Professor Sabine Bahn The goals of the Bahn Laboratory are to develop molecular diagnostics for schizophrenia and other major neuropsychiatric disorders, to develop and test new hypotheses of the pathological basis of schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder and to...
Julie Bailey My doctoral research project at the Faculty of Education focuses on the experience of autistic pupils in mainstteam education, through an investigation of the behavioural indicators of engagemnet with classroom learning. This study applies finding...
Professor 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. Current projects inclu...
Dr Kate Baker Genomic technology is now enabling the identification of many novel causes of neurodevelopmental disorder. This provides a new starting point for understanding the relationships between specific genetic mutation, neuronal function, brain developm...
Dr Sara Baker I am interested in the role of pre-frontal functions (i.e., impulse control) in the formation and expression of beliefs especially during early childhood. I use behavioral and physiological measures (eye-tracking) to examine how children learn to...
Dr Gabriel Balmus My lab is interested in understanding the roles of DNA Damage Repair (DDR) in mature neurons and its links to neurodegenerative disorders (including Alzheimer's and related diseases) and ageing. We are using a variety of tools including CRISPR-Ca...
Dr Paula Banca My research is aimed at understanding the neural mechanisms underlying action control with the purpose of developing more effective treatments in psychiatric diseases. I am interested in compulsive disorders, particularly Obsessive-Compulsive Diso...
Professor Manohar Bance I am a clinician-scientist interested in disorders of hearing and balance
In particular, we are interested in how cochlear implants stimulate the auditory system, ways to improve stimulation, measuring outcomes and measures of hearing and balance ...
Dr Pouya Baniasadi My general research interest is reverse engineering biological cognition; To understand the general principles and to create mathematical models that reproducing these strategies. Accordingly, I am interested in four major themes:
Threat Detecti...
Dr Matthew Banton Using molecular and cellular techniques including confocal microscopy I am investigating how certain genes play a role in obesity through changes in appetite and metabolism.
Dr Koby Baranes I am using forward reprogramming methods to generate oligodendrocytes and other glial cells from human pluripotent stem cells. The main goal of my research is to establish a model system which will allow to study myelination both in normal and in...
Dr Amanda Barber Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) convey visual signals from the retina to the brain via their axons that forms the optic nerve and the optic tract. Damage to RGC axons, as a result of injury or diseases such as glaucoma, can result in blindness as ma...
Professor 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 My aim has been to understand the visual system at the level of its neurons and their interactions, because I think this is the level that holds the key to a quantitative understanding of the useful work our brains do for us. For tasks requiring ...
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...
Lydia Barnes I'm interested in how the brain supports flexible thought, how we comprehend new tasks, and what makes us decide we should engage effortfully with a task. I study domain-general, task-positive brain systems, primarily with MEG/EEG and behaviour. I...
Dr Jennifer Barnett I'm a psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist with some training in genetics and epidemiology. I’m interested in how genetic and environmental factors affect cognitive functions and mental health throughout life. This includes the development of...
Professor Jean-Claude Baron My research focuses on the pathophysiology of ischaemic stroke and the mechanisms underlying subsequent deterioration or recovery, including neuronal damage, tissue inflammation and long-term plasticity processes. In terms of methodology, my appro...
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen The Autism Research Centre (ARC), of which I am Director, has 6 programs of research, all focusing on Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC):
(a) Perception and Cognition (investigating social and non-social cognition and sensory processing);
(b) Neu...
Dr Damiano G. Barone The nervous system plays a key role in the regulation of body function from voluntary movement to cognition. Due to the inability of the nervous system to regenerate itself, injuries to the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerve can have a profou...
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 and immplementation innovative therapeutic interventions iii) evaluation of neuro-rehabil...
Robert Batt The use of A.I. and other digital health solutions to enable the provision of psychological support to those who might not usually be able to access these services.
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 Gonca Bayraktar My research aims to understand how synaptic plasticity governs learning and memory function of the brain and how gradual loss of function or impairment leads to neurodegeneration. treatment of dementia like Alzheimer’s disease. My research focuses...
Dr Paul Bays In order to interact with the world, our brains construct and sustain their own internal representations of it. Our aim is to understand the nature of these representations and the computations the brain performs on them to achieve behavioural goa...
Dr Faye Begeti Problems in cognition are a part of Huntington’s disease (HD) and have a significant impact on quality of life. My main research interest is to investigate the cognitive aspects of HD with the aim of translating animal research into the clinic in...
Dr Tristan Bekinschtein I am interested in non-classic approaches to study the physiology and cognition of consciousness.
I have wide Interests in Cognition and neurophysiology. In the last few years I have been mainly concentrating in describing different states of con...
Dr David Belin Our research is interested in the neural, cellular and molecular substrates of inter-individual vulnerability to develop impulsive/compulsive disorders such as drug addiction, Obsessive / Compulsive Disorder, Tourette’s syndrome, pathological gamb...
Dr Aude Belin-Rauscent My research is interested in the neurophysiological and neuropharmacological substrates of compulsive disorders such as drug addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder.
Mr Samuel Bell From my background in machine learning, I'm generally interested in how humans learn to perform many tasks so effectively even with only limited experience, and the role of inductive bias and priors in driving this ability. I'm looking to use neur...
Dr Aya Ben-Yakov I investigate brain mechanisms underlying encoding of new episodic memories, with a specific interest in revealing how we encode real-life events that unfold over time. To this end, I combine behavioural and neuroimaging paradigms utilising films ...
Arielle Bennett-Lovell I work with the neuroscience community to bolster collaborations, support new projects, and develop strategy.
Dr Barry Bentley My current research aims to map and understand the extrasynaptic volume transmission networks in the nervous system of C. elegans.
Dr Jimena Berni My research is concerned with the way the neuronal network underlying locomotor behaviour assembles during embryonic development. In particular I am focussing in the mechanisms that contribute to the stability and reliability of the neuronal circu...
Professor German Berrios I am interested in the study of psychiatric symptoms (e.g. hallucinations, delusions, obsessions) appearing in the context of neurological disease.
Since the 19th century, the view that 'mental symptoms' seen in the context of neurological diseas...
Dr Anne Bertolotti Diverse neurodegenerative diseases share a common cause: aggregation of a specific protein in selective regions of the brain.
The disease-causing proteins are expressed throughout life but neurodegenerative diseases are mostly late-onset. In fac...
Dr Maxime Bertoux CPsychol At the interaction between cognitive neurosciences and clinical neuropsychology, my aim is to develop novel procedure of assessment, diagnosis and follow-up for neurodegenerative diseases such as Frontotemporal Dementia or Alzheimer's disease.
In...
Richard Bethlehem I currently am a Research Associate at the Autism Research Centre and collaborate with the Geschwind lab at UCLA to work on integrated Neuroimaging and Transcriptomics in order to gain better understanding of genetic underpinnings of atypical neur...
Mr Giacomo Bignardi I'm a third year PhD student, broadly interested in child development and individual differences.
The goal of my PhD has been to better understand the environmental mechansisms behind social inequalities in educational and mental health outcomes....
Mr Bastiaan Bijleveld My current project involves investigating the neural substrates of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). One particular region of interest for us is the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC). This brain region has a central multifaceted role in OC...
Dr Simon Blackwell I a visiting scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (until end of 2017), and a post-doctoral researcher at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. The focus of my research is on positive mental imagery and its potential use in interventions for d...
Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Our research focuses on the development of social cognition, peer influence and decision making in adolescence, and adolescent mental health. We run large scale behavioural studies in schools and in the lab, as well as neuroimaging studies, with a...
Dr Clemence Blouet Impairments in central pathways regulating energy homeostasis can cause profound metabolic dysfunctions, but current knowledge is insufficient to develop safe and efficient therapies targeting these pathways.
Brain metabolic sensing is based on th...
Dr Giulia Bonetto Studies of neural circuit plasticity focus almost exclusively on functional and structural changes of neuronal synapses. In recent years, however, myelin plasticity has emerged as a potential modulator of neuronal networks. Indeed, myelination of ...
Dr Daniel Bor My current main research focus is on the effects of drowsiness and conscious level (both measured neurally) on cognition, and how this is modulated by age and disease (Alzheimer's). I am using MEG, fMRI and structural imaging techniques to examine...
Mr Robin Borchert I work with fMRI to investigate how drug treatments, which target the cognitive deficits in Parkinson's Disease, affect network connectivity. This provides a great opportunity to understand and optimize these treatments for patients.
Gesa Sophia Borgeest I'm a PhD student working with Dr Rogier Kievit in the executive processes group at the MRC CBU. I use psychometric techniques in large-sample, multimodal, longitudinal datasets to address how the human brain ages. Specifically, I am investigating...
Dr Mirjana Bozic I study language as a cognitive and a neural system. My research focuses on the neural mechanisms that support spoken language comprehension. Using behavioural and neuroimaging techniques, I investigate how different properties of the speech input...
Dr Marco Brancaccio Molecular, cellular and circuit mechanisms of circadian rhythms generation in mammals
Professor Andrea Brand FRS FMedSci Uncovering the molecular mechanisms that control neural stem quiescence and reactivation is crucial for understanding tissue regeneration under normal and pathological conditions and in response to ageing. It is critical to learn not only how stem...
Dr Francesca Branzi I am a neuroscientist interested in the neural basis of language and semantic processing in monolingual and multilingual speakers. I completed my PhD on the cognitive and neural correlates of language production and executive functions in multilin...
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...
Professor 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 Jack Brelstaff Ph.D Our work focuses on the cellular and molecular consequences of tau pathology in neuronal cultures. Our primary model is derived from the dorsal root ganglia of mice transgenic for P301S mutant human tau. These ganglia are dissociated and grown in ...
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...
Miss Laura Brightman Looking at an In Vitro model of Prader Willi syndrome, a developmental disorder caused by problems (both deletion and epigenetic) with chromosome 15. Modelling cortical development with human patient IPSC lines.
Allan Brigola My research focuses on cognitive performance in elderly people with low education. In Brazil I study the relationship between cognition, frailty and emotional variables in elderly from rural communities. At the University of Cambridge I am studyin...
Professor Kevin Brindle We have developed non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques that enable us to track labelled cells that have been implanted in the CNS. This work has been conducted in collaboration with Robin Franklin. In addition we are developi...
Jantine Broek A.C. My PhD in the Bahn lab concerns the fragile X syndrome (FXS) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The project aims to discover the underlying mechanisms of FXS and ASD, which will contribute to the future development of early diagnosis and treatment.
Paul Brooks My area of research focuses on how the cellular skeleton is formed and maintained.
Fundamentally, microtubules are comprised of just 3 proteins, however, their functions are diverse. During cell division MTs lock onto and pull apart chromosomes, ...
Professor Donald Broom Developing and using methods of evaluating animal welfare.
Behaviour development, social behaviour, abnormal behaviour.
Assessing cognitive ability in domestic animals including cattle, pigs, sheep and dogs.
Sentience, awareness, emotions, feeling...
Professor Guy Brown We are interested in the mechanisms of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in the brain. We use mouse models of disease and cultured brain cells to investigate how microglia become activated by inflammatory stimuli and how such microglia dama...
Dr Stephanie Brown My research with the CIDDRG is focused on functional and structural brain changes during the development of Alzheimer's Disease in Down's Syndrome and mediating factors of onset.
Dr Rose Bruffaerts I'm a cognitive neurologist. My research is centered around semantic and perceptual processing of concrete entities.
The methods that I use to conduct this research consist of advanced fMRI and MEG techniques (multi-voxel pattern analysis and mach...
Dr Annette Brühl My research is concerned with the interaction of emotion and cognition - how cognitive processes regulate emotion, how emotion interacts with cognition - with a particular focus on the neurofunctional processes. These processes are disturbed in af...
Dr Clare Buckley The vertebrate brain arises from a tube-like structure made from polarised neuroepithelial cells. These have a strict apico-basal orientation; they align their apical ends along a centrally located lumen. This organisation is important for later n...
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...
Miss Sophie Buller Our group studies hypothalamic nutrient sensing and its role in the regulation of energy balance.
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...
Dr Simon Bullock Our primary goal is to understand how cellular components are sorted and dispersed by microtubule-based motor complexes, and how these transport processes contribute to the functions of cells in situ (i.e. within organisms). We have long-standing ...
Dr David Bulmer Abdominal pain is a leading cause of morbidity in gastrointestinal disease. Despite this we still know little of how pain is triggered in “functional” gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and gastrointestinal diseases ...
Guido Buonincontri I am mainly interested in hardware and software development for PET and MRI. My research aims to implement and extend the latest MR imaging techniques for assessing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular function in animal models of heart failure, str...
Craig Burns Memory reconsolidation and destabilisation in maladaptive disorders such as addiction
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 proce...
Dr Karl Emanuel Busch I study the response of the nematode C. elegans to a cue related to foraging, the concentration of ambient oxygen, which determines the worm´s locomotory activity on bacterial food lawns. I aim to understand how genes that regulate this particular...
Dr Folma Buss We study the cellular roles of myosin motor proteins and how they mediate the organization of cellular compartments and control intracellular transport along actin filaments. One of our major aims is to understand the mechanism of cargo selection ...
Mr James Butler Recent studies have established dysfunctional evoked and induced gamma (40 Hz) oscillations as well as changes in parvalbumin (PV) interneurons in the brains of schizophrenic patients (Uhlhaas & Singer, 2010). I will express the optogenetic silenc...
Simon Butler Puberty is associated with a period of psychological change concomitant with structural changes in the brain. An endocrinological association has been proposed. In the context of education, the effects on executive function, particularly the socia...
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...
Miss Elizabeth Byrne My research focuses on working memory training combined with transcranial electrical stimulation (tES).
