Browse Principal Investigators
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...
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 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 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 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...
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...
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 ...
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. 
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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 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...
Dr Tristan Bekinschtein
I am interested in non-classic approaches to study the physiology and cognition of consciousness.
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...
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...
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 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...
Professor Donald Broom
Developing and using methods of evaluating animal welfare.
Assessing cognitive ability in domestic animals including cattle, pigs, sheep and dogs.
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 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 ... 
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 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 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...
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 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 ...- 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 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...
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...- 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...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...- 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... 
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...
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...
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 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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Dr Stefan Hetzer
- High-Resolution Echo-Planar Imaging at Ultra-Short Echo Times
- Multi-echo and 3D EPI
- Quantitative Perfusion fMRI
- RF Coil Development
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 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 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...
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 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 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...
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... 
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...
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 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 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...
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 ...
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...
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 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 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... 
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 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 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 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 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...
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 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...
Dr Zhi-Yong Li
Biomechanics of plaque rupture
Image-based computaional simulation
modelling of aneurysm growth and rupture
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 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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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 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 ...
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 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 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 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 ...- 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... 
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...- 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... 
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 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 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 ...
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....
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 ...
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 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 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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 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 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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Carl Edward Rasmussen
I work on probabilistic inference and machine learning. What are the mathematical foundations of learning from experience in biological systems?
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 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...
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 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... 
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 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...
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 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 ...
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...
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 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...
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 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 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...
Professor Wolfram Schultz
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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...
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 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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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...- 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 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...
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...
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...
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 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... 
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 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...
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.
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 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 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 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...
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 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 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...
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...
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 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 David Williamson
Development of novel PET ligands for use in preclinical studies to image neurodegenerative processes e.g. Stroke & Dementia - 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... 
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...- 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 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...
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...
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...- 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 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...
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