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 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 […]

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 […]

Our ability to understand speech, especially in noisy environments, is significantly improved by cross-modal cues such as lip reading and subtitles.  How the brain creates these predictions, and reconciled them against what was actually heard is highly controversial. In this study led by scientists and neurologists from the MRC CBU, patients with a rare speech […]

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 18-29 September 2023. The COGNESTIC summer school will provide researchers with training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and related methods. We will use a variety of […]

We are pleased to announce the workshop for Structural Equation Modelling for Longitudinal Data will take place on 27 and 28 March 2023, at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. The workshop will be tutored by Ethan McCormick from the University of Leiden. The workshop is free to attend but registration is required. To […]

Intraoperative mapping during awake neurosurgeries guides the resection of brain tumors to minimize the loss of healthy tissue and preserve brain function. This is usually done through “zapping brains” i.e. sending a weak electrical current, and thereby temporarily switching off certain areas. If patients stop being able to do basic things, such as counting or […]

Verbal communication in noisy environments is challenging, especially for hearing-impaired individuals. Seeing facial movements of communication partners improves speech perception when auditory signals are degraded or absent. The neural mechanisms supporting lip-reading or audio-visual benefit are not fully understood. In this study Máté Aller, Heidi Solberg Økland, Lucy J. MacGregor, Helen Blank, and Matthew H. […]