MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitDenis Chan and colleagues at the University of Cambridge studied 205 retired individuals from the CamCAN cohort and found that mid-life intellectual, physical and social activities made significant positive contributions to their current cognitive abilities (IQ). The positive effects of mid-life activities also appear to have a protective effect in the face of poor structural […]
Improving identification of young children struggling after adversity
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was originally conceived as a condition that affected adults, having it’s original origins as a syndrome experienced by war veterans. Over the years, we have increasingly understood that children can experience PTSD also, and the diagnostic criteria (i.e., symptoms that an individual needs to display to receive a diagnosis of PTSD) […]
How biopsychosocial psychiatric risk shapes behavioral and neural responses to social evaluation in adolescence
Depression is leading cause of disability worldwide. There are lots of different risk factors for depression; from biological ones such as genetics, to psychosocial ones such as childhood adversity. Depression is often first diagnosed in adolescence, so it is important to try and understand how the combined effects of risk factors interact with everyday emotional […]
Researchers have shown why people with mental health disorders, including anorexia and panic disorders, experience physical signals differently
Researchers, from the MRC CBU, University of Cambridge, found that the part of the brain which interprets physical signals from the body behaves differently in people with a range of mental health disorders, suggesting that it could be a target for future treatments. The researchers studied ‘interoception’ – the ability to sense internal conditions in […]
BINGO!
Brain and Behaviour in Intellectual Disability of Genetic Origin (or BINGO for short) is a long-running research project to understand more about learning and mental health in young people affected by rare genetic disorders. Within BINGO, we focus on specific genetic diagnoses which affect how brain cells work, for example how signals are sent from […]
Resilience in Education and Development (RED)
In our Resilience in Education and Development (RED) project, we want to establish which factors help children flourish despite socio-economic disadvantage. We visit schools with our own iPad app, which assesses children’s cognition through multiple games, and incorporates multiple age-appropriate questionnaire. This app provides us with a detailed assessment of different cognitive skills, literacy, numeracy, […]
Teenagers at greatest risk of self-harming could be identified almost a decade earlier
Researchers from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, have identified two subgroups of adolescents who self-harm and have shown that it is possible to predict those individuals at greatest risk almost a decade before they begin self-harming. The researchers found that while sleep problems and low self-esteem were common risk […]
Simulating interactions between regions during semantic memory
The human ability to remember is not rooted in the activity of a single brain region. Rather, many regions contribute to memory, much like many different instruments contribute to an orchestra. And just as musicians must precisely coordinate their playing, so must brain regions dynamically interact to support functions like memory. But most previous studies […]
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