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21 Jan 2019: A team from the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cambridge has developed and tested ‘Decoder’, a new game that is aimed at helping users improve their attention

25 Jan 2019: Discoveries leading to new treatments for dementia (18 March). Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and Associate Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute, Giovanna Mallucci discusses how new research leading to insights

12 Apr 2019: The study’s lead author, Dr Fabian Grabenhorst from the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, says: “We started out looking for neurons that might be involved in social learning.

24 May 2019: For Professor Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, the answer lies in understanding that our decision-making processes are not entirely rational, or even ... Professor Fletcher will be speaking

21 Feb 2019: The Principal Investigator for RESCUE-RACER is Professor Peter Hutchinson from Cambridge’s Department of Clinical Neurosciences, and a neurosurgeon at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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

14 Mar 2019: A report published today by the Centre for Neuroscience in Education at the University of Cambridge explores the nature and resolution of so-called ‘mathematics anxiety’.

29 Jul 2019: The discovery adds further evidence to support the prenatal sex steroid theory of autism first proposed 20 years ago. In 2015, a team of scientists at the

3 Sep 2019: It is well known that having a child can put a strain on the parents’ relationship, but whether this then has an impact on the child’s own development in its

22 Jan 2019: The study, led by Professor Dino Giussani from the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience and published today in the journal PLOS Biology, used pregnant sheep to show that maternal treatment

19 Mar 2019: While inflammation is a natural response necessary to fight off infection, chronic inflammation – which may result from psychological stress as well as

5 Jul 2019: These negative life experiences could partially explain higher rates of anxiety and depression symptoms and lower life satisfaction in autistic adults compared

1 Jul 2019: Now, in a series of experiments reported in the Journal of Neuroscience, neuroscientists and psychologists in the UK and Germany have identified mechanisms within the brain that they say help explain ... Journal of Neuroscience; 1 July 2019; DOI:

24 May 2019: In collaboration with Professor Neil Burgess at UCL, a team of scientists at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge led by Dr Dennis Chan, previously Professor

7 Mar 2019: OCD is characterised by unwanted intrusive thoughts and repetitive rituals and causes pronounced impairment in everyday life. In very severe cases, OCD

6 Aug 2019: The team of researchers – from the Universities of Cambridge, Birmingham, New York and Leiden – say their findings highlight a pressing need for greater

14 Aug 2019: The results, published today in Nature, have far-reaching implications for how we understand the ageing process, and how we might develop much-needed

14 Jan 2019: Depression is now the leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting more than 300 million people. The condition often first emerges in adolescence, a

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

1 Jul 2019: life,” says Dr Santangelo from the Department of the Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge.