The anterior temporal lobes (ATL) have become a key brain region of interest in cognitive neuroscience founded upon neuropsychological investigations of semantic dementia (SD). The purposes of this investigation are to generate a single unified model that captures the known cognitive-behavioural variations in SD and map these to the patients’ distribution of frontotemporal atrophy. Here […]
Vice-Chancellor Social Impact awardee 2020 – Andrea Kusec
Huge congratulations to MRC CBU’s Andrea Kusec, who is one of the winners of the 2020 University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Award. The award, sponsored by Cambridge Hub and Stephen Toope, aims to recognise and celebrate exceptional achievement in social impact amongst Cambridge students. Andrea was nominated for her 3 years of volunteer work […]
Working for the future: Parentally deprived Nigerian children have enhanced working memory ability
The dominant view is that early adverse rearing generally impairs cognitive functions. However, recent empirical studies have shown that early life adversity can have adaptive benefits, especially when probed under stressful conditions. Tochukwu Nweze of MRC CBU and his colleagues examined parentally deprived Nigerian children (institutionalized and foster cared children) on a battery of executive […]
Large-scale modelling study in chronic post-stroke aphasia
Neuroimaging has radically improved our understanding of how speech and language abilities map to the brain in normal and impaired participants, including the diverse, graded variations observed in post-stroke aphasia. MRC CBU’s Matt Lambon Ralph and Ajay Halai have been working alongside Anne Williams from University of Manchester, and have begun a handful of studies […]
MRC CBU’s Tobias Goehring awarded an MRC Career Development Award (CDA)
Many congratulations to MRC CBU’s Tobias Goehring who has been awarded an MRC Career Development Award (CDA), for his project ‘restoring the sense of sound: deep-learning based compensation strategies for the electro-neural transmission of sound by cochlear implants’. A career development award is a personal award that aims to support individuals seeking to transition to […]
MRC CBU’s latest EEG/MEG brain scanning technology
In early March, the MRC CBU installed the latest EEG/MEG brain scanning technology, the new MEGIN Triux Neo EEG/MEG scanner. The CBU is one of only 10 sites in the UK to have this technology available. The scanner will support the CBU’s world-leading research into the fundamental mechanisms of underlying cognition in health and brain […]
Experts call for more mental health support for parents of children with genetic learning disabilities
As many as one in 20 families worldwide is thought to include a child with a learning disability, but little is known about how this affects the parents’ mental health and wellbeing. Although some parents experience depression and anxiety, it is not clear why some are at greater risk than others. Professor Claire Hughes from […]
Cancelled – Science Night: Wednesday 11 March 2020
We have been advised that hands on activities should be cancelled in line with the recent COVID-19 issue. As the hands on experiments are a big part of our event, we have made the sad decision to postpone science night tomorrow (Wednesday 11 March 2020) and plan to include this in our summer celebrations. Apologies […]
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