Cambridge Neuroscience

Welcome to Cambridge Neuroscience; a virtual Interdisciplinary Research Centre connecting researchers across the University of Cambridge and affiliated Institutes. Our mission is to build networks, foster collaborations and support the University’s mission which is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence.

Neurons, Circuits and Networks

The Social Brain

Beyond the Neuron

Brains and Machines

Adaptive Brain Computations

Lifelong Brain Development and Brain Ageing

Cambridge has a strong tradition in neuroscience having been host to the first analyses of neural signalling in the 1930s, determined the mechanisms of neuronal firing in the 1950s, and heralded some of the early theoretical approaches to the functions of neural circuitry in the 1960s. Neuroscience continues to grow at Cambridge, with an impressive record of achievement in multi-disciplinary research.

LATEST NEWS

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Cambridge is uniquely placed to meet the challenges of neuroscience in the future and there is no doubt that the Cambridge Neuroscience initiative will meet these needs and fulfil its expectations.

Our key strength in Cambridge Neuroscience remains our people: first class researchers from a wide range of backgrounds and expertise working in everything from biomedicine and maths, to psychiatry and philosophy, education, engineering and economics.

UPCOMING SEMINARS

17-06-2025 11:00:00

UPCOMING EVENTS

Sep 10, 2025

8th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium – Interventions & Recovery

The 8th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium – Interventions & Recovery is an international meeting, which will take place on September 10-11th 2025 at the West Road Concert Hall at the University