Developing and testing online naming therapy for post-stroke aphasia.  The University of Cambridge ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership [DTP], in collaboration with Ounce Technology, is pleased to offer a studentship available for admission in October 2021 at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. The studentship is a three-year doctoral programme and will be co-supervised by […]

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK Government implemented a national ‘lockdown’ involving school closures and social distancing. There has been widespread concern that these measures would negatively impact child and adolescent mental health. To date, however, there is relatively little direct evidence of this. The most direct way of measuring the association between the […]

A recent study from the MRC CBU found that our gastric rhythm – natural contractions the stomach makes when it’s hungry, nauseous, or full – may help us avoid disgusting things. Dr Camilla Nord and Dr Edwin Dalmaijer tracked the eye movements of healthy volunteers while they looked at disgusting images. Normally, people’s eye movements […]

People with a brain injury, such as traumatic brain injury, stroke, or a brain tumour, can experience lowered activity levels such as reduced working hours, less time spent with friends or on hobbies, or may be less able to do things they normally would. There are good reasons for this, such as increased fatigue, low […]

Congratulations to MRC CBU’s Duncan Astle, who has won the Established Academic Category for this year’s 2020 Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Research Impact and Engagement.  Duncan said: “So thrilled to receive this award, and incredibly grateful to my impact partners – Cambridge Assessment International Education, Learnus, EEF Research Schools, Twyford Academies Trust, and the many schools […]

Prof Karalyn Patterson, of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at University of Cambridge, has been chosen to receive a prestigious award celebrating the achievements of women in STEM. Prof Patterson will be honoured at a special event on Friday 6 November 2020, the sixth Suffrage Science awards celebration for women working in the […]

Alyahya et al. proposed a unified model of post-stroke language deficits that captures the multidimensionality of connected speech production. The authors explored this using various discourse genres (a simple and commonly used picture description, storytelling narrative, and a naturalistic procedural discourse) in post-stroke aphasia patients and in neuro-typical controls. Connected speech metrics alongside an extensive […]