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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

2 Jun 2016: Our behaviour is shaped by many pathways. Geert de Vries, director of the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State University, has another take on sex differences in the brain. ... Then why study sex differences at all? There are five times more studies

11 Apr 2019: For her undergraduate thesis in neuroscience and neurodegenerative disease, she is using mouse models to research the role of the protease, cathepsin K, in the choroid plexus, a network of cells

27 Jun 2003: The Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre (WBIC) has Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and 3T Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanning facilities with easy access to the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit (NCCU), making it

31 Oct 2014: It sounds like something from a 1950s’ B-movie: scientists growing brains in the lab. It brings to mind images of dimly lit, cobweb-filled rooms with brains

15 Nov 2018: Professor Usha Goswami from the Centre for Neuroscience in Education is working on a game that could help children with dyslexia, for example. ... The teenagers were scanned as part of the NeuroScience in Psychiatry Network (NSPN), set up in 2012 by

17 Aug 2005: The Year 11 students (aged 15-16) are sampling university-style teaching in subjects including neuroscience, maths, murder law and politics, as well as enjoying social and extracurricular activities such as

22 May 2024: In research published in Nature Mental Health, the team found that as many as one in two children with ADHD show signs of emotional dysregulation, and that

1 Oct 2020: She says: “The Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute at Cambridge is a fantastic place to be forged into a scientist.

18 Mar 2010: How the brain is able to learn to generate such skillful movement is one of the most intriguing questions in neuroscience and, Professor Wolpert believes, its most profound. ... The event is part of the 22nd Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar and the

20 Sep 2023: Researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit trained 120 volunteers worldwide to suppress thoughts about negative events

7 Oct 2021: By Charis Goodyear. Impact at a glance. The ‘Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery’ (CANTAB) was invented to bridge a translational gap between basic neuroscience and classical neuropsychological assessment. ... She collaborated with

24 May 2017: Research links between the University of Cambridge and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) were deepened following the award of the inaugural CUHK Autism Research Fellowship in Neuroscience to Cambridge ... Prof Patrick Leung, Chair of CUHK’s

16 Feb 2024: The work, published in Nature, provides insights into cancer progression and neurodegenerative diseases as well as a potential therapeutic avenue in the form

17 May 2023: Dr Critchlow, who has become a bestselling author, broadcaster and neuroscience presenter since appearing at Hay, is a Hay regular, attracting large audiences for her talks on developments in neuroscience.

9 Feb 2007: BioMed Central, the world's largest publisher of peer-reviewed, open access research journals, have announced the winners of the first BioMed Central Research

22 Aug 2023: The Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan, has appointed Professor Patrick Chinnery as the next Executive Chair of the

10 Feb 2023: Two of the country’s leading thinkers in this area Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Tamsin Ford examine some potential

12 Jun 2007: Denis Burdakov of the University of Cambridge, who led the study, said: “Orexin neurons are among the most exciting discoveries in neuroscience since their activity has such striking effects on wakefulness

18 Oct 2023: Be a bit foolhardy. Be persistent. Christine Holt is Emerita Professor of Developmental Neuroscience in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College.

28 Jun 2023: With others, members of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences have been closely involved in discovery of the vast majority of gene variants that increase susceptibility.

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

27 Sep 2023: The research team, led by the University of Cambridge, presented an approach to identify therapeutic targets for human diseases associated with a phenomenon

24 May 2021: It has recently issued a call for more ideas for collaboration between researchers and industry, in a wide range of disease areas including cancer, neuroscience and infectious diseases.

6 Aug 2009: of educational neuroscience”.

1 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

27 Jan 2010: Professor O’Doherty, who is Thomas Mitchell Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Trinity College, Dublin, will bring to life evidence from contemporary research about how the brain encodes basic computational signals.

10 Jun 2015: These animals are really smart,” explains Morton, who leads a team in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

25 Aug 2022: Development and Stem Cell Biology in Cambridge’s Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, adding:.

6 Mar 2009: The title of Professor Rothwell’s talk is ‘Advice from a not so young scientist’ and she will be talking about her life in neuroscience. ... She has recently served as president of the British Neuroscience Association, a council member of MRC,

3 Feb 2021: Advances in neuroscience and bioengineering could lead to new beneficial drugs and “nootropic” cognitive enhancers, but also new weapons.

12 Feb 2014: This is the first time that stiffness of implant materials has been shown to be involved in foreign body reactions. The findings – published in the journal

2 Dec 2005: Dana alliance for the Brain (EDAB) and Yvonne Allen - Executive Secretary of The British Neuroscience Association. ... The field of brain science (neuroscience) is one of the most rapidly growing areas in science.

3 Sep 2010: A three-day conference from September 3-5 will make connections between recent neuroscience research and the representation of the adolescent in literature, film, computer games and social networking sites. ... fiction. "Research is going on not just

14 Mar 2006: Danielle Turner is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Psychiatry, and works within the University of Cambridge Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute.

24 Oct 2019: My research explores the neurophysiological bases of cognitive and emotional resilience in children growing up in poverty. It’s part of a large project in our

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..

15 Feb 2015: The Center resides in the Department of Zoology, and was funded by the School of the Biological Sciences, the Departments of Zoology and Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, and the PAVE Research

9 Sep 2010: The prize, often recognised as one of the most prestigious in the field of neuroscience, is given annually on behalf of the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation by the Max Planck Society for

19 Nov 2014: When a group of experimental psychologists moved into their new lab space in Cambridge earlier this year, they took a somewhat unconventional approach to

10 Mar 2023: Zlatic led the research together with Professor Albert Cardona at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience and the MRC LMB, and Dr Michael Winding at the ... This is an exciting and significant body of work

26 Jun 2019: Dr Cecilia Brassett, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. As the University Clinical Anatomist, Dr Brassett has pioneered the innovative use of technology to supplement traditional dissection demonstrations in the teaching

2 Feb 2015: The circumstances in which a protein closely associated with Parkinson’s Disease begins to malfunction and aggregate in the brain have been pinpointed in a

15 Jan 2019: Prof Mary Fowler. This year's series opens on Friday 18 Jan with a talk from Professor Paul Fletcher from Cambridge Neuroscience and the Department of Psychiatry.

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

25 Oct 2010: During his Professorship, Fabián Michelangeli will have links with the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, and with Robinson College.

10 Jan 2012: Today, Tuesday 10 January, researchers at the University of Cambridge launch what could be the world’s biggest ever memory experiment. Yasemin Yazar, Dr Zara

22 Sep 2014: Nine of the British Academy's new Fellows will also be presenting their research, including Usha Goswami, professor of cognitive developmental neuroscience, Professor Gareth Stedman Jones, director of the Centre for

18 Dec 2017: While the prevalence of anxiety and depression among first year undergraduates is lower than the general population, it increases to overtake this during their

1 Jun 2015: Listen to Nathan’s audio blog below. Noel, who interviewed engineer Dr David Franklin about the role that neuroscience has to play in robotics, said. ... Listen to Noel’s audio blog below. Dr Hannah Critchlow, who develops and runs public