MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitThe Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar programme for Michaelmas term 2018 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 […]
New protocol paper out now for The HARMONIC Transdiagnostic Treatment Trial
Anxiety, mood and trauma-related disorders are common, affecting up to 20% of adults. Many of these individuals will experience symptoms of more than one disorder as diagnostically defined. However, most psychological treatments focus on individual disorders and are less effective for those who experience comorbid disorders. The new protocol paper from CBU scientists, Tim Dalgleish, […]
International SYT1 case series links neurotransmission speed to cognition
In 2015, Kate Baker and colleagues published the first report of a child with severe disability and a mutation in Synaptotagmin 1 (SYT1). SYT1 is the critical molecular trigger for fast, synchronous neurotransmitter release, highlighting an important new mechanism for developmental disorders. Following this first case report, genomic testing laboratories around the world began to […]
Although visual short-term memory gets worse with age, strategies to improve it might not
Remembering things we have recently seen, in visual short-term memory, allows us to piece together the visual world and to perform many other tasks that are critical to everyday life. Cognitive scientists have shown that we don’t just remember items in isolation, but also their relationship to their context, which improves memory. We are also capable […]
Mid-life activities protect old-age cognition against brain decline
The concept of “cognitive reserve” has been used to explain why some people maintain their cognitive abilities in old age despite normal age-related atrophy of their brains. 205 retired people aged 66-88 from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (www.cam-can.com) performed a cognitive test of IQ, had a brain scan and completed a questionnaire […]
MRC Festival of Medical Research – CBU Open Day Follow up
As part of the MRC Festival of Medical Research 2018, CBU hosted a Unit Open Day on Saturday 16 June. Over 130 friends, colleagues, volunteers, students and local families attended to hear about the exciting research taking place at the Unit, and to get involved in some brain related activities. The morning kicked off with […]
Annual CALM Conference Follow Up
This year’s annual CALM conference took place on Saturday 9th June. Over 40 health and education practitioners attended to hear about exciting findings from the CALM research clinic. Susan Gathercole opened the day presenting data showing that ADHD symptoms are not the cause of learning difficulties in children with ADHD: the cognitive problems associated […]
Neural prediction errors distinguish speech perception and misperception of speech
Misperception of speech results from a weak representation of the difference between what we expect to hear and what is actually said, according to a human neuroimaging study published in JNeurosci. The research, led by Dr Matt Davis (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit), and Helen Blank (University Medical Center, Hamburg), provides new evidence for how […]
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