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25 Oct 2017: Sarah Harrison, final year PhD student. Second in the series is Sarah Harrison, a final year PhD student in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, whose research highlights the importance

12 May 2017: Wolf Reik, Professor of Epigenetics at the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge and Oliver Stegle, Research Group Leader of Statistical Genomics, European Bioinformatics Institute.

12 Oct 2017: Isla Fay, the Human Anatomy Technical Coordinator in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience who was previously a historical researcher, says this may also have coincided with the publication of

4 Aug 2017: Walk into Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz’s laboratory and it is her sofa that catches your eye. A gaudy pink-purple, it is easily visible through the glass

5 Jun 2017: We’re all fascinated by the brain – its complexity is what makes us so unique as a species,” says Dr Dervila Glynn, coordinator of Cambridge Neuroscience, who is organising the event. ... Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, looking at the ongoing

8 Nov 2017: Researchers from Cambridge’s Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience trained eight sheep to recognise the faces of four celebrities (Fiona Bruce, Jake Gyllenhaal, Barack Obama and Emma Watson) from photographic

20 Jun 2017: The first to be backed came out of a 20-year search by Dr Ravi Mahadeva at Cambridge’s Department of Medicine for a small molecule drug to treat Alpha-1 ... For Professor Randall Johnson, Apollo funds have meant that his research in Cambridge’s

25 Oct 2017: Nine of ten cases of high blood pressure appear to occur spontaneously, with no known cause,” says Professor Randall Johnson from the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University

4 Oct 2017: Professor Ben Luisi, from Cambridge's Department of Biochemistry and who led a consortium to establish a cryo-electron microscopy facility at the University, said: "The award recognises and celebrates the ... Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz,

13 Jun 2017: Gavin Jarvis. Dr Gavin Jarvis from Cambridge’s Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience re-examined data going back to the 1940’s and concluded that previous claims about natural embryo

6 Mar 2017: Search. Search. Cambridge scientist shares world’s largest neuroscience prize for research on the brain’s reward system. ... News. Cambridge scientist shares world’s largest neuroscience prize for research on the brain’s reward system..

21 Feb 2017: Given the important role that iron plays in both health and disease, iron metabolism is normally tightly regulated,” explains Dr Karen Ersche from the Department of Psychiatry. ... This work was funded by the Medical Research Council and was conducted

9 Jul 2017: The Cambridge research will be led by Professor Jenny Morton from the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

8 Mar 2017: Around one in 20 teenagers suffers from depression. Episodes can last for several months. Unfortunately, about 50% of teenagers who have a depressive episode

25 Jan 2017: at a slower rate than the brain,” adds Professor Antonio Terracciano from the Department of Geriatrics at the Florida State University. ... Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience; 25 Jan 2016; DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsw175.

26 Jan 2017: Department of Psychiatry, who led the study.

18 Dec 2017: health and wellbeing during stressful periods,” says Dr Julieta Galante from the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge, who led the study. ... Professor Peter Jones, also from the Department of Psychiatry, adds: “The evidence is mounting that

9 Mar 2017: The robber fly Holcocephala is a relatively small fly – at 6mm in length, it is similar in size of the average mosquito. Yet it has the ability to spot and

23 Feb 2017: Researchers from the University of Cambridge and University of Surrey have identified early biomarkers of disease during examinations of Huntington’s disease

6 Mar 2017: In this study, researchers at Cambridge’s Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute tested 43 OCD patients and 35 matched healthy volunteers to see how well those people with OCD were able

2 Mar 2017: Goetz from the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, who led the research.

19 Sep 2017: This study was conducted at the University of Cambridge’s Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, funded by Medical Research Council and Wellcome Trust.

22 May 2017: The findings could help scientists develop new ways of treating hypoxia – lack of oxygen – in patients. A significant proportion of patients in intensive care

11 Oct 2017: There are all kinds of things that might make a child alarmed by his or her care-giver,” says Dr Duschinsky from the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at

23 Aug 2017: from the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge, whose lab is within the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

7 Jun 2017: This is an important step forward for the field of social neuroscience and adds one more piece to the puzzle of what may cause variation in cognitive empathy.”.

29 Nov 2017: Dr Victoria Leong is an Affiliated Lecturer at Cambridge’s Department of Psychology, and also an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. ... Dr Leong says she is passionate about “real-world neuroscience”.

8 May 2017: Changes in heart rate and blood pressure such as the ‘fight or flight’ response are a normal part of our emotional reactions. However, it is well known that

28 Mar 2017: When David Adam was just 18, a teasing comment from a university friend triggered a series of thoughts that he had contracted HIV and would die of AIDS. This

17 Jan 2017: In a study funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Wellcome, researchers from the Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cambridge investigated ... Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive

19 Apr 2017: Paul Schofield from the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge.

30 Oct 2017: According to the UK’s Department for International Trade, social enterprises also contribute £55 billion to the economy through jobs, goods, services and investing in local communities; no wonder it’s ... He and Hewage set up CBAS two years ago, at

15 Sep 2017: In the study, Sharon Neufeld and colleagues from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge used data obtained between 2005-2010 – prior to funding cuts to Child and Adolescent

22 Jun 2017: The researchers used computer-based methods to develop antibodies – the star players of the body’s natural defence system – to target the deposits of misfolded

20 Apr 2017: Misfolded proteins build up in the brain in several neurodegenerative diseases and are a major factor in dementias such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s as well

12 Apr 2017: Self-awareness in both animals and young children is usually tested using the ‘mirror self-recognition test’ to see if they understand that the reflection in

10 Apr 2017: The mucosal lining inside the uterus is called the endometrium. Over the course of the menstrual cycle, its composition changes, becoming thicker and rich with

6 Apr 2017: The lead author is Dr Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri, from St John’s College, Cambridge, and the Centre for Trophoblast Research in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

18 Jan 2017: baseline. Researchers from the Department of Psychiatry recruited 1,238 14-year-old adolescents and their primary caregivers from secondary schools in Cambridgeshire, and followed them up at the age of ... of depression and reduce the risk that they go

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, ... The author is appearing on March 21 as part of

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

6 Jan 2017: Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

5 May 2017: candidate at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

11 Jul 2017: The history of science is littered with self-experimenters so passionate about their work that they used themselves as human guinea pigs, however

15 Feb 2017: If there’s something wrong with your brain, how do you spot that in an MRI? Of course, if it’s something obvious, such as a major aneurysm or a tumour, anyone

22 May 2017: public,” says Dr Will Skylark from the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, who led the study.

31 Mar 2017: In his keynote speech, Professor Baron-Cohen, Director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, argued that even with the UN Convention on

13 Feb 2017: But neuroscience is a rapidly evolving field. With advances in clever technological and analytical developments such as machine learning, fMRI might be ready for these futuristic applications sooner than we think.