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3 Jul 2017: To overcome this problem, researchers from the Departments of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences and the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cambridge developed ‘Game Show’, a memory game

24 Oct 2019: The research was supported by the Bernard Wolfe Health Neuroscience Fund and Wellcome.

4 Nov 2022: In a study published today in The Lancet Psychiatry, researchers looked at the risk of mortality and loss of life-years among people who developed 28 different

7 Jun 2008: and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, showed that a spontaneously occurring tendency, or 'trait', of impulsivity in rats predicts the transition from casual to compulsive drug use and drug addiction.

28 Oct 2013: The double-blind study, which was carried out by researchers at the University of Cambridge MRC/Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI) and funded by the Medical Research Council

17 Dec 2013: A study published this month in the journal Molecular Autism confirms previous research that people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) are more likely to carry

26 Oct 2022: In the study, led by researchers at the Autism Research Centre, 524 non-autistic people and 417 autistic people completed an online survey about their

31 Oct 2013: The research, by scientists at the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBSU) and the University of Cambridge, is published today, 31 October, in the journal Neuroimage: Clinical. ... A lot of cognitive neuroscience research

7 Nov 2018: School of Clinical Medicine.

11 Jul 2014: Valerie Voon, a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow at the University of Cambridge. ... Dr John Williams, Head of Neuroscience and Mental Health at the Wellcome Trust, says: “Compulsive behaviours, including watching porn to excess, over-eating

25 Jun 2014: Our findings confirm anecdotal reports that adults with Asperger Syndrome have a significantly higher risk of suicide in comparison to other clinical groups, and that depression is a key risk factor

4 Jul 2019: This definition was based on a threshold recommended previously in clinical validation studies using the scale. ... individual’s academic achievement and then on their employment opportunities in later life,” said Professor Jon Grant from the

18 Mar 2014: The team at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and the University of Cambridge’s Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI) have examined how suppression affects a memory’s unconscious

7 Dec 2015: Researchers, from the MS Society Cambridge Centre for Myelin Repair, identified that the ‘vitamin D receptor’ protein pairs with an existing protein, called

1 Jul 2021: There is significant debate about substance use of autistic adolescents and adults. Some studies indicate that autistic individuals are less likely to use

15 Sep 2017: young people who have contact with mental health services in the community and in clinics are significantly less likely to suffer from clinical depression later in their adolescence than those with

17 May 2021: The study, published today in Nature Genetics, found that genetic variants in the DNA of mitochondria could increase the risk of developing these conditions,

25 Feb 2016: There is a road down which those with substance addiction travel. Its beginnings are influenced by circumstances and genetics; it becomes well trodden,

22 Jan 2016: Although a challenging theme in neuroscience, rapid advances have been made in this area.

15 Feb 2017: But that probably won’t happen in a hospital. All of the methods described above exists in the research world – but in the clinical world, a radiologist will likely just eyeball

1 Dec 2016: Good evidence exists that psychological treatments are effective – around 70% of adolescents who receive treatment go into clinical remission – but there is very little evidence about whether these effects last. ... Follow up over the next 12 months

7 Nov 2017: The authors set out clinical and research priorities with 12 key messages and recommendations to reduce the global burden of TBI. ... Crucially, even when additional evidence is generated to improve management, the integration of such evidence into

24 Nov 2020: School of Clinical Medicine.

16 Oct 2018: While Yaara’s research is basic science, she is interested in its clinical application and how the knowledge might be used to improve healthcare and treatments for patients. ... We can and we should use our knowledge from basic neuroscience to improve

30 Aug 2019: non-obese mothers,” says Dr Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri, a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow from the Centre for Trophoblast Research in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the

15 Mar 2017: Kirstie Whitaker. Fast forward a few years and I’m now a member of the Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network (NSPN), a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and University College London, ... We will continue to work together, both within the

5 Nov 2021: Diagnosis is usually made after considering other possible conditions (such as Crohn’s disease or bowel cancer), with clinical tests coming back ‘normal’. ... School of Clinical Medicine.

31 Oct 2016: The results of their preliminary study, dubbed “The Trumpington Road Study” and published in the journal Social Neuroscience, suggest that this theory is correct. ... Social Neuroscience; 19 Oct 2016; DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2016.1249944.

29 Jan 2020: Adolescence is a time of major change in life, with increasing social and cognitive skills and independence, but also increased risk of mental illness. While

15 Feb 2022: A team of researchers, led by Dr Sarah Cassidy from the University of Nottingham and Professor Simon Baron-Cohen from the Autism Research Centre at the

23 Oct 2017: When we are performing tasks, specific regions of the brain become more active – for example, if we are moving, the motor cortex is engaged, while if we are

11 Oct 2013: Despite many advances in care, we need to achieve further improvements in clinical outcomes for patients with traumatic brain injury. ... Exploring variations in clinical pathways and management of individual patients will allow us to identify best

22 Jun 2021: The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, found that the part of the brain which interprets physical signals from the body behaves differently in

16 Jul 2013: The two studies provide the first estimate of the change in the number of people live with dementia in the UK, and the new figures give a more accurate picture

12 Apr 2021: The research was funded by the Bernard Wolfe Health Neuroscience Fund, Wellcome, the NIH-Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program and the Cambridge Trust.

22 Nov 2016: Joe Herbert, Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

1 Aug 2018: PCOS affects about one in ten women and is caused by elevated levels of the hormone testosterone. It is associated with fluid-filled sacs (called follicles) in

17 Sep 2013: However, in the 1980s Cambridge clinical scientists also began to explore its use in autoimmune diseases, which occur when the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue. ... Their commitment and focus has been exemplary, and this has been

6 Oct 2016: A recent explosion of neuroscience techniques is driving substantial advances in our understanding of the brain. ... These academia-industry collaborations help to translate neuroscience discoveries into the real world.

16 Jun 2016: know is important for emotional behaviour,” explains Dr Luca Passamonti from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge.

21 Aug 2015: Current research has focused on drug interventions and clinical trials, as well as relevant biomarkers including novel imaging for assumed brain pathology.

11 Jan 2021: The techniques and frameworks taught in mindfulness have rich and diverse backgrounds, from early Buddhist psychology and meditation through to cognitive neuroscience and participatory medicine – the interplay between all of these ... Mindfulness-based

20 May 2016: Adolescence is a key time in an individual’s development, and is a period where some teenagers begin to show signs of major depression. One of the major risk

29 Oct 2015: A common characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases – such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease – is the build-up of ‘misfolded’ proteins,

20 Jun 2022: There are many different forms of MNDs that have different clinical features and severity.

22 Apr 2020: The most affected group were young people aged 18-24 years, with more than four in ten (44 per cent) saying they felt lonely, according to the research study.

16 Jul 2014: A team of researchers, led by Professor Simon Baron-Cohen and Dr Meng-Chuan Lai from the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, tested 811

27 Nov 2013: The study, a collaboration between the Universities of Cambridge and East London and  King’s College London, was published online in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

3 May 2022: Professor Menon and Professor Ed Bullmore from Cambridge’s Department of Psychiatry are co-leading working groups as part of the COVID-19 Clinical Neuroscience Study (COVID-CNS) that aim to ... The research was funded by the NIHR BioResource, NIHR

15 Jun 2021: The team, based at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, found that while sleep problems and low self-esteem were common risk