MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitCongratulations to MRC CBU’s Sofia Carozza, who has been shortlisted for the 2021 MRC Max Perutz Science Writing Award. Sofia’s article is titled ‘Shining a light on childhood adversity’ The award aims to encourage and recognise outstanding written communication by MRC PhD students. The competition, which launched in May 2021, challenged students to explain why their […]
MRC CBU’s Ajay Halai awarded an MRC Career Development Award (CDA)
Many congratulations to MRC CBU’s Ajay Halai who has been awarded an MRC Career Development Award (CDA), for his project ‘Developing a neuroscience-led basis for diagnosis, prognosis, management and therapy for aphasia post-stroke.’ A career development award is a personal award that aims to support individuals seeking to transition to independence through protected research time […]
Learning to read in classrooms and brain scanners
Learning to read is the most important skill that children acquire at school. Since 2006, UK schools have been legally required to teach children phonics knowledge – the links between letters and sounds – “fast and first”. However, despite the apparent efficacy of phonics, this prescriptive approach to literacy education remains controversial. With funding from […]
How to make sense of degraded speech
In our everyday life, we often encounter speech that is hard to hear and understand. This can be due to the noise of a busy pub, hearing someone with an unfamiliar accent, or for speech heard over a bad telephone line. All of these problems are exacerbated for people with impaired hearing; the most common […]
Mid-life activities protect old-age cognition against brain decline
Denis 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 […]
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