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Nov 20, 2024
Category: Funding, Translational Engagement
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Pfizer launch targeted Call for Proposals (Neuroinflammation)

Pfizer have launched a targeted Call for Proposals, closing date 15th December, focusing on: 1) novel in vitro models & biomarkers for neuroinflammation and 2) novel technologies for…

Nov 20, 2024
Category: Professional Development, Research, Training
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Labs wanted – University of Texas at Dallas – Summer studentship scheme

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…

Nov 20, 2024
Category: CamBRAIN, Funding
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Cambridge Biosciences DTP PhD Programme – Lautenschläger Lab

The Cambridge Biosciences DTP PhD Programme is currently open and deadline is December 3rd. Full details of the programme can be found here:…

Nov 20, 2024
Category: Funding
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Brain Research UK 2025 project grant call is now open

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…

Nov 13, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks, CamBRAIN, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing
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Applications welcome for 2025 entry to the BNA Scholars Programme

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…

Nov 13, 2024
Category: Vacancies
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Biostatistician PDRA (FT – Malpetti Lab)

Dr Maura Malpetti is looking for an enthusiastic Post-Doctoral Research Associate to join her lab at the Cambridge University Department of Clinical Neurosciences. The post is part of a Cambridge-based…

Nov 13, 2024
Category: Vacancies
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PDRA/ RA (FT – Malpetti Lab)

Dr Maura Malpetti is looking for an enthusiastic Post-Doctoral Research Associate or Research Assistant to join her lab at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences of the University of Cambridge. The…

Nov 8, 2024
Category: Funding, Postdoc Neuroscience Network, Training
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CAM-DTP ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships

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…

Nov 8, 2024
Category: Commercial engagement, Funding, Professional Development, Training, Translational Engagement
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BBSRC Flexible Talent Mobility Account (FTMA): Placement Call 2024

The BBSRC Flexible Talent Mobility Account (FTMA): Placement Call 2024 is now OPEN…

Nov 5, 2024
Category: Research
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Glaucoma drug shows promise against neurodegenerative diseases, animal studies suggest

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…

Nov 5, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks
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Congratulations to Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on BACN Award

Congratulations to Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on winning the 2025 British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN)…

Oct 30, 2024
Category: Research
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Magnetic field applied to both sides of brain shows rapid improvement for depression

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…

Oct 23, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks
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Newly elected IBRO Leadership & Regional Committee members

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…

Oct 23, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks, CamBRAIN, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing, Training
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Travel grants and bursaries for BNA members

We are delighted to announce the following opportunities, exclusive to BNA members, to support your attendance at our forthcoming events.

Oct 15, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks
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Cambridge Alumni awarded Nobel Prizes

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…

Oct 9, 2024
Category: Research
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Ultra-powered MRI scans show damage to brain’s ‘control centre’ is behind long-lasting Covid-19 symptoms

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…

Oct 9, 2024
Category: Research
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Mental Health Overhaul

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…

Oct 9, 2024
Category: Research
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First map of every neuron in an adult fly brain complete

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…

Oct 9, 2024
Category: Commercial engagement, Professional Development, Research, Training, Translational Engagement
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Cambridge joins forces with ARIA to fast-track radical new technologies to revolutionise brain health

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…

Oct 4, 2024
Category: Volunteer
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Sign up for a brain stimulation – brain imaging study – Earn £180!

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…

Oct 2, 2024
Category: CamBRAIN, Funding, Professional Development, Training
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Parkinson’s UK Early Career Funding

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…

Oct 1, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks
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Congratulations to Petra Vértes!

Professor Petra Vértes has been awarded the Gill Prize for Bimolecular Science this year together with Drs. Jabudon, Lee, Murphy, van den Heuvel –…

Oct 1, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks, Research
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Cambridge Neuroscience welcomes new Clinical Co-Director

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…

Sep 23, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks, Research
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Maria Grazia Spillantini awarded the Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award

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…

Sep 17, 2024
Category: CamBRAIN, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing, Public Engagment, Training
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From Zimbabwe to Cambridge: Discussing Mental Health Research and Advocacy

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…

Sep 17, 2024
Category: Research, Training
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MPhil in Foundations of Clinical Psychology – now open for applications!

The Department of Psychiatry have launched a new MPhil Course, which is now open for applications. This course introduces students to the field of Clinical Psychology and the competencies required…

Sep 17, 2024
Category: Commercial engagement, Funding, Translational Engagement
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ARIA Roadshow invitation – Tuesday 24th September

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…

Sep 9, 2024
Category: Public Engagment, Research
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Podcast – Gyles Brandreth is talking to Professor Jon Simons

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…

Sep 4, 2024
Category: Research
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Effects of PHLDA3 on Astrocytes

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…

Aug 20, 2024
Category: Research
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What’s going on in our brains when we plan?

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…

Aug 13, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks
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Congratulations to Dr Andrea Luppi

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…

Aug 13, 2024
Category: Funding
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Restricted Call: MRC Centre of Research Excellence funding opportunity

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…

Aug 5, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks, CamBRAIN, Research
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Create or Update your Cam Neuro Profile!

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…

Aug 1, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks
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Professor Tim Dalgleish elected as a Fellow of the British Academy

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…

Aug 1, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks
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Professor Sir Simon Baron-Cohen made honorary fellow of Royal Society of Medicine

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.

Jul 17, 2024
Category: Public Engagment, Training
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Engaged Researcher Training – book your place

Tuesday 8th October 2024 and 21st January 2025: Introduction to Public Engagement 22nd October 2024 and 4th Feb 2025: Planning your Public…

Jul 17, 2024
Category: Volunteer
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Interested in watching a film? – Volunteers required

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…

Jul 16, 2024
Category: Research
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Artificial intelligence outperforms clinical tests at predicting progress of Alzheimer’s disease

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.

Jul 10, 2024
Category: Research
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Getting to grips with an extra thumb!

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…

Jul 10, 2024
Category: Research
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Study uncovers how the brain simulates possible future actions by drawing from our stored memories

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…

Jul 10, 2024
Category: Public Engagment
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Hannah Critchlow features on A Good Read on BBC Radio 4

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…

Jun 20, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks
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Cambridge Neuroscientists recognised in King’s Birthday Honours

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…

Jun 20, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks
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Simon Baron-Cohen wins MRC Millennium Medal for transformative research into autism and neurodiversity

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…

Jun 11, 2024
Category: Research
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New insights into consciousness and brain function

In a Review just published at Trends in Neurosciences, Cambridge neuroscientists, Andrea Luppi, Emmanuel Stamatakis and David Menon outline how we can…

May 29, 2024
Category: Research
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One in two children with ADHD experience emotional problems, study finds

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).

May 29, 2024
Category: Research, Uncategorized
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Over 20,000 people join search for new dementia treatments

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…

May 28, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks
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Susan Gathercole elected to Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences

Congratulations to Susan Gathercole on her election to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Susan is a cognitive psychologist with interests in memory, learning and language and…

May 28, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks
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Alex Woolgar appointed as Professor of Integrative and Systems Neuroscience in the SBS

Congratulations to Alex Woolgar on her appointment as Professor of Integrative and Systems Neuroscience in the School of Biological Sciences (SBS), hosted by the Psychology Department. Alex’s excellent international research…

May 28, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks
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Newly elected FRS Fellows in Cambridge Neuroscience

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…

May 15, 2024
Category: Research
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Over 20,000 people join search for new dementia treatments

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…

Apr 29, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks
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Dr Elisa Galliano awarded Wellcome Trust Career Development Award

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…

Apr 29, 2024
Category: Research, Uncategorized
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Robotic nerve ‘cuffs’ could help treat a range of neurological conditions

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…

Apr 29, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks
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Ata Elbizanti receives prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship

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…

Apr 29, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks
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Maura Malpetti receives the Alzheimer’s Association® Neuroscience Next “One to Watch” Award

Congratulations to Dr Maura Malpetti who received the Alzheimer’s Association® Neuroscience Next “One to Watch” Award in Chicago this week. “Many…

Apr 29, 2024
Category: Awards & External Networks
Image for Moataz Assem receives Wellcome Trust Early Career Award

Moataz Assem receives Wellcome Trust Early Career Award

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…

Apr 24, 2024
Category: Commercial engagement, Translational Engagement
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Industry Experts in Residence programme

Date: Open ended Cambridge Academy of Therapeutics Sciences runs the Industry Experts in Residence (EiR) programme. Several industry experts …

Apr 24, 2024
Category: Commercial engagement, Funding, Postdoc Neuroscience Network, Training, Translational Engagement
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Training Bursaries available to support translational training activities

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…

Apr 24, 2024
Category: Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing, Open science and reproducibility, Professional Development, Training
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Science Without Anguish – a new blog series on the psychology of wellbeing and productivity in research life

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…

Apr 24, 2024
Category: Public Engagment
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Hannah Critchlow features on BBC The Life Scientific

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…

Apr 23, 2024
Category: Research
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AI speeds up drug design for Parkinson’s ten-fold

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 –…

Apr 23, 2024
Category: Public Engagment, Translational Engagement
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Hellblade: A Journey of the Mind, in Collaboration with Cambridge Neuroscience

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:…

Apr 23, 2024
Category: CamBRAIN, Research
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Catch up on CNS2024: Sleep, Consciousness and Cognition

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…

Mar 7, 2024
Category: Volunteer
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Do you have exceptional memory?

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…

Nov 23, 2023
Category: Awards & External Networks, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing
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ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize – nominations open

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…

Sep 21, 2023
Category: Funding, Translational Engagement
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Internal Funding Opportunity: Future of Therapeutics

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…

Sep 21, 2023
Category: Volunteer
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Sign up for a brain stimulation – brain imaging study

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,…

Sep 21, 2023
Category: Research
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Experts call for urgent mental health support for people living with long term autoimmune diseases

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…

Sep 21, 2023
Category: Research
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Brain’s ‘appetite control centre’ different in people who are overweight or living with obesity

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…

Sep 21, 2023
Category: Research
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Reduced grey matter in frontal lobes linked to teenage smoking and nicotine addiction

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…

Sep 21, 2023
Category: Research
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Largest genetic study of brain structure identifies how the brain is organised

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…

Sep 21, 2023
Category: Research
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Suppressing negative thoughts may be good for mental health after all

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…

Aug 31, 2023
Category: CamBRAIN
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About CamBRAIN

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…

Aug 31, 2023
Category: CamBRAIN
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Neurotalks blog

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…

Aug 31, 2023
Category: CamBRAIN
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Build a camBRAIN blog

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…

Aug 31, 2023
Category: CamBRAIN
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How to sci-comm as a student

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…

Jun 22, 2023
Category: Awards & External Networks, Funding, Open science and reproducibility
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BNA credibility bursaries

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…