The free Belonging in School resources have arrived! These resources offer tools that schools and educators can use to revise or develop policies for educational inclusion, particularly as they pertain to learners with neurodevelopmental differences. It was so good to see so many of you at our in-person and online launches. But if you missed […]
Suppressing distressing thoughts improves mental health, and this can be trained
Anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and depression dramatically increased worldwide during the Covid-19 pandemic. People with these conditions experience distressing intrusive thoughts yet conventional therapies often urge them to avoid suppressing their thoughts because intrusions might rebound in intensity and frequency, worsening the disorders. In contrast, Zulkayda Mamat and Michael Anderson from the MRC CBU, hypothesized that […]
MRC CBU staff fundraising for RNID
MRC CBU PostDocs and Cambridge Hearing Group members Dorothée Arzounian, Dakota Bysouth-Young, Evelien de Groote, François Guérit, Alexis Deighton MacIntyre, and Lidea Shahidi are running the Royal Parks Half Marathon in London on Sunday 8 October. The team are fundraising for the Royal National Institute for Deaf people (RNID), the UK’s national charity for people […]
Belonging in School project: neurodevelopmental differences and inclusive education
A new resource to help schools plan inclusive education policies and support neurodivergent pupils will launch this September, as the final output from the Belonging in School impact project. This small-scale project is a collaboration between Duncan Astle, Natalia Zdorovtsova, and visitor Alyssa Alcorn from the MRC CBU. Belonging in School builds on and extends […]
Brain Network Development Under Adversity
Cambridge researchers from the Department of Psychiatry and the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, has secured £1.3m from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to explore how early life adversity shapes human brain development. The team of scientists, comprising Duncan Astle (PI), Danyal Akarca, Sofia Carozza, Petra Vértes, Varun Warrier and Ed […]
Prof James Rowe elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences
Congratulations to James Rowe who has been elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences. The new Fellows have been elected to the Academy in recognition of their exceptional contributions to the advancement of biomedical and health science, cutting edge research discoveries, and translating developments into benefits for patients and wider society. This is a fantastic […]
Advanced brain imaging in rare patients with aphasia tells us how the brain predicts and perceives speech
Our ability to understand speech, especially in noisy environments, is significantly improved by cross-modal cues such as lip reading and subtitles. How the brain creates these predictions, and reconciled them against what was actually heard is highly controversial. In this study led by scientists and neurologists from the MRC CBU, patients with a rare speech […]
Camilla Nord receives Wellcome Career Development Award
Congratulations to MRC CBU’s Camilla Nord who has received a Wellcome Fellowship. Camilla has been awarded a £1.5 million Wellcome Career Development Award to investigate the neural mechanisms of bodily symptoms in neuropsychiatric conditions. This eight-year award builds on Camilla’s current MRC-funded programme on brain-body interactions, and is jointly hosted by the MRC CBU and […]
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