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1 Apr 2007: In fact, the heritability of body weight and fat mass is very high, at 40–70%, based on studies in twins and adopted children. ... To date, the team have identified seven genes that, when defective, result in severe obesity in children.

10 Mar 2009: The participants will include Cambridge researchers Professor Barbara Sahakian from the Department of Psychiatry and Professor Usha Goswami from the Faculty of Education. ... behaviour and help children to face difficult challenges throughout their lives.

8 Jul 2020: Pencil drawing of Flamsteed House shows the Octagon Room with children playing with a dog on the lawn. ... One such is written by William Foster Norton Churchill who had worked in the Malayan Civil Service before interment.

26 Feb 2018: They discovered a set of genes linked to differences in the thickness of the cortex between autistic kids and non-autistic children. ... The study is published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry and provides the first evidence linking differences in the

22 Jun 2007: Curator of Insects, Dr William Foster, said: “We want to fire people's interest and concern about forest conservation, ecology and biodiversity using these fantastic images as a starting point. ... Children inspired by the photographs and animals on

19 Jul 2023: When children use screen-based tools, they often withdraw from the physical world,” says Nida. ... children – says developing robots that meet people’s expectations was what designers call a ‘wicked problem’.

28 Jul 2008: Sessions are targeted at children ranging from toddlers to teenagers. Members of the University who will be running ChYpPS events over the summer include Outreach Officers and volunteers from student societies. ... Sarah-Jane said: "It was tremendously

26 Jan 2017: Researchers surveyed 12 year old children from 77 families with one or more pets of any type and more than one child at home. ... Children reported strong relationships with their pets relative to their siblings, with lower levels of conflict and greater

3 Oct 2022: the achievements of the College’s Black community and foster connections between current students and alumni. ... Register for How Can We Educate Children About Anti-Racism? with Laura Henry Allain MBE.

29 Jul 2019: Molecular Psychiatry; 29 July 2019; DOI: 10.1038/s41380-019-0454-9.

9 Feb 2023: A conversation with Sir Keith Peters, the then Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge, steered me towards both neuropathology and psychiatry. ... I don't think it would have been possible if I had had children.

23 Nov 2007: The series was made available for free on DVD to families with autistic children. ... The Autism Research Centre is situated within the School of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry.

8 Nov 2018: Paul Ramchandani. Professors Claire Hughes and Paul Ramchandani have spent their adult lives studying children. ... environments.”. Such detailed, long-term studies could, she hopes, lead to simple and effective tools to help parents foster their

10 Aug 2023: It's a Championship which promises to shine a light on the skills, empowerment and camaraderie that competitive debating fosters. ... It was a good debate because it ended up being about whether or not villains should be humanised on television and how

24 Nov 2011: Each event is open to foster carers, school teachers, and members of local authority virtual schools. ... Khatija commented, “The level of foster carer involvement in these events has been phenomenal.

28 Dec 2012: As a result, said Falk, Spanish educational practices began moving away from passive learning with a master lecturing on his dais, towards flexible, small-group education with children learning from tactile ... I work to foster a mutually beneficial

12 Oct 2023: Search. Search. New milestone for specialist children’s hospital in the East of England. ... News. New milestone for specialist children’s hospital in the East of England..

22 Oct 2020: It is important to consider the developmental needs and wellbeing of children and adolescents in this pandemic. ... Psychiatry. My group has been planning a study on the effects of social isolation in adolescence since early 2019.

22 Feb 2022: The results of their research have been published in European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. ... European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; 17 Feb 2022; DOI: 10.1007/s00787-021-01934-z.

5 Jun 2017: Visitors, adults and children alike, will get the opportunity to take part in experiments across 30 different interactive exhibits and even build their own brain. ... The foyer of the Corn Exchange will be transformed by BRAINArt, an exhibition of

9 Feb 2017: They include the first Native American Gates Cambridge Scholar; the founder of the Alabama REACH programme for college students who are homeless, in foster care or wards of the state; and ... Caroline grew up in foster care and at the University of

15 Jan 2020: The team recruited an advisory panel of autistic mothers with whom they co-developed an anonymous, online survey. After matching, this was completed by 355

11 Apr 2024: Sofia Orellana, a PhD student at the Department of Psychiatry and Darwin College, University of Cambridge, said: “We’ve known for some time that people who experience abuse or neglect as ... Professor Ed Bullmore from the Department of Psychiatry,

22 Dec 2005: Cambridge Science Festival 2005. Daleks, Darth Vader and Dr Who characters were roaming the streets of Cambridge on the final day of this year's Cambridge Science Festival, while young children ... Mapping the brain. The Brain Mapping Unit of the

15 Mar 2012: Professor Barbara Sahakian, of the Department of Psychiatry and MRC/Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cambridge, and Dr Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute ... Novel approaches could include

16 Jun 2023: Over the past few weeks, the competition captured the attention and enthusiasm of a large number of Eddington school children, attracting well over 100 entries. ... The names suggested by these talented children were not only impressive but also

1 Sep 2022: Research. Robots can be used to assess children’s mental wellbeing, study suggests.. ... With colleagues in Cambridge’s Department of Psychiatry, Gunes and her team designed an experiment to see if robots could be a useful tool to assess mental

6 Dec 2012: I brought the girls to Cambridge because I believe that children should be encouraged to explore all avenues of learning,” Joan said. ... The Virtual School in Hackney supports Looked After Children to reach their individual full potential in education,

8 Jun 2015: It summed up how addiction, and the consequences of it, has not always been taken seriously as a disease by psychiatry,” she said. ... Dr Juliet Foster from the Department of Psychology discussing The Madness of a Seduced Woman by Susan Fromberg

13 Jun 2005: The Cambridge University Ireland Society was created in 2004 by a group of students who wished to foster a more supportive environment for those who have come from Ireland, both north ... The society’s aims are to foster awareness and appreciation of

10 Oct 2018: Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen from Cambridge’s Department of Psychiatry leads a project funded by MQ, called HOPES, and shares this vision: “Our brains undergo complex neural development during the ... The teenagers were scanned as part of the

10 Mar 2014: Realise could not happen without the support of foster carers and local authority education teams, who give up their time to accompany younger participants. ... I want to have as many of my looked-after children to access as many of the University of

26 May 2012: Is that truly the best way to foster the identities of future generations? ... It can foster civic virtues and contribute to forming responsible human beings and good citizens, regardless of the individual components of identity such as one’s

27 May 2022: These findings, published in Molecular Autism, have important implications for the healthcare and support of autistic individuals. Many studies indicate that

28 Sep 2017: The Student Critics’ Award will foster a new generation of readers alongside our exciting plans for writers of all ages.

24 Oct 2019: Psychiatry. “The links that we observed suggest that there are very real structural brain and cognitive differences in children who are obese. ... The findings contribute a small part towards our growing understanding of the causes and consequences of

8 Jan 2013: Foster carer Paul from Thetford said “It’s been a really enjoyable evening. ... It’s important to give children high expectations – they need to be encouraged.

21 Dec 2020: Samantha N Sallie, the study’s first author and a PhD student at the Department of Psychiatry, said: “While in countries such as Canada and the USA people drank less during ... On the other hand, having children may mitigate against loneliness that

14 Oct 2013: classics and Eliot’s classics were likely not David Foster Wallace’s, Shani Mootoo’s or Chinua Achebe’s classics – although there might be some interesting overlaps. ... My children (now grown up) would put the Bible in the classics section.

1 Oct 2019: That initiative will link together a network of researchers – from neuroscience and neurology to genetics and physics; from psychology and psychiatry to computer science and anthropology – to address widespread conditions such ... and Microsoft to

15 May 2013: The U-Change study is part of a larger programme called the Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network (NSPN), which has been funded by a £5.4 million Strategic Award from the Wellcome

17 Oct 2012: News. "Realise" praised by MPs in report into the education of looked after children.. ... These were attended by 390 children in care from 35 different local authorities.

31 Oct 2011: In an exciting collaboration between the University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry and the Imperial College London, Division of Surgery, it has recently been discovered that the ‘smart drug’ Modafinil improves ... As a society, we certainly

22 Oct 2015: PEDAL acting director Dr David Whitebread said: “Play opportunities for children living in modern urban environments are increasingly curtailed, within their homes, communities and schooling. ... The Foundation is dedicated to building a future where

14 Feb 2022: widely available, not least to the majority of children who never learn Latin.”. ... Other research also suggests younger readers can’t get enough of mythology,” Foster explained.

17 Jun 2010: The second student, who was brought up in East London and is reading history at Cambridge, went to ten different schools and experienced 25 foster placements. ... Ruth Broomhall, Excellence East Co-ordinator based in Bedford, and a teacher and foster

20 Dec 2013: Whether deliberate or not, our results show that children are not protected from online marketing of alcohol. ... The researchers tried to determine whether children and young adults could be exposed to these campaigns.

3 Sep 2019: The quality of a couple’s relationship is known to be related to developmental outcomes such as their behaviour and educational attainment in school-aged children, but has been little studied ... Finding time to talk to children is very important.

24 May 2019: The idea that the brain is a puppet master is often wrong,” says Fletcher, who is based at the Cambridge University Department of Psychiatry. ... He mentions experiments in the US on young children which show that the mere presence of a McDonald’s

16 Jul 2014: She focusses particularly on children with developmental disorders in memory, attention, language and learning, looking at the nature of the underlying cognitive deficits and what can be done to overcome them. ... Professor Francesca Happé, Professor of