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Daniel J Levitin, Professor of Psychology and Behavioural Neuroscience to deliver Guest Lecture
Daniel Levitin runs the Laboratory for Music Cognition, Perception and Expertise at McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of three books: This Is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs and The Organized Mind.
Posted on Wednesday 7 January, 2015
Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar 2015 - March 20th - Registration is now open!
Cambridge Neuroscience is delighted to announce the 27th CNS, 'The Making and Breaking of the Mind' hosted by the MRC LMB on Friday 20th March 2015.
Posted on Tuesday 7 October, 2014
CSaP Policy Placement Opportunities in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)
There are a range of opportunities for PhD students and post docs at Cambridge to take up part-time and full-time secondments in BIS - closing date Monday 2nd February.
Posted on Friday 23 January, 2015
Webinar: How Stem Cells Speak with Immune Cells
Dr Stefano Pluchino from Clinical Neurosciences will deliver a webinar on 'How Stem Cells Speak with Immune Cells' on Monday January 26th.
Posted on Monday 19 January, 2015
The Morality Instinct
The Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) is committed to fostering a progressive and vibrant intellectual culture in the UK.
Posted on Friday 16 January, 2015
Take part in FameLab
FameLab, the international competition to find the newest voices in Science, Engineering, Maths and Technology, returns to Cambridge in 2015.
Posted on Friday 16 January, 2015
Public Engagement training courses at the University of Cambridge
There are a number of public engagement training courses available this term and next.
Posted on Tuesday 13 January, 2015
Improving the future of drug development for central nervous system disorders.
Nature Reviews recently published a comment piece in which scientists, including Professor Barbara Sahakian, made recommendations about overcoming barriers to developing drugs for central nervous system (CNS) disorders.
Posted on Monday 12 January, 2015
Congratulations to Dr Ragnhildur Thora Karadottir on selection as scholar of FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence
Congratulations to Dr Ragnhildur Thora Karadottir on selection as scholar of FENS-Kavli Network
Posted on Friday 9 January, 2015
Michel Goedert awarded the 2014 European Grand Prix for Research
Michel has been awarded the Prize for “his major work on the importance of the tau pathway in the genesis of Alzheimer’s disease”
Posted on Friday 9 January, 2015
Neuroscience in the Courtroom - Report
In a joint collaboration between the Cambridge Neuroscience and Public Policy Strategic Initiatives, this report addresses how policy makers might respond to the use of neuroscientific evidence in the courtroom.
Posted on Monday 22 December, 2014
5th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium - Imaging the Nervous System - Registration opens in January!
The "Imaging the Nervous System" symposium is an international meeting, which will take place on September 9th and 10th 2015. Registration will open in January.
Posted on Friday 19 December, 2014
Congratulations to Ed Bullmore on £5M strategic award from Wellcome Trust.
Scientists searching for treatments to launch a £5m study that will explore a new link between immune disorders and mental illness.
Posted on Monday 22 December, 2014
Differential rates of healthy cognitive ageing associated with distinct prefrontal brain changes
Researchers at the Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and in Departments across the University of Cambridge have discovered that specific mental abilities decline with age at different rates because individuals’ brains age differently.
Posted on Monday 22 December, 2014
Naked Neuroscience at Christmas - The Wanderings of a Naked Brain
This month on Naked Neuroscience we'll be trotting the globe to open our minds!
Posted on Monday 22 December, 2014
Blame the Brain? Putting the brain on trial
This special Naked Neuroscience podcast series reports from Washington DC, where the International Neuroethics Society hosted their annual meeting at the AAAS headquarters.
Posted on Monday 22 December, 2014
Peering into the Human Brain
This special Naked Neuroscience podcast series (first of three) reports from Washington DC, where the International Neuroethics Society hosted their annual meeting at the AAAS headquarters.
Posted on Monday 22 December, 2014
Robots in Society
This special Naked Neuroscience podcast series, supported by the Wellcome Trust, reports from the International Neuroethics Society annual meeting at the AAAS headquarters in Washington DC.
Posted on Monday 22 December, 2014
Congratulations to Dr David Belin on selection as scholar of FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence
David Belin has been selected as one of the 20 first scholars of the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence.
Posted on Monday 22 December, 2014
OCD patients’ brains light up to reveal how compulsive habits develop
Misfiring of the brain’s control system might underpin compulsions in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to Cambridge Neuroscientists, writing in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Posted on Friday 19 December, 2014
Congratulations to Dr Armin Lak on Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship
Throughout the fellowship, Armin will combine electrophysiological, optogenetic and behavioural tools to investigate fronto-basal ganglia interactions underlying decision making.
Posted on Friday 19 December, 2014
Registration is now open for the 2015 Clinical Neurosciences BRC Spring School
The Clinical Neurosciences Brain Repair Centre Spring School on 'Inflammation and its role in degeneration and regeneration' is now open for registration.
Posted on Friday 19 December, 2014
Congratulations to Professor Trevor Robbins on WT Senior Investigator award
Cambridge Neuroscience would like to congratulate Professor Trevor Robbins on his Senior Investigator Award entitled 'Fronto-striatal systems in impulsive-compulsive disorders'.
Posted on Friday 19 December, 2014
HIP HOP PSYCH initiative aims to tackle mental health issues through hip-hop
The two worlds of hip-hop and psychiatry are being brought together in a unique project led by researchers at the University of Cambridge.
Posted on Tuesday 11 November, 2014
Welcome to the BNA2015: Festival of Neuroscience!
The British Neuroscience Association’s Festival of Neuroscience will take place in Edinburgh, 12-15 April, 2015. It brings together neuroscientists, neurologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, as well as physiologists, pharmacologists and many others.
Posted on Monday 6 October, 2014
Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant
Pioneering stem cell therapy that saw a paralysed man been able to walk again used similar method to that used in Cambridge dog study in 2012.
Posted on Monday 27 October, 2014
CamBRAIN: The Cambridge Neuroscience Society
The main objective of CamBRAIN is to create a social platform that fosters collaboration and communication amongst young neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge.
Posted on Tuesday 21 October, 2014
Volunteers required for memory study using TMS
The study takes place across 2 sessions, one week apart and each session is 2 hours long. You will be paid £7.50 per hour (total of £30) for your participation.
Posted on Monday 20 October, 2014
Scientists find ‘hidden brain signatures’ of consciousness in vegetative state patients
Cambridge neuroscientists have found hidden signatures in the brains of people in a vegetative state, which point to networks that could support consciousness even when a patient appears to be unconscious and unresponsive.
Posted on Friday 17 October, 2014
AstraZeneca, MedImmune and Cambridge Neuroscience announce 3-year collaboration
A three-year collaboration between AstraZeneca, MedImmune and members of Cambridge Neuroscience will focus on advancing research and development in neurodegenerative diseases, an area with a large unmet medical need.
Posted on Thursday 16 October, 2014
How to tell a missile from a pylon: a tale of two cortices
Research, led by Andrew Welchman, has identified the two regions of the brain involved in picking out objects from background noise and identifying the specific objects and has shown why training people to recognise specific objects improves their ability to pick out objects.
Posted on Thursday 16 October, 2014
Orchestral manoeuvres: multiple sclerosis faces the music
Like conducting an errant orchestra to play together, researchers are guiding processes that go awry in multiple sclerosis to repair themselves.
Posted on Thursday 16 October, 2014
Congratulations to Julia Gottwald on being shortlisted for the Max Perutz Science Writing Award
The Max Perutz Science Writing Award aims to encourage and recognise outstanding written communication among MRC PhD students.
Posted on Thursday 16 October, 2014
Presence or absence of early language delay alters anatomy of the brain in autism
Individual differences in early language development, and in later language functioning, are associated with changes in the anatomy of the brain in autism.
Posted on Thursday 16 October, 2014
Stem cells use “first aid kits” to repair damage
Neural stem cells are able to generate mini “first aid kits” and transfer them to immune cells, according to a study published recently.
Posted on Thursday 16 October, 2014
Double NIHR funding success for neurosurgical trials
The two successful funding bids, led by Professor Peter Hutchinson and supported by the Cambridge Clinical Trials Unit, will allow the roll out of two randomised trials aiming to improve the outcomes of head-injured patients.
Posted on Thursday 16 October, 2014
Volunteers wanted for Mood and Mental Imagery study - MRC CBSU
The study consists of computer based tests and questionnaires and takes place at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Time for participation is reimbursed.
Posted on Friday 10 October, 2014
The Challenge of Chronic Pain - 11-13 March 2015 Hinxton, Cambridge
This meeting is aimed at scientists, clinicians, and those working in industry or on translational research who are interested in understanding chronic pain and improving the process from mechanism to therapy.
Posted on Friday 10 October, 2014
The Biology of Regenerative Medicines - 22-24 April 2015 - Hinxton, Cambridge
This meeting is aimed at scientists involved in developmental and regenerative biology, stem cell research and translational medicine.
Posted on Friday 10 October, 2014
Implications of Research on the Neuroscience of Affect, Attachment and Social Cognition - UCL
For the third time, leading neuroscientists from Europe and the USA will once again host this unique forum exploring the latest neuroscience research with reference to treatments of mental disorders including autism, depression, personality disorders and attachment disorders.
Posted on Friday 10 October, 2014
Biomarkers for Brain Disorders: Challenges and Opportunities - Cambridge, February 2015
The 3rd Wellcome Trust Scientific Conference on Biomarkers for Brain Disorders: Challenges and Opportunities is open for registration.
Posted on Wednesday 1 October, 2014
Institute of Art and Ideas - debates and talks on Philosophy and Neuroscience
Philosophy for our times: cutting edge debates and talks from the world's leading thinkers.
Posted on Thursday 25 September, 2014
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