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Applications for SET for Britain 2014. Application deadline 20th December 2013.
SET for BRITAIN will be held in the House of Commons on Monday, 17th March 2014 during National Science and Engineering Week 2014. Applications are invited from early-stage and early-career research scientists, engineers, mathematicians and technologists who wish to exhibit posters.
Posted on Thursday 5 December, 2013
Sussex Neuroscience 4-Year PhD Programme - applications now being taken
The aim of the Sussex Neuroscience 4-Year PhD Programme is to provide a broader research training in Neuroscience than is possible in a traditional 3-year PhD. We also encourage interdisciplinarity by making it possible for students with a background in psychological or physical sciences to transition to Neuroscience.
Posted on Tuesday 3 December, 2013
Glia Club 2014 line up
The Glia Club will take place on the first Monday of every month in the seminar room of the Herchel Smith Building from 5-7pm.
Posted on Tuesday 29 October, 2013
BNA Christmas Symposium - The Musical Brain - Monday 16th December, 2013
The BNA have teamed up with the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London to present this year's seasonal symposium which features a top line-up of speakers who will explore our musical brains.
Posted on Tuesday 8 October, 2013
The 2013 Paykel Lecture
Please find details for the Department of Psychiatry's 2013 Paykel Lecture due to be held on Thursday December 19th at 5pm.
Posted on Tuesday 3 December, 2013
Bombing the brain!
Neurochemical warfare, how serving in Afghanistan can leave mental scars plus brainwashing to tweak belief systems.
Posted on Monday 2 December, 2013
Synaesthesia is more common in autism
People with autism are more likely to also have synaesthesia, suggests new research in the journal Molecular Autism.
Posted on Monday 2 December, 2013
Modafinil reduces depression’s severity when taken with antidepressants
Cambridge Neuroscience researchers believe findings could help the many individuals for whom anti-depressants offer little or no relief.
Posted on Monday 2 December, 2013
Protein released from cells triggers chain reactions that could cause Alzheimer’s disease
Cambridge Neuroscience researchers have shown that tiny quantities of the protein tau can be enough to kick-start an aggregation process which may explain the onset of Alzheimer’s in the brain.
Posted on Monday 2 December, 2013
Register now for the 2014 Rotman Research Institute neuroscience conference in Toronto, Canada.
This conference will bring together internationally renowned neuroscientists, clinicians and future scientists to address the cognitive and neural basis of memory in health and disease.
Posted on Thursday 7 November, 2013
Junior-level tenure track faculty position in Neurobiology at NYU
The Department of Biology and Center for Neural Science at New York University invite applications for a junior-level tenure track faculty position from candidates with research programs in neurobiology.
Posted on Friday 1 November, 2013
Patient in ‘vegetative state’ not just aware, but paying attention
Cambridge Neuroscience research raises possibility of devices in the future to help some patients in a vegetative state interact with the outside world.
Posted on Friday 1 November, 2013
Andy Calder, 1965-2013
Cambridge Neuroscience was very sad to learn of the unexpected death of Andy Calder from the MRC CBU on the last weekend of October 2013. We extend our deepest sympathies to his family friends and colleagues.
Posted on Friday 1 November, 2013
Building bright new homes for old drugs
Dr David Cavalla of Numedicus, through a joint affiliation with the Department of Pharmacology and Cambridge Enterprise, is leading an initiative to bring the benefits of drug repurposing to University of Cambridge researchers.
Posted on Friday 1 November, 2013
The Science of Fear
What is happening in our brain when we watch horror movies? Dr Annette Brühl met with the BBC to explain.
Posted on Friday 1 November, 2013
Exciting Events at Edinburgh Neuroscience
Different, upcoming events in Edinburgh that may be of interest to Cambridge Neuroscientists (including a meeting specially for undergraduates).
Posted on Friday 1 November, 2013
Imaging study shows dopamine dysfunction is not the main cause of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Research suggests that the main cause of the disorder may lie instead in structural differences in the grey matter in the brain.
Posted on Tuesday 29 October, 2013
"Specification and Development of Neural Circuitry" Thursday 12th December 2013, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Very Few Places left: The focus of this one day symposium is the development of neural networks, from neurogenesis to the formation of circuits underlying behaviour.
Posted on Wednesday 16 October, 2013
Can we make a fake brain?
How do prosthetic limbs work? Can you train your brain? And is a brain transplant possible?
Posted on Friday 25 October, 2013
Alzheimer's Research UK Conference
The Alzheimer's Research UK Annual Conference is to be held at Said Business School, Oxford, March 25th-26th 2014.
Posted on Friday 25 October, 2013
Cambridge neuroscientists lead brain injury research that could benefit millions
Over a million people in Europe who suffer traumatic brain injuries every year could benefit from a study led by world-renowned Cambridge and Belgian neuroscience centres.
Posted on Tuesday 15 October, 2013
Join the British Neuroscience Association
The BNA is the largest neuroscience society in the UK with nearly 1800 members covering the breadth of neuroscience from the lab to the clinic.
Posted on Tuesday 8 October, 2013
People who are addicted to pornography show similar brain activity to alcoholics or drug addicts.
MRI scans of test subjects who admitted to compulsive pornography use showed that the reward centres of the brain reacted to seeing explicit material in the same way as an alcoholic’s might on seeing a drinks advert.
Posted on Friday 11 October, 2013
Barts Neuroscience Symposium - 12th February 2014
This one day student led symposium will bring together students and top academics from across the country, giving students the opportunity to present their work in the neurosciences and hear from some of the best researchers in the field.
Posted on Friday 11 October, 2013
Is technology tweaking our brains? - Latest Naked Neuroscience Podcast available now!
Toddlers addicted to smart phones, speaking to a cyborg, computers that predict emotion, electrically inducing human creativity and is technology widening the inequality gap?
Posted on Wednesday 9 October, 2013
Cocaine use may suppress the immune system
A study, led by Cambridge Neuroscientist Dr Karen Ersche, shows that cocaine-dependent men have heightened physical and biological warning; reactions to visual cues that convey a risk of infection, such as rotten food and dirty toilets.
Posted on Wednesday 9 October, 2013
2 day symposium - Astrocytes in Health and Neurodegenerative Disease - 28th-29th April 2014
Registration is now open for this focused meeting, which is being jointly hosted by the Biochemical Society and the British Neuroscience Association and will take place in London in April 2014.
Posted on Tuesday 8 October, 2013
BNA symposium: 'Optogenetics - Controlling the Brain with Light' 3rd April 2014
This symposium is particularly suitable for post-graduates and early career scientists in the fields of neuroscience, bioengineering, physics, physiology and pharmacology from UK and overseas.
Posted on Tuesday 8 October, 2013
Researchers uncover 48 new genetic variants associated with multiple sclerosis
Scientists from the International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium, with the UK research led by Cambridge Neuroscientists, have discovered 48 new genetic variants that are associated with multiple sclerosis.
Posted on Tuesday 1 October, 2013
4th Biennial Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium - Thank you and Naked Scientist coverage
Thank you to all who participated in our 4th Biennial Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium. If you missed out on the special edition of the BBC Naked Scientist radio show to commemorate the event, please take a listen here.
Posted on Thursday 19 September, 2013
Drug developed in Cambridge approved for treatment of multiple sclerosis
Approval concludes nearly 40-year epic journey from fundamental research to discovery of an effective treatment for active relapsing multiple sclerosis.
Posted on Thursday 19 September, 2013
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