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 […]

Exploring the Brain and Mind As part of the 2023 Cambridge Festival (17 March – 2 April), the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) will be hosting an in-house Science Night, exploring parts of the various research programmes being carried out at the Unit. When: Wednesday 29 March 2023, 6pm – 8:30pm Where: […]

Fluid intelligence – the ability to solve novel, complex problems – declines steeply during healthy human aging. Despite consensus that fluid intelligence is associated with particular frontoparietal brain regions, little research has investigated suggestions that under-responsiveness of these regions mediates age-related decline. Using fMRI data collected for the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN), […]

Congratulations to MRC CBU’s Dr Amy Orben, Programme Leader Track Scientist, who has been announced as a finalist for the MRC Early Career Impact Award. Amy has been shortlisted for her hard work for multiple, innovative contributions to open science, reproducibility and research cultures in her early career phase, championing early-career researchers, and improving scientific […]

Cambridge researchers have highlighted how lack of access to a computer was linked to poorer mental health among young people and adolescents during COVID-19 lockdowns. The team found that the end of 2020 was the time when young people faced the most difficulties and that the mental health of those young people without access to […]

Many congratulations to MRC CBU’s PhD student Rebecca Williams, who won the Commended Prize at the MRC Max Perutz Science Writing Awards. Rebecca’s writing piece was titled: ‘Apathy research: why should we bother?’ The award ceremony was held on Thursday 20 October.  Rebecca said: “I am so thrilled to have been given the award, and […]

It is important to understand the factors that affect what we remember. We often remember surprising events that are not expected based on our prior knowledge. However, we also remember events that conform to our expectations. A recent theory explains these paradoxical effects of prior knowledge (or “schemas”) by assuming that different memory systems support […]

Huge congratulations to two of MRC CBU’s PhD students, Rebecca Williams and Natalia Zdorovtsova, who have both been shortlisted for the 2022 MRC Max Perutz Science Writing Award. The award aims to encourage and recognise outstanding written communication by MRC PhD students. The competition challenges students to explain why their research matters in 1,100 words […]