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Brain waves could help predict how we respond to general anaesthetics …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/brain-waves-could-help-predict-how-we-respond-to-general-anaesthetics14 Jan 2016: from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge. ... During the event, ‘Brain, body and mind: new directions in the neuroscience and philosophy of consciousness’, he will be examining what it means to be conscious.
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Placenta plays pivotal “umpire” role to influence pregnancy outcomes…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/placenta-plays-pivotal-umpire-role-to-influence-pregnancy-outcomes12 Sep 2016: of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience examining the relationship between the placenta and pregnancy complications.
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Graphene shown to safely interact with neurons in the brain |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/graphene-shown-to-safely-interact-with-neurons-in-the-brain29 Jan 2016: Researchers have successfully demonstrated how it is possible to interface graphene – a two-dimensional form of carbon – with neurons, or nerve cells, while
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Cocaine addiction: Scientists discover ‘back door’ into the brain |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cocaine-addiction-scientists-discover-back-door-into-the-brain12 Jan 2016: A second study from the team suggests that a drug used to treat paracetamol overdose may be able to help individuals who want to break their addiction and stop
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Professorships | Human Resources
https://www.hr.admin.cam.ac.uk/professorships26 Sep 2016: Professorships and other Senior Appointments Professorship of European Law. Closing date: 12 June 2024. Apply here Professorship of the Public Understanding of Mathematics. Closing date: 8 July 2024. Apply here. Professorship of -
The Academy of Medical Sciences announces new Fellows for 2016 |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-academy-of-medical-sciences-announces-new-fellows-for-201628 Apr 2016: This year's elected Fellows have expertise that includes paediatrics, genetics, neuroscience and oncology. ... Professor David Owen – Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. Professor Angela Roberts – Department of Physiology, Development and
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Dr Thomas Cope | Murray Edwards College - University of Cambridge
https://www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/fellows/dr-thomas-cope31 Mar 2016: 01223 760697. Murray Edwards College. Cambridge. CB3 0DF. Fellow in Neuroscience; Director of Studies. ... The Beat to Read: A Cross-Lingual Link between Rhythmic Regularity Perception and Reading Skill." Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
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Killer flies: how brain size affects hunting strategy in the insect…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/killer-flies-how-brain-size-affects-hunting-strategy-in-the-insect-world9 Feb 2016: Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido. As in economics, there is a law of diminishing returns in neuroscience – doubling the investment going in doesn’t equal double the performance coming out. ... Or is it because they’re actually optimised for their particular
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Old before your time: Study suggests that ageing begins in the womb | …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/old-before-your-time-study-suggests-that-ageing-begins-in-the-womb1 Mar 2016: Professor Dino Giussani from the Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, the study’s senior author, says: “Our study in rats suggests that the ageing clock begins
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Christine Holt awarded €1 million prize for research on connection…
https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/awards/christine-holt-awarded-eu1-million-prize-for-research-on-connection-between-eye-and-brain8 Sep 2016: Prof Christine Holt from the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience has received the 2016 Antonio Champalimaud Vision Award, the largest in the world in the field of vision
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Early-stage embryos with abnormalities may still develop into healthy …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/early-stage-embryos-with-abnormalities-may-still-develop-into-healthy-babies29 Mar 2016: This is the question we wanted to answer. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz. Researchers at the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at Cambridge report a mouse model of aneuploidy, where some cells
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Does your empathy predict if you would stop and help an injured…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/does-your-empathy-predict-if-you-would-stop-and-help-an-injured-person31 Oct 2016: The results of their preliminary study, dubbed “The Trumpington Road Study” and published in the journal Social Neuroscience, suggest that this theory is correct. ... Social Neuroscience; 19 Oct 2016; DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2016.1249944.
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Scientists develop human embryos beyond implantation stage for first…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-develop-human-embryos-beyond-implantation-stage-for-first-time4 May 2016: Once an egg has been fertilised by a sperm, it divides several times to generate a small, free-floating ball of stem cells. Around day three, these stem cells
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Women and people under the age of 35 at greatest risk of anxiety |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/women-and-people-under-the-age-of-35-at-greatest-risk-of-anxiety6 Jun 2016: The review, published today in the journal Brain and Behavior, also highlighted how anxiety disorders often provide a double burden on people experiencing
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Brains of overweight people ‘ten years older’ than lean counterparts…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/brains-of-overweight-people-ten-years-older-than-lean-counterparts-at-middle-age4 Aug 2016: The team studied data from 473 individuals between the ages of 20 and 87, recruited by the Cambridge Centre for Aging and Neuroscience. ... The research was supported by the Bernard Wolfe Health Neuroscience Fund, the Wellcome Trust and the Biotechnology
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‘Gut feelings’ help make more successful financial traders |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gut-feelings-help-make-more-successful-financial-traders19 Sep 2016: says Dr John Coates, a former research fellow in neuroscience and finance at the University of Cambridge, who also used to run a trading desk on Wall Street.
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Highway to addiction: how drugs and alcohol can hijack your brain |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/highway-to-addiction-how-drugs-and-alcohol-can-hijack-your-brain25 Feb 2016: There is a road down which those with substance addiction travel. Its beginnings are influenced by circumstances and genetics; it becomes well trodden,
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What birds' attitudes to litter tell us about their ability to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/what-birds-attitudes-to-litter-tell-us-about-their-ability-to-adapt31 May 2016: The study led by Gates Cambridge Scholar Alison Greggor and published in the journal Animal Behaviour, shows that corvids - the family of birds which includes
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Parkinson’s Disease protein plays vital “marshalling” role in healthy …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/parkinsons-disease-protein-plays-vital-marshalling-role-in-healthy-brains19 Sep 2016: Researchers have established how a protein called alpha-synuclein, which is closely associated with Parkinson’s Disease, functions in healthy human brains. By
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Researchers identify when Parkinson’s proteins become toxic to brain…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/researchers-identify-when-parkinsons-proteins-become-toxic-to-brain-cells14 Mar 2016: Researchers have used a non-invasive method of observing how the process leading to Parkinson’s disease takes place at the nanoscale, and identified the point
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Cause of phantom limb pain in amputees, and potential treatment,…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cause-of-phantom-limb-pain-in-amputees-and-potential-treatment-identified27 Oct 2016: Researchers have discovered that a ‘reorganisation’ of the wiring of the brain is the underlying cause of phantom limb pain, which occurs in the vast majority
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Teenagers could see long-term benefits from new treatments for…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/teenagers-could-see-long-term-benefits-from-new-treatments-for-depression1 Dec 2016: Depression affects around one in twenty adolescents, causing considerable suffering and potentially affecting relationships and educational performance.
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Self-renewable killer cells could be key to making cancer…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/self-renewable-killer-cells-could-be-key-to-making-cancer-immunotherapy-work26 Oct 2016: of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.
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Chicken korma, Eton mess and a genetic variant provide clues to our…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/chicken-korma-eton-mess-and-a-genetic-variant-provide-clues-to-our-food-choices4 Oct 2016: The research was supported by the Wellcome Trust, the National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, the Bernard Wolfe Health Neuroscience Fund and the European Research Council, as well
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Gene signature in healthy brains pinpoints the origins of Alzheimer’s …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gene-signature-in-healthy-brains-pinpoints-the-origins-of-alzheimers-disease10 Aug 2016: Researchers have discovered a gene signature in healthy brains that echoes the pattern in which Alzheimer’s disease spreads through the brain much later in
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Anti-inflammatory drugs could help treat symptoms of depression,…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/anti-inflammatory-drugs-could-help-treat-symptoms-of-depression-study-suggests18 Oct 2016: Researchers from the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge led a team that analysed data from 20 clinical trials involving the use of anti-cytokine drugs to
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Researchers identify ‘neurostatin’ that may reduce the risk of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/researchers-identify-neurostatin-that-may-reduce-the-risk-of-alzheimers-disease12 Feb 2016: Researchers have identified a drug that targets the first step in the toxic chain reaction leading to the death of brain cells, suggesting that treatments
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Overweight individuals more likely to make unhealthier choices when…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/overweight-individuals-more-likely-to-make-unhealthier-choices-when-faced-with-real-food14 Apr 2016: The research was funded by the Bernard Wolfe Health Neuroscience Fund, the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council.
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Fruit fly model of deadly brain diseases could lead to blood test for …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fruit-fly-model-of-deadly-brain-diseases-could-lead-to-blood-test-for-vcjd13 Oct 2016: Currently, methods to detect vCJD-infected human blood samples that involve experimental animals, such as mice, are time consuming and expensive. This new test
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Embryo development: Some cells are more equal than others even at…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/embryo-development-some-cells-are-more-equal-than-others-even-at-four-cell-stage24 Mar 2016: from the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge.
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Support from family and friends important to help prevent depression…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/support-from-family-and-friends-important-to-help-prevent-depression-in-teenagers20 May 2016: Adolescence is a key time in an individual’s development, and is a period where some teenagers begin to show signs of major depression. One of the major risk
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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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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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Cambridge study named as People’s Choice for Science magazine’s…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-study-named-as-peoples-choice-for-science-magazines-breakthrough-of-the-year-201622 Dec 2016: Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz. The work, led by Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz from the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, was the focus of parallel publications earlier
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‘Map’ of teenage brain provides strong evidence of link between…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/map-of-teenage-brain-provides-strong-evidence-of-link-between-serious-antisocial-behaviour-and-brain16 Jun 2016: know is important for emotional behaviour,” explains Dr Luca Passamonti from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge.
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Max Perutz Lecture to be given by Ron Vale - MRC Laboratory of…
https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/max-perutz-lecture-given-ron-vale/26 May 2016: Ron received his BS degree in biology and chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara and his PhD in neuroscience from Stanford University.
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CHAPTER VII : DEGREES, DIPLOMAS, AND OTHER QUALIFICATIONS - MASTER …
https://www.reporter.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/2016/chapter07-section13.html29 Sep 2016: Basic and Translational Neuroscience. 1. The scheme of examination for the one-year course of study in Basic and Translational Neuroscience for the degree of Master of Philosophy shall consist of:. -
Patients show considerable improvements after treatment for…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/patients-show-considerable-improvements-after-treatment-for-newly-defined-movement-disorder19 Dec 2016: A team of researchers from UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University of Cambridge and the NIHR Rare Disease Bioresource have identified
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Opening the skull of patients after head injury reduces risk of death …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/opening-the-skull-of-patients-after-head-injury-reduces-risk-of-death-from-brain-swelling8 Sep 2016: A team led by researchers at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, and based at Addenbrooke's Hospital, recruited over 400 traumatic brain injury patients over a ten-year ... 4%). Peter Hutchinson, Professor of Neurosurgery
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Opinion: How LSD helped us probe what the ‘sense of self’ looks like…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-how-lsd-helped-us-probe-what-the-sense-of-self-looks-like-in-the-brain14 Apr 2016: lost. Nicolas Crossley, Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Psychosis Studies, King's College London and Ed Bullmore, Professor of Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience , University of Cambridge.
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Changes in brain structure during teenage years provide clues to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/changes-in-brain-structure-during-teenage-years-provide-clues-to-onset-of-mental-health-problems25 Jul 2016: The study was funded by a Strategic Award from the Wellcome Trust to the Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network (NSPN) Consortium. ... Dr Raliza Stoyanova in the Neuroscience and Mental Health team at Wellcome, which funded the study, comments: “A number
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New imaging technique measures toxicity of proteins associated with…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-imaging-technique-measures-toxicity-of-proteins-associated-with-alzheimers-and-parkinsons23 Nov 2016: Researchers have developed a new imaging technique that makes it possible to study why proteins associated with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases may go
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NBLAST – a new online tool to compare neurons - MRC Laboratory of…
https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/nblast-new-online-tool-compare-neurons/20 Jul 2016: Neuroscience is seeing a period of major growth in the structural characterisation of neurons.
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Cambridge extends world leading role for medical imaging with…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-extends-world-leading-role-for-medical-imaging-with-powerful-new-brain-and-body-scanners24 Oct 2016: Professor Ed Bullmore, Co-Chair of Cambridge Neuroscience and Scientific Director of the WBIC, says: “This is an exciting day for us as these new scanners will hopefully provide answers to ... questions that we have been asking for some time, as well
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10th anniversary story: Campath – Cambridge Enterprise
https://www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk/10th-anniversary-storycampath/1 Jun 2016: As Professor Alastair Compston (Professor Emeritus of Neurology and Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge) explains, “We began to wonder whether we could help patients
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Facebook updates could provide a window to understanding – and…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/facebook-updates-could-provide-a-window-to-understanding-and-treating-mental-health-disorders28 Oct 2016: Over a billion people worldwide use Facebook daily – one in seven of the global population – and social media use is increasing at three times the rate of
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Matthew Mason: publication abstract
https://research.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/mason_ma/M2016_Internallycoupled.html14 Nov 2016: Dr. Matthew Mason: Further Information. University Physiologist Tel: 44 (0)1223 333829, Fax: 44 (0)1223 333840, E-mail: mjm68@cam.ac.uk. Mason, M.J. (2016) Internally coupled ears in living mammals. Biological Cybernetics 110: 345-358. Many -
Does nature make you happy? Crowdsourcing app looks at relationship…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/does-nature-make-you-happy-crowdsourcing-app-looks-at-relationship-between-the-outdoors-and26 Apr 2016: NatureBuzz, which is available to download free on iOS and Android platforms, asks participants three times per day to answer questions about how they feel,
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Hard Brexiter or ardent Remainer? Psychologists aim to find out what…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/hard-brexiter-or-ardent-remainer-psychologists-aim-to-find-out-what-drives-our-political-ideologies1 Dec 2016: Now, researchers from the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge have launched an online survey looking at the relationship between political
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CHAPTER XI: UNIVERSITY OFFICES AND GRANTS OF TITLE
https://www.reporter.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/2016/chapter11-front.html26 Sep 2016: Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge. Preceding: Chapter X. Following:CHAPTER XI. pp. 657–742. UNIVERSITY OFFICES AND GRANTS OF TITLE. Section 1. Section 2. Section 3. Revised edition 2016. The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of
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