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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...
Dr Rudolf Cardinal
I am interested in computational models of attentional selection and cognition.
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 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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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