How do people with mental health conditions experience bodily signals? Lydia Hickman and Gabriel Mackie’s new paper in eClinicalMedicine explores lived experiences and patient priorities for interoception research. Individuals with psychiatric disorders report differences in bodily experiences. However, formal priority setting by people with lived experience of mental health conditions has so far been overlooked […]
MRC CBU Science Night – Cambridge Festival 2025
Inside the Mind: Exploring the Human Brain Date: Wednesday 19 March 2025 Time: 6pm – 8.30pm Location: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 7EF Directions to the Unit: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/contact-us/ https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/science-night/ As part of the Cambridge Festival 2025, the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit are hosting a fun filled and […]
Behavioural changes in frontotemporal dementia: neuropsychological and neuroanatomical correlates
A new study by Rouse and colleagues at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, addressed two important clinical questions in frontotemporal dementia (FTD); (a) are there qualitative or clear distinctions between behavioural profiles in behavioural-variant FTD and semantic dementia, and (b) what are the precise roles of the prefrontal cortex and anterior temporal lobes […]
Dr Orben leads governmental project to understand impact of smartphones and social media on young people
Cambridge researchers are leading the first phase of a new research project that will lay the groundwork for future studies into the impact on children of smartphone and social media use. The work has been commissioned by the UK government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology after a review by the UK Chief Medical Officer […]
Differences in brain connectivity in premature infants are related to altered wiring constraints of structural brain networks
The way the brain organizes in utero is associated with cognition and behaviour in later life. Infants that are born early have differently organized brain networks compared to infants born at term. Our study used data from the developing Human Connectome Project to explore structural topology across neonates born at different gestational ages. Our results […]
Inside Cambridge University – MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Please enjoy this short video below, created by YouTuber and neuroscience blogger, Zachary Cortex, as he discovers the ‘Secrets of Cognitive Research at Cambridge’s MRC CBU’.
Prediction error computations explain the speed of speech understanding
Human listeners are impressively successful at recognising words and understanding speech. The speed and accuracy of word recognition has been explained as due to Bayesian Inference; listeners use prior knowledge or predictions for upcoming speech sounds to identify words quickly and accurately. Recent work from MRC CBU scientists Ed Sohoglu (now at University of Sussex), […]
Matt Rouse awarded 2024 Milo Keynes Thesis Prize
Congratulation to Matt Rouse from the MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit (MRC CBU), who has been awarded the 2024 Milo Keynes Prize by the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, for the outstanding quality of his PhD thesis. Matt’s thesis is titled “Social-semantic knowledge and behavioural changes in frontotemporal dementia”. Matt said: “I am delighted […]
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