked by ilovedogs06 to Damien, Rachael, Simon, Suzi, Tim on 16 Jun 2011.
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      Suzi Gage answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      @ilovedogs06
      Hello, thanks for the question!
      The work that I do will hopefully help people with diseases (psychosis and depression, diseases of the mind). It may even be able to save lives as in extreme cases psychosis and depression can lead to people killing themselves, or in really horrible situations (not very often) killing other people.

      So I hope it can help people, yes!

      Hope this answers your question 🙂

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      Simon Bennett answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      Hello,

      My research does not directly have an implications for disease but the general information I may assist in discovering could help to form the foundations of work into treatments.

      Thanks.

    • Photo: Rachael Ward

      Rachael Ward answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      I study how serotonin is controlled and released by neurons so, by having a better understanding of this, we may be able to design better drugs for people with depression and anxiety so I hope it will help, yes.

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      Damien Hall answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      My work doesn’t help with diseases, but it might help save lives by giving people more information about attitudes. In my last job, I was working on a project about the effect that people’s attitudes had on the way they spoke, and we found that they did matter – particularly if you felt strongly that being Scottish was important to you, you would probably speak with a more Scottish accent than someone who was Scottish but didn’t care about it much. So it seems as if attitudes do matter to accent. So, if some humanitarian worker in a dangerous part of the world (say) took account of that and knew to be really careful what they said depending on which side of a border they were on, and that stopped someone from being really angry and shooting them, then I could have helped save a life!

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