title: Wellcome witnesses: the Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit.
abstract: A Witness Seminar brings together individuals involved in a significant event in the treatment of a medical condition to describe its background and to discuss, debate, or even to disagree with their peers' recollections. A brief description is given of the Witness Seminar, held in June 2001 by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, which considered the history of Medical Research Council's Applied Psychology Unit (ABU) in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The APU was created in 1944 and produced more than 3,000 papers before it was renamed the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unite (CBU) in 1998. Photographs of key figures and purpose-built apparatus illustrate some of its early work as recorded in the published transcript of the meeting.
authors.affiliation: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London.
authors.forename: Lois
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Reynolds
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000266:history*; D005582:Foundations / Q000266:history*; D006286:Health Planning Councils / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D011584:Psychology / Q000266:history*; D012106:Research / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom