You can now pre-register your interest to attend the Cognitive Neuroscience Skills Training In Cambridge (COGNESTIC) at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge on 16-27 September 2024. The two-week summer school will provide researchers with training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and related methods, focusing on MRI, fMRI and EEG/MEG. […]

Have you ever been curious about how our brains manage tasks like remembering a phone number, shifting attention, or controlling impulsive decisions? These are part of “executive functions,” essential cognitive processes for everything from daily decision-making to problem-solving. Traditionally, these functions were thought to be managed by specific, isolated brain networks. A new study, led […]

Congratulations to Dr Amy Orben from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, who has been awarded a £1.9 Million UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. The fund is UKRI’s flagship research fellowship, targeting the most innovative scientists and researchers across the country to allow them to secure the UK’s status as an ongoing global science superpower.  […]

Depression is common following brain injuries such as stroke and traumatic brain injury, nearly double that of people without brain injuries. However, research on effective therapies for depression after brain injury is lacking, with brain injury survivors rating mental health difficulties as their number one long-term unmet need. Cognitive disabilities, such as memory and planning […]

Contrary to the commonly-held view, the brain does not have the ability to rewire itself to compensate for the loss of sight, an amputation or stroke, for example, say scientists from the University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University. Writing in eLife, Professors Tamar Makin (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge) and […]

Cambridge scientists have shown that placing physical constraints on an artificially-intelligent system – in much the same way that the human brain has to develop and operate within physical and biological constraints – allows it to develop features of the brains of complex organisms in order to solve tasks. As neural systems such as the […]

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 […]