CBU Scientist Tom Manly will be performing science-based stand-up comedy at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Tom will be performing as part of Bright Club Scotland taking to the stage at the Stand in the Square (Venue 372) at 3:40 on August 13th. Other acts include Carla Washbourne (environmental science and public policy), Suzanne McEndoo (quantum […]
Archives for July 2014
Wellcome Trust Strategic Award for Tim Dalgleish
We have delighted to report that Tim Dalgleish and colleagues in Oxford and Exeter have been successful in their application for a large Wellcome Trust Strategic Award entitled entitled ‘Promoting Mental Health and Building Resilience in Adolescence: Investigating Mindfulness and Attentional Control’. This will fund work and staff to be based in Cambridge, and is a very […]
Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship awarded to Yaara Erez
Many congratulations to Yaara Erez, who has been awarded a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship from the Royal Society. This gives Yaara up to five years of independent funding to pursue her work with us, following on from her previous support from EMBO. Yaara plans to combine multivariate analysis and computational modelling of single cell data from […]
Susan Gathercole elected as FBA
We are delighted that our Director, Prof Susan Gathercole, has been made a Fellow of the British Academy, in recognition of her pioneering work on developmental disorders in cognition, and implications for education. See here for more on this news and the British Academy.
Scientific advances in mental health must embrace psychological treatments
Scientific advances in mental health must embrace psychological treatments Call to action follows major international conference on psychological treatments – writing today in Nature, leading researchers, including CBU’s Emily Holmes, have called on clinical scientists and neuroscientists to work together to advance the scientific understanding of psychological treatments. The article is an outcome of an international […]
Amazing sounds in online experiment featured by BBC Radio 4
The CBU recently ran an online experiment in cooperation with the BBC Radio 4 show The Human Zoo. “The Human Zoo explores the foibles, quirks and behaviour of that most fascinating of species – us!” Familiarity breeds contempt, as the saying goes. But psychologists say that repetition does something powerful to our appreciation of everything […]
Stroke Association grant awarded to evaluate new cognitive treatments in stroke
Polly Peers, Tom Manly, Duncan Astle, John Duncan and Andrew Bateman (Cambridgshire Community NHS Trust) have been awarded a Stroke Association grant to investigate the effectiveness of new on-line attention and working memory training packages for people who have had a stroke. Stroke, a temporary block to the brain’s blood supply, is the biggest single […]
BBSRC grant awarded to study ageing
Rik Henson, together with Jon Simons at the Cambridge University Psychology Department, have been awarded a BBSRC project grant to “characterise encoding and retrieval contributions to age-related memory impairment”. This 3-year grant (led by Jon Simons) will allow one post-doctoral researcher to run a number of MRI experiments at the CBU. This work will continue […]