In this edition of The Naked Scientists, they are looking into multiple sclerosis, following the progression of the condition from relapses to neurodegeneration, asking, can we halt the disease in…
The British Neuroscience Association (BNA) is delighted to announce an exciting new partnership with The Queen’s Reading Room for the International Festival of Neuroscience…
Restricted Call: Huo Family Foundation Special Project on the Effects of the Usage of Digital Technology on Brain Development, Social Behaviours and Mental Health in Children and Young People…
The Leverhulme Trust have announced their Research Leadership Awards. These awards are designed for scholars who have successfully launched a university career and…
Scientists have created the most detailed map to date of the human hypothalamus, a crucial brain region that regulates body weight, appetite, sleep, and stress. “HYPOMAP…
From helping to inoculate the public against misinformation to tackling air pollution in rapidly urbanising African cities, researchers from across the University of Cambridge were honoured at the Cambridge Awards…
Congratulations to Professor Barbara Sahakian and Dr Christelle Langley (pictured below bottom right) on the launch of their recent book, Brain Boost – Healthier…
Antibiotics, antivirals, vaccinations and anti-inflammatory medication are associated with reduced risk of dementia, according to new research that looked at health data from over 130 million individuals.
Cambridge researchers are developing implants that could help repair the brain pathways damaged by Parkinson’s disease. “Our ultimate goal is to create precise brain therapies that…
Five Cambridge experts share their top tips on ways to boost your body and mind, backed up by their own research…
Interactions with friends and family may keep us healthy because they boost our immune system and reduce our risk of diseases such as heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes,…
The Milner Therapeutics Consortium is excited to launch its fifth call for research proposals! The deadline for applications is 7th March 2025. Our pharma partners in the Milner Therapeutics Consortium have identified…
Pre-announcement: Restricted call: Future Leaders Fellowship, Round 10 UKRI has pre-announced their Future Leaders Fellowship Round 10 call. This scheme aims to support the most talented early…
Sex differences in brain structure are present from birth, research from the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge has shown. “We know there are differences in…
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…
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 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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
