The new ultrahigh field MRI scanner, called the “7T”, has arrived. The 17 tonne magnet lies at the heart of a world leading centre for brain imaging. The innovative Terra MRI system from Siemens will transform the ability to see in detail inside the working human brain, its structure, its function, its chemistry and the […]
Archives for 2016
Pictures of You at Cambridge Science Festival
Pictures of You – a play and discussion on mental imagery, emotions and mental health. This will be performed at the Unit on Friday 18th March 2016 at 5 -7.30pm as part of Cambridge Science Week. Inspired by the ‘mental imagery’, emotion and the study and treatment of bipolar disorder, Pictures of You presents the […]
Stephen Senn talk
Stephen Senn’s talk titled “P Values and replication: the problem is not what you think”
Semantic and emotional content of imagined representations
A collaboration between and Daniel Mitchell at the CBU and Rhodri Cusack at Western’s Brain and Mind Institute used a new type of real-time fMRI scanning to compare brain activity patterns when volunteers imagined objects to the activity patterns when they actually saw many different objects. They found that when something is imagined, volunteers didn’t […]
Time-series analysis to mood fluctuations in bipolar disorder to promote treatment innovation?
A paper on research by Emily Holmes and her team on using applications of time-series analysis to mood fluctuations in bipolar disorder to promote treatment innovation has been published in Nature. The findings offer preliminary support for a new imagery-focused treatment approach. They also indicate a step in treatment innovation without the requirement for trials […]
Following instructions in a virtual school depends on working memory
Some children are much better than others at carrying out instructions, but why? Working memory – the capacity for storing information over short periods of time – appears to play an important role. Using a virtual reality environment of a school, a research team headed by Jaroslawska has shown that children with greater working memory […]
Cognitive Training in Children Seminar January 2016
A report of the day can be found here The CBU hosted an ESRC Seminar on Cognitive Training in Children in January with over 70 delegates from academia, the health service and educationalists. Over two days they heard talks from an international line up of speakers including Torkel Klingberg and Edmund Sonuga-Barke. Films of the talks will […]