MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
PLEASE READ: Due to a bug recently found in the online form, abstract submissions completed before the 13th of June 2019 have not been recorded. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you have submitted an abstract submission before this date, please can you resubmit your abstract (name, presentation title, abstract max 300 words) by emailing the simamp team directly at amconference@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Special Interest Meeting in Autobiographical Memory and Psychopathology
The Special Interest Meeting in Autobiographical Memory and Psychopathology is a gathering of academics and students with an interest in how autobiographical memory is related to emotional and mental wellbeing.
The conference will be held in Cambridge on the 5th and 6th of December 2019 at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, with a conference dinner planned on the 5th of December.
This year, we are hoping to supplement the experimental, cognitive psychology research which has traditionally been presented with talks from those exploring biological or neural underpinnings of autobiographical memory. We hope this will help to integrate an understanding of autobiographical memory from biological to behavioural levels. To this end, Professor Brian Levine will make a keynote presentation on the neural correlates of autobiographical remembering, which will be followed by a short discussion session on Linking biological, psychological, and philosophical understanding of autobiographical memory.
Similarly, as autobiographical memory research is steadily being translated toward clinical interventions, we have also included a short discussion session Translation of research into improved clinical practice to which clinicians and individuals with lived experience of mental health disorders have been invited. We hope that discussion with key stakeholders will inform later collaborative research and clinical implementation of autobiographical memory-based programmes.
Abstract Submission
We are inviting abstracts (250 words) for 10-minute oral presentations. We encourage PhD students to consider submitting an abstract for a talk.
Posters sessions will also be held on both days of the conference. We therefore also invite submission of abstracts for posters.
Abstract submission will close on 12th July 2019.
Please submit abstracts by emailing the following details below to the conference team at amconference@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Title:
Full name:
Presentation title:
Abstract (maximum of 300 words):
Registration is now open
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As agreed at the 2018 meeting, the costs for lunch and dinner will be charged to attendees. A fee of £45 will cover lunch on both days, plus a three-course dinner including wine in the Great Hall of a Cambridge University college.
Meeting location
The Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit is located at 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 7EF. The Unit is an approximately twenty-minute walk from the Cambridge train station. A map of how to get from the station to the Unit can be found here.
Getting to Cambridge
Cambridge is accessible by a 50-minute train from London. Express trains depart every thirty minutes from King’s Cross Station, although slower trains are available from Liverpool Street station. King’s Cross is located directly opposite St Pancras International, the arrival station for all international trains. The Eurostar operates rail services between St Pancras International and Paris and Brussels, with connections available to other European destinations.
The closest airport to Cambridge is London Stansted. The direct train between London Stansted and Cambridge takes thirty minutes.
Accommodation
There are a number of accommodation options within walking distance of the Unit. This includes Ibis, which is located next to the train station, Royal Cambridge Hotel, and Travelodge.
PLEASE READ: Due to a bug recently found in the online form, abstract submissions completed before the 13th of June 2019 have not been recorded. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you have submitted an abstract submission before this date, please can you resubmit your abstract (name, presentation title, abstract max 300 words) by emailing the simamp team directly at amconference@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
