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Could a videogame help promote mental wellbeing and reduce mental suffering? Go to www.slido.com and enter code 59066 to chat about the event. Paul Fletcher (Consultant Psychiatrist and Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) and Tameem Antoniades (Co-founder and Chief Creative Ninja, Ninja Theory) discuss the development of multi-BAFTA Award-winning videogame

This experimental film explores and separates language into the multiple sensory perspectives of sign, speech and gesture. With perspectives from research scientists in linguistics and neuroscience, alongside insights from deaf and blind contributors, we use the "language" of film to illustrate the fascinating ways in which communication shapes our lives. Researchers: Craig Pearson and Julio

Cambridge University has produced a series of films about five of this year’s Pilkington Prize winners. These films go behind the scenes to show Cambridge teaching in action as well as inviting winners to explain their passion for teaching and reveal some of their trade secrets. Dr Matthew Mason:University Physiologist. Matthew’s citation describes him as persistently striving to refine his

Cambridge research that will enable scientists to grow and study embryos in the lab for almost two weeks has been named as the People’s Choice for Science magazine’s ‘Breakthrough of the Year 2016’. Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz at the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience has developed a new technique that allows embryos to develop in vitro, in the absence of

The brain is made up of billions of nerve cells, or neurons, wired together in a highly complex and organised way. But how do they know where to go when the brain is developing? These remarkable time-lapse movies capture the journey of living neurons in the frog brain. Narrated by Professor Christine Holt, these movies show some of the discoveries of her research group in the Department of

The placenta is the interface between the mother and her baby, which means it is not only key to a successful pregnancy, it determines the future health of every one of us. In this film Professor Graham Burton discusses how the Trophoblast Centre was established to generate a fresh approach into placental research. The Centre focuses on common complications during pregnancy that have their roots

Dr Becky Inkster is a research associate in the Department of Psychiatry and a senior project manager for the Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network. Her public engagement work explores the intersection of art and science through the prism of mental health research. Dr Inkster has successfully collaborated with The Scarabeus Theatre in a performance called Depths of My Mind and founded the website

COVID-19 has disrupted the lives of everyone, including children and young people, beyond recognition. So much so, that the proportion of children aged six to 16 with probable mental health disorders has increased from one in nine in 2017 to one in six in both 2020 and 2021. In this episode, we talked with Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Tamsin Ford, Professor of Health Neuroscience

(Watch in 720p if possible) Here we can see the underside of mouse tail skin. Cambridge University's Under the Microscope is a collection of videos that show glimpses of the natural and man-made world in stunning close-up. Check out the rest of the series here: http://bit.ly/A6bwCE Claire Cox: "The epidermis, which is the outer layer of mammalian skin, is maintained by numerous stem cell

In this video from, we see a mouse embryo developing. Erica Watson, Cambridge University, tells us that studying this process helps us better understand human pregnancy. Under the Microscope is a collection of videos produced by Cambridge University that show glimpses of the natural and man-made world in stunning close-up. You can see the whole series here: http://bit.ly/A6bwCE Erica Watson: "The