On 26 March the CBU hosted a Lifebrain conference. Rogier Kievit, Lifebrain researcher at the MRC CBU, University of Cambridge, briefly introduced Lifebrain as an international collaboration of European brain research centers, which pull data together from 11 European studies. The main aim of Lifebrain is to understand development and ageing across the lifespan and […]

Huge congratulations to MRC CBU’s Rik Henson, who has recently been appointed as the new BNA President-Elect. The President-Elect, along with the President and Past-President, act as a figurehead of the BNA, representing the BNA externally, and helping develop the organisation’s overarching strategic direction, aims and activities of the BNA. Rik said: ‘I am really excited to have been […]

The Chaucer Club Seminar schedule for Easter term 2019 is now available. Talks are free to attend and are open to all. Please note – spaces are limited and all seats are allocated on first-come, first-served basis. You can find the programme and further details here: Chaucer Club No parking is available at the MRC Cognition […]

The Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar programme for Easter term 2019 is now available. Talks are free to attend and are open to all. Please note – spaces are limited and all seats are allocated on first-come, first-served basis. You can find the programme and further details here: WLTS No parking is available at the MRC Cognition and […]

Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common reaction to trauma in children and adolescents. While a significant minority of trauma‐exposed youth go on to have persistent PTSD, many youths who initially have a severe traumatic stress response undergo natural recovery. A recent study by Richard Meiser‐Stedman from the University of East Anglia and Tim Dalgleish from […]

Young adults at risk of developing problems with addiction show key differences in an important region of the brain, according to an international team led by the University of Cambridge. The study, led by CBU’s Camilla Nord and colleagues from the Department of Psychiatry, adds further evidence to support the idea that an individual’s biological […]

Recent research has shown that the ability to remember specific, detailed memories of positive events may protect against the onset of depression. However, this new study led by MRC CBU’s Caitlin Hitchcock and Tim Dalgleish suggests that it’s not just specific, detailed memories that are important. Rather, the ability to flexibly move between specific representations […]

The goal of computational neuroscience is to find mechanistic explanations of how the nervous system processes information to give rise to cognitive function and behaviour. At the heart of the field are its models, that is, mathematical and computational descriptions of the system being studied, which map sensory stimuli to neural responses and/or neural to […]