MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitA 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 […]
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We are seeking volunteers to help us with our studies on brain’s phenomenal capacities in language, memory, perception, reasoning and creativity. Volunteers can contribute to our studies by completing computerised experiments and taking part in various types of brain scanning studies in our Unit near to the centre of Cambridge. Increasingly we also use on-line tasks that […]
British Psychological Society lecture by Mike Anderson available online
A video of the annual joint British Psychological Society/British Academy lecture ‘Keeping a spotless mind: The neuroscience of motivated forgetting‘ presented by Michael Anderson is now available online. It was presented earlier this month at the British Academy in London. www.bps.org.uk/news/annual-bpsba-lecture-video-neuroscience-forgetting-available You can also read a report of the lecture in The Psychologist
Computer game play reduces intrusive memories
Researchers at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge have shown that playing a visual computer game reduces the intrusiveness of emotional memories of events seen the day before. In two experiments, participants viewed films with traumatic content, such as public information films of the dangers of drink driving. A day later, one group watched […]
Vicki Bruce becomes Dame Commander of the British Empire
Professor Vicki Bruce of Newcastle University was announced as Dame Commander of the British Empire, for services to Higher Education and Psychology in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Vicki spend three years at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit (now the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) studying for a PhD completed in 1977, supervised by […]
New child trauma study published
When a child experiences trauma, it can sometimes lead to emotional difficulties. We know that social support can be helpful in minimising emotional problems after trauma, but exactly how this works is not well explored. Results from this study, authored by Caitlin Hitchcock of the CBU, suggested that social support may reduce negative appraisals a […]
Rogier Kievit awarded Wellcome Fellowship
Rogier Kievit of the CBU has been awarded a four year Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship. Rogier did his PhD at the University of Amsterdam with Professor Denny Borsboom, developing psychometric models to relate measures of brain structure to cognitive abilities, and is currently a postdoc on the BBSRC funded Cam-CAN project (Cambridge Centre for […]
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