Congratulations to Moataz Assem from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge (MRC CBU), who has been awarded the prestigious Wellcome Trust Early Career Award. The award, totalling over £800k, is for five years to investigate working memory brain circuits at the MRC CBU. Moataz’s research aims to understand how we “actively” […]
The Dementia Research Fund
By supporting research into dementia at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, you are enabling cutting-edge research to continue, building our understanding of the biological processes behind the earliest stages of neurodegeneration and ageing and enabling the development of effective new treatments that can stop, slow down or reverse dementia. Click here for more […]
How social media changes uncertainty of important social information
The social world is inherently uncertain. Research suggests that we employ Bayesian inference to manage this. However, this work consistently overlooks how online environments (e.g., social media) modulate the social uncertainty we experience. Researchers need to scrutinise the implications of this shift, as the online social environment, like social media, differs fundamentally from its offline […]
MRC CBU Methods Day
The MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) are happy to announce the next Methods Day will take place on Monday 4 December 2023. The Methods Day will consist of 16 short talks from researchers around Cambridge, on methodological innovations and new application in brain imaging, brain stimulation, behavioural research and web-based experiments. This […]
Cochlear Implant Volunteers Appreciation Day
More than 40 volunteers and companions attended the Cochlear Implant Volunteer Appreciation Day at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) on a warm (ish) Saturday in October. They enjoyed learning more about how our research aims to improve hearing in people with severe and profound hearing loss, plus a chance to swap […]
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 […]
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