Dr Hannah Critchlow discusses Professor Colin Blakemore in BBCs Great Lives Listen Here Professor Colin Blakemore was a famous communicator…
An Italian early-career researcher at St John’s College has been recognised by his home country for his work in neuroscience. Dr Andrea Luppi, a Research Fellow, has…
A collaborative work between Harvard University and Cambridge Neuroscience PIs, including Andras Lakatos, Madeline Lancaster, Stephen Eglen, and Ole Paulsen, was published in…
Cambridge Neuroscientists featured on the most recent Naked Scientists Show, OCD and balance in the brain Trevor Robbins asks if OCD caused by a bias in the brain? Camilla…
Got a spare three minutes?! FameLab, created by Cheltenham Festivals,is the largest, public facing, science communication competition and training programme in the world and we are absolutely delighted to…
The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Honors College is looking to send an annual small cohort of 3-5 undergraduate students to Cambridge for 10-week summer research placements, approximately 2nd June…
Brain Research UK 2025 project grant call is now open. We are inviting preliminary project grant applications under our three priority themes: headache and facial pain, neuro-oncology, and acquired brain…
The British Neuroscience Association’s Scholars Programme is a flagship EDI activity. The Programme is now in its fifth year and, thanks to the generous funding and support from our Programme…
CAM-DTP will be offering four ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships to commence in October 2025, with stage 1 expressions of interest requested in January. Further details about the ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships…
The BBSRC Flexible Talent Mobility Account (FTMA): Placement Call 2024 is now OPEN…
A drug commonly used to treat glaucoma has been shown in zebrafish and mice to protect against the build-up in the brain of the protein tau, which causes various forms…
Congratulations to Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on winning the 2025 British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN)…
A type of therapy that involves applying a magnetic field to both sides of the brain has been shown to be effective at rapidly treating depression in patients for whom…
IBRO are excited to announce the newly elected leadership and members of its regional committees. These distinguished individuals will officially begin their terms on 1 January 2025. This year’s elections…
We are delighted to announce the following opportunities, exclusive to BNA members, to support your attendance at our forthcoming events.
A former undergraduate student from Psychology, Geoffrey Hinton (King’s 1967), was this year awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics 2024 for his work on AI, neural networks and deep…
Damage to the brainstem – the brain’s ‘control centre’ – is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe Covid-19 infection, a study suggests. Using ultra-high-resolution scanners that can see…
Every other person will experience a mental health difficulty at some point in their life. The causes are complex, but treatment options are not – and in half of patients…
The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly. Brain…
Image credit: Bioelectronics Laboratory, University of Cambridge A major consortium from across the Cambridge life sciences, technology and business worlds has announced a multi-million-pound, three-year collaboration with…
Sign up for a brain stimulation – brain imaging study Earn £180 and a High-res Picture of Your Brain! The Cambridge Adaptive Brain Lab will keep recruiting participants for the…
The Cambridge Branch of Parkinson’s UK has launched a new funding initiative to support early career researchers (particularly PhD students and researchers in their first post-doc position) attend an international…
Professor Petra Vértes has been awarded the Gill Prize for Bimolecular Science this year together with Drs. Jabudon, Lee, Murphy, van den Heuvel –…
Today, October 1st 2024 marks the first day of the new term of Professor Alasdair Coles acting as Clinical Co-Director of Cambridge Neuroscience. He joins Professor Ewan St John Smith…
Professor Maria Grazia Spillantini has been awarded the Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award. The award recognises individuals with outstanding career achievements who have also supported the professional…
In this In Conversation Podcast for the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Clara Faria is joined by Tanatswa Chikaura, a mental health researcher and advocate, Founder and…
ARIA is an R&D funding agency, funding teams of scientists and engineers to pursue research at the edge of what is technologically or scientifically possible. ARIA was…
Rosebud is a year old, so it’s time for something a little bit different: to round off our first year, Gyles is talking to Professor Jon Simons – who is…
András Lakatos’s lab reports that the knockdown of pleckstrin homology-like domain family A-member 3 diminishes reactive oxygen species release by human spinal astrocytes harbouring the superoxide-dismutase-1 amyotrophic…
Study uncovers how the brain simulates possible future actions by drawing from our stored memories. In pausing to think before making an important decision, we may imagine the potential outcomes…
Congratulations to Dr Andrea Luppi in Emmanuel Stamatakis’ Lab, who was named as one of the finalists for the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence PhD Thesis Prize. The prize is awarded…
Pre-announcement – Restricted Call: MRC Centre of Research Excellence funding opportunity – round 3 (indicative internal deadline: mid November 2024) Full details for this funding opportunity are not…
Why not take 5 minute to update (or create) your Cambridge Neuroscience profile Why bother updating? The more details that are included in your profile improves the website’s…
Many congratulations to Professor Tim Dalgleish, Programme Leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, who has been elected as a new Fellow of the…
Professor Sir Simon Baron-Cohen has been awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal Society of Medicine, in recognition of his contribution to health, healthcare and medicine.
Tuesday 8th October 2024 and 21st January 2025: Introduction to Public Engagement 22nd October 2024 and 4th Feb 2025: Planning your Public…
Interested in watching a film? We are looking for participants for a study about the impact of immersing ourselves in films. During your visit to our lab at the Department…
Cambridge scientists have developed an artificially-intelligent tool capable of predicting in four cases out of five whether people with early signs of dementia will remain stable or develop Alzheimer’s disease.
An emerging area of future technology is motor augmentation – using motorised wearable devices such as exoskeletons or extra robotic body parts to advance our motor capabilities beyond…
Study uncovers how the brain simulates possible future actions by drawing from our stored memories In pausing to think before making an important decision, we may imagine the potential outcomes…
A Good Read: Gyles Brandreth and Hannah Critchlow Writer and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth has chosen EF Benson’s entertaining tale of competitive snobbery in the 1920s, Mapp and Lucia. In a…
Congratulations to all recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours 2024, which recognises the achievements & service of people across UK, and from all walks of life. We especially congratulate…
The UKRI Medical Research Council (MRC) in the UK will today present the MRC Millennium Medal 2023 to Professor Sir Simon Baron-Cohen, in recognition of his pioneering MRC-funded research into…
In a Review just published at Trends in Neurosciences, Cambridge neuroscientists, Andrea Luppi, Emmanuel Stamatakis and David Menon outline how we can…
Cambridge scientists have shown that problems regulating emotions – which can manifest as depression, anxiety and explosive outbursts – may be a core symptom of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
More than 20,000 volunteers have been recruited to a resource aimed at speeding up the development of much-needed dementia drugs. The cohort will enable scientists in universities and industry to…
Congratulations to George Malliaras, Sarah Jayne Blakemore, Patrick Chinnery and John Aston (pictured below) on their election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society – a wonderful and…
More than 20,000 volunteers have been recruited to a resource aimed at speeding up the development of much-needed dementia drugs. The cohort will enable scientists in universities and industry to…
Dr Elisa Galliano has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development Award, totalling over £1.6 million for six years, to investigate neuronal plasticity at the Department of Physiology, Development and…
Researchers have developed tiny, flexible devices that can wrap around individual nerve fibres without damaging them. “The ability to make an implant that can change shape…
Congratulations to Ata Elbizanti on being awarded a Gates Cambridge scholarship to pursue her PhD at Cambridge Neuroscience. Ata Allah Elbizanti, the first Gates Cambridge…
Congratulations to Dr Maura Malpetti who received the Alzheimer’s Association® Neuroscience Next “One to Watch” Award in Chicago this week. “Many…
Moataz Assem has been awarded the prestigious Wellcome Trust Early Career Award, totalling over £800k for five years, to investigate working memory brain circuits at the MRC…
Date: Open ended Cambridge Academy of Therapeutics Sciences runs the Industry Experts in Residence (EiR) programme. Several industry experts …
Funding is available through the Wellcome Translational Partnership award, managed by CATS, to support University of Cambridge early career researchers (postdoctoral researchers) who are working in the area…
Science Without Anguish – a new blog series on the psychology of wellbeing and productivity in research life This series of 10 blog articles from Michael Coleman discusses dealing…
Dr. Hannah Critchlow is an internationally acclaimed neuroscientist who has spent her career demystifying and explaining the brain to audiences around the world. Through her writing, broadcasting and lectures to…
Researchers have used artificial intelligence techniques to massively accelerate the search for Parkinson’s disease treatments. “Machine learning is having a real impact on drug discovery –…
Ninja Theory led a special event at Clare College on Tuesday 9th April, Hellblade: A Journey of the Mind, in Collaboration with Cambridge Neuroscience in advance of the release of Senua’s Saga:…
On April 5th 2024, we welcomed more than 240 delegates to Queens’ College for our annual meeting. This year, we focused on ‘Sleep, Consciousness and Cognition’. CNS2024 was…
A new study at the University of Cambridge is exploring exceptional memory in autistic and neurotypical people. We are interested in learning more about the brain basis of exceptional memory…
With this Diversity prize, The ALBA Network and the The FENS-Kavli Scholars wish to highlight a scientist that has made outstanding contributions to promoting equality and diversity in…
The Wellcome Trust has awarded the University of Cambridge an Institutional Translation Partnership Award (iTPA). Funding of up to £20,000 is available for projects in the remit of the Future of…
The Adaptive Brain Lab in the Department of Psychology is looking for participants to join their study. Earn up to £160-170 from this six-session brain stimulation MRI study. It will involve three two-hour MRI scans at Addenbrooke’s,…
More than half of patients with auto-immune conditions experience mental health conditions such as depression or anxiety, yet the majority are rarely or never asked in clinic about mental health…
Cambridge scientists have shown that the hypothalamus, a key region of the brain involved in controlling appetite, is different in the brains of people who are overweight and people with…
Findings may demonstrate a brain and behavioural basis for how nicotine addiction is initiated and then takes hold in early life, say scientists. Levels of grey matter in two parts…
The largest ever study of the genetics of the brain – encompassing some 36,000 brain scans – has identified more than 4,000 genetic variants linked to brain structure. The results…
The commonly-held belief that attempting to suppress negative thoughts is bad for our mental health could be wrong, a new study from scientists at the University of Cambridge suggests. Researchers…
CamBRAIN, or the Cambridge University Neuroscience Society, is dedicated to bringing together student and early careers researchers with an interest in neuroscience across the university. Our committee of postgrad/postdoc scientists…
Taking place on the second Tuesday of every month, Neurotalks are essentially a cross between Pint of Science-like talk evenings and classic society socials. The aim is simple: bring together…
A highlight of the CamBRAIN year is undoubtedly the Cambridge Festival. Each year this sees around 30 volunteers from departments across the university deliver our interactive event Build a CamBRAIN…
Sci-comm is a word we hear a lot. Most postgrad courses have some built in training, and the Twitterverse dictionary surely cites #scicomm and #outreach as some of the most…
The BNA is able to offer support to students and early-career members to help them attend meetings where they can gain knowledge and skills to help make their research as…
