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UCL - R16 1st leg: Real Madrid vs PSG | Feb 14, 2018 - TV listings + Official streams

Match - Preview: RM {▸} + UEFA | Press conference: Zidane + Marcelo + Kroos [Mahou] - Match prep: Feb 13 {▸} - Stadium arrival | Warm-up - Last meeting: 1-0 W (Nov 11, 2015 - UCL-GS) {▸} - Lineups: RMA | PSG

Absentees (Call-ups) - Vallejo (injury) - Dani Carvajal (suspension)

Notes - PSG boss Unai Emery has never gone further than the round of 16 in his five previous participations as manager in the #UCL. 

- Under Zinédine Zidane, Real Madrid have won 10 of their 14 UCL knockout games (D2 L2), lifting the trophy twice in as many seasons (2017 & 2016).

- Paris have eliminated Real Madrid in their 2 previous knockout encounters (1992/93 UEFA Cup, 1993/94 Cup Winners Cup), both times in the quarter-finals.

The Duchess of Cambridge today visited a team of UCL’s world-leading developmental neuroscientists who are conducting ground-breaking research into how environment and biology interact to shape the way in which children develop both socially and emotionally.               

During the visit, The Duchess met with leading academics as well as students in UCL Psychology & Language Sciences to learn about developmental neuroscience at UCL.

One of The Duchess’ key areas of interest is championing the importance of providing solid social and emotional foundations for children to support their development and emotional resilience as infants, setting them on the best possible pathway for a happy and healthy adulthood.

Professor Eamon McCrory (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences), the lead academic for the visit, said: “Our cutting-edge neuroscience research is shedding new light on how the brain develops in the early years. What we are learning has the potential to significantly improve the lives of children and their families. I am delighted and truly honoured that Her Royal Highness has shown such interest in our work and is supporting vital research in this area.”

UCL President & Provost, Professor Michael Arthur, said: “We’re delighted that Her Royal Highness is hearing from UCL’s developmental neuroscience researchers, as UCL takes great pride in its neuroscience and psychology work. We hope that this can help leverage the work of our neuroscientists as they seek to improve the lives of people affected by mental health disorders and ensure that every child has the best possible start to life.”

Professor McCrory is a Co-Director of the UCL Developmental Risk & Resilience Unit. As a researcher, he uses brain imaging to investigate changes in brain structure and function in children following early adversity. This work is providing important clues as to how vulnerability, particularly to mental health problems, can emerge across the lifespan. As a clinician, he is very interested in how this knowledge can improve the ways in which we can help children and families in the early years. The long term goal is to move to towards a preventative model of help, where mental health problems are prevented before they emerge.

The Duchess also heard from Professor Peter Fonagy, Head of UCL Psychology & Language Sciences, Professor Essi Viding, Professor Pasco Fearon and Dr Nikolaus Steinbeis (all UCL Psychology & Language Sciences).

Professor Fonagy studies the development and neurobiology of mental health conditions and conduct problems, and develops psychosocial treatments such as a group intervention for aggression and a project working with mothers incarcerated with their infants.

Professor Viding, also Co-Director of the UCL Developmental Risk & Resilience Unit, focuses on the genetic and environmental origins of conduct problems in children, such as information processing biases that can increase the risk of aggressive behaviours, in order to find better ways to promote health emotional and behavioural development.

Professor Fearon researches the development of attachment – the natural and instinctive bond that babies form to their primary caregivers, which provides them with a sense of safety and supports their learning and long-term emotional development – in a research programme that includes testing new interventions and working with policy makers.

Dr Steinbeis studies the development of behavioural control – the ability to resist temptations in the pursuit of long-term goals and the subjective experience of feeling in control – and designs training programmes aimed at improving behavioural control in children, to reduce their later risk of mental health disorders.

Her Royal Highness also met two students enrolled on UCL’s MSc programmes in child development, based at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, one focused on clinical training and one focused on neuroscience research.

Wednesday 21st November, 2018

The Duchess of Cambridge will visit Professor Eamon McCrory, Co-Director of the Developmental Risk and Resilience Unit in the Psychology & Language Sciences Division at UCL, on Wednesday 21st November.

During the visit, The Duchess will learn more about the Unit’s neuroscience research into how environment and biology interact to shape the way in which children develop both socially and emotionally. The Unit aims to better understand the factors that contribute to healthy development, as well as those that are linked to the emergence of behavioural and emotional problems in children. Research into developmental risk and resilience has scope to inform professionals and policy makers in ways that can improve the lives of children and families.

One of The Duchess’ key areas of interest is championing the importance of providing solid social and emotional foundations for children to support their development and emotional resilience as infants, setting them on the best possible pathway for a happy and healthy adulthood. Earlier this year, Her Royal Highness set up a steering group made up of practitioners and academics from a range of disciplines, including neuroscience, mental health, nursing, perinatal care and education. This group has met several times to discuss what can be done to make a positive difference to the lives of children by focusing on their earliest stage of life, from pre-birth to infancy.

During her visit, The Duchess will be shown the Unit’s MRI Scanning Facility to learn about UCL’s groundbreaking research on how early experience shapes brain function. Her Royal Highness will be shown how the scanner is used to study the brain, and will see the resulting images that allow scientists to see differences in brain structure and function. The Duchess will hear from members of Professor McCrory’s neuroscience research team about how they work closely with children and families to shed new light on resilience following early adversity. Her Royal Highness will then join a roundtable meeting with leading researchers and students to learn about the wider ambition for developmental neuroscience.