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Jan 30, 2024
Category: Archive, 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: Archive, Research
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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: Archive, Public Engagment, Research
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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
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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: Archive, Research
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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: Archive, 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: Archive, Research
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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: Archive, Research, Uncategorized
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AI system self-organises to develop features of brains of complex organisms

Cambridge scientists have shown that placing physical constraints on an artificially-intelligent system – in much the same way that the human brain has to develop and operate within physical and

Nov 13, 2023
Category: Archive, Research
Image for CNS 2023: Interdisciplinary Insights on the Future of Dementia Research – Catch up on film!

CNS 2023: Interdisciplinary Insights on the Future of Dementia Research – Catch up on film!

Catch up on CNS 2023: Interdisciplinary Insights on the Future of Dementia Research On September 26th 2023, we welcomed more than 300 delegates to Robinson College for our annual meeting,

Oct 11, 2023
Category: Archive, Research
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Autistic individuals have increased risk of chronic physical health conditions across the whole body

Autistic people have higher rates of chronic physical health conditions across the whole body and are more likely to have complex health needs, according to a study led by researchers