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Jan 31, 2024
Category: Research
Image for Robot trained to read braille at twice the speed of humans

Robot trained to read braille at twice the speed of humans

Researchers have developed a robotic sensor that incorporates artificial intelligence techniques to read braille at speeds roughly double that of most human readers. The research team, from the University of

Jan 30, 2024
Category: Public Engagment, Research
Image for In the News – Amy Orben speaks to The Guardian about smartphone usage

In the News – Amy Orben speaks to The Guardian about smartphone usage

Amy Orben (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) was one of five world experts selected by 

Jan 30, 2024
Category: Research
Image for EDBRAINS – Receives European funding boost

EDBRAINS – Receives European funding boost

EBRAINS (European Brain Research Infrastructures) has received €38 million from the European Commission to develop tools and services to serve research communities in neurosciences, brain medicine, and brain-inspired technologies.

Jan 30, 2024
Category: Public Engagment, Research
Image for In the News – Barbara Sahakian talks about her work

In the News – Barbara Sahakian talks about her work

Barbara Sahakian (Psychiatry) appeared on the Guardian Science Weekly podcast speaking about why many of us

Dec 14, 2023
Category: Archive, Open science and reproducibility, Research
Image for The Neuroscience of Emotions: Brain & Neuroscience Advances Special Collection

The Neuroscience of Emotions: Brain & Neuroscience Advances Special Collection

The call for submissions to Brain and Neuroscience Advances’ Special Collection is open!

Dec 6, 2023
Category: Research
Image for Why reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies may help them to learn language

Why reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies may help them to learn language

Researchers find that babies don’t begin to process phonetic information reliably until seven months old which they say is too late to form the foundation of language.

Dec 5, 2023
Category: Policy, Research
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Policy Workshop Report: Stress and School Environment

26 June 2023 at Christ’s College, Cambridge In June 2023, CSaP organised a Policy Workshop in partnership with the Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Research Centre and the Department

Nov 29, 2023
Category: Research
Image for Lab-grown ‘small blood vessels’ point to potential treatment for major cause of stroke and vascular dementia

Lab-grown ‘small blood vessels’ point to potential treatment for major cause of stroke and vascular dementia

Cambridge scientists have grown small blood vessel-like models in the lab and used them to show how damage to the scaffolding that supports these vessels can cause them to leak,

Nov 29, 2023
Category: Research
Image for Early-stage stem cell therapy trial shows promise for treating progressive MS

Early-stage stem cell therapy trial shows promise for treating progressive MS

An international team has shown that the injection of a type of stem cell into the brains of patients living with progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) is safe, well tolerated and

Nov 22, 2023
Category: Research
Image for Our brains are not able to ‘rewire’ themselves, despite what most scientists believe, new study argues

Our brains are not able to ‘rewire’ themselves, despite what most scientists believe, new study argues

Contrary to the commonly-held view, the brain does not have the ability to rewire itself to compensate for the loss of sight, an amputation or stroke, for example, say scientists