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Novel Thoughts #8: Amy Milton on Hubert Selby’s Requiem for a Dream | …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/novel-thoughts-8-amy-milton-on-hubert-selbys-requiem-for-a-dream3 Jul 2015: Dr Amy Milton from Cambridge’s Department of Psychology relates how Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby’s bleak portrayal of drug addiction, motivated her to dedicate her academic career to ... Enter your email address, confirm you're happy to receive
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The sweet sound of science | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-sweet-sound-of-science15 Feb 2012: Developed with ideas from neuroscience, evolutionary psychology and Elton John, Frieze will comically claim every song is based on one of seven patterns. ... Dr Carolin Crawford and conductor Mark Austin will be giving an informative lecture on March 9.
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New Year Honours for members of the University of Cambridge |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/new-year-honours-for-members-of-the-university-of-cambridge3 Jan 2012: Professor Trevor Robbins, Head of the Department of Experimental Psychology, Director of the University's Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, and Fellow of Downing College has been awarded a CBE "for ... Enter your email address, confirm you
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The Royal Society announces election of new Fellows 2021 | University …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-royal-society-announces-election-of-new-fellows-20216 May 2021: research.”. Professor Usha Goswami CBE FBA FRS. Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, and Director of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education. ... He has applied a developmental neuroscience perspective to
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Winner takes all: Success enhances taste for luxury goods, study…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/winner-takes-all-success-enhances-taste-for-luxury-goods-study-suggests19 Sep 2017: field of consumer psychology, these measures can predict brand preferences, usage, and recognition. ... This study was conducted at the University of Cambridge’s Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, funded by Medical Research Council and
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Brain, body and mind: understanding consciousness | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/brain-body-and-mind-understanding-consciousness23 Feb 2016: Brain, body and mind: new directions in the neuroscience and philosophy of consciousness', the Research Horizons Public Lecture, will be on Wednesday 16 March 2016, 8pm–9pm, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, ... The team in Cambridge are also distributing funds
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Cambridge academics to receive prestigious psychology award |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-academics-to-receive-prestigious-psychology-award16 Aug 2011: The award recognizes distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology and is being presented to Professor Everitt and Professor Robbins for their research in behavioural and cognitive neuroscience – ... have been -
Want to stick with your diet? Better have someone hide the chocolate…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/want-to-stick-with-your-diet-better-have-someone-hide-the-chocolate25 Jul 2013: Small rewards were mildly enjoyable erotic pictures and large rewards were extremely enjoyable erotic pictures. ... The scientists measured people's choices and brain activity as they made these decisions.
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Cannabis users no less likely to be motivated or able to enjoy life’s …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cannabis-users-no-less-likely-to-be-motivated-or-able-to-enjoy-lifes-pleasure1 Sep 2022: A team led by scientists at UCL, the University of Cambridge and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London carried out a study examining whether cannabis users ... Dr Will Lawn, from the Institute of Psychiatry,
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Is there any such thing as the female brain? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/is-there-any-such-thing-as-the-female-brain22 Jun 2011: At Women’s Word - a festival of literature, debate and discussion taking place at Lucy Cavendish College this weekend – Melissa Hines, Professor of Social and Development Psychology at Cambridge University, will ... Studies of genetics, prenatal
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Cambridge researchers recognised by 2022 Academy of Medical Sciences…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-researchers-recognised-by-2022-academy-of-medical-sciences-fellowships11 May 2022: The new Cambridge Fellows are:. Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge. ... Images, including our videos, are Copyright University of Cambridge and licensors/contributors as identified.
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Scientists identify part of brain linked to gambling addiction |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-identify-part-of-brain-linked-to-gambling-addiction8 Apr 2014: Enter your email address, confirm you're happy to receive our emails and then select 'Subscribe'. ... We are committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about what information we hold.
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Opinion: Accurate science or accessible science in the media – why…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-accurate-science-or-accessible-science-in-the-media-why-not-both2 Jun 2016: As young scientists from four diverse fields (psychology, chemistry, physics and neuroscience), we’ve noticed that much writing about science, particularly on topics most relevant to the daily lives of readers, ... Joshua Conrad Jackson, Doctoral
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Royal Society announces new Fellows | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/royal-society-announces-new-fellows21 May 2010: The new Fellows are:. Professor Andrea Brand, Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology at the Gurdon Institute and the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience and a Fellow of Jesus College, ... Professor Nicola Clayton, Professor of
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Alzheimer’s test developed at Cambridge to be trialled by GPs |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/alzheimers-test-developed-at-cambridge-to-be-trialled-by-gps7 Sep 2011: The test will allow GPs to triage patients presenting memory problems quickly, simply and accurately. ... Enter your email address, confirm you're happy to receive our emails and then select 'Subscribe'.
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Marmoset study provides clues to link between mental health disorders …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/marmoset-study-provides-clues-to-link-between-mental-health-disorders-and-heart-disease8 May 2017: Research. Marmoset study provides clues to link between mental health disorders and heart disease.. ... In the vast majority of cases, this involves using mice, rats and zebrafish.
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Cambridge to explore benefits of multilingualism with new AHRC…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-to-explore-benefits-of-multilingualism-with-new-ahrc-research-project22 Mar 2016: form colleges to the BBC and government departments in the UK and abroad. ... literary studies to cognitive psychology and neuroscience.”.
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The OCD Brain: how animal research helps us understand a devastating…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-ocd-brain-how-animal-research-helps-us-understand-a-devastating-condition28 Mar 2017: In the films, Professor Trevor Robbins, Head of Psychology at Cambridge, introduces David to scientists who use a combination of studies to explore the inner workings of the brain. ... These include studies involving rats and marmosets (small monkeys),
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Imaging study shows dopamine dysfunction is not the main cause of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/imaging-study-shows-dopamine-dysfunction-is-not-the-main-cause-of-attention-deficit-hyperactivity28 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 ... Enter your email address, confirm you're
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Mindfulness can improve mental health and wellbeing – but unlikely to …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mindfulness-can-improve-mental-health-and-wellbeing-but-unlikely-to-work-for-everyone11 Jan 2021: Research. Mindfulness can improve mental health and wellbeing – but unlikely to work for everyone.. ... The techniques and frameworks taught in mindfulness have rich and diverse backgrounds, from early Buddhist psychology and meditation through to
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Artificial intelligence and rise of the machines: Cambridge Science…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/artificial-intelligence-and-rise-of-the-machines-cambridge-science-festival-201621 Jan 2016: The panel consists of experts from the fields of information technology, robotics and neuroscience, including Dr Hermann Hauser, Dr Mateja Jamnik, Professor Trevor Robbins and Professor Alan Winfield. ... The full programme also includes events on
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Out of mind, out of sight: suppressing unwanted memories reduces…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/out-of-mind-out-of-sight-suppressing-unwanted-memories-reduces-their-unconscious-influence-on18 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 ... the influence this process might have on
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What do drugs do to the brain? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/what-do-drugs-do-to-the-brain17 Mar 2011: The fact that drugs can produce mind-altering effects through chemical activity has been known for centuries,” explained Professor Robbins, who is Director of the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute and ... head of the Department of
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A new partnership in Cambridge to help build a more resilient and…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/a-new-partnership-in-cambridge-to-help-build-a-more-resilient-and-inclusive-global-economy20 Oct 2015: News. A new partnership in Cambridge to help build a more resilient and inclusive global economy.. ... The work of the Institute on economic policy issues will draw on Cambridge’s expertise in neuroscience and psychology as well as economics, finance
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Cambridge scientist shares world’s largest neuroscience prize for…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-scientist-shares-worlds-largest-neuroscience-prize-for-research-on-the-brains-reward6 Mar 2017: News. Cambridge scientist shares world’s largest neuroscience prize for research on the brain’s reward system.. ... statistics to swathes of results in psychology and neuroscience.
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Major new study into brain ageing | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/major-new-study-into-brain-ageing25 May 2010: Professor Lorraine Tyler. The funding has been awarded to a team from public health, clinical neurosciences and psychology at the University of Cambridge and scientists from the MRC Cognition and Brain ... The new team will be called the Cambridge Centre
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Spotlight on children | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/spotlight-on-children1 Nov 2018: We take a life course and multidisciplinary approach to the problem: from a child’s genes and clinical development in the womb, through the neuroscience and psychology of learning disorders, to ... men”. Professor Manuel Eisner (Institute of
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Annual address to the University, 1 October 2019 | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/vice-chancellor/speeches/annual-address-to-university-201930 May 2023: This was a landmark year for Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Assessment, the Faculty of Education and the Department of Psychology, who last autumn joined forces with UNICEF and Microsoft to develop ... An initiative linking together a network of -
Royal Society announces new Cambridge fellows | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/royal-society-announces-new-cambridge-fellows18 May 2007: Professor Barry John Everitt, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology. ... Professor Barry J Everitt received his first degree (Zoology and Psychology) from Hull University, his Ph.D. -
R E S E A R C H HORIZONS ...
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_4_research_horizons.pdf16 Jan 2023: Theresearch centre will host projects insoft matter and biological physics,biology and medicine. ... Professor Friedrich Lösel, Director ofthe Institute of Criminology and anexpert in forensic psychology, explainsthe significance of the -
Addiction treatment – genes can play a part | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/addiction-treatment-genes-can-play-a-part4 Jan 2011: Professor Barry Everitt and Dr Jonathan Lee of the MRC-Wellcome Behaviour and Clinical Neuroscience Institute have shown that they can selectively impair memories associated with drug addiction and PTSD by ... memory reconsolidation and thereby drugs
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University of Cambridge Research Horizons magazine Issue 29
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_29_research_horizons.pdf2 Feb 2016: Spotlight. Neuroscience. Feature Exoplanet hunting. Feature Soft solids and the science of cake. ... One research area that has been growing and diversifying is neuroscience – the Spotlight focus of this issue. -
R E S E A R C H HORIZONS ...
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_3_research_horizons.pdf22 May 2007: In this issue webring you the psychology ofgambling and who are Europe’shappiest people. ... Features 18–30The psychology of gambling 18Well dressed? 20In pursuit of happiness 22The palatial language of power 24In search of poppies and crocus: plant -
University of Cambridge Research Horizons Issue 5
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_5_research_horizons.pdf1 Feb 2008: Psychology andReligion Research Group (PRRG) in theFaculty of Divinity are combiningpsychological research and practice tolook at conflict in the church and howthis might be transformed. ... And now, a branch of neuroscience thatworks on quantitative -
Un iversity of C amb ridg eA nnual Report ...
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/cu_annual_report_2014.pdf4 Mar 2015: 4 University of Cambridge Annual Report 2014. Charting progress. Staff Equality and Diversity. ... The Departments of Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Pharmacology, Psychology, Zoology, and Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, -
Researchers get serious about kids’ stuff | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/researchers-get-serious-about-kids-stuff3 Feb 2010: by treating it as a social science with links to areas like education and psychology. ... The conference will aim to make use of recent research in neuroscience concerning teenagers' cognitive, psychological and emotional behaviour, which can enhance
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Ageing affects test-taking, not language, study shows | University of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ageing-affects-test-taking-not-language-study-shows12 May 2016: Karen Campbell. Scientists from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) scanned participants during testing and found that the areas of the brain responsible for language performed just as ... The Cambridge Centre for Ageing and
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Hallucinations linked to differences in brain structure | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/hallucinations-linked-to-differences-in-brain-structure17 Nov 2015: In a previous study, a team of researchers led by Dr Jon Simons from the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, found that variation in the length of the ... The research was primarily supported by the University of Cambridge
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Your brain might not be as ‘old’ as you think | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/your-brain-might-not-be-as-old-as-you-think9 Mar 2015: Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (CamCAN) project, has allowed us to probe the true nature of the effects of ageing on resting state fMRI signal amplitude. ... Dr Tsvetanov is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research
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Bridging the divide: philosophy meets science | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/bridging-the-divide-philosophy-meets-science12 Jul 2018: For three years, Daniel De Haan, Natalja Deng and Peter Woodford worked side-by-side with colleagues from the Department of Experimental Psychology, the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics ... We were an experiment for this.”. Dr
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Tackling COVID-19: Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/tackling-covid-19-professor-sarah-jayne-blakemore22 Oct 2020: I usually work in the University’s Department of Psychology on the Downing Site. ... Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.
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The emotional historian? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/the-emotional-historian28 Feb 2012: Traditionally, emotions are regarded as the domain of psychology and neuroscience. ... and the body increasingly opens up intellectual space for the discussion of emotions.
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Wiping memories to tackle alcoholism | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/wiping-memories-to-tackle-alcoholism12 Mar 2012: Researchers at the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, based in the Department of Experimental Psychology, are tackling the problem of pavlovian ‘cue-drug memory’ - when memories of the people, places and ... This means that the cue
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High impulsivity predicts the switch to compulsive cocaine-taking |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/high-impulsivity-predicts-the-switch-to-compulsive-cocaine-taking7 Jun 2008: The Cambridge research team, which included Professor Everitt, Drs David Belin, Adam Mar, Jeff Dalley and Professor Trevor Robbins working in the Departments of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry within the Behavioural ... and Clinical Neuroscience
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Marmoset study identifies brain region linking actions to their…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/marmoset-study-identifies-brain-region-linking-actions-to-their-outcomes24 Jun 2021: Professor Angela Roberts in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, joint senior author of the report. ... This research was conducted in the University of Cambridge’s Behavioural and Clinical
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Can old brains learn new tricks? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/can-old-brains-learn-new-tricks1 Sep 2007: In the Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain (CSLB) in the Department of Experimental Psychology, researchers are working to understand the relationship between neural ageing and cognitive ageing. ... Speech, Language and the Brain at the Department
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Young minds think alike – and older people are more distractible |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/young-minds-think-alike-and-older-people-are-more-distractible14 Aug 2015: To try to understand how we respond to complex, life-like stimuli, researchers at the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) showed 218 subjects aged 18-88 an edited ... Dr Karen Campbell from the Department of Psychology, first author on
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The educational neuroscience of dyslexia and dyscalculia | University …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-educational-neuroscience-of-dyslexia-and-dyscalculia1 Jan 2010: The Centre is directed by Professor Usha Goswami, with Dr Dénes Szucs as University Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience and Education. ... In November 2010, the Centre moved to the Department of Experimental Psychology in order to take advantage of on-site
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