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• Dr Rosemary Abbott
  I am currently researching the life-course antecedents of positive functioning using data from the 1946 British birth cohort study. I am also involved in research on the Cambridge City over 75 cohort (CC75C) where I have used Item Response Theory...
• Dr Sanja Abbott
  My main interests are in the development of neuropsychological paradigms for fMRI and new fMRI analysis methods and applications.
• Miranda L. Abild
  Generally, I study the psychology of human sexuality and gender. I am particularly interested in sexual differentiation, the etiology of sexual orientation, and disorders of sexual development. My current research examines the influence of prenata...
• Dr Julio Acosta-Cabronero
  In developing novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods of acquisition and analysis to elucidate the mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration in very early dementia.
• Dr Richard Adams
  My group is interested in the mechanisms of morphogenesis that shape the early central nervous system. Using zebrafish as a developmental model, we image the movements of many hundreds of cells using time-lapse micoscopy. Applying methods of image...
• Mr Dwaipayan Adhya
  Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder. Studies have shown that it affects more males than females. Prenatal exposure to sex steroids, especially, testosterone have been shown to be related to development of autism. Epigenetic changes hav...
• Dr Fardad Afshari
  I am interested in studying astrocyte biology in the context of gliosis following CNS injury and tumour cell invasion.
• Dr Michalis Agathocleous
  I am interested in the mechanisms of cell and tissue growth. We previously investigated developmental signals that regulate retinal growth, and found that Hedgehog signaling causes retinal cells to proliferate faster, but then to exit the cell cyc...
• Dr Franklin Aigbirhio
  Research in the development and application of molecular imaging probes, in particular for the in vivo imaging technique of positron emission tomography. Objectives are to design, develop and apply imaging probes that are specific and selective to...
• Dr Mike Aitken
  My research interests include human associative learning, and the role of this learning in intuitive and reflective decision-making systems. Much of my research has involved causal and categorical judgments, with more recent work looking at mechan...
• Dr Josef Alawneh
  I am a PhD student in the stroke team. I am interested in neurological deterioration following stroke and the correlation between neurological scores and neuroimaging findings. I will be using CT, CT perfusion imaging, MRI and PET in my studies. M...
• Dr José Ignacio Alcántara
  I am a founding member of the Laboratory for Autism Research (LaRA) and co-investigator in the Laboratory of Auditory Perception. My research interests include the mechanisms underlying the psychoacoustic abilities of normal and hearing-impaired ...
• Dr Sian Alexander DPhil MRCP
  My research interest is in cognition and acquired disorders of cognition – memory, language and behaviour. During my DPhil (http://oxion.dpag.ox.ac.uk/) with Angela Vincent and Ole Paulsen, I investigated the aetiology of acquired memory deficit...
• Aaron Alexander-Bloch
  Network analysis of neuroimaging data, focusing on neuropsychiatric disease and typical brain development.
• Dr Clara Alfaro Cervelló
  I am investigating novel nanotherapeutics for gene silencing in spinal cord injuries.
• Dr Xana Almeida
  During neural development the proper number of each specific cell type must be generated at the correct time and place. Thus, a precise balance between cell division, cell survival, cell cycle exit and differentiation must be achieved. However, th...
• Dr Johan Alsiö
  My main research interest is the cognitive control over behaviour in health and disease. I am currently studying the neurobiological basis of cognitive flexibility in the intact brain and in preclinical models of schizophrenia.
• Ellemarije Altena PhD
  My main interest focuses on how executive functions are affected by disease and treatment, in particular in Parkinson's disease and sleep disorders. Through functional MRI, paper-and-pencil and computer-based executive tests, I currently investiga...
• Joao Nuno Alves
  Chondroitinase is a promising candidate for the treatment of human spinal cord injury (SCI). It is a bacterial enzyme that cleaves glycosaminoglycan (GAG) chains from chondroitin sulphate proteoglycans, which present a major barrier to nerve regen...
• Jamie Anderson BSc (Hons) MA (Urban Design)
  The PhD seeks to investigate the influence of outdoor neighbourhood spaces on positive mental health. It is proposed that a variety of outdoor space typologies i.e. allotments, children's play, cemeteries, piazzas, amenity green space, natural gre...
• Dr Jane M Anderson
  Axonal loss is the principal pathological correlate of progressive irreversible disability in multiple sclerosis. The underlying pathophysiology of axonal loss however remains to be defined. Against this backdrop, my research focuses on exploring ...
• Dr Michael Anderson
  Dr. Anderson focuses on fundamental mechanisms of memory, attention, and cognitive control, and their interaction. A central observation is that memory, like other aspects of cognition and behaviour, poses problems of control. Dr. Anderson uses ...
• Dr Therese Andersson
  The development of the neocortex is controlled at several levels; e.g secreted factors like FGF8, transcription factors like Pax 6 as well as non-coding RNAs such as miRNAs miR124. I’ve primarily been exploring the role of Dicer and miRNAs in neur...
• Dr Melissa Andrews
  My research focuses on assessing the localization and transport of ectopically expressed integrins in adult CNS, in order to better target integrins to sites of injury for therapeutic treatment. We have shown that enhancing the regeneration of do...
• Dr Oleg Anichtchik
  I am trying to answer the question whether an aggregation of neurodegeneration-related proteins such as alpha-synuclein causes synaptic dysfunction in animal models of alpha-synucleinopathies and in the human brain.
• Tiina Annus
  I am working with Prof Tony Holland and Dr Shahid Zaman on a case-controlled, longitudinal project investigating the role of brain fibrillar beta-amyloid in cognition, brain atrophy and Alzheimer's disease in adults with Down Syndrome, using 11C...
• Dr Richard Ansorge
  My current interests include hardware and software development for various medical imaging modalities, especially PET and MRI. This work is done in close collaboration with the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre. One particular current project is the d...
• Chrystalina Antoniades
  My work focuses on developing biomarkers for the disorders of Parkinson's and Huntington's. I am using two different approches: saccadic eye movements and metabonomics.
• Dr Annemieke Apergis-Schoute
  I study how humans acquire emotions, in particular fear, and most importantly how to extinguish negative memories or how to have control over negative states. I did my PhD at New York University where I studied with Professor Joseph LeDoux & Profe...
• Dr John Apergis-Schoute
  The psychological link between appetite and emotions is clear. Often enough food consumption is powerfully influenced by emotional cues that are unrelated to energy requirements. As the amygdala and hypothalamus, two neural regions that code for a...
• Mr Robert Arnold
  I work with patients symptomatic of dementia and control subjects in studies based on neuroimaging and cognitive tests. I deal with applications for ethics and other approvals, participant consent, appointments, and administration of neuropsychol...
• Dr Mercedes Arroyo
  BCNI administrator
• Dr Jason Arsenault
  I am currently using high throughput methods for developing cell specific targeting domains. To this end we use the botulinum enzyme, that cleaves intracellular SNARE proteins, and modulate its receptor binding domain to include neuropeptide, cyto...
• Mr Tom Ash
  My primary project is development of a real time fMRI based communication system for minimally conscious patients - using only their brain states to communicate. To do this, I use statistical classifiers. I have also been applying classifiers to...
• Dr Duncan Astle
  My research uses EEG and MEG with children and adults to explore the neural and cognitive mechanisms of top-down attentional control. In particular, I am interested in how these control mechanisms interact with our ability to store information in ...
• Juliet Aungier
  Research in the Morton lab is focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration and on developing strategies to delay or prevent the death of neurones in injured or degenerating brain, particularly in Huntington's disease (HD). ...
• Dr Topun Austin
  Brain injury in the newborn is a major cause of death and lifelong neurodisability placing an enormous burden on patients, their families and wider society. My research interests are in the development of systems to identify vulnerable infants at...
• Dr Bonnie Auyeung CPsychol
  Bonnie Auyeung is a researcher at the University's Autism Research Centre, where her primary research examines the effects of prenatal hormones on psychological and neural postnatal development.
• Miss Elisabetta Babetto
  My area of interest includes the study of axonal degeneration in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. I am also investigating molecular and cellular mechanisms of Wallerian degeneration blocka...
• Dr Michelle Baddeley
  Current research focuses on blending economic theories about herding and social learning with psychological and neuroscientific evidence. Results so far have indicated that herding in financial decision making reflects an interaction of cognitive...
• Mr Raymundo Baez Mendoza
  My research interest is in reward neurophysiology.
• Dr David Baguley
  Tinnitus remains a clinical enigma. My research considers mechanisms of tinnitus, and optimising interventions for troublesome tinnitus in the clinical population. I am based within the Departments of Audiology and Otolaryngolgy at Addenbrooke's ...
• Dr Sabine Bahn
  We are conducting an extensive research programme to define the molecular basis of schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder. The internationally recognised scientific team has received the second largest award ever from the Stanley Medical Res...
• Dr Clare Baker
  We are investigating a broad range of questions relating to the development of neurogenic placodes and the neural crest, two embryonic cell populations in vertebrates that together build the entire peripheral nervous system. Neural crest cells als...
• Dr Dean Baker
  A major advantage of using Drosophila as a model organism is in genetic screens that investigate the underlying molecular components of biology. Where these mechanisms are conserved through evolutionary time, the underlying principles common to ot...
• Dr Kate Baker
  Genomic technology is now enabling the identification of many novel causes of neurodevelopmental disorder. This provides a new starting point for understanding the relationships between specific genetic mutation, neuronal function, brain developm...
• Dr Sara Baker
  I am interested in the role of pre-frontal functions (i.e., impulse control) in the formation and expression of beliefs especially during early childhood. I use behavioral and physiological measures (eye-tracking) to examine how children learn to...
• Dr Matthew Banton
  Using molecular and cellular techniques including confocal microscopy I am investigating how certain genes play a role in obesity through changes in appetite and metabolism.
• Mr Andrea Bari
  My research focuses on the neuroanatomical and neurochemical basis of behavioural inhibition and decision making.
• Dr Roger Barker
  I work on: Clinical aspects of Parkinson's and Huntington's disease including the study of disease heterogeneity using cognitive testing, functional imaging and genetic biomarkers. Examining the value of different biomarkers to assess disease onse...
• Horace Barlow
  I measure human visual performance using tasks for which the necessary computations are likely to be performed in primary visual cortex. These measurements point to conclusions about the computational goals of early vision and how well these goal...
• Rebecca Barlow
  My research has focused on the development of a spatial discrimination reversal-learning paradigm in rodents, which could be used to elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying the various components of reversal-learning. Specifically, I am interes...
• Professor Eric Barnard
  We earlier cloned the first GABA-A receptor subunits, the basis of the CNS major inhibitory pathways.We found these vary by their use of different GABA-A subtypes , by combinations drawn from 19 subunits.We have recently analysed their 19 ge...
• Dr Philip Barnard
  My programme of work focuses mainly on Executive Control and Emotional Meanings in Cognitive and Neural systems. Current work is organised under four project headings: [a] Core Theoretical work on Interacting Cognitive Subsystems - a macro-theory...
• Dr Jennifer Barnett
  I'm a psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist with some training in genetics and epidemiology. I’m interested in how genetic and environmental factors affect cognitive functions and mental health throughout life. This includes the development of...
• Professor Jean-Claude Baron
  My research focuses on the pathophysiology of ischaemic stroke and the mechanisms underlying subsequent deterioration or recovery, including neuronal damage, tissue inflammation and long-term plasticity processes. In terms of methodology, my appro...
• Professor Simon Baron-Cohen
  The Autism Research Centre (ARC), of which I am Director, has 6 programs of research, all focusing on Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC): (a) Perception and Cognition (investigating social and non-social cognition and sensory processing); (b) Neu...
• Professor Michael Bate
  My research is concerned with the way in which the machinery underlying coordinated movement is genetically specified and assembled during embryonic development. On the one hand this involves an analysis of the way in which muscles are assembled, ...
• Dr Andrew Bateman
  Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation has a research strategy that has three themes: i) development of assessments, ii) development of innovative therapeutic interventions and iii) evaluation of neuro-rehabilitation. My...
• Dr Marie-Laure Baudet
  Aging of growth cone responsiveness: mechanism and regulatory molecules.
• Dr Alex Bayes
  My main research topics are: 1) The study of the evolution of synapse protein composition. 2) The identification of the molecular mechanisms involved in learning and memory using proteomic approaches and genetically modified mice. Proteomics ...
• Dr Howard Baylis
  We are investigating the functions of genes involved in Alzheimer’s disease using C. elegans. We have focussed on presenilin genes as presenilin mutations in human cause familial Alzheimer’s disease. We aim to address the mechanism by which presen...
• Faye Begeti
  Problems in cognition are a part of Huntington’s disease (HD) and have a significant impact on quality of life. As part of my PhD, I am investigating the cognitive aspects of HD with the aim of translating animal research into the clinic in order...
• Dr Pedro Bekinschtein
  I'm interested in the plasticity-related mechanisms involved in memory and pattern separation in the medial temporal lobe.
• Dr Tristan Bekinschtein
  I am interested in non-classic approaches to study the physiology and cognition of consciousness.
• Dr Roland Benoit
  I am interested in the cognitive neuroscience of executive functions with a focus on memory control. During my PhD at University College London, I have investigated the functional organisation of rostral prefrontal cortex (BA 10) under the supervi...
• Barry Bentley
  The aim of my PhD is to investigate automated methods for mapping the function of neural circuits.
• Dr Jimena Berni
  My research is concerned with the way the neuronal network underlying locomotor behaviour assembles during embryonic development. In particular I am focussing in the mechanisms that contribute to the stability and reliability of the neuronal circu...
• Professor German Berrios
  I am interested in the study of psychiatric symptoms (e.g. hallucinations, delusions, obsessions) appearing in the context of neurological disease. Since the 19th century, the view that 'mental symptoms' seen in the context of neurological diseas...
• Dr Anne Bertolotti
  Cellular aspects of protein misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases Neurodegenerative diseases characterized by accumulation of misfolded proteins are late-onset, implying that the proteins responsible for these diseases cause cellular dysfunctio...
• Mr Khushwant Bhullar
  My research focuses on effect of natural flavonoids on Alzheimer`s disease, Stroke and Multiple sclerosis.
• Dr Katerina Bilitou
  My PhD is focused on the mechanisms and factors that regulate retinogenesis in the early vertebrate embryo. I am interested in understanding how the retinal progenitor cells generate differentiated cell types in a layered structure in the neural r...
• Dr Brian Billups
  My lab is interested in processes that modulate synaptic transmission. Using direct electrophysiological recordings from pre and postsynaptic cells in brain slices, combined with fluorescent ion imaging, we investigate release and recycling of ne...
• Dr Alan Blackwell
  I construct and apply models of human behaviour when interacting with technology. These models take a variety of forms, not all drawing on neuroscience, but I have a particular interest in neuroeconomic models of abstraction formation and use. Thi...
• Dr Henrik Boije
  The vertebrate nervous system is an incredibly complex and heterogeneous tissue. To generate an organ of this complexity there must be strict rules to produce the correct number of a particular cell type at the proper time and place during develop...
• Dr Golnaz Borghei
  This EPSRC-funded project involves collaboration between Oxford and Cambridge Universities. In this study, we aim to monitor network activity using novel voltage sensitive dyes and caged compounds, developed by Professor Harry Anderson’s group in ...
• Dr Jenny Bosten
  I am interested in visual perception, in particular colour and spatial visual information processing. I study how information about colour is transformed to provide the basis for visual performance and subjective colour perception. I am also inter...
• Dr Mirjana Bozic
  I study language as a cognitive and a neural system. My research focuses on the neural mechanisms that support spoken language comprehension, and the structure of the underlying lexical representations. Using behavioural and neuroimaging technique...
• Dr Katrin Braesicke
  Analysis of blood pressure data during behavioural testing.
• Dr Marco Brancaccio
  Cellular and molecular basis of the circadian clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus
• Professor Andrea Brand FRS FMedSci
  Discovering how stem cells are maintained in a multipotent state and how their progeny differentiate into distinct cellular fates is a key step in the therapeutic use of stem cells to repair tissues after damage or disease. We are investigating th...
• Dr Dennis Bray
  How do bacteria find distant sources of food, and avoid noxious and potentially damaging environments? We seek answers to these questions by developing computer simulations of swimming bacteria exposed to gradients of different substances. Our pro...
• Dr Sarah Bray
  We are interested in understanding the signalling pathways that co-ordinate the decisions made by cells during development. The ultimate fate of a cell is dictated in part by its heredity and in part through interactions with neighbouring cells. O...
• Professor Carol Brayne
  My research programme is based around longitudinal population based studies of people aged 65 and above, running since 1985. They include collections of blood, and are linked to the Cambridge Brain Bank. Opportunities exist for translation from la...
• Dr David Breen
  My focus is Parkinson's disease (PD), particularly the non-motor symptoms which interfere with patient's lives as the disease advances. Along with collaborators in Cambridge, Newcastle and London, I run a large study (ICICLE-PD) which aims to id...
• Dr Peter Bright
  1. Neuroimaging and neuropsychological investigations of object processing (with an emphasis on the role of medial temporal lobe structures). 2. Disease progression and cognitive decline in semantic dementia. 3. Retrograde amnesia in brain dama...
• Professor Kevin Brindle
  We have developed non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques that enable us to track labelled cells that have been implanted in the CNS. This work has been conducted in collaboration with Robin Franklin. In addition we are developi...
• Jantine Broek A.C.
  My PhD in the Bahn lab concerns the fragile X syndrome (FXS) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The project aims to discover the underlying mechanisms of FXS and ASD, which will contribute to the future development of early diagnosis and treatment.
• Dr Iraad Bronner
  Alzheimer's disease is one of the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorders. One of the principle hallmarks of its pathology are tangles. In 1985 it was established that these tangles consisted largely of the Microtubule Associated Protein tau (t...
• Professor Donald Broom
  Developing and using methods of evaluating animal welfare. Assessing cognitive ability in domestic animals including cattle, pigs, sheep and dogs.
• Dr Andre Brown
  An important idea in behavioural genetics is that if a gene is involved in a visible behaviour, then mutations that break that gene might lead to detectable behavioural changes. However, many mutants have subtle phenotypes that are difficult or i...
• Dr Guy Brown
  We are interested in the mechanisms of inflammatory neurodegeneration in the brain. We have been using cultures of neurons and glia to investigate how microglia become activated by inflammatory stimuli (such as cytokines, LPS, LTA, prions and bet...
• Miss Marie Buda
  I am currently investigating the neural processes and brain areas that underlie reality monitoring, the ability to distinguish between information generated internally, such as through imagination, with that obtained externally via perception. Bra...
• Dr Raymond Bujdoso
  Prion diseases such as scrapie of sheep and goats, BSE of cattle and CJD of humans are transmissible neurodegenerative diseases. The research of our prion group is concerned with providing knowledge to try and answer some of the important question...
• Professor Ed Bullmore
  I am interested in understanding human brain network organization from neuroimaging data in health and disease. My recent methodological work has focused on graph theory to measure aspects of brain network topology. I am also interested in bette...
• Guido Buonincontri
  I am mainly interested in hardware and software development for PET and MRI. My PhD project aims to implement and extend the latest MR imaging techniques for assessing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular function in animal models of heart failure, ...
• Diana Burk
  My research in Professor Daniel Wolpert's group focuses on the overlap between decision making and motor control. We aim to understand how humans act in real time on streams of noisy evidence.
• Mr Luke Burke
  I am based at the Heisler Lab, Department of Pharmacology, where I am carrying out my Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD in Metabolic Disease. Our lab researches the central control of food intake and body weight, focusing on the serotonin and melanocortin...
• Miss Chloe Burman
  Signalling mechanisms through G protein coupled receptors. Specifically, Aminergic receptors from Amphioxus.
• Professor Malcolm Burrows
  I work on the properties of neurons and the circuits they form to understand how they control behaviour. 1. Motor control. How do nonspiking local interneurons organise motor neurons to generate limb movements? How do spiking interneurons pro...
• Dr Karl Emanuel Busch
  I study the response of the nematode C. elegans to a cue related to foraging, the concentration of ambient oxygen, which determines the worm´s locomotory activity on bacterial food lawns. I aim to understand how genes that regulate this particular...
• Dr Tim Bussey
  We are interested in the neurobiology of visual learning, memory and perception. Our research is conducted at two different levels of brain organisation, the anatomical systems and neural network levels. The former is concerned with brain structur...
• Dr Paula Buttery
  The application of natural language engineering techniques to augment neuro-imaging analysis and experimental design.
• Dr Philip Buttery
  We work on the role of rho family GTPases and their regulators in the plasticity of CNS synapses, as related to brain disease and recovery from brain injury. We are currently focussing on a regulator of the GTPase Rac1 which is upregulated with n...
• Dr Andy Calder
  I am interested in all aspects of face perception, but particularly the neural mechanisms underlying the perception of facial expressions and other social cues (e.g. eye gaze). A second aspect of my research addresses the neural basis of emotional...
• Miss Victoria Cambridge
  My research primarily investigates the brain systems concerned with reward, specifically in the context of Health Neuroscience. This includes eating disorders and addiction. I am also involved in studies of memory reconsolidation and psychosis.
• Dr Carlo Camilloni
  I am actively working on the characterisation of the dynamics of Intrinsic Disordered Proteins using both Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulations and statistical models to interpret the structural content of NMR Chemical Shifts. I am also develop...
• Dr Emily Camm
  My research involves investigating the effects of adverse prenatal conditions, such as hypoxia and undernutrition, on the structure and function of the brain, heart and placenta. My work offers insight to the potential mechanisms that may underlie...
• Dr Daniel Campbell-Meiklejohn
  I study social cognition in health and mental disorders with a particular focus on social learning, social reasoning and consequent decision-making. We use pharmacological challenges, neuroimaging and behavioural testing in healthy subjects and c...
• Dr Daniele Caprioli
  The main focus of my research is centered on discovering the neurobiological basis of drug addiction. In particular I’m working on a research program focusing on the neurobiology of drug addiction vulnerability and the processes underlying the pro...
• Dr Rudolf Cardinal
  I am interested in computational models of attentional selection and cognition.
• Dr Johan Carlin
  I use human neuroimaging, eye tracking and psychophysics to study mechanisms of person perception, recognition and memory.
• Dr Bob Carlyon
  My research has spanned a wide range of topics in human hearing, but has most recently focused on the problem of how we can listen to one voice in the presence of interfering sounds, such as other speakers. It incorporates behavioural and electrop...
• Dr Jenny Carmichael
  My main interest is in pathways and mechanisms modulating neurodegeneration in autosomal dominant neurodegenerative diseases.
• Dr Adrian Carpenter
  Our group develops new techniques for the acquisition and analysis of PET and MR images to improve our understanding of the pathophysiology of disease. We also develop novel instrumentation, for example we are an internationally leading centre d...
• Professor Roger Carpenter
  I work on the brain mechanisms of human decision. The most common decision we make - two or three times every second - is what to look at next, and the measurement of the time taken to choose to look at a visual target - the saccadic latency - ha...
• Dr Goncalo Castelo-Branco
  Epigenetic regulation of neural stem cells and neural development
• Dr Gustavo Andres Cerda-Moya
  The embryonic developmental processes, by which neurons acquire specificity, form a given neural network and participate during different chemical and physical stimuli.
• Dr Bhismadev Chakrabarti
  My research group is based at the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics at the University of Reading. We study emotion perception, empathy, and autism using functional MRI, eye gaze tracking, and psychophysiology. Individual diffe...
• Dr Samuel Chamberlain MB/BChir PhD MRCPsych
  My research focuses on the neurochemical and neural substrates of cognition, and psychiatric endophenotypes.
• Dr Ian Charest
  I am generally interested in object representation. I am currently working on Object vision and population code representation. During my PhD at the University of Glasgow, I investigated the neural correlates of voice and voice gender perception.
• Menghon Cheah
  My research focuses on integrin expression and activation to promote neurite outgrowth and axon regeneration in spinal cord injury. After injury, chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPG) and tenascins are among the molecules upregulated at the les...
• Mr Chien-Wen Chen
  Research Interests: The mechanism of intracellular vesicle transportation in the clearance of aggregates of neurodegeneration diseases. Abnormal aggregation formation has been shown in a variety of neurogeneration diseases. Autophagy, a proteoly...
• Mrs Xia Chen
  There are two regions in the brain, where the generation of new neurons persists in the adulthood. These are the dentate gyrus (DG) of the hippocampus and the subventricular zone (SVZ) of the olfactory bulb. Both regions have shown to contain neur...
• Dr Srivas Chennu
  As a part of the impaired consciousness research group, I work on developing the use of EEG (Electroencephalography) and BCI (Brain Computer Interfaces) for assessing and assisting patients in vegetative and minimally conscious states. I am funded...
• Dr Daniel Chew
  The project I am involved in is a collaborative approach to the micro-fabrication and application of microchannel neural-electrode prosthetics. The clinical focus is repair of damaged peripheral nerves, integration of recording and stimulating ele...
• Dr Rachel Chong BA(Hons), MBBS, MMed(Ophth)
  My project aims to investigate if promoting microtubule stability in retinal ganglion cells can induce neuroprotection in models of glaucoma.
• Ms Renee Chow WY
  I am using time-lapse microscopy to study how amacrine cells migrate to their correct laminar positions during retinal development.
• Ms Wei-Yan Chow
  Investigating the role of mechanotransduction in cells undergoing interkinetic nuclear migration in the zebrafish retina.
• Mr Andreas Christ
  Our research focuses on the mechanical properties of neuronal cells and their environment. Recent data confirm that mechanical stimuli do influence cellular behaviour of neurons during development from differentiation to neurite branching. Their r...
• Mr Yanching Chu
  Funded by Alzheimer's Research Trust, we perform computational molecular modelling for monomeric and oligomeric forms of amyloid-beta peptides. We are also interested in using the modelling results in early stages of drug discovery in-silico.
• Dr Jie-Yu Chuang
  I am interested in the following relationships: (1) brain and body (2) disorder and imaging (3) graph and number I plan to conduct cytokine, MRI and fMRI study of schizophrenia patients. My goal is to obtain an integrative understanding of mental ...
• Lindsay Chura
  I am currently pursuing research related to the Cambridge Fetal Testosterone Project. This area of study represents an important and novel approach to understanding how autism may be programmed by prenatal hormones. Research advancements that wi...
• Dr Alessandro Ciamei
  I am studying cognitive changes in transgenic mouse models of Huntington's Disease. In particular, I am interested in learning and memory consolidation processes and cooperative/competitive interactions between systems of emotional, declarative an...
• Professor Roberto Cipolla
  My research in computational vision includes a number of areas, in particular the recovery of shape, object detection and recognition. My group has developed algorithms for reconstructing three-dimensional shapes of objects from multiple images as...
• Dr Isabel Clare
  I am a clinical and forensic psychologist in services for people with intellectual disabilities and other developmental disabilities, working with one of the clinical research themes of the NIHR's CLAHRC for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. My ...
• Dr Luke Clark
  My research is directed at the broad interface between psychological disorders and cognitive neuroscience, with a particular focus on the brain mechanisms underlying gambling decisions. Gambling is a popular recreational activity that can also bec...
• Mrs Rebecca Clark Elford
  My research involves implementing a range of cognitive testing and pharmacological intervention to investigate the cognitive and neurochemical basis of generalised Social Anxiety Disorder.
• Dr Alex Clarke
  The research that I have been undertaking investigates how information about meaningful objects is represented in the brain. More specifically, this is centered around how information about objects develops over time, and how the responses of diff...
• Dr Hannah Clarke
  Understanding the neural and neurochemical basis of behaviours mediated by the prefrontal cortex and their relevance to psychiatric disorders.
• Professor Nicky Clayton, FRS
  Nicky studies the development and evolution of cognition, and the questions are informed by an understanding of biology and psychology. Nicky’s work is mainly with members of the crow family (including jackdaws, rooks and jays), as well as compari...
• John Coates Ph.D.
  Physiology and financial risk taking. The waves of irrational exuberance and pessimism that destabilise the financial markets may be driven by physiological changes taking place within traders as they make or lose money and as market volatility ...
• Gemma Cockcroft
  Research Assistant in a unit that studies various forms of cognitive and behavoural neuroscience
• Dr Michael Coleman
  We lose 30-50% of our axons with age and more still in neurodegenerative disease, usually exceeding neuronal loss. In both, the mechanisms are poorly understood but the experimental axon injury model, resulting in Wallerian degeneration, has led t...
• Revd Dr Alasdair Coles
  We study people with immunological illnesses of the brain, especially multiple sclerosis. We combine clinical and basic laboratory work. Our most important work to date has been on alemtuzumab (Campath-1H), a humanised monoclonal antibody made or...
• Dr Jonathan Coles
  As a clinician specialising within Neurointensive care my research interests are focused on describing the pathophysiology of head injury and optimising patient outcome. Using the combined facilities of the Wolfson Brain Imaging and Neurosciences ...
• Dr Tony Coll
  My current research continues to focus upon the roles of the hypothalamus in the control of energy balance. Our current understanding of the central control of appetite has relied heavily upon mouse models and I continue to utilise the power of b...
• Professor William Colledge
  My research group is interested in the neuroendocrine regulation of mammalian fertility using transgenic mice as a model system. Puberty and the regulation of mammalian fertility is controlled by hormonal signalling within the hypothalamus. My re...
• Ms Lucy Collins
  I am interested in investigating the mechanisms of disease in Parkinson's Disease (PD). I focus on the genetic contributions to disease in PD, in the lab using induced neuronal (iN) technologies and in the clinic using cognitive testing.
• Dr Mark Collins
  I am interested in the development and application of cutting-edge proteomic techniques to understand the synaptic signalling pathways. Cellular functions require the coordinated action of protein assemblies, regulated at many levels from gene exp...
• Professor V. Peter Collins
  The group is focusing on human brain tumours. The studies aim at documenting the genetic abnormalities involved in the development of these tumours and how these affect cell function. We wish to identify prognostic markers, therapy response marker...
• Professor Alastair Compston
  My research interests focus on clinical and experimental demyelinating disease with an emphasis on multiple sclerosis - the commonest potentially disabling disease of young adults. The research group has a broad set of interests: we work on the a...
• Dr Laura Conforti
  The laboratory is interested in the mechanism of Wallerian degeneration. Previous work led to the identification of a gene, WldS, that protects the degeneration of an axon in injury and disease. The gene encodes for a chimeric protein, a fusion of...
• Dr James Connell
  I am particularly interested in how axonal transport and membrane traffic defects lead to neurodegeneration. I am working on a Wellcome Trust funded research project into the molecular-cell biology of a genetically determined disorder of the centr...
• Dr Peter Connick
  Funded via the MRC Experimental Medicine programme, I am coordinating a phase I/IIA clinical trial of autologous adult human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stromal cells in multiple sclerosis (MSCIMS). Developing treatments to prevent or repair...
• Dr Geoffrey Cook
  My research concerns the mechanisms controlling axon growth. In the laboratory we are investigating two axon-repulsive systems, 1) the chatacterization of somite glycoproteins that repel axons, creating the segmented pattern of spinal nerves duri...
• Dr Jennifer Cook
  My work investigates social cognition and learning in the typical brain and in conditions associated with social difficulties such as Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) and Schizophrenia. My doctoral work focused on action observation and imitatio...
• Professor Dermot Cooper
  Calcium-sensitive adenylyl cyclases are a key interface between Calcium and cyclic AMP signalling in the brain. These enzymes have been critically implicated in various models of learning and memory and fine control of neurotransmitter release. Ou...
• Marcus Corander
  The role of AgRP in energy homeostasis
• Dr Phil Corlett
  Delusions are odd beliefs. They accompany many psychiatric illnesses, notably schizophrenia. A major challenge is to understand delusions in terms of changes in brain function. I attempted to meet this challenge by investigating the neural basis o...
• Dr Louise Couton
  I joined the Neural Network Development group in Cambridge in 2009, initially to take part in a screen project that aimed at identifying premotor neurons in Drosophila larvae. I have now switched to using our screen lines and studying how sets of ...
• Mr David Coutts
  Olfactory ensheathing cell transplantation is one of the most exciting yet enigmatic treatments for spinal cord injury and demyelinating diseases like Multiple Sclerosis. Transplanted OECs have been shown repeatedly to enhance functional recover...
• Dr David Coyle
  I am a Marie Curie post-doctoral research fellow, working jointly with the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering at Trinity College Dublin. My research is funded by an IRCSET Inspire and Marie...
• Dr Ian Coyle-Gilchrist MBBS BSc MRCP
  Frontotemporal dementia is one of the commonest forms of dementia before retirement age. It is very closely related to two other conditions, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Corticobasal Degeneration. Despite their importance there is a lack o...
• Professor Andrew Crawford
  I am interested in biophysics and physiology of the vertebrate inner ear , especially the cochlea. My research has focussed on the electrophysiology of cochlear hair cells with a view to understanding how they manage to respond to nanometre dis...
• Dr Roselle Cripps
  Developmental programming of energy balance regulation.
• Dr Hannah Critchlow
  In 2011 I joined the multi award-winning Naked Scientists team (http://www.thenakedscientists.com), who are based at the University of Cambridge where they produce science and medicine radio programmes and podcasts that are broadcast international...
• Dr Molly Crockett
  I study the neural basis of human altruism, morality and value-based decision-making. My research investigates the influence of neurotransmitters (serotonin, noradrenaline and dopamine) on the brain systems that motivate social and economic behavi...
• Professor Ian Cross
  My research explores the biological and cultural bases for human musicality, in particular, the mechanisms underlying the capacity for achievement and maintenance of inter-individual synchrony of behaviour, those underlying the experience of meani...
• Dr Tim Croudace
  Having trained as an experimental (B.Sc., PhD) and applied psychologist (Dip.App.Psych.) and in Health Services Research / Health Technology Assessment (M.Sc.) I am principally involved in a quantitative role in the design and analysis of epidemio...
• Dr Damian Crowther
  We are dedicated to understanding the molecular pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, as our primary tool. Our creation of a fly model of Alzheimer's disease by expressing the amyloid beta peptid...
• Catherine Cutts
  I am researching in the field of computational and mathematical neuroscience. Current interests are, the development of the retino-tectal map and spike train statistics.
• Dr Monika Cziferszky
  I envision to use recent developments in the field of supramolecular chemistry to develop a new method to characterize amyloid aggregates (being the main toxic species in Alzheimer’s disease). As a synthetic chemist I have the tools to design and ...
• Dr Marek Czosnyka
  Brain Physics is a very young branch of clinical neuroscience, certainly not defined in any encyclopedia. It summarizes physical interactions between volumes, flows and pressures in brain. Measurement, data processing and analysis, forecasting and...
• Dr Zofia Czosnyka
  Disturbance in cerebrospinal fluid circulation is one, but probably not the only reason for developing hydrocephalus. Physical models of CSF compensation may be identified in clinical practice. I provide a clinical service for the Hydrocephalus Cl...
• Miss Camilla d'Angelo
  I am investigating the neural and neuropharmacological basis of compulsive behaviour in rodents as models of obsessive compulsive disorder.
• Dr Xavier d'Anglemont de Tassigny
  I am focused on the role of the hypothalamic kisspeptin signalling on the reproductive function.
• Dr Tim Dalgleish
  I am broadly interested in affective neuroscience in relation to clinical depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I am particularly interested in mental control and emotion regulation in these conditions and the psychological and neu...
• Dr Jeff Dalley
  Primary research interests include behavioural and cognitive neuroscience, psychopharmacology and neuromodulation of limbic cortico-striatal brain circuitry. Specific interests include behavioural and neurobiological endophenotypes in experimental...
• Dr Anthony Davenport
  Our research group focuses on understanding the role of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs, targets for about ~50% of current drugs) together with their transmitters in humans. We use in vitro pharmacology and in vivo imaging using positron emissi...
• Emily Davies
  Mechanisms of chronic pain and strategies for analgesia
• Dr Greg Davis
  Consciousness, 'Free Will' Visual attention, visual cognition, abnormalities of precortical vision in autism and schizophrenia
• Dr Matt Davis
  My work is interdisciplinary, combining diverse methodologies from Cognitive Neuroscience to investigate the neural mechanisms involved in spoken and written language comprehension. I work on a range of topics, including speech perception, lexical...
• Dr Bazbek Davletov
  Secretion of neurotransmitters and hormones is under tight control in our bodies and abnormalities in this process can lead to various neurological and endocrine disorders. Neurotransmitters and hormones are released when secretory vesicles fuse w...
• Dr Mario de Bono
  We seek to understand how neural networks are assembled, function and evolve. C. elegans is a powerful system to study neural circuits. The worm has exactly 302 neurons each of which can be identified. EM reconstructions have identified synapti...
• Dr Sanne de Wit
  Whilst our actions are often goal-directed, slips of action reveal that automatic, or habitual, mechanisms can take over. Although the concepts of goal-directed action and habits are well-grounded in folk psychology, most empirical research so far...
• Dr Julia Deakin
  I plan to experiment with brain imaging techniques and immunomics to look for early changes in psychosis. In particular, I am interested in supporting a recently identified group of patients with psychosis who have autoantibodies to the NMDA recep...
• Dr Andrew Dean
  I collaborate with members of the Autism Research Centre for the acquisition, dissection and diagnosis of brain from cases of autistic spectrum and related disorders. I have a special interest in neuropathological and radiological characterisatio...
• Mrs Anna Dean
  Through using several functional and structural imaging modalities, alongside behavioural analyses, I will be investigating potential endophenotypes implicated in social cognition across the schizotypal spectrum.
• Andrew Degnan
  My research focuses on the use of imaging methods to predict stroke risk. Utilizing ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxides, our group attempts to image inflammation and we are currently assessing the long-term predictive ability of USPIO-enhanc...
• Dr Natalia del Campo
  My research focuses on the contribution of dopaminergic function to variability in cognitive performance between individuals, particularly in the context of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and impulsive personality.
• Dr Barry Devereux
  My research is primarily focused on lexical and semantic processing, the conceptual structure of nouns and verbs, syntactic and semantic ambiguity in language comprehension, and object processing. I am interested in interdisciplinary aspects of l...
• Professor Anthony Dickinson
  My primary research interests concern learning, memory, motivation, and future planning in both humans and animals. My interest in learning and memory is focussed on the distinction between goal-directed and habitual instrumental behaviour as asse...
• Dr Kelly Diederen
  My current research focuses on reward learning in healthy individuals and how errors in this system might be related to delusional belief formation.
• Professor Christopher Dobson
  Our group is investigating the molecular origins of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease, that are characterised neuropathologically by the presence of amyloid fibrils. The aim of our research is to understand ...
• Mr Nick Donnelly
  I am interested in understanding how different brain regions, containing different types of neurons, and with different architectures, are able to work together to process information and produce adaptive behaviour. Currently I am investigating t...
• Miss Barbora Doslikova
  The Heisler lab studies neural pathways which control energy homeostasis. In particular, we investigate how the serotonin and melanocortin pathways regulate appetite. The brain regions we tend to examine are the hypothalamic nuclei, midbrain and b...
• Dr Robert Dudas
  I have carried out research projects on cognitive impairment in the context of progressive-degenerative dementias and affective symptomatology. My current research focuses on the neurobiology of emotional dysregulation and self-harm in the affect...
• Professor John Duncan
  Brain basis for attention, intelligence and cognitive control; including studies of normal cognition and behaviour, impairments following brain damage, functional brain imaging, and single cell electrophysiology. For John Duncan's popular science...
• Dr Fabienne Dupuy
  I am interested in neural mechanisms in general and most particularly in these ones underlying behaviour and cognitive process. I am currently studying the auditory to motor pathway underlying the processing of motor command eliciting the steerin...
• Dr Richard Dyball
  The neuroendocrine cells in the hypothalamus control all reproductive and homeostatic mechanisms. Using mainly electrophysiological methods, we study how the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus ("the biological clock") and its inputs from ...
• Mr Edward Dyson BSc MRCS
  The long-term neuropsychological sequelae of diffuse axonal damage from traumatic brain injury can be devastating. This is compounded by the absence of disease modifying treatments. Novel MRI techniques have shown recent promise in further expl...
• Dr Dawn Eagle
  How does the brain control impulsive and compulsive actions and stop inappropriate or unwanted behaviour? This question is relevant to many illnesses where brain function is altered (e.g,. ADHD, Parkinson's disease, OCD, schizophrenia, compulsiv...
• Dr Steve Edgley
  I’m interested in how movements are controlled. Our everyday movements are performed with little conscious thought and are remarkably precise. Despite what the textbooks tell you, the way in which this is accomplished is poorly understood. I work ...
• Dr Boris Egger
  The choice of a stem cell to divide symmetrically or asymmetrically has profound consequences for development and disease. Unregulated symmetric division promotes tumour formation, whereas inappropriate asymmetric division affects organ morphogene...
• Dr Stephen Eglen
  I use computational tools to help investigate mechanisms of neural development. In particular, I study the formation of retinotopic maps and retinal mosaics in vertebrate visual systems. In addition, I am interested in the analysis of large-scal...
• Dr Christoph Eisenegger
  My research focuses on human decision making on both the individual level as well as during social interaction. The main focus lies in how monoamines and hormones affect human decision making.
• Dr Sohail Ejaz
  My research focuses on the pathophysiology of ischaemic stroke and the mechanisms underlying subsequent deterioration or recovery, including neuronal damage, tissue inflammation and long-term plasticity processes. In terms of methodology, my appro...
• Dr Michelle Ellefson
  Dr. Ellefson is a lecturer in the Psychology & Neuroscience in Education with the Faculty of Education. Her work integrates cognition, neuroscience, child development, and education into a multi-disciplinary research programme aimed at improving m...
• Antonia Errazuriz MSc
  I’m a psychologist interested in the aetiology of common mental disorders and particular in psychosocial factors associated with anxiety and depression in Low and Middle Income Countries. I am currently conducting research on the mental health out...
• Dr Karen Ersche
  My research focuses on the neuropsychological correlates and neurochemical processes underlying addictive behaviour and the translation of this knowledge into therapeutic interventions. This work involves a combination of approaches including neur...
• Dr Sharon Erzinclioglu
  I am currently employed as a Research Assistant for the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (CamCAN). The current CamCAN project is focused on understanding the neurocognition of normal ageing. My work involves testing a cross-sectional p...
• Dr Alessandro Esposito
  My research activities are based on the development of quantitative fluorescence microscopy techniques for the investigation of disease-related biological problems. During my PhD, I built an unsupervised fluorescence lifetime microscope with which...
• Dr Richard Eva
  Investigating Integrin trafficking in neurons. Integrins are adhesion receptors expressed throughout the body. I am invovled with projects aimed at increasing axon regeneration after injury via the viral introduction of integrins. My job is to try...
• Dr Mark Evans
  My group are interested in (1) how brain detects changes in blood glucose and how this glucose-sensing interacts with peripheral metabolism; (2) how defences against hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar) may become abnormal in diabetes; (3) the short an...
• Dr Peter Evans
  The research of my group is focussed on signalling mechanisms through 7-transmembrane spanning G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). We are currently specifically focussing our research on rapid non-genomic actions of steroids through GPCRs. We ha...
• Professor Barry Everitt Sc.D., F.R.S., F.Med.Sci.
  My research is concerned with the neural and psychological mechanisms underlying learning, memory, motivation and reward especially related to drug addiction. A major research theme is the impact of learning on drug addiction - both its developmen...
• Dr Jan Felix Evers
  Coordinated behaviour is the end result of successful neuronal network assembly. During development, the excitability and connectivity of each neuron must be controlled to ensure that a functional network is built. I am particularly interested in ...
• Dr Michael Ewbank
  My work focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying the perception of facial expression and facial identity. Through the use of fMRI, my work addresses the way in which information about facial identity is represented within a network of regions i...
• Dr Talal Fael Al-Mayhani
  Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common type of primary brain malignancies. Patients face dismal prognosis with survival rate of less than 5% at tow years post-dignosis. The fact that this figure has not changed over the last 2-3 decades urges for m...
• Dr Graeme Fairchild
  My research is concerned with the development of aggression and antisocial behaviour. I have investigated endocrine and psychophysiological functioning in adolescents with Conduct Disorder, a psychiatric diagnosis involving persistent aggression a...
• Professor Ismaa Sadaf Farooqi
  The long-term goal of my research is to identify the genetic, molecular, and physiological pathways that regulate body weight in humans and to integrate these into an understanding of the pathophysiology of obesity.
• Dr Sadaf Farooqi
  Using a candidate gene approach in patients with severe, early onset obesity recruited to the Genetics Of Obesity Study (GOOS), we have identified patients with mutations in genes encoding leptin, the leptin receptor and targets of leptin action ...
• Dr Giorgio Favrin
  The focus of my research is to build and analyze the network of pathways associated with Alzheimer’s disease. We are currently measuring these interaction data in the yeast S. cerevisiae (baker’s yeast). We use these data, in conjunction with fr...
• Professor James Fawcett
  Axon regeneration in the damaged CNS: Regeneration of axons after CNS damage is blocked by several molecules, partcularly by proteoglycans in the extracellular matrix. We are developing methods to digest proteglycans, inhibit their production, and...
• Dr Anne Ferguson-Smith
  Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic mechanism causing genes to be expressed depending on their parental origin. Our research investigates the mechanism and evolution of genomic imprinting and the function of imprinted genes in development and dise...
• Dr Esperanza Fernandez
  My research is focused in the characterization of protein complexes involved in learning and memory.
• Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea
  My research interests are mostly the biological and clinical aspects of chronic schizophrenia. I’m the Clozapine Clinic Lead and the Good Outcome Schizophrenia Clinic lead for the local MH Trust (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trus...
• Miss Anushka Fernando
  My research investigates the neural mediation of avoidance behaviour in rodent models. Understanding the motivation of this behaviour both internally and externally using safety signals provides potential insight into systems involved in anxiety d...
• Mr Dylan Festa
  Encoding and recall of sequences in biologically realistic and recurrently connected neural circuits.
• Professor Paul Fletcher
  I am interested in psychosis. I agree with the long tradition of clinical psychiatric research which suggests that, during a psychotic illness, the world is a strange place because strange associations are formed and inconsequential stimuli are as...
• Dorothea Floris
  I am interested in the neurobiological underpinnings of autism spectrum conditions with special focus on cerebral lateralization and connectivity. My research looks at asymmetry at different levels of brain organization both in terms of function a...
• Dr Elisabeth Fonteneau
  * Psycholinguistics * Auditory perception * Semantic /syntax * Developmental language disorders * Second language learners * EEG/MEG
• Dr Alex Fornito
  My work focuses on using tools from complex network science to understand brain connectivity. This principally involves the application of graph analytic techniques to human structural and functional neuroimaging data, with a particular emphasis o...
• Dr Suzanna Forwood
  My interest is in cortical learning, and particularly the interaction between learning and perception. Previous work has used animal models and computational models to understand cortical function. I am now looking at human models of learning, w...
• Dr Simona Foscarin
  Perineuronal nets (PNNs) in the modulation of synapse formation and remodelling. PNNs are extracellular matrix structures which enwrap fast spiking neurons at the end of the critical period, in parallel with synapses refinement. PNNs are fundament...
• Miss Alexandra Fragnière
  We are interested in understanding the mechanism of abnormal adult hippocampal neurogenesis in R6/2 mouse model of Huntington's disease and the behavioural significance of these effects. To understand the relative contribution of the in vivo neuro...
• Dr Rene Frank
  I am interested in the molecular mechanisms that underly the acquisition of memory. The NMDA receptor and many other proteins with which it associates have been identified as essential players in the cognitive functions of learning and memory. My...
• Dr David Franklin
  I am interested in how we are able to develop models of the external world and use these to adapt our movements to new experiences. I am currently studying the adaptation of humans to novel force fields generated with a 2 degree-of-freedom robotic...
• Professor Robin Franklin
  The Franklin lab is interested in the mechanisms of CNS regeneration with a particular focus on remyelination, an adult stem/precursor cell-mediated process in which new myelin sheaths are restored to demyelinated axons. Using developmental-, tran...
• Sae Franklin
  My current interest is to find the mechanisms of motor learning by observing changes in trajectories, force, endpoint stiffness and muscle activity during reaching movements and interactions with objects.
• Dr Elske Franssen
  My research focuses on the role of the cell-surface receptors integrins in CNS regeneration. Overexpression of the tenascin C-binding integrin alpha9 in sensory neurons promotes neurite outgrowth considerably in vitro, however we find that in adul...
• Dr Kristian Franze
  I am mainly interested in the mechanics and optics of cells of the nervous system. Using atomic force and confocal microscopy as well as a dual-beam IR-laser trap called 'optical stretcher' passive and active mechanical properties of nervous tissu...
• Dr Michael Fricker
  I am interested in the mechanisms of neuronal cell death and their potential involvement in neurodegenerative disease. My PhD thesis examined the role and regulation of BH3-only proteins in primary neuronal cells undergoing apoptosis. I am current...
• Dr Tim Fryer
  My research concentrates on positron emission tomography (PET) methodology, with particular emphasis on the quantitative accuracy of the physiological parameters derived from the data. Current research themes are: parametric mapping using b...
• Ms Lily Fulton
  Binding characterisation of novel PET ligands to neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's Disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.
• Michael Furman
  My research involves analysing nonlinear phase dynamics and short-term transitions in cortical communications in high-frequency, scalp EEG for the purpose of defining syntax-related phenomenon between functionally connected areas in the cortex.
• Mr Ian Fyfe
  Whilst many proteins have been identified as key factors in calcium-triggered exocytosis at pre-synaptic membranes, the precise molecular mechanisms of this process are still poorly understood. In particular, the nature of the fusion pore that al...
• Dr Raphaël GAILLARD
  As a psychiatrist I'm interested in treating patients with resistant schizophrenia and resistant bipolar disorders, using any tools available in pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. As a scientist, I'm interested in modelling psychotic symptoms usin...
• Mr Stephen Gamble
  Currently working in molecular biology, most recently on the Cancer Genome project, but previous wide experience in neurobiology, biochemistry and computing. Personal areas of interest prion diseases, biological basis of dementia and schizophre...
• Dr Max Garagnani
  I am interested in formalising and implementing biologically grounded computational models of the cortex and of the mechanisms underlying human cognition, such as language and executive functions. My past research includes natural-language generat...
• Jane Garrison
  Investigating reality monitoring impairment in schizophrenia as a potential element in cognitive models of hallucinations.
• Professor Susan Gathercole
  I am the Honorary Director of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. My background is in cognitive psychology, and for the past 30 years I have been interested in how cognitive systems can become impaired in developmental disorders and, increa...
• Dr Helene Gautier
  I am interested in the electrical properties and the response to neurotransmitters of the oligodendrocyte progenitor cells during remyelination.
• Dr Christos Genakos
  My core neuroscience interests are in consumer and firm responses and behaviour in different product markets. How consumers behave in different competitive environments? How firms adopt their strategies to gain an advantage? Do consumers actions m...
• Dr Sharon Geva
  My research aims at investigating a novel rehabilitation technique aimed at restoring access to language. The study explores the use of imagination of speech (i.e. ‘inner speech’) as a rehabilitation technique for language after stroke. It is hypo...
• Professor Zoubin Ghahramani
  My current research interests include Bayesian approaches to machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics, information retrieval, bioinformatics, and computational motor control. Statistics provides the mathematical foundations for handli...
• Dr Maria Giannakou
  Alzheimer's disease is the most common disease caused by protein aggregation. The major neuropathological characteristics of AD are extracellular plaques of a peptide called amyloid beta and intracellular tangles of hyperphosphorylated tau protein...
• Dr Jana Giles
  I research literature and aesthetics and am interested in how developments in cognitive neuroscience may impact our understanding of aesthetics. I am particularly interested in the interactions between emotions and aesthetics and how that may affe...
• Ms Claire Gillan
  I study habit formation and goal-directed behaviour in humans. I am particularly interested in the contribution of aberrant habit formation to obsessive-compulsive disorder. I use behavioural experiments, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMR...
• Professor Jonathan Gillard
  Development of novel Magnetic Resonance imaging tools assessing atheromatous plaque inflammation and stress analysis. Development of MRI and PET tools for delineating microscopic brain tumour infiltration in man.
• Dr Jonathan Gilley
  My principle research area is investigation of the molecular mechanisms involved in axon degeneration after injury and in disease, with particular interest in the role of axonal transport.
• Dr Dino Giussani
  We have intertwined our interests in oxygen and the development of the central nervous and cardiovascular systems to propose that oxidative stress underlies the common molecular pathway via which prenatal hypoxia contributes to a developmental ori...
• Miss Julijana Gjorgjieva
  I work with Dr Stephen Eglen on computational modelling in the developing visual system.
• Dr Brian Glasberg
  My research focuses on the perception of sound in both normally hearing and hearing-impaired people and relates to the psychophysics of hearing.
• Dr Dervila Glynn
  I have recently been appointed as the Cambridge Neuroscience Coordinator. If you have any neuroscience related news that you would like to publicise on the website, please let me know. My research is focused on understanding the mechanisms underl...
• Dr Michel Goedert
  Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are characterized by the presence of abnormal filamentous assemblies within some nerve cells. Similar assemblies are found in related disorders, including progressive supranuclear palsy, dementia with Le...
• Katrina Gold
  I am interested the cellular and genetic pathways underlying the formation of the brain. In particular my PhD focused on investigating the transition from neural stem cell proliferation to differentiation, using the developing Drosophila visual sy...
• Patrick Goodbourn
  My previous research was concerned with the neural mechanisms that allow us to use the timing of events to make inferences about the spatial structure of a visual scene. These were investigated using both psychophysical and computational approache...
• Miss Emmeline Goodby
  Investigation of cognitive and MRI endophenotypes in psychosis.
• Professor Ian Goodyer
  I am a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist based at Cambridge University pursuing research into the connections between human development and psychopathology. My studies are centred on adolescents in the community as well as current patients. Our re...
• Dr Anjali Goswami
  My research focuses on cranial evolution and development in mammals. In particular, I am interested in developmental interactions that drive morphological variation and morphological diversity on palaeontological time scales. I use quantitative ...
• Professor Usha Goswami
  I am the Director of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education. The Centre uses EEG and fNIRS to explore the developing brain. Key research projects include the neural basis of developmental dyslexia, the neural basis of speech and language impairm...
• Michael Gottschalk M.Sc.
  My projects at the Cambridge Centre of Neuropsychiatric Research (CCNR – under the direction of Prof Sabine Bahn) focus on the molecular basis of affective and anxiety disorders by generating new etiological hypotheses in a systems biological mann...
• Dr Fabian Grabenhorst
  My research focuses on the brain mechanisms for reward and economic decision making using neurophysiology and functional MRI. Specific areas of investigation include the neural computation of economic values and choices; the neural processing of s...
• Dr Fergus Gracey C Psychol
  Chief Investigator for NIHR funded RCT on the effectiveness of external cueing in rehabilitation of executive impairment Lead on pilot study funded by Microsoft Research (Cambridge) into the use of a wearable digital image capture device in the re...
• Dr Fergus Gracey
  My research themes relate to assessment, recovery and rehabilitation following brain injury. I am especially interested in identity and emotional adjustment following acquired brain injury, self-regulation, cognitive rehabilitation and service del...
• Julia Graham
  I am currently researching the neural basis of depression in adolesence. I am interested in network-level functional brain changes in depression, and in its treatment. Previous work has focused on the behavioural effects of serotoninergic modulati...
• Professor Seth Grant FRSE
  The Genes to Cognition programme (G2C) established a framework for studying genes, brain and behaviour in order to link basic molecular research from genomes and experimental genetic organisms with human clinical studies of cognition. The G2C fra...
• Dr Ingo Greger
  Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in vertebrate brains. Glutamate-gated ion channels (iGluRs) mediate the majority of fast synaptic transmission, and are key regulators of synaptic plasticity. The subunit composition of iGluRs, a...
• Dr Jules Griffin
  We have been using a range of analytical techniques, and in particular NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry, to follow metabolism in the brain in a range of disease processes. This ranges from flux measurements to understand the cycling of metab...
• Mr John Griffiths
  I am interested in brain connectivity. Following my masters in cognitive neuroscience I worked as a research assistant at the Centre for Speech, Language, and the Brain (CSLB), studying how brain systems (in particular the language system) restruc...
• Professor John Griffiths
  My work involves the use and development of Magnetic Resonance methods for understanding the biology of cancer and the determination of tumour-associated MR parameters for diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of therapy.
• Dr Jochen Guck
  The paradigm that neurons in the CNS cannot regenerate is gone. While most research to date is biochemical, there are also physical aspects that need to be considered. We are developing tools to investigate axonal growth and to direct in a certain...
• Alerie Guzman
  My research is focused on the process of demyelination and remyelination in the central nervous system and their relationship with Multiple Sclerosis. Remyelination is one of the most important processes in the CNS, in order to maintain the axon t...
• Dr Oliver Hadeler
  I am the Programme manager for CamBridgeSens, the Strategic Network for researchers at Cambridge University developing and using sensors. Members of CamBridgeSens come from a large number of departments across the whole university. Sensors for m...
• Dr Cindy Hagan
  My current research examines the neurobiological basis of depression in adolescence. More broadly, I am interested in affective disorders and disorders of neurodevelopment that include aberrant emotional processes. Previous research examined the...
• Claire Hanley
  I graduated from the University of Wales, Swansea with a First Class Honours degree in Psychology. Having developed a particular interest in neuroscience, I went on to study at the University of Birmingham, obtaining an M.Res in Brain Imaging & Co...
• Professor Roger Hardie
  Phototransduction, TRP channels and Calcium signalling in Drosophila Phototransduction in the fruitfly Drosophila is an important model for G-protein coupled signalling and fascinating in its own right. We study the underlying cellular and molecu...
• Dr Ben Hardy
  My primary research in on morale in organisations and I am taking a social psychological approach. The aim is to establish what morale is, what it is not, how it might be measured and what the antecedents and consequences are. A mixture of quali...
• Dr Donna Harris
  Using an interdisciplinary approach of experimental economics, social psychology, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), my research examines the impact of group membership on individual decision-making and behaviour, particularly the e...
• Professor William Harris
  Where does the nervous system come from in the embryo? How does it grow to the right size and shape? How do stem cells turn into more committed neuronal progenitors and how do these cells know when to leave the cycle and differentiate into neural ...
• Dr Michael Hastings FRS, FMedSci
  Cellular and molecular basis to circadian rhythms in mammals and its relevance to metabolic and neurological disease.
• Dr Olaf Hauk
  I use a multi-modal imaging approach to problems in the neuroscience of language and cognition. Reading: How are the complex computations underlying reading behaviour implemented so efficiently and flexibly in our brains? I address this question ...
• Professor Sarah Hawkins
  I am an acoustic phonetician and psychologist who has worked mainly on speech perception. Most of my work addresses acoustic phonetic contributions to a biologically-plausible theory of how speech is understood. I have recently begun to extend the...
• Dr Jie He
  My project is focusing on dissecting the rules underlying how the retinal lineages are evolving over development. I devote to developing a serial of cutting-edge techniques to perform the comprehensive lineage analysis, including in-vivo single-ce...
• Dr Berthold Hedwig
  I analyse acoustic communication in insects like crickets or grasshoppers which produce species-specific sounds for mate attraction. I use behavioural, neurophysiological and optical imaging techniques with the aim to understand: 1. The neural me...
• Mr Tristan Heintz
  Role of Integrins in Structural and Synaptic Plasticity in the Cerebellum
• Dr Lora Heisler
  We aim to elucidate the neuroendocrinology of energy homeostasis and neural influences on peripheral metabolism, in order to define novel therapeutic targets for obesity and type 2 diabetes. There is significant genetic and pharmacological evidenc...
• Mr Janosch Heller
  I am interested in the molecular changes which occur on the Bruch's membrane in age-related macular degeneration. During the progression of the disease, anti-adhesive molecules such as tenascin-C become upregulated and cause the detachment of the ...
• Dr Richard Henson
  My primary interest concerns how we remember things. Specifically, I use the techniques of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electro- and magneto- encephalography (EEG/MEG) to examine brain activity as healthy volunteers try to reme...
• Professor Joe Herbert
  I am interested in the role of the brain in adaptive responses, with particular reference to the reciprocal interaction between hormones and the brain. My experimental work is focussed on the way that neural factors, such as serotonin and glucocor...
• Mr Francisco J. Hernandez Heras
  A brain allocates finite resources between its components (neurons, glia, synapses...). Because this allocation impacts performance, it is a reasonable hypothesis that resources are allocated to improve efficiency. I study resource allocation in t...
• Dr Maria Herva Moyano E
  I have developed a fast and reliable method to form alpha synuclein aggregates and my aim is to use it as a high content assay to screen for drugs with anti aggregating properties. I am also interested in the prion like spread of alpha synuclein ...
• Dr Stefan Hetzer
  - High-Resolution Echo-Planar Imaging at Ultra-Short Echo Times - Multi-echo and 3D EPI - Quantitative Perfusion fMRI - RF Coil Development
• Mr Richard Heywood
  Under the supervision of Dr Colin Watts, I am looking at glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most common malignant adult brain tumour. GBM has a dismal prognosis, often recurring despite optimal surgery and radiochemotherapy, and therefore new insi...
• Dr Grant Hill-Cawthorne
  Alemtuzumab is a monoclonal antibody against CD52 on many haematopoietic cells. It is licensed for B cell lymphoma and is currently in phase III trials for relapsing-remitting MS. Alemtuzumab causes a profound neutropenia following treatment with ...
• Professor Melissa Hines
  I study gender development, and am particularly interested in how prenatal influences (e.g., gonadal hormones) interact with postnatal experience to shape brain development and behaviour. My current research programme includes studies of individu...
• Dr Johannes Hjorth
  Computer modelling of retinotopic map formation.
• Dr Rosa Hoekstra
  Dr Rosa Hoekstra is a lecturer at The Open University. After completing her PhD in Behaviour Genetics at the VU University in Amsterdam, she continued her research at Cambridge University’s Autism Research Centre. Since 2009 she combines her autis...
• Dr Sean Holden
  Our research covers assorted issues in both theoretical and applied machine learning. At present we are interested in: - Computational learning theory. How can we better understand the properties of machine learning algorithms in terms of, for ex...
• Professor Tony Holland
  The focus of our interdisciplinary research is on learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities/mental handicap) from different perspectives. Research to date has had the following main themes. First, the relationship between specific genetical...
• Dr Joni Holmes
  I am interested in the overlap between working memory, attention and executive function processes in children and adults. My research has focussed on the role of working memory in children's mathematical skills, and on understanding the cognitive ...
• Professor Christine Holt FRS FMedSci
  My laboratory studies how nerve connections are first established in the brain. Our studies focus on the developing visual system and our main goal is to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms of axon guidance that enable axons to naviga...
• Dr Tahl Holtzman
  My research is concerned with how neural circuits process information and use it as a basis for learning and behavioural control. My current work focuses on the role of fronto-striatal circuits in governing impulsive decision making and in the c...
• Dr Young T. Hong
  My main research area is developing mathematical models and numerical techniques in analysis of positron emission tomography (PET) data. Most of the PET images are obtained for acute head injury, psychiatry and neurology clinical research.
• Dr Alexa Horner
  Developing, validating and utilising touchscreen tasks for the cognitive behavioural characterisation of mouse models of human conditions.
• Charlotte Housden
  Using neuropsychological tests, pharmacological mapinulations, microdialysis, and imaging techniques, I investigate cognition in both patient populations and 'healthy' individuals. I am currently interested in cognition in individuals with Parkin...
• Dr Ian Howard
  I am interested in studying and modelling the human motor system, with particular emphasis on arm and hand movements. I am interested in developing computational models of how an infant learns to speak. I have been working on a computational mode...
• Dr Jeffrey Huang
  Multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterised by the progressive breakdown of CNS myelin, the ensheathing membranes of CNS axons. One possible way to repair MS is to stimulate myelin regeneration by endogenous oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs). My...
• Miss Zhen Fang Huang Cao
  The role DA in the VTA→ NAc pathway is kown to play a key role in the motivation to obtain food rewards. In addition, it has been shown that both hedonic as well as metabolic signals from a food reward can modulate VTA DA levels. Therefore, the VT...
• Dr Laura Hughes
  My current research interests are on the role of the prefrontal cortex for voluntary and goal directed actions, and prefrontal interactions with other brain systems. I use both MEG and fMRI, along with behavioural and neuropsychological data, to i...
• Dr Ayla Humphrey
  As a Lead Psychologist (Children's Division, CPFT) & Affiliated Lecturer in Developmental Psychiatry, I am interested in developing clinical services for children & families. Recent service initiatives include: co-founder of first UK holistic neur...
• Professor Felicia Huppert
  The principal themes of my research are psychological well-being or positive mental health, and the relationship between emotion and cognition. Two distinct methodologies are used: experimental and epidemiological. Experimental research includes ...
• Mr Peter Hutchinson
  My research areas include acute brain injury (head injury, subarachnoid haemorrhage), decompressive craniectomy in head injury and stroke, multimodality monitoring (intracranial pressure, brain tissue oxygen, intracerebral microdialysis), brain im...
• Mr Florin Mircea Iliescu
  My research is concerned with the role Integrins play in the behaviour of the mouse Neural Stem Cells.
• Dr Sara Imarisio
  I am interested in the study of neurodegeneration due to the formation of intracellular aggregates. In particular I use Drosophila melanogaster models of polyglutamine disorders to identify novel genetic pathways able to modify polyglutamine toxic...
• Mr James Ingram
  As a member of Professor Daniel Wolpert’s group my research is focused on sensorimotor control and motor learning in humans. Current projects include the development of wearable motion tracking systems for the collection of kinematic data from sub...
• Dr Becky Inkster
  Firstly, I am Project Manager for the Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network (NSPN), which is a Wellcome Trust funded Strategic Award. The first study is called "U-Change", which explores neurodevelopment in adolescents and young adults using an accel...
• Miss Mariangela Iovino
  My research is into the physiological and pathological functions of tau and alpha synuclein protein.
• Dr Nunzio Iraci
  I am pursuing a more basic (fundamental) approach that focuses at the discovery of the cellular machinery controlling the mobility of small nucleic acid sequences (known to regulate the translation into protein products, and ultimately functions) ...
• Professor Robin Irvine
  All my research centres around inositides, which fall into two groups, inositol lipids and inositol phosphates. Most of our work focuses on some of the kinases that phosphorylate inositides, and the functions of their substrates and products, incl...
• Dr David Izquierdo
  My main research topic is focused on detection of inflammed atherosclerotic plaques in the main vessels (aorta, carotids and vertebrals) using PET imaging. Inflammed plaques can rupture and provoque stroke or heart infarctions. In addition, I als...
• Dr Tony Jackson
  1) Sodium channels contain both alpha and beta subunits. The beta subunits regulate channel kinetics and assembly. The beta subunit extracellular region is homologous to the immunoglobulin domain found in cell adhesion molecules, and beta subunits...
• Dr Thomas Jahn
  The hallmark of numerous neurodegenerative disorders is the accumulation of microscopic protein deposits such as the amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's Disease and the Lewy Bodies of Parkinson's Disease. My research is focused on understanding the rel...
• Dr Ibrahim Jalloh
  Which fuels are best for the injured brain? My research, supported by the MRC, aims to explore several aspects of energy metabolism in the normal and injured human brain.
• Miss Lucie Janeckova
  Our laboratory focuses on principles of axon degeneration, Wallerian degeneration, and it's regulation. The tool is the slow Wallerian degeneration (WldS) gene previously identified in our laboratory that is able to delay degenration of axons aft...
• Dr Tun Jao
  I am a neurologist with clinical interests in acute stroke and epilepsy management. After receiving a Masters degree in Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics in 2010, I started to do my PhD with Prof Ed Bullmore, and my focus is to explore neu...
• Dr Gregory Jefferis
  Our broad goal is to understand how smell turns into behaviour in the fruit fly brain. We use a combination of genetic labelling and manipulation, targeted in vivo whole cell patch clamp recording and high resolution neuroanatomy to study olfactor...
• Dr Alexis Joannides
  We have established a scaleable and clinically compatible system for generating and propagating neural stem cells from human embryonic stem (ES) cells. Using this platform, and building on our work on mouse ES cells demonstrating a correlation of ...
• Professor Peter Jones
  The Cambridge “epiCentre” group works at the interface between population-based research, neuroscience and clinical psychiatry in order to understand the causes, mechanisms and treatments for psychosis (particularly schizophrenia) dementia, depres...
• Dr Phil Jones
  We are investigating how normal stem cells transform into cancer cells in a range of sytems, both by studying stem and progenitor cell fate and also by investigating the role of a specific cell fate regulators. Our focus has been on Hes6, which r...
• Mr Simon Jones
  Imaging analysis and study design in Dr James Rowe's Group. Mainly looking at impulsivity in Parkinson's disease, stroke and dementia using strucutral MR, PET and fMRI.
• Dr Susan Jones
  The primary focus of our research is the function of AMPA and NMDA glutamate receptors at excitatory synapses in the brain. We study the properties of glutamate receptors, glutamatergic synaptic transmission, and synaptic plasticity. We are intere...
• Dr Sietse Jonkman
  Psychological and neural basis of compulsive cocaine seeking Reinforcement learning modelling of drug addiction Acquisition of instrumental responding
• Ms Emily Rose Jordan
  Impulsivity is a risk factor for diseases such as addiction. My current experiments employ a rodent model to investigate how an individual's environment can influence the development of impulsive behaviour and subsequent cocaine abuse. I am inter...
• Dr Hosung Jung
  Axon guidance
• Dr Kristjan Kalm
  My research interests lie broadly in the models and neurobiology of memory and learning. I am particularly interested in the representation and learning of sequential information and I use fMRI and computational modelling to study how human memory...
• Professor Clemens Kaminski
  We develop advanced microscopic imaging techniques that permit us to elucidate molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration. We use techniques such as lifetime, spectrum and polarisation resolved imaging that inform on protein misfolding, aggregat...
• Dr Gabriele Kaminski Schierle
  Our current research is focused on uncovering the molecular mechanisms that cause proteins to misfold and aggregate in live model systems of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). To enable this work we have developed a range of ad...
• Miss Esther Kang
  The investigation of the pathological mechanisms of the amyloid beta peptide of alzheimer's disease.
• Dr Sandor Kantor
  I joined the laboratory of Professor Jenny Morton in the spring of 2011 where my main efforts have been directed towards identifying the sleep and EEG abnormalities in Huntington’s disease (HD). Using R6/2 mice, a transgenic model of HD with a pro...
• Dr Ragnhildur Thora Karadottir
  My lab’s interests are neurotransmitter signalling to oligodendrocytes and their progenitor cells, in both health and disease. Oligodendrocytes produce myelin (in the CNS), which speeds the propagation of the action potential. When the myelin s...
• Dr Muzaffer Kaser
  I am a psychiatrist interested in brain substrates of cognitive impairments associated with psychiatric disorders. My research involved neurocognitive functioning in obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia. In my PhD I will be investigatin...
• Dr Napoleon Katsos
  I am interested in how developmental research can inform theoretical linguistic inquiry and vice versa. My particular focus is in the area of semantics and pragmatics, and in language learning by monolingual and bilingual children as well as child...
• Dr ILIAS KAZANIS
  My research focuses on the regulation of adult brain cytogenesis, especilly on the biology of the subependymal zone neurogenic/gliogenic niche. I am interested in the role of components of the extracellular matrix (ECM/ such as integrins, laminins...
• Dr Hannah Keage
  I am involved in the harmonisation and anslysis of three existing European longitudinal clinicpathological datasets of ageing for the project ‘European Clinicopathologial Studies in Europe’ or EClipSE. It is hoped that results from the EClipSE st...
• Dr Angie Kehagia
  My investigations are based on developing paradigms of executive function and decision making as indices of corticostriatal function, sensitive to neuropsychological deficits seen in neurodegenerative conditions and following brain damage. Techniq...
• Professor Keith Kendrick
  I am a Systems and Behavioural Neuroscientist using behavioural, neurophysiological and computational approaches to understand how neural networks are organised to control recognition and responses to social and emotional cues. l am investigating ...
• Miss Brianne Kent
  I study the neurobiology of learning and memory in rodents. Specifically, I am looking at plasticity-related mechanisms in medial temporal lobe structures, such as the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex.
• Professor Barry Keverne
  Professor Keverne has long standing experience in behavioural neuroscience and has, in the past 10 years, brought molecular genetic techniques to focus on brain development and investigate how genetic perturbations of the brain influence brain fun...
• Professor Roger Keynes
  Growth cone repulsion is an important mechanism controlling axon growth. During development it guides axons by excluding them from repulsive regions of the embryo. Following injury to the adult brain it may also block axon regeneration, with major...
• Seyed-Mahdi Khaligh-Razavi
  Understanding and developing computational models of object vision.
• Dr Golam Khandaker
  I am a psychiatrist and clinical epidemiologist interested in early life risk factors, neurodevelopment and adult neuropsychiatric disorders (schizophrenia and depression); and common links in childhood between chronic adult diseases, physical and...
• Mr Rogier Kievit
  My current research focuses on multivariate modeling of neurocognitive ageing. I am part of the Cam-CAN project, a unique, multidepartmental large scale aging study of Cambridge residents between 18 and 88. In this project, we combine structural (...
• Dr Clare Killikelly
  I am investigating cognitive remediation in patients with psychosis using a novel computer based cognitive training task. I am also collaborating with the Anna Freud Centre examining the development of socio-affective control in young and older ad...
• Dr Dong-Joo Kim
  My work investigates brain compliance and deformation associated with various neuro-pathologies (head injury and hydrocephalus), derived using novel methods and focused on two different approaches: global and structural. In the global approach, th...
• Dr James Kirkbride Ph.D.
  I am a psychiatric epidemiologist interested in the causes of schizophrenia and other major psychotic disorders from an environmental perspective. I am a member of the EpiCentre group within the Department of Psychiatry. I am particularly interest...
• Dr Sabine Knipp
  I am interested in the development of the nervous system. My research focuses on the processes and signaling pathways important for proper proliferation, differentiation and cell movement during early stages of neuronal morphogenesis in the chick ...
• Dr Aleksandr Kogan
  My lab investigates the prosociality and well-being from biological, psychological, and cross-cultural perspectives. In particular, we are highly interested in cooperation, trust, altruism, positive emotions, close relationships, happiness, physic...
• Dr Andrew Kolarik
  I am a Research Associate at Cambridge University in Professor Brian Moore’s research group. My work looks at auditory perception among hearing impaired and blind listeners. I am interested in how sensory impairment affects spatial awareness, and...
• Miss Anna Kolb
  My project is to analyze the properties of the cells in the margin zone of Glioblastoma multiforme, a highly aggressive type of brain cancer.
• Mr Angelos Kolias
  I am the RESCUEicp trial research fellow (PI: Peter Hutchinson). My research interests include neurotrauma (traumatic brain injury; acute subdural haematomas; chronic subdural haematomas; spinal trauma) and cerebrovascular diseases (subarachnoid h...
• Dr Maksym Kopanitsa
  There are good reasons to believe that phenomena underlying synaptic plasticity are very important in the formation of memories. It is especially evident in the hippocampus, the part of the brain which is critical for spatial memory. For example, ...
• Dr Anna Korhonen
  Computational neurolinguistics, the application of natural language processing techniques to aid research in cognitive neuroscience, computational lexical semantics and comceptual structure
• Dr Mark Kotter
  My group is interested in the biology of adult CNS stem and precursor cells in the context of disease. A particular focus lies on mechanisms of CNS remyelination, a stem/precursor cell-mediated process in which new myelin sheaths are restored to d...
• Ms Katharina Kraus
  Philosophy of the Neurosciences: - Theoretical and conceptual foundations of neuroscientific studies - "Logic" of "correlation" studies, correlating neuroscientific data (i.e., the biochemical, structural and functional parameters of the brain) ...
• Dr Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
  - visual object recognition - pattern-information fMRI - computational modelling - species relationships
• Dr Dina Kronhaus
  My research is focused on studying connectivity and neural re-organisation, in the human brain, using theoretical modelling techniques to complement analysis of experimental data. I aim to identify overlapping yet distinct neural circuits implicat...
• Dr Wei-Li Kuan
  My primary research interest lies in the study of novel interactions between neurotransmitters in the basal ganglia in the context of locomotor and mood disorders. Currently I am working on whether the serotonergic system has a modulatory function...
• Dr Markus Kuhn
  I am interested in information-theoretic and signal-processing aspects of neural physiology, in models of human perception and learning, and in computer architectures specifically designed to execute biologically plausible models of neural networks.
• Dr Jessica Kwok
  I am interested in the role and function of proteoglycans in controlling regeneration and sprouting after CNS injury. Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans, apart from being strongly upregulated after CNS injury, are also present in a structure calle...
• Dr Kristjan Laane
  Hedonic Value, Pleasure, Motivation, Incentive Learning, Addiction, Positive Affect, Subjective Well-Being, Evaluative Conditioning, Overeating, Drug Abuse
• Dr Leon Lagnado
  We are investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating synaptic transmission and the way these determine the processing of information by a neural circuit. The circuit we are concentrating on is the retina and the question that guid...
• Dr Meng-Chuan Lai
  As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, my clinical interests are in autism spectrum conditions (ASC), psychosis risk syndrome, gender issues and sexual identity development. My research focuses on elucidating the heterogeneity of ASC at multiple ...
• Dr Sergio Lainez Vicente
  We are interested in the mechanisms by which sensory receptors transduce stimuli into a nervous impulse which can be detected by the central nervous system (CNS) as a sensation. My current area of activity is in nociceptors (pain-sensitive neurons...
• Mr Armin Lak
  Neural mechanisms of learning, goal-directed behaviour and economic decision making
• Dr Andras Lakatos
  Andras is interested in the adaptive changes in glia-neuron interactions following remote axonal insults, such as axotomy and demyelination. The particular focus is how endogenous cortical/gray matter astrocytes and stem cells responding to such c...
• Dr Brian Lam
  I mainly work on genomic data generated from microarray experiments and I am particularly interested in the gene regulatory network of neural plasticity and functions.
• Miss Jessica Lam
  I am doing my PhD project to understand the mechanism of polyglutamine disease through genetic and biochemical approaches.
• Dr Matthias Landgraf
  Development of neural networks - from the morphogenesis of dendritic trees to patterns of connections. As neuronal circuits form, synaptic terminals are delivered to specific regions of the nervous system so that connections can form between appr...
• Jennifer Landt
  I am currently working on a brain imaging project looking at the neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease in adults with Down’s syndrome.
• Professor Simon Laughlin
  Our group is interested in discovering design principles that govern the structure and function of neurons and neural circuits. We record from well-defined neurons, mainly in flies’ visual systems, to measure the molecular and cellular factors tha...
• Dr Alpar Lazar
  My main research area is sleep, circadian rhythm and cognition in neurodegenerative diseases. My scope is to investigate the deep structure of sleep EEG activity in relation to circadian rhythm, cognition and metabolism and the way it changes ov...
• Dr Nicolas Le Novere
  My scientific interests revolve around signal transduction in neurons, ranging from the molecular structure of membrane proteins involved in neurotransmission to modelling signalling pathways. A strong focus is the molecular and cellular basis of ...
• Dr Joff Lee
  I am interested in the mechanisms of memory formation and persistence at the neural systems and molecular neurobiological level. In particular, a primary focus of research relates to the phenomenon of memory reconsolidation, the process that resta...
• Dr Máté Lengyel
  I study learning and memory from computational, algorithmic/representational and neurobiological viewpoints. I also maintain an active interest in the possible computational functions of neural oscillations, particularly those present in the hippo...
• Dr Belinda Lennox
  My interest is in the biological basis of psychosis. I have used fMRI to capture the neural activation associated with auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia, and associated abnormalities in auditory processing. I have undertaken studies to...
• Ms Victoria Leong
  When infants first learn language, prosodic rhythm ('Strong-weak' syllable patterning) is an important cue used for segmenting speech into words. I work on 'infant-like' analytical models that detect prosodic rhythm using only temporal patterns in...
• Dr Louis Leung
  I am primarily interested in how guidance cues are able to regulate the migratory behaviour of the growth cone, which directs the navigation of axons during development. In particular, I am looking at how cell adhesion molecules are regulated by ...
• Miss Lu Li
  Drug induced neuroadaptation, which underlines the long-lasting changes in brains and behaviour, relies not only on chemical adaptations but also on the morphological alterations of neurons and modifications of synaptic connections. The repeated ...
• Dr Zhi-Yong Li
  Biomechanics of plaque rupture Image-based computaional simulation modelling of aneurysm growth and rupture
• Dr Eve Limbrick-Oldfield
  I have recently joined the Department of Experimental Psychology to investigate cognitive distortions that may underlie the development of gambling disorders using fMRI.
• Ms Winifred Limmer
  I am investigating the cognitive deficits associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder on three levels: adult, adolescent, and subclinical. I am particularly interested in the interplay between memory systems and the role of modulators, such as s...
• Mr Gerit Arne Linneweber
  Development and physiology of neuronal lineages in Drosophila The autonomic nervous system controls visceral muscle contraction and the metabolism of internal organs. Our lab recently identified a visceral lineage that secretes an insulin-like pe...
• Dr Pietro Lio'
  I am interested in modeling multiscale phenomena and biological networks dynamics, developing statistical methods for the integration sequence, proteomics and microarray data analysis. I am currently modeling biological processes on networks; mo...
• Dr Danuta Lisiecka
  I am interested in how MRI techniques can help us understand susceptibility to psychiatric disorders and mechanisms of action of psychiatric treatments. My current research focuses on: A) neural mechanism of action of Minocycline on negative...
• Miss Xiuyun Liu
  Cerebral auto-regulation testing
• Dr Yong Liu
  I am interested in understanding human brain network organization and its application from neuroimaging data. Now I am foucing on the network architecture in MCI and AD.
• Dr Rick Livesey
  A fundamental question in neural stem cell biology is how distinct classes of neurons are generated at specific places and times in the nervous system in order for them to be incorporated correctly into neuronal circuits. We study this question in...
• Dr Darren Logan
  Our research interest is in understanding the molecular and genetic basis of olfaction, and how that influences behaviour. Our wider aim is to characterise the neural circuits that instruct stereotyped hard-wired behaviours, and investigate how th...
• Dr Michael Lombardo
  My research deals with the neural systems of social cognition/behavior and autism spectrum conditions.
• Dr Barbara Lorber
  My research interests are in identifying mechanisms that underlie neuronal survival & axonal regeneration after CNS injury and disease. I have a particular interest in the role of activated retinal glia which appear to be mediating survival and r...
• Dr Leila Luheshi
  My research is focused on understanding the origins of protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases and the relationship between protein aggregation and the pathogenesis of these diseases. I aim to achieve this through cross-disciplinary, co...
• Dr Sarah Lummis
  My lab works on Cys-loop receptors, which are one of the major classes of ligand-gated ion channels. The family includes in its vertebrate members 5-HT3, nACh, GABAA, GABAC, and glycine receptors. Proteins from this family are critical for fast sy...
• Dr Dan Ma
  Study on the mechanisms of adult stem/precursor cell-mediated CNS remyelination, with particular interest in the epigenetic regulation.
• Professor David MacKay FRS
  Bayesian inference and information theory; computation, learning, and memory in neural network models, including probabilistic and spike-timing-based models. Human-computer interfaces based on information theory, especially aimed at disabled peopl...
• Dr Janet Maguire
  The aim of our research is to identify the function of G-protein coupled receptors and their ligands in the human cerebrovascular system in health and disease. The majority of research output has focussed on a family of three bioactive peptides, ...
• Dr Omar Mahroo
  In conjunction with Trevor Lamb (now at the Australian National University), I am investigating aspects of retinal function by recording the electroretinogram (ERG) from human subjects, particularly during recovery following exposure to intense li...
• Dr Lambros Malafouris
  My research interest is in the archaeology of mind and the anthropology of the brain artefact-interface (BAI) – covering topics extending from early stone tools and the ‘exographic’ symbolic technologies of more recent periods, to the latest devel...
• Anne Manktelow
  I work part-time in the Division of Anaesthesia as a Research Assistant conducting the follow-up studies with patients recovering from traumatic brain injury (including MRI scanning and neuropsychological testing). I am also undertaking a part-ti...
• Dr Tom Manly
  Our research relates to understanding impairment and rehabilitation in attentional and executive function. Our work with stroke patients mainly focuses on spatial neglect and its relationship to executive/frontal impairment. Our work with patients...
• Mr Richard Manns
  Axon growth inhibitors in grey matter, the mechanics of growth cone repulsion by Sema3A and Nogo, protein synthesis in the growth cone.
• Dr Adam Mar
  Paradigm development, behavioural analysis and neural bases of decision-making.
• Dr Riccardo Marioni
  I am an Alzheimer’s Research UK fellow working with Dr Fiona Matthews in the MRC Biostatistics Unit and Professor Carol Brayne in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care. My main research interests are cognitive epidmiology and the devel...
• Dr Theo Markettos
  We're building Bluehive, a large-scale neural network computer, aimed at simulating millions of neurons in real time on custom (FPGA) hardware. We're collaborating with the universities of Manchester, Sheffield and Southampton as part of the BIMP...
• Miss Pauliina Markkula
  My core research interest is in glucose sensing in the brain.
• Mr Andreas Marouchos
  The implementation of neuroimaging methodologies (e.g. multivariate pattern analysis) and computational modelling to investigate semantic extraction from object perception.
• Dr William Marslen-Wilson
  My research interests are in the cognitive science and neuroscience of language. I study the comprehension of spoken language in the mind and the brain using interdisciplinary techniques aimed at identifying the neural processing streams that supp...
• Professor Keith Martin
  The main goal of our group is to understand better the mechanisms of retinal ganglion cell (RGC) death in glaucoma, the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. We aim to develop methods to protect RGC thus slowing the progression of gla...
• Miss Mari-Carmen Marx
  My research is centered around processes that modulate synaptic transmission. Using direct electrophysiological recordings from pre- and postsynaptic neurons as well as glial cells in brain slices combined with fluorescent ion imaging, I investiga...
• Dr Matthew Mason
  I investigate the function and evolution of the middle ear apparatus in vertebrates. Comparative anatomy is backed up with more recent techniques, such as micro-CT and laser interferometry, in order to visualise the middle ear structures and exami...
• Miss Sarah Mason
  Research into the neuropsychological profile of presymptomatic Huntington's disease using fMRI scanning and behavioural testing. With particular interests in areas such as reward processing and hippocampal function. Research into predictors of de...
• Dr Tarik Massoud
  My current interests are in experimental molecular neuroimaging of reporter gene expression, as applied to imaging protein-protein interactions and signal transduction in brain gliomas and neural stem cells, within living subjects.
• Dr Fiona Matthews
  Drawing on the data resource of the MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing study, but additionally using other population based studies; my programme provides methodologically sound estimates of health and ill health for populations. The methodological...
• Dr Hugh Matthews
  Phototransduction and olfactory transduction. Calcium homeostasis in vertebrate photoreceptors and olfactory receptors, and its role in modulating their electrical responses to stimulation. Light-induced calcium release within the photoreceptor ou...
• Dr Michele Mattioni
  The Medium Spiny Neuron (MSN) is the most common neuron in the striatum (95%). The MSN has a large spiny dendritic tree that receives many different neurotransmitter signals. This broad spectrum of signals is then processed and integrated, modulat...
• Miss Kate McAllister
  I am based at the Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group as part of the Department of Psychiatry. The focus of my PhD is the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in aging and the development of Alzheimer’s disease in Dow...
• Miss Katie McAllister
  Development of touchscreen tasks for the assessment of cognitive impairments present in schizophrenia. Treatment of cognitive impairments in models of schizophrenia.
• Dr Sebastian McBride
  I am exploring cognitive ability in sheep as a precursor for developing and validating cognitive and emotional markers for early onset Huntingtons Disease in the ovine model. I am particularly interested in behavioural anomalies reflecting altere...
• Dr Brian McCabe
  The neural mechanisms of learning and memory, particularly imprinting in the domestic chick. The young of many species, when exposed to a conspicuous object, rapidly learn the object's characteristics and subsequently narrow their social preferenc...
• Dr Carmel McEniery
  I have two major research interests. One is arterial stiffness, and in particular, the role of the vascular endothelium in the regulation of arterial stiffness. The other is discovering more about the mechanisms leading to the development of hyper...
• Dr Mary McLean
  I perform magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy studies on patients with brain tumours (as well as tumours of other parts of the body). The aim is to improve non-invasive diagnosis and the prediction and monitoring of response to treatment. ...
• Dr Harvey McMahon
  Molecular mechanisms of vesicle exocytosis, endocytosis and membrane trafficking in neurons. We are interested in understanding basic mechanisms of vesicle trafficking, especially at the synapse, where synaptic vesicle exocytosis and endocytosi...
• Professor Peter McNaughton
  We are working on the mechanisms by which sensory receptors transduce stimuli into a nervous impulse which can be detected by the central nervous system as a sensation. Our current areas of activity are in nociceptors (pain-sensitive neurons) and ...
• Mrs Natasha Mead
  An MRC funded longitudinal project investigating possible causal relationships between rhythmic awareness and dyslexia.
• Dr Lisa Meadows
  Using Drosophila as a model to understand molecular mechanisms of innate behaviour
• Professor David Menon
  The research program of the University Division of Anaesthesia has aimed to understand regional cerebral pathophysiology to advance the care of critically ill patients after brain injury, from initial ictus, through recovery from coma and rehabili...
• Dr Emiliano Merlo
  My research focus is oriented to understand the molecular bases of memory formation and maintenance. In particular, I am applying behavioural, pharmacological and molecular analysis to study the switch underlying the transition between reconsolida...
• Dr Su Metcalfe
  The application of nanotechnology to healthcare - nano-medicine - is now recognised worldwide as a new era in clinical medicine. Currently untreatable illnesses including neurodegenerative diseases (NDD) present key future targets for nano-therape...
• Dr David Meunier
  My research involves applying complex networks tools obtained from neuroimaging (fMRI, MEG) data. The aim is to develop a "network approach" to brain measures.
• Dr Claire Michel
  The aim of my project is to use and optimise optical techniques to visualise aggregation prone proteins such as amyloid beta in several model organisms (cells, C. elegans, Drosophila). To do so, I moved from the Departments of Genetics and Medicin...
• Dr Yevheniia Mikheenko
  My research focuses on the neurobiological basis of emotion regulation and resilience, and its relevance to performance in competitive sport. Psychologically, “resilience” describes the ability to bounce back from adversity or trauma and thrive de...
• Dr Amy Milton
  Memory is a critical function of the brain, but little is known about the mechanisms by which memories are modified, adapted, and persist. Memories are known to 'reconsolidate' undergoing updating and strengthening following their destabilisation ...
• Dr Eric Miska
  We are interested in all aspects of gene regulation by regulatory RNA. Current research themes include: miRNA biology and pathology, miRNA mechanism, piRNA biology and the germline, endo-siRNAs in epigenetic inheritance and evironmental conditioni...
• Dr Daniel Mitchell
  My research focuses on visual object representations in the human brain. I am interested in the flexible nature of such representations, their limited capacity and resolution in perception, visual working memory, and imagery, and their links with ...
• Dr Emad Moeendarbary
  I am a mechanical engineer by training with a strong interest in the experimental and ‎theoretical/computational study of biological systems. Presently, I am working at the ‎interface of engineering and neuroscience to study mechanics of neurons ...
• Dr Ahmed Dahir Mohamed
  I am an enthusiastic, hard working, and compassionate chartered psychologist (Cpsychol, BPS), with extensive research expertise and mental health experience. In 2008, I gained a first class honours degree in psychology, which is accredited by the...
• Professor John Mollon
  My research interests are in the visual perception of colour, motion, form and depth; the genetic basis for individual variations in perception; the nature of the information carried by the cerebral bus; and the history of neuroscience and of colo...
• Mr Stephen Montgomery
  My Phd research focuses on the evolutionary genetics of primate brain evolution. Relative and absolute brain size has expanded along several lineages across the primate phylogeny, however research in this area has almost exlusively focused on the ...
• Professor Brian Moore
  Mechanisms of normal hearing and hearing impairments; relationship of auditory abilities to speech perception; design of signal processing hearing aids for sensorineural hearing loss; fitting of hearing aids to suit the individual; electrical stim...
• Dr James Moore
  I study the conscious experience of controlling voluntary action. This feature of action experience is often referred to as the sense of agency. The aim of my research is to identify both the cognitive processes that contribute to the sense of age...
• Mr Stephen Moore
  My research aims to examine the effects of nutrition on the brain (particularly on memory cirucits). This covers two main areas: (1) The effect of diet e.g. high-fat and hyperglycaemia (high blood glucose) on the metabolism and physiology of ...
• Dr Sharon Morein-Zamir
  I am interested in action control and executive function or how people go about controlling their actions. Namely, how they manage to control their responses and adapt them when circumstances deem them no longer appropriate, such as when carrying ...
• Dr Marta Morgado Correia
  Diffusion weighted MR imaging provides data about the diffusivity of water molecules within the imaged object. It has been applied in human brain imaging both in order to characterise disease and orientation information of nerve fibres in normal t...
• Dr Rhiannon Morris
  I am a first year PhD student working with the Stroke Research Group, Department of Clinical Neurosciences. The aim of the research project is to investigate the occurrence and clinical implications of selective neuronal loss and microglial activa...
• Professor Jenny Morton
  Our research is focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration and on developing strategies to delay or prevent the death of neurones in injured or degenerating brain, particularly in Huntington's disease. We are also interes...
• Rachel Moseley
  My research concerns the representation and processing of semantic knowledge in the brain. A substantial body of literature suggests that conceptual knowledge and cognitive processing might be grounded in the sensorimotor systems involved in exp...
• Dr Abteen Mostofi
  The cerebellum contains one of most anatomically regular and seemingly simple arrangements of neurons in the vertebrate brain. My research focuses on the neural mechanisms of its contribution to motor control and utilises electrophysiological tec...
• Dr Ulrich Müller
  My major research interest is the neurotransmitter modulation of cognitive and emotional processes, with a focus on the role of dopamine and noradrenaline in frontostriatal functions. I use fMRI, radioligand imaging with PET, pharmacological chall...
• Dr Nicholas Mundy
  We study the evolutionary genetics of sensory systems in primates. In particular, we are interested in the evolution and selection of colour vision polymorphisms in New World monkeys and lemurs, and the evolution of olfactory and vomeronasal recep...
• Dr Fionnuala Murphy
  My research focuses on how cognition and emotion interact - in healthy individuals, in individuals that suffer from mood disorders, and in brain-injured individuals. Executive control over neutral and emotional materials has featured prominently i...
• Dr Graham Murray
  My research investigates the brain basis of particular neuropsychiatric symptoms - namely delusions, hallucinations and anhedonia. It's already known that brain systems involving the neurotransmitter dopamine are disturbed in psychotic illnesses s...
• Dr Jennifer Murray
  My research primarily involves mapping the striatal circuitry responsible for the transition from goal-directed to habitual drug seeking.
• Dr Joseph Murray
  I research the development of conduct problems, crime and violence through the life course. I have investigated the childhood origins of antisocial behaviour in several large, longitudinal studies in Britain, Sweden, Switzerland, Holland and the U...
• Dr Ruth Murrell-Lagnado
  We are interested in the structure, function and cell biology of ion channels and in particular the P2X family of membrane receptors. These cation channels open on binding extracellular ATP, and are widely distributed throughout all major systems ...
• Dr Isabel Nascimento Ferreira
  My principle research area is investigation of the molecular mechanisms involved in axon degeneration associated with physical and chemical injury as well as ageing. In adition I am also investigating pharmacological and molecular ways of delayin...
• Swiya Nath
  Swiya Nath is starting her doctorate under the supervision of Dr. Denes Szucs on the development of the concept of abstract number. She will be conducting a longitudinal study of cognitive skills associated with the development of mathematical abi...
• Pradeep Nathan
  I am a clinical pharmacologist with research interests in the neuropharmacology and neural substrates of cognition and emotion and psychiatric and neurological endophenotypes. I use cognitive, functional and molecular neuroimaging techniques (i.e....
• Miss Muktha Natrajan
  Remyelination is a regenerative process that occurs through the formation of new myelin sheaths by oligodendrocytes, which are recruited as oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) after demyelination. The OPC recruitment and differentiation process...
• Dr Jonas Neher
  I am investigating the contribution of inflammation, and in particular activated microglia, to neuronal death. We have recently found that inflammatory activated microglia can actively induce neuronal death through phagocytosis in culture and I am...
• Ms Urte Neniskyte
  My current research interests focus on inflammatory neurodegeneration in the brain. We are investigating how neuroinflammation contributes to the pathology of Alzheimer's disease, focusing on the role of brain macrophages microglia in the neurodeg...
• Dr Peter Nestor
  To relate the neuropsychological and behavioural profiles of degenerative dementias, such as Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia, to regional brain damage through neuroimaging (MRI and PET) and histopathological analysis. A particular ...
• Dr Alister Nicol
  Neuronal encoding in learning and memory
• Mr Bart Nieuwenhuis
  My research focuses on axonal targeting of alpha 9 integrins to aid neuronal growth after central nervous system (CNS) injury. Forced expression of this integrin leads to robust neurite outgrowth on inhibitory substrates in vitro, in vivo however,...
• Dr Cristina Nombela Otero
  During my PhD I worked on cognition and rehabilitation in Parkinson's disease patients. Currently, my research at Dr James Rowe's Lab is based on cognitive and motor impairments in Parkinson's disease (PD), under three headings, 1) Working memory...
• Dr Annemarie North
  After almost 20 years working in various laboratories, I left the bench in 2010 and now work in the editorial office of Brain, A Journal of Neurology, under the editorship of Professor Alastair Compston. Previously I worked under the supervision ...
• Dr Sam Norton
  My current research involves modelling the incidence and progression of dementia in the Cognitive Function & Ageing Studies. These models will be used to develop projections of the likely future number of people developing dementia and their long ...
• Dr John O'Brien CBiol FSB
  Working on the application of improving biolistic delivery of getting DNA or fluorescent dyes into live cells. Biolistic transfection is proving an increasingly popular method of incorporating DNA or dyes into cells that are difficult to transfect...
• Professor John T O'Brien
  My research interests in dementia include the role of biomarkers, especially MRI, SPECT and PET imaging, in the differential and early diagnosis of dementia, including identifying those ‘at risk’ of future cognitive decline and developing markers ...
• Dr Cahir O'Kane
  We use Drosophila as a model organism to study synapse function. Questions of major interest include the mechanisms of synaptic vesicle trafficking, and the roles of cellular trafficking pathways in the pathology of neurodegenerative diseases. Rec...
• Dr Martin O'Neill
  I am currently researching the neurophysiology of reward processes, focusing on the role neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex play in decision making under conditions of uncertainty. My previous research (PhD) investigated the neuropharmacology o...
• Dr Stephan Ohnmacht
  Our research at the WBIC focuses on the development of novel small molecule radiotracers using 18F and 11C radionuclides. Positron Emission Tomography is applied to study diseases such as stroke, tumor hypoxia as well as Alzheimer's and other neur...
• Dr Shin-ichi Ohnuma
  We are studying mechanisms of retinogenesis using frog Xenopus as a model system. In particular, we are interested in mechanism of communication between cell cycle regulation and cell fate determination.
• Dr Birgitta Olofsson
  How does an animal evaluate food and how is this information used to modify its feeding behaviour appropriately? In many animals food provides a reinforcing feedback after it is eaten that influences subsequent food-seeking behaviour. Variation ...
• Dr Charlotte Oomen
  I am interested in the development and cognitive symptoms of psychopathological disorders such as schizophrenia and depression. During my PhD I studied the structural and functional consequences of early life and chronic stress on the hippocampu...
• Dr Swidbert Ott
  Our broad goal is to understand the mechanisms that enable animals of a given genotype to adjust to changes in their environment. As an experimental model we use Phase Change in the Desert Locust, an extreme and economically devastating example of...
• Joanne Outtrim
  Acute Brain Injury Program
• Professor Adrian Owen
  In January 2011, my research team and I moved to the University of Western Ontario, Canada, where I have taken up the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging. Although I continue to maintain strong collaborati...
• Emma Pagett
  I provide data support and assist the team involved with studies of cognitive ageing - the MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (UK centres and Wales), along with the Cam-CAN project (Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience).
• Dr Sofia Papadia
  I am interested in the neuronal control of obesity, investigating the molecular mechanisms and signalling pathways by which genes in the brain are regulating energy homeostasis. I am a member of Prof. I.S. Farooqi's team.
• Dr David Parker
  My lab examines how interactions in neuronal networks generate behaviourally relevant network outputs, using the lamprey spinal cord locomotor network as a model system. We combine electrophysiological, computational, molecular, and anatomical app...
• Dr Rickie Patani
  The focus of my research is neural lineage restriction from human pluripotent stem cells and the subsequent regional fate specification of derived neural precursors. One key area of study is to investigate temporal responsiveness of human neural p...
• Dr Karalyn Patterson
  I study language and memory in adults, mainly from the perspective of the patterns of disruption to these cognitive functions that occur as a result of brain damage or disease. Linking both the location of structural/functional lesions in the pati...
• Dr Roy Patterson
  We have developed a computational model of the auditory signal processing that transforms a sound wave into the auditory image you hear in response to that sound wave. We investigate how the cochlea and neural centres in the auditory pathway proce...
• Dr Andrew Patton
  Study of circadian rhythms in the mammalian SCN using genetic and electrophysiological approaches.
• Professor Ole Paulsen
  The primary interest of my group is the relationship between network oscillations and synaptic plasticity. Network oscillations naturally organise spike timing conducive to spike timing-dependent plasticity (STDP), a strong candidate for a mechani...
• Dr Laura Pearce
  I am interested in the signalling pathways that operate in the brain to control energy homeostasis and how these are disrupted in metabolic disease. In particular my work focuses on the characterisation of novel genetic mutations associated with o...
• Dr Ben Pearson
  Saccadometry is the measurement and analysis of saccadic eye movements as a means of assessing brain function. We are using a portable, non-invasive device (the saccadometer) to measure the latency of saccadic eye movements. Previous work has demo...
• Professor Roger Pedersen
  Our principal objective is to define the molecular and genetic basis for the maintenance of the pluripotent status of human embryonic stem cells, and similarly, the basis for their differentiation into the primary body lineages: mesoderm, endoderm...
• Dr Polly Peers
  My main interests are in attention, emotion processing and the relationship between the two. I use cognitive task manipulations in healthy individuals and patients to examine attentional processes, and having more recently been examining the effe...
• Miss Moos Peeters MSc
  I am interested in the (emotional) functioning of patients with disorders of consciousness, especially patients in the vegetative and minimally consciousness state. I use EMG, EEG and fMRI in my research
• Dr Alonso Pena
  Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that enables the measurement of the restricted diffusion of water in living tissue. Its principal application has been in the imaging of white matter in the human brain...
• Dr Joao Pereira
  Spatial statistics and morphometry analyses of Magnetic Resonance brain images. Current main focus is on enhancements and extensions to the standard Voxel Based Morphometry (VBM) method, mostly through the improvement of the registration step and ...
• Dr Nicholas Perentos
  Neurodegenerative diseases can have profound impact on the brain's networks well before cell loss. Understanding how these changes give rise to cognitive impairment at early stages of a disease may lead to novel therapeutic approaches. In Prof Mor...
• Dr Jesus Perez
  My research activity is mainly focused on early detection and intervention in psychosis and the history of psychiatry. I am particularly interested in the epidemiological apects of young people at high-risk of developing psychosis and with first-e...
• Dr Jean-Pascal Pfister
  My research is mainly focused on learning and memory. Trained as a physicist, I am interested in developing analytical models of synaptic plasticity with a stronger focus on a specific form of plasticity called Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity (S...
• Miss Holly Phillips
  I am interested in the application of multivariate and machine learning methods to the analysis of neuroimaging data. I have a background of applying these methods to fMRI data in the classification of pain states, but here as a part of my PhD I w...
• Dr Anna Philpott
  Mechanisms that link the cell cycle and differentiation are poorly understood and still less is known about how developmental cues are linked to cell cycle exit. Our laboratory is interested in understanding the coordination of cell proliferation ...
• Dr Chia-Ling Phuah
  Mechanism of autoimmunity post Campath-1H treatment in Multiple Sclerosis
• Dr Sara G.M. Piccirillo
  Although brain tumors account for less than 2% of all primary tumors they are responsible for 7% of the years of life lost from cancer. The commonest class of brain tumors in adults are astrocytomas and the commonest astrocytoma is the highly mali...
• Professor John Pickard
  Advancing the care of patients with acute brain injury (trauma, haemorrhage and hydrocephalus) from initial ictus, neurointensive care, recovery from coma and rehabilitation to final outcome through the study of pathophysiology (multimodality beds...
• Miss Sandra Pietsch
  I recently joined Professor Morton's research group. Research in the lab aims to understand the mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration and abnormal behaviour in Huntington's disease (HD). I'm focusing on the role of synaptic modulators (specifica...
• Hannah Pincham
  I am investigating the neural basis of the attentional blink - a deficit in processing the second of two rapidly presented targets. I am interested in the factors influencing the magnitude and likelihood of the deficit (for example, timing effects...
• Dr Scarlett Pinnock
  The rate of neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the adult hippocampus is highly labile. Much of this lability is due to the exquisite sensitivity of the progenitor cells to glucocorticoids. Glucocorticoids have two principal roles: absolute level...
• Dr Ofelia Pinto de Carvalho
  We identify novel genes involved in either Primary Microcephaly or in Pain sensing disfunctions in human patients.
• Mr Valentino A. Pironti
  I am a BPS Chartered Psychologist working with adult patients with ADHD in the Adult ADHD Research Clinic at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder with symptoms of inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. Several geneti...
• Dr Kate Plaisted-Grant
  My research interest in autism was sparked by the fascinating cognitive strengths shown by many individuals with autism. These include exceptional abilities to process fine details, better discrimination abilities compared to typical individuals a...
• Dr Stefano Pluchino
  Recent evidence from our own laboratory indicates that the systemic injection of somatic neural stem/precursor cells (NPCs) very efficiently protect the CNS from the chronic degeneration induced by inflammation both in small rodents as well as in ...
• Alexa Pohl
  Many psychiatric conditions may have origins in abnormal brain development in utero. It is hypothesized that autism spectrum conditions (ASCs) may be linked to higher levels of testosterone during a critical period of brain "programming" that occ...
• Mrs Roseline Porchet Glauser
  I am mainly interested in the neuronal mechanisms underlying gambling addiction, with a particular focus on the nicotinic acetylcholine and dopamine systems. My research interests also include the impact of substance use co-morbidities on gambling...
• Dr Kerry Price
  My research involves receptors from the pentameric (Cys-loop) ligand gated ion channel superfamily. A couple of recent advances in the field have given some insight into the structure of related proteins, but the molecular details of the transiti...
• Mr Stephen Price
  My group uses advanced multimodal MR and PET imaging to understand the heterogeneity of gliomas (high and low grade) in individual patients. We know that gliomas are among the most heterogeneous tumours but still do not have a method of detecting ...
• Lucia Prieto Godino
  I am interested in the design principles governing the function, structure, development and evolution of the nervous system. The relatively simple and well understood olfactory system of Drosphila larvae is a good model to study design principles ...
• Dr Claire Quilter
  DEFRA funded project to identify the genetic causes of sow aggression towards their offspring. We propose that this is a good animal model for puerperal psychosis, the severe form of human post-natal depression.Transcriptional differences in the h...
• Charlotte Rae
  In my PhD, supervised by James Rowe, I am investigating the selection and inhibition of voluntary action. The process of initiating voluntary movements, and then stopping or changing your actions, relies on the prefrontal cortex. I use DTI (diff...
• Dr Ruma Raha-Chowdhury
  I have a passion for Iron. My main interest is investigate role of iron proteins in brain iron homeostasis, neuronal inflammation and neurodegenerative diseases. Recently I found a family of inhibitory Guidance molecules regulate by iron and have ...
• Dr Taufiq Rahman
  My research interests broadly lie in two categories - structure-function studies of intracellular calcium channels and rational design and development of selective modulators of signalling proteins including ion channels
• Dr Roma Rambaran
  Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia to affect the aged. As life expectancy increases so too does the prevalence of the disease. At a cellular level (AD) attacks the connections between nerve cells known as synapses and dis...
• Dr Carl Edward Rasmussen
  I work on probabilistic inference and machine learning. What are the mathematical foundations of learning from experience in biological systems?
• Mr Nikon Rasumov
  Signal processing in neurons is constrained by internal noise and energy consumption. Neural systems often invest energy in amplifying signals to protect them against internal noise. There is no general expression for the trade-off between energy ...
• Dr Brinda Ravikumar
  Clearance of aggregate-prone proteins by Macroautophagy
• Dr Lucy Raymond
  The group aims to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying intellectual disability in humans. Our main focus is on families with X linked disease. In collaboration with The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, we are using a new approach to dise...
• Dr Mansoor Raza
  Growth cone repulsion during development and adult CNS failure to regenerate after injury. The use of viral vectors for transgene expression in the nervous system to promote axonal regeneration.
• Dr Akhilesh Reddy
  My group is interested in circadian rhythms, which are daily cycles of physiology and behaviour that persist when organisms are isolated from the outside world. They represent a fundamental biological mechanism, and are present at all levels of li...
• Dr Evan Reid
  My group's research is focussed on the hereditary spastic paraplegias, genetic conditions where the corticospinal tract axons degenerate. HSPs selectively involve axons while sparing the neuronal cell bodies, so we study them to understand molecul...
• Mr Mark Renshaw
  When memories are first acquired they remain for a few hours in a 'labile' state, during which they are susceptible to being disrupted by pharmacological and behavioural manipulations. The transition to a 'stable' state, in which these manipulatio...
• Dr Hugh Richards
  Over 3000 CSF shunt operationions are performed in the UK every year. In order to monitor the implants and surgical practice used, the UK Shunt Registry was set up in 1995 and now contains details on over 43,000 surgical procedures. Managing su...
• Dr Howard Ring
  My research covers three main areas. My work in epilepsy is largely concerned with studying the management and behavioural correlates of treatment-resistant epilepsy in people with developmental or acquired brain damage. In the field of Autism res...
• Dr Jane Risdall
  In collaboration with DSTL Porton Down looking at Blast Brain Injury in an animal model. Using a benchtop blast wave generator to expose the cranium to a primary blast wave alone and subsequently look at changes in protein expression and gene acti...
• Dr Patrick Riss
  My research is focussed on radiochemistry with short lived positron emitting radionuclides. This includes the development of efficient methods for radiolabelling of small molecules as well as the synthesis and validation of radiotracers for Positr...
• Dr Timothy Rittman BMBS BMedSci PgCertMedEd MRCP(London)
  I work with patients suffering from Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) and Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD) in collaboration with James Rowe. These are two rare types of dementia with similarities to Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. M...
• Professor Trevor Robbins
  Research interests span the areas of cognitive neuroscience, behavioural neuroscience and psychopharmacology. Main work focuses on the functions of the frontal lobes of the brain and their connections with other regions. These brain systems are re...
• Professor Angela Roberts
  I am interested in the brain networks underlying cognitive and emotional behaviour. In particular, my research focuses on the executive control functions of the prefrontal cortex and related brain structures, including the basal ganglia and the am...
• Dr Ed Roberts
  My research focuses on the mechanisms involved in decision-making. I'm currently examining the effect which different hormones have on financial decisions. I'm also interested in cognitive control, executive function and the relationship between b...
• Dr Rhys Roberts
  Our group is interested in peripheral nerve diseases, particularly the inherited peripheral neuropathies, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT). We have focused on the demyelinating forms of CMT, where defects in intracellular membrane trafficking p...
• Caroline Robertson
  I use behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques to examine how the autistic brain constructs primary representations of the visual world. I'm particularly interested in the temporal dynamics of vision and my work is h...
• Dr Hugh Robinson
  We study synaptic integration in mammalian cortical neurons - encoding of synaptic inputs into patterns of action potentials, or spikes. We are currently interested in - development of advanced electrical stimulation techniques (conductan...
• Professor Peter Robinson
  I am a computer scientist with an interest in neuroscience. My research concerns problems at the boundary between people and computers. This involves investigating new technologies to enhance communication between computers and their users, and...
• Dr John Rogers
  Approaches to gene therapy to promote axon regeneration. Specifically: expression of enzymes which can destroy axon-inhibitory proteoglycans, and the use of viral vectors which can express them in injured neurons.
• Dr Andres Roman-Urrestarazu
  My research interests are related to developmental disorders such as Schizophrenia and ADHD. I am interested in the role that the cerebellum might have in expressing cognitive deficits and clinical symptoms, and how this developmental process is l...
• Dr Lisa Ronan
  My work focuses on structural analysis of the brain, in particular the morphology of the cortex. Most recently I have focused on cortical intrinsic curvature. This type of curvature is mathematically fundamental to a surface and independent of how...
• Dr Hywel Room
  Cerebellar electrophysiology, mainly focused on the responses of cerebellar and brain stem loci to nociceptive peripheral stimuli and their integration with descending motor information.
• Dr James Rowe BA BM BCh PhD
  Characterisation and optimisation of prefrontal cortical functions in health and disease. The functions of the prefrontal cortex remain controversial yet they are of great importance to our everyday life, thoughts, actions and self expression. I ...
• Mr Dáire Rowlands
  I am just starting my PhD working in James Fawcett's lab in the Brain Repair Centre. I will begin my PhD by characterising an aggrecan knock-out mouse in terms of synaptic plasticity and learning and memory. Aggrecan is an inhibitory chondroitin s...
• Mikail Rubinov
  I conceptualize large-scale human brain anatomy and activity as a complex network of brain regions and interregional associations. I use brain-imaging -- such as magnetic-resonance-imaging -- data sets and computer simulations to model healthy and...
• Professor David Rubinsztein
  The pathogenesis of diseases caused by codon reiteration mutations (like Huntington’s disease and oculopharangeal muscular dystrophy). Description of research: We are studying the pathogenesis of diseases caused by codon reiteration mutations, l...
• Ms Amber Ruigrok
  My research looks into sexual dimorphism in the human brain and will look into mechanisms behind sexual dimorphism by looking at the effects of (prenatal) hormones on brain structure.
• Professor John Rust
  The development, evaluation and implementation of psychometric tests and psychometric testing procedures. As Director of The Psychometrics Centre I have been responsible for the UK standardisation of many of the most widely used psychometric tests...
• Professor Aldo Rustichini
  My research is focused on neuroeconomics, and in particular on the neural foundation of Decision Theory and the neural basis of dominance and competition.
• Dr Rafal Rygula
  Include cognitive neuroscience and psychopharmacology. Currently focused on neuroanatomical and neurochemical basis of cognitive flexibility.
• Dr Umar Sadat
  1. Magnetic resonance imaging of atherosclerotic plaques 2. Applied biomechanics of atherosclerotic plaques and other cardiovascular pathologies 3. Contrast-induced-nephropathy 4. Ischaemic Pre-conditioning in patients undergoing open and endovas...
• Miss Zahra Safaryazdi
  Project one is a neuropsychological study of 80 patients between the age of 18 and 50 recruited from the Adult ADHD Research Clinic Cambridge, with/without SUD, and healthy controls. We are using questionnaires to measure trait impulsivity (Barrat...
• Ms Jaspinder Sagoo
  My research interest is in bayesian modelling of sensorimotor decision-making.
• Professor Barbara Sahakian
  My research is aimed at understanding the neural basis of cognitive, emotional and behavioural dysfunction in order to develop more effective pharmacological and psychological treatments. The focus of my lab is on early detection, differential dia...
• Dr Lisa Saksida
  We are working toward a better understanding of the psychological processes underlying memory and perception through a programme of theoretically-driven experimental research using both healthy subjects and brain-damaged populations. Research in m...
• Dr Reza Salek
  My research focuses on the application of metabolomics to animal models of neurological disorders. Metabolomics is a functional genomic approach for describing the modification associated with a given manipulation (e.g. gene modification, toxicolo...
• Dr Tim Sargeant
  Under Professor TM Cox, my research focuses on the pathogenesis of GM2 gangliosidoses. These diseases include Tay-Sachs disease and Sandhoff disease. GM2 gangliosidoses result from mutations in lysosomal hydrolases (beta-hexosaminidases) which deg...
• Dr George Savva
  I am an epidemiologist with a background in statistics. My work is based on the MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (www.cfas.ac.uk for a full description of the study), a large lognitudinal study of ageing set in the population of England an...
• Dr Stephen Sawcer
  In our research we are attempting to identify genetic factors that influence susceptibility to multiple sclerosis or determine other aspects of the disease. Epidemiological evidence indicates that the genetic architecture underlying susceptibility...
• Dr Stephen Sawiak
  I am a physicist working with MRI. My primary research interest has been in morphometry, with structural imaging, diffusion tensor imaging and spectroscopy. I am particularly focussed on preclinical applications.
• Dr William Schafer
  The fundamental nature of mental phenomena such as perception, learning and memory is one of the remaining scientific mysteries. Since the neuroanatomy of mammalian nervous systems is exceedingly complex and incompletely characterized, it is diffi...
• Ms Cornelia Schoene
  Orexin neurons are of crucial importance for the regulation of sleep behaviour and arousal. The activity of these neurons increases the arousal of the entire brain and dysfunction of the orexin system consequently leads to narcolepsy, a human dise...
• Dr Stefan Schöneich
  In a behaving animal a fundamental challenge for sensory systems is the processing of self-generated sensory information and information from the environment that occurs simultaneously in the same pathway. A central-nervous solution to this proble...
• Mr Moritz Schramm
  I research the way memories become unstable every time they are used, and how this phenomenon can be exploited to treat neuropsychiatric diseases caused at least in part by maladaptive memories. These include drug addiction and post-traumatic stre...
• Professor Wolfram Schultz
  Please see http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/news/article.php?permalink=a8feeeff87 for details of current available positions. Our group is interested to relate the mechanics of brain activity to measurable behaviour. We combine neurophysiological...
• Dr Christof Schwiening
  Electrical activity of neurones is associated with calcium influx through various channels. Most neurones extrude this calcium very rapidly on the plasma-membrane calcium pump (PMCA). Our research shows that this extrusion occurs in exchange for h...
• Dr Linda Scoriels
  My research focuses on emotional and cognitive functioning in psychosis and its relationship with biological markers, such as genes, metabolites and immunological molecules. I am also interested in the effects of cognitive and mood enhancers that ...
• Dr Luc Selen
  Luc Selen received a BSc in Applied Physics from Hogeschool Enschede and a MSc in Human Movement Sciences from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, with a specialisation in “coordination, learning and development”. As a Research Assistant he was invo...
• Mr Biswa Sengupta
  I study energy efficient encoding in simple nervous systems.
• Dr Ben Seymour
  My research addresses the computational and systems neuroscience of pain and aversive learning. This research is part theoretical: building realistic computational models of neuronal information processes to understand processes of pain perception...
• Dr Meredith Shafto
  My research focuses on the effect of normal ageing on language comprehension and production. Current projects include both behavioural studies and neuroimaging studies employing structural and functional MR, and a planned study to use MEG. Topics ...
• Professor Murray Shanahan
  I am primarily interested in cognitive architecture, both as it is found in Nature and as it might be realised artificially. Because I'm committed to the view that cognition and embodiment are initmately related, I also have a strong interest in r...
• Dr Graham Sheridan
  My research focuses on the biophysics and mechanics of CNS cell types. As neurons grow during development, they are acted on by physical forces in their surrounding environment. I am interested in how cells of the central nervous system sense the...
• Yoshiro Shiba
  Trait anxiety has been linked with the dispositional aetiology of anxiety disorders. Thus, it is critical to develop a model of trait anxiety to elucidate its underlying mechanism. My project has been to develop a marmoset monkey model of trait an...
• Dr Nadia Shivji
  Neurodegenerative diseases
• Dr Yury Shtyrov
  My main focus is on the processing of spoken language in the brain using modern neuroimaging tools (MEG, EEG, fMRI). This includes neural mechanisms and timecourse of language processing in the brain, from phonology to syntax and semantics. Par...
• Dr Jennifer Simonotto
  Interest in differences in communication in normal brain and brain with different pathologies (epilepsy in particular). Look at communication from a nonlinear dynamics point of view, and at different time scales. Interested in understanding impor...
• Professor Ben Simons
  I am interesting in applying methods of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and population dynamics to lineage tracing studies to investigate mechanisms of stem cell fate in development and maintenance. As well as neurogenesis in adult mammalian...
• Dr Jon Simons
  Our research investigates the role of brain regions such as the frontal, medial temporal, and parietal lobes in human memory. This work involves inter-relating cognitive hypotheses with evidence from functional neuroimaging of healthy volunteers ...
• Ms Elizabeth Skillings
  Research in the Morton lab is focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration and on developing strategies to delay or prevent the death of neurones in injured or degenerating brain, particularly in Huntington's disease (HD). ...
• Dr Peter Smielewski
  In an established environment of Clinical Neuroscience Dept large quantities of data can be captured from bed-side monitors. Using that data, continuous assessment of changing cerebrovascular haemodynamics and oxygenation is possible but requires ...
• Ms Dana Smith
  My research is focused on the neurobiological underpinnings of drug addiction and associated addiction spectrum disorders, such as binge eating. I am currently investigating the dysfunctional reward processing systems in substance abuse and eating...
• Dr Ewan Smith
  The main interest of the Smith lab is to understand the molecular mechanisms by which sensory neurones detect noxious stimuli, so-called nociceptors. We are particularly interested in how acid activates nociceptors in both physiological and pathop...
• Dr Robert Smith
  My role is to facilitate the production of Radiopharmaceuticals for the PET scanner under the auspices of our MHRA Specials & IMP Licences - ensuring materials supplied are manufactured under GMP conditions.
• Timothy So Reg Psychol (Occ), MSc, BSsc (Hon.)
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• Dr Sara Soleman
  Integrins are cell surface heterodimeric transmembrane receptors that bind to molecules present in the extracellular matrix. They are involved in important biological processes such as neural development, cell motility, adhesion and synaptogenesis...
• Dr Tony Southall
  Drosophila neural stem cells (neuroblasts) divide in an asymmetric self-renewing manner. At each division they produce another neuroblast and a ganglion mother cell (GMC). Prospero is an atypical homeodomain transcription factor that is asymmetric...
• Dr Michael Spencer
  I am interested in the scientific investigation of psychiatric disorders, particularly through the integration of clinical research methods together with brain imaging. I led a team of researchers at the Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge, that ...
• Miss Elena Speretta
  Our main interested is related to the use of existing computational algorithms (Michele Vendruscolo, GianGaetano Tartaglia - Department of Chemistry) to design and predict mutations which will lead to the formation of different state of Abeta prot...
• Professor Maria Grazia Spillantini
  Our interest is in the identification of the mechanisms leading to neuronal death and clinical phenotype in diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and frontotemporal dementia. In particular we study the role of microtubule-assoc...
• Miss Marcia Spoelder
  I am working on projects regarding impulsivity in rodents. I use behavioural, pharmacological, MRI and western blotting in my research. I am interested in the cell-type specific endophenotypes and pharmacological compounds which are associated wit...
• Professor Peter St George-Hyslop
  My laboratory focuses upon understanding the causes and molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease and Fronto-Temporal Dementia. We and others have shown that these diseases are frequently c...
• Dr Sybil Stacpoole
  I am a PhD student working with neural precursor cells derived from human embryonic stem cells. My aim is to further understand the temporal regulation of developmental competence of these cells to morphogenetic signals. In particular, I am look...
• Dr Emmanuel A Stamatakis
  My research interests fall into two distinct categories. One involves investigating brain function/structure in a more integrative manner with structural/functional connectivity analyses. The second involves the evaluation of lesions in patients a...
• Dr Bernhard Staresina
  My main research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying episodic memory in humans. In particular, I have been interested in how different subregions of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) contribute to successful encoding and recollection of multi...
• Professor Karen Steel
  Hearing impairment is very common in human populations, but it is a very heterogeneous disorder with a wide range of causes including environmental insults as well as genetic components. It is difficult to disentangle the causes of hearing impairm...
• Dr Blossom Stephan
  I am currently involved in MRC CFAS exploring mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and associated states. I am part of the dementia group focusing on the questions of how best to define this intermediate state and what factors allow for diagnostic diff...
• Mr Philip Sterne
  I research simple theoretical models of spiking neurons and the information processing they are able to do. I am interested in neural computation, particularly in more realistic models which might give us insight into how the human brain actually ...
• Dr Jan Stochl
  I serve as psychometrician and statistician. I am currently working on psychometric properties of scales used in psychiatry. I am interested in latent variable modeling - structural equation modeling, item response modeling, latent class modeling,...
• Dr John Henry Stockley
  Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells (OPCs) are an abundant class of multipotent proliferating glia in the CNS. OPCs have the amazing capacity to not only generate oligodendrocytes that form the insulating myelin sheath surrounding axons, but also repa...
• Dr Simon Stott
  I am interested in the development, maintenance and functioning of the midbrain dopamine system, especially with regards to neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease.
• Ms Raliza Stoyanova
  Using behavioural and neuroimaging methods, I investigate how signals from multiple sensory modalities are integrated in social attention and emotional expression recognition. I am also interested in how these processes may differ based on individ...
• Miss Bettina Studer
  I am interested in decision-making under risk and gambling behaviour. In particular, I investigate the distinct contributions of a number of brain regions to successful decision-making in gambling setting. I study the behavioural changes in decisi...
• Dr Li Su
  I have a degree in computer science from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication, and MSc and PhD in computer science from the School of Computing and Centre for Cognitive Science and Cognitive Systems at University of Kent jointly super...
• John Suckling
  Neuroimaging is a major contributor to the renaissance of experimental psychiatry and psychology. Drawing on the extensive infrastructure of Cambridge Neuroscience and Department of Psychiatry’s close links between research and clinical practice, ...
• Jillian Sullivan
  My PhD study investigates the relationship between neural/physical growth trajectories and cognitive/developmental trajectories in infants and toddlers who are at risk for autism, children with autism, children with tuberous sclerosis, and those w...
• Sophia Sun
  I completed my MPhil in Public Health in 2009 focusing on the Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC). As a PhD student, I am interested in research in the prevalence of ASC in China, with special focus on cultural and environmental infl...
• Dr Denes Szucs
  Szucs is a cognitive neuroscientist doing research on the representaiton of mathematics in the brain and on perceptual/motor integration and conflict detection/resolution. He is using behavioral methods, electro-physiology (EEG) and functional mag...
• Dr Roger Tait
  Both single and multi modal volumetric registration of anatomical structures are my principle research interests. I have extensive experience of rigid, affine and deformable registration algorithm implementation. Existing and new methods of motion...
• Mr Chin Lik Tan
  Nerve regeneration - I'm studying the transport of mRNA translational machinery into axons, and the process of local protein synthesis in axons and growth cones, to understand their roles in nerve regeneration post-injury.
• Dr David Tannahill
  I have worked on a range of model systems from Xenopus and zebrafish to chicks and mice. My current research is focused on building an atlas that describes where and when large numbers of genes are expressed in the developing mouse embryo. For thi...
• Dr Robert Tasker
  Over 10,000 children are admitted to a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in the UK each year and, of these, 1500 have acute brain injury. In our recent studies in cohorts of children from the Addenbrooke’s Hospital PICU we have examined the e...
• Miss Alessia Tassoni
  Glaucoma disease is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, mostly characterized by selective loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) and degeneration of optic nerve. In this regard, stem cell transplantation is of considerable intere...
• Teresa Tavassoli
  How and why do individuals with autism perceive and emotionally respond to the world in a disparate way? I am examining this issue for modalities including vision, audition, touch, taste and olfaction using established perceptual sensitivity measu...
• Professor Colin Taylor
  Roles of inositol trisphosphate (IP3) receptors in generating intracellular calcium signals. Structural determinants of IP3 receptor behaviour. Decoding of calcium signals.
• Dr Jason Taylor
  I study the cognitive and neural bases of episodic and semantic memory using the complementary approaches of functional neuroimaging (MRI, fMRI), magneto- and electroencephalography (M/EEG), and cognitive neuropsychological studies of impaired mem...
• Dr Zhongzhao Teng
  Atherosclerotic plaques are multi-component structures composed of a lipid core, calcium or haemorrhage enclosed by a fibrous cap, which can be captured by MRI. The rupture of atherosclerotic plaques is responsible for most clinical symptoms of he...
• Dr Hannah ter Hofstede
  I study the sensory ecology of predator-prey relationships using bats and their insect prey as a study system. Ears have evolved in many groups of insects to detect the ultrasonic echolocation calls of bats and trigger evasive behaviour. Using ele...
• Dr Christoph Teufel
  I am interested in the neurobiology of visual perception, visual cognition, and motor control. Neurocognitive processes underlying social perception and social cognition form the second focus of my research.
• Dr Alana Thackray
  Prion diseases, or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are infectious, fatal, neurodegenerative conditions of humans and various animal species including scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob dis...
• Professor Roger Thomas
  Intracellular ion homeostasis in nerve cells. I use pH and Ca2+ sensitive microelectrodes to study ionic interactions inside large snail neurones. I am currently investigating the Ca:H coupling ratio of the plasma membrane Ca pump, or PMCA.
• Miss Alyson Thompson
  I am interested in understanding neural stem cell (neuroblast) differentiation in the Drosophila nervous system.
• Dr Andrew Thompson
  I am an experienced neuroscientist / pharmacologist with exposure to a broad range of techniques. This has included the development of a simple and information-rich fluorometric microplate assay for simultaneously identifying novel agonists, antag...
• Dr Michelle To
  Our main project is to build a model of how V1 differentiates between two natural images. The model is tested against observers' magnitude estimation ratings collected from a series of suprathreshold discrimination experiments. I am currently exam...
• Dr Philippe Tobler
  Neurophysiology of reward and decision making.
• Dr Gergely Toth, MBA
  My research interests include the targeting of intrinsically disordered proteins by small molecules, which misfold and lose their native functions and/or gain toxic functions implicated in neurodegenerative diseases. We are working on multidisci...
• Dr Adam Tozer
  I am an electrophysiologist working in the Hypothalamus and projecting areas, interested in the neuronal control of diet, and mechanisms controlling food intake and energy balance. My background is in synaptic physiology and neuronal homeostasis...
• Dr Kyle Treiber
  I am currently involved in the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+), a longitudinal study investigating the interaction between individual and environmental characteristics and its role in crime causation. My specific ...
• Dr Christoforos Tsantoulas
  I am currently working on the role of HCN2 channels in peripheral pain modulation. To achieve this we conduct a variety of expressional, functional and behavioural studies. My PhD work focused on voltage-gated potassium channels and neuropathic p...
• Dr Yi-Chun Tung
  My research interests focus on hypothalamic pathways involved in the regulation of energy homeostasis. During my current post, I am contributing to fundamental systems physiology approaches in rodents. With extensive expertise in hypothalamic neur...
• Dr Richard Turner
  My research lies at the interface between computer perception (which builds artificial systems for understanding images, sounds and videos), neuroscience (which tries to understand the brain) and machine-learning (which provides a theoretical fram...
• Professor Lorraine Tyler
  I head an interdisciplinary research group working on the neurobiology of language in healthy and brain-damaged populations. We combine data from a variety of imaging techniques (fMRI, MEG, EEG) and relate patterns of activity in healthy people wi...
• Dr Elke Ulbricht
  My current work focuses on development, mechanics and optics of cells of the nervous system. I am mainly using traction force microscopy and confocal microscopy to investigate development of neuronal cells and the behaviour of glial cells under va...
• Dr Jernej Ule
  Alternative pre-mRNA splicing increases the ability of our body to produce various cell types with diverse proteomes. We take a three-pronged strategy to study splicing regulation on a genome-wide scale. We use computational approaches, assays to ...
• Dr Nigel Unwin
  I am interested in finding out how ion channels work, using electron microscopy to analyse their structures trapped in different physiological states. Current research focuses on the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, the transmitter-gated ion chan...
• Dr Gonzalo P. Urcelay
  I am interested in learning theories and the neurobiological substrates of acquired behaviour. I am currently conducting studies to assess the involvement of the prefrontal cortex in the transition from goal-directed to habitual behaviours and its...
• Dr Lourdes Valencia Torres
  I currently investigate the role of 5-HT2c receptors and dopamine on food-motivated behavior. My PhD thesis investigated the neural substrates of impulsive choice. During this time I also researched the role of the orexin system on the regulation ...
• Natalie Valle Guzman
  I work at the Brain Repair Centre as a neuropsychologist. I work with Parkinson´s and Huntington's diaease patients, doing the neuropsychological assessments in the clinic. I´m involved in several studies conducted at our centre.
• Charlotte van Coeverden MSc
  I am interested in how rewards are coded in the brain and how this reflects on social behaviour.
• Miss Rianne van der Linde
  I study the course, causes and impact of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in the older population, using population-based cohort studies, including MRC CFAS. I am funded by a CLAHRC studentship
• Dr Gert Van Dijck
  Cell type identification is traditionally obtained using juxtacellular labelling or by means of intracellular techniques to assess membrane properties. These techniques are determined in anaesthetised animals. I developed a technique in which we a...
• Mr Jurgen Van Gael
  My interest is at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience. Central to my research are Bayesian methods for learning and reasoning under uncertainty.
• Mrs Anne-Laura van Harmelen
  I investigate the cognitive, neurobiological and behavioral consequences of childhood emotional maltreatment. To investigate this I use paradigms such as thought suppression, implicit association, social exclusion, reading the mind in the eyes, em...
• Mr Georgios Varsos
  Mathematical modelling of brain haemodynamics and pressure-volume compensation. Dynamical properties of cerebral blood flow (CBF) and cerebrospinal fluid circulation (CSF) can be modelled by a structure of nonlinear differential equations. Models ...
• Deniz Vatansever
  Extensive neuroimaging research has identified a network of brain regions which increase their activity during “no task” baseline conditions, collectively known as the default mode network. The regions involved in the DMN and their connectivity ar...
• Dr Bert Vaux
  --grounding of phonological learning in a mathematical implementation of evolutionary information theory. --phonological cognition. --implications of selective aphasias, first and second language acquisition phenomena, processing and production ef...
• Djuke Veldhuis
  My research concerns perceptions of ‘stressors' and cultural concomitants of stress as well as subsequent physiological (endocrine) responses. This research is set in a multifaceted, interdisciplinary framework which envelopes evolutionary anthro...
• Michele Veldsman
  Individual differences in Visual Short Term Memory. The nature of neural coding of object representations in the brain. Using: Behavioural studies fMRI Multi-voxel pattern analysis Dynamically Adaptive Imaging
• Mike Vella
  I work on computational modelling of synaptic integration. Presently I am interested in utilising numerical optimisation techniques to explore the parameter space of single-neuron models.
• Professor Michele Vendruscolo
  My research is aimed at taking full advantage of an approach that exploits effectively the synergy between experiment and theory in order to advance towards a full characterisation of the process of protein aggregation. We have developed a metho...
• Dr Petra Vertes
  After a first degree in theoretical physics, I recently completed a PhD investigating the effect of network topology on neuronal encoding mechanisms, under the supervision of Prof Tom Duke. Since then, I have joined the group of Prof Ed Bullmore, ...
• Dr Martin Vestergaard
  I investigate relationships among theoretical constructs of vocal communication in humans. I use psychophysical paradigms in behavioural studies of auditory perception and brain imaging techniques to identify indices of the early stages of auditor...
• Dr Bruno Vilar
  I am currently researching changes in HCN ion channel genes of people who feel extremes pain. Pathogenic mutations are identified by subjecting all potential mutations to electrophysiology and/or intra-cellular trafficking studies to discover whi...
• Miss Anastasia Vishnivetskaya
  Age is the main risk factor for dementia, as the risk of developing the disease doubles every five years after the age of 65 (LaFerla and Oddo, 2005). Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia with its hallmark being the presence of ...
• Mrs Marta Vitorino
  I work with cell fate decisions in the zebrafish retina. We use transgenic zebrafish lines that express different fluorescent proteins under the control of retina specific genes to follow cell division and neuron differentiation in vivo.
• Mr David Vogelsang
  I am interested in the role of the prefrontal cortex in source memories (the ability to remember contextual information). Brain areas of particular interest are the medial anterior prefrontal cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and the tempora...
• Dr Octavian Voiculescu
  Main interest in the principles of building and shaping the central nervous system in higher vertebrates, and the relationship between morphogenesis and patterning of embryo.
• Dr Elisabeth von dem Hagen
  My research interests involve using functional MRI to study the neural mechanisms behind emotional processing and social cognition more generally. Currently, I am looking at how these processes might differ in Autism Spectrum Conditions.
• Dr Valerie Voon
  I am an Honorary Consultant Neuropsychiatrist and Wellcome Trust Fellow with the Department of Psychiatry. I focus on mechanisms underlying impulsive and compulsive disorders such as substance and behavioural addictions and obsessive compulsive d...
• Miss laura vuillier
  My PhD research is about the understanding of the relationship between emotion, emotion regulation and executive function in children. I am using EEG to look at the development of inhibitory control in children and how it is link to their abiliti...
• Mr Nikola Vukovic
  My work is concerned with establishing the involvement and role of functionally differentiated brain areas in processing and representing language. Specifically, I am looking at how the automatic activation of sensory-motor representations during ...
• Dr Romina Vuono
  My research interests include: 1)Molecular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of Huntington's disease 2)Embryonic stem cells as a source for cell therapy in Parkinson's disease 3)Sleep and Circadian rhytm dysruption in Parkinson’s disease
• Dr Nicholas Walsh
  In my current work I am assessing the effects of genetic and early-life environmental factors upon brain structure and function. To do this I am scanning participants from the ROOTS cohort [http://www.roots.group.cam.ac.uk/]. This work is carried ...
• Ms Yinan Wan
  Reconstruction and quantitative analysis of cell lineages in zebrafish retina
• Dr Elizabeth Warburton
  Research interests are as follows 1. Molecular imaging of atheroma - particularly carotid plaque imaging using PET and MRI techniques. Both Clinical and microPET imaging. Proof of principle trials of novel atheroma drugs with imaging biomarkers...
• Dr Colin Watts
  Lab-based research is focused on the genomics of glioblastoma (GBM) and in the role of glial progenitors in their evolution and development. We are also interested in developing patient-specific models of GBM to evaluate intra-tumour variability i...
• Miss Frida Weierud
  Evolution of spinal cord Ladybird-like homeobox (lbx) expression, gene number and function in the vertebrate lineage. There are two Lbx genes in amniotes, of which only one is found in the spinal cord, whereas zebrafish have three, all of which...
• Mr David Weston
  I am investigating the mechanisms through which Cys-loop receptors function. Cys-loop receptors are ligand-gated ion channels sensitive to a variety of neurotransmitters (eg. acetylcholine, 5-hydroxytryptamine, γ-aminobutyric acid, glycine) in ver...
• Dr Daniel Wheeler
  Dr. Wheeler's main clinical interest is Pain Medicine, and since his appointment to the Lectureship in Anaesthesia in the Department of Medicine, he is building collaborations to explore the potential novel interventions for chronic painful condit...
• Dr Kirstie Whitaker
  Investigating changes in white matter integrity through adolescence.
• Dr Caroline Whiting
  My research interests lie in understanding how the language system processes morphologically simple and complex words during visual and auditory word recognition, and in turn how this can inform models of language representation in the brain. I am...
• Dr Joyce Whittington
  Early research on specific learning disabilities - dyslexia - and associated cognitve deficits. For the last 10 years research has focussed on various prevalence, cognitive and behavioural aspects of Prader-Willi syndrome. Most of the latter is d...
• Dr Ian Wilkinson
  My research is clinically orientated and centres on the physiology and pharmacology of the cardiovascular system, and particularly the large arteries and endothelial function. As a clinical pharmacologist, I combine detailed physiological measure...
• Dr Paul Wilkinson
  My main research interest is the intermediate biology and cognitions of adolescent depression, in particular how such intermediate variables mediate associations between genotype, environment and disorder. The main intermediate variable I study i...
• Dr Guy Williams
  Our group’s research interests lie broadly in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). This phenomenon allows data to be collected noninvasively on both the structure and function of the human brain. We research novel acquisition methods to provide contr...
• Dr Caroline Williams-Gray MRCP PhD
  My prinicipal interest is cognitive dysfunction in Parkinson's disease. My current work is centred on a population-based incident PD cohort followed longitudinally with the aim of exploring the evolution of cognitive dysfunction in the disease, de...
• Dr David Williamson
  Development of novel PET ligands for use in preclinical studies to image neurodegenerative processes e.g. Stroke & Dementia
• Liam Reese Wilson
  I am currently based at the Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group. The project I am working on involves using PET and MRI to investigate the role of cerebral amyloid in Alzheimer's disease in people with Down syndrom...
• Sophie Winder-Rhodes
  My current research explores the neurochemical, genetic and structural substrates of cognitive heterogeneity in Parkinson's Disease, using MRI and pharmacological manipulation in association with cognitive assessment in patient and control groups.
• Dr Stevan Wing
  I am working with Roger Barker on Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).
• Dr Eleanor Winpenny
  Health and healthcare research Key topics include: - Alcohol advertising - Health policy - Acceptability of public health interventions
• Dr Ian Winter
  Primitive neural mechanisms of auditory scene analysis. My research searches for neurophysiological correlates of the cues necessary for the segregation and fusion of auditory objects. This work is carried out in close collaboration with psychop...
• Noham Wolpe
  The human capacity to move voluntarily is fundamentally important, yet is often taken for granted until it is severely impaired by disease. My interest lies in understanding the mechanisms underlying voluntary motor control in healthy population a...
• Professor Daniel Wolpert
  The group uses engineering approaches to understand how the human brain controls movement. The work includes both computational modelling and experimental approaches using robotic and virtual reality interfaces. Research areas include motor planni...
• Hovy Wong
  The role of local translation in axonal branching and synaptogenesis
• Dr Nigel Wood
  Our research in the Morton lab is focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration and on developing strategies to delay or prevent the death of neurones in injured or degenerating brain, particularly in Huntington's disease (H...
• Dr Peter Wooding
  Correlation between placental structure and function using light and electron microscopy for structure and immunocytochemistry and in situ hybridisation for function. The focus is mainly on ruminants but includes comparative studies on a wide vari...
• Professor Geoff Woods
  As a Clinical Geneticist my interest is in defining and understand Mendelain diseases. I ascertain and assess families and thier phenotypes, perform molecular genetic studies to find the putative pathogeneic mutations causing the family phenotype,...
• Dr Paul Wright
  I contribute primarily to the neuroimaging work at the Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain. I was previously involved in projects investigating spoken language in patients with left hemisphere damage (primarily stroke). I currently investiga...
• Dr Pao-Shu Wu
  I use Drosophila embryonic CNS as a model to study temporal regulation of neural stem cell differentiation.
• Mr Yan Wu
  I am interested in combining machine learning and neuroscience research to study learning and memory.
• Mr Yin Wu
  Using brain imaging and pharmacological challenges to study irrationality of human decision making in both gambling and social contexts.
• Mr wei xu
  I investigate how the cerebellum receives and processes generalised arousal signals. Specifically i'm looking at how the lateral reticular nucleus (a major source of mossy fibre input) codes signals from the peripheries.
• Mr Wei Xu
  Investigation the role of cerebellar interneurons in motor learning.
• Dr Kate Xu (徐曼 Xu Man)
  I’m currently working on a psychiatric genetics project based on a British birth cohort. My main role involves development of more reliable, robust phenotypes of cognition and mental health based on longitudinal data, using latent variable techniq...
• Dr John Xuereb
  The neuropathological basis of dementia with a special interest in clinicopathological correlation of Frontotemporal Syndromes.
• Dr Kojiro Yano
  Systems biology of Neuronal stem cells. This laboratory is carrying out systems biology-oriented studies of mouse neural cells together with the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute (CCBI). Dynamic properties of intracellular signalling tran...
• Miss Yasemin Yazar
  Frontal-parietal networks and memory. The role of the parietal lobes for human memory is a fascinating new conundrum in the cognitive neurosciences. In my PhD I investigate this question with behavioural experiments, patient studies and transcran...
• Dr Zheng Ye
  Studying executive dysfunctions in Parkinson's disease; Emphasizing on neuroimaging and psychopharmacological approaches.
• Dr Giles Yeo
  I study brain control of body-weight, and currently have two main aims: 1.) To determine a role for FTO in energy balance. SNPs in FTO are strongly associated with obesity. FTO is nutritionally regulated within the ARC, and modulating FTO expres...
• Dr Shel Hwa Yeo
  My research interest is the kisspeptin neuronal network in the adult mouse brain. Kisspeptin neuropeptides are the potent stimulators of the gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons that govern the reproductive functions in mammals. My curre...
• Professor Steve Young
  My primary interest is in adaptive learning in spoken dialogue systems. This currently involves modelling human machine dialogues using the framework of Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs). The research issues addressed incl...
• Mr Temur Yunusov
  Locomotion in Drosophila melanogaster larva requires coordinated output of motorneurons that drive the contractions of the body wall muscles. The dendrites of motorneurons in the Ventral Nerve Cord are oganised to form a 'myotopic' representation ...
• Professor Jeff Zacks
  My laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis studies higher perception and cognition, in particular event understanding and spatial cognition. We use a combination of behavioral studies in healthy young adults, older adults, and neurologic...
• Dr Shahid Zaman
  The main theme of our research is to understand the role of amyloid and mitochondrial dysfunction in the genesis of cognitive impairment and dementia in people with Down's syndrome.
• Dr Michael Zandi
  I work on the clinical and molecular aspects of neuroimmunological diseases. In particular, I am interested in the development of biomarkers and therapeutics of neurological and psychiatric manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and...
• Dr Jiaxiang Zhang
  My research focuses on neural mechanisms underlying perceptual decision making and learning in the primate brain by combining modelling, behavioural measurements and functional MRI techniques. Recently, I investigate how human may learn novel visu...
• Dr Chao Zhao
  My research focuses on the mechanism of remyelination of the central nervous system after demyelination in various conditions. After demyelinating injury, the system activates a repair process, which involves oligodendrocyte progenitor cells turni...
• Miss Emily Zhao
  I am a computer officer/data manager for the Cambridge City Over-75s Cohort (CC75C) study. The initial study targeted all men and women aged 75 or older who were registered with a selection of geographically and socially representative general pra...
• Dr Zhen Zhong
  Mechanism of prion-like propagation of mutant SOD1 misfolding from cell to cell in Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
• Mr Chengcheng Zhu
  (1) Explore the relationship between atherosclerotic plaques' rupture and their morphological and biomechanical features using magnetic resonance imaging and image-based mechanical analysis. (2) Magnetic resonance imaging pulse sequence developmen...
• Dr Hisham Ziauddeen MRCPsych
  I am psychiatry SpR and currently a Translational Medicine and Therapeutics PhD fellow working with Prof. Paul Fletcher. I work on brain reward systems using pharmacological fMRI and behavioural measures, to study the role of environmental influen...
• Dr Jorge Zimbron BSc (hons) MB BS MRCPsych
  I have an interest in the epidemiology and management of psychotic illnesses. We are in the process of developing a treatment programme for antipsychotic induced obesity. At present we are building a database of behavioural, biochemical, and epide...
• Mr Maarten Zwart
  Dendrites are the postsynaptic structures of neurons, specialised to receive and integrate inputs from other cells. The dendritic geometry, regulated by intrinsic programmes of cell type specification and extrinsic factors during development, crit...

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