Foxe

Less well-known is that as early as 1563, long before the late Hilary Mantel embarked on her own rehabilitation of the tough-minded Tudor statesman, Cromwell too was named a martyr by the influential Protestant theologian John Foxe, who in his "Actes and Monuments" described him as one whose "worthy acts and other manifold virtues" engineered the restoration of the "true church of Christ" in England.

While some critics have accused Mantel of promoting anti-Catholic propaganda and treating Cromwell a little too kindly, she, unlike Foxe, does not shy away from the blood that trails Cromwell's ascent.

"We needed to find a task that did not require explicit engagement or attention, and this is one of those kinds of tasks," Foxe said.

In a new study, out today in theJournal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Foxe and a team of researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center may be closer to that goal of understanding.

Researchers in the Frederick J. and Marion A. Schindler Cognitive Neurophysiology Lab, where Foxe is co-principal investigator with Edward Freedman, PhD, are using these findings to leverage a Batten disease mouse model.