The MRC CBU (Uni of Cam) is a leading research Unit for advancing understanding of human cognition such as memory, attention, perception, language & emotion.
On behalf of the Medical Research Council and the University of Cambridge, we are delighted to announce that Dr Amy Orben (
@OrbenAmy
) has been appointed as a Programme Leader Track Scientist at
@mrccbu
. She will commence her role on 1 Nov 2021.
We are delighted that
@camillalnord
has been awarded a £1.5 million Wellcome Career Development Award at
@mrccbu
and
@psychiatry_ucam
to investigate the neural mechanisms of bodily symptoms in neuropsychiatric conditions
@wellcometrust
.
On behalf of the Medical Research Council and the University of Cambridge, we are delighted to announce that Dr Camilla Nord (
@camillalnord
) has been appointed as a new Programme Leader Track Scientist at the
@mrccbu
from 15 October 2021.🎉1/5
On behalf of the Medical Research Council and the University of Cambridge, we are delighted to announce that Prof. Tamar Makin
@PlasticityUCL
has been appointed as a new Programme Leader at
@mrccbu
, and will commence her role on 1 June 2022
Also, many congratulations to
@mrccbu
's Rogier Kievit (
@rogierK
) on being named as a Rising Star in Nature’s Top Ten world-wide life sciences institutions. Very well deserved!🎉
Huge congratulations to
@mrccbu
’s Prof. Sue Gathercole who has been elected as a fellow of the highly prestigious Association for Psychological Science (
@PsychScience
). Very well deserved!
Many congratulations to
@mrccbu
’s Amy Orben (
@OrbenAmy
) who has been honoured with the British Psychological Society’s Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research.🎉
@CamNeuro
@BPSOfficial
MRC CBU scientist
@DuncanAstle
receives a prestigious Opportunity Award from the
@JSMF
, along with collaborators
@SueReviews
and
@DanAkarca
. They will use the award to build an evidence base, alongside new formal models, that captures complexity in child development.
We are delighted to welcome 85 leading academics to our Fellowship, including a record number of women representing a range of specialisms from education and social stratification to the interface of law and technology. See the full list:
An fMRI/MEG study using RSA & representational connectivity analyses suggests that semantic information makes a rapid & distinct contribution to visual object recognition that is linked to feedback activity from the anterior temporal lobes:
Here at the
@mrccbu
we're so proud of our amazing LGBT+ staff, students, and allies. We fly our pride flag not to the exclusion of supporting other causes, but to make sure everyone feels at home here. Pride is not political.
#LGBTHM22
Huge congratulation to
@MoatazAssem
, who has been awarded the prestigious Wellcome Trust Early Career Award to investigate working memory brain circuits
@mrccbu
👏
Happy
#LGBTSTEMDay
!🏳️🌈On this day, we're celebrating the great work & achievements of members of the LGBT+ community in
#neuroscience
here
@mrccbu
.
Thread of research by our colleagues featured in this pic, resources, & details on our great LGBT+ in Science virtual seminar👇🥳
Congratulations to
@mrccbu
's
@OrbenAmy
, who has been recruited to the
@DCMS
College of Experts. Amy’s expertise will help advise policymakers and she will support DCMS with its work to drive growth & enrich lives:
@mrccbu
are delighted to announce that Professor Matthew Lambon-Ralph has been appointed as the next Director of the Unit from 1 September 2018. He will take over from the current Director, Professor Susan Gathercole, who will be stepping down in August:
We are happy to announce Cognitive Neuroimaging Skills Training In Cambridge (
#COGNESTIC
)
@mrccbu
, on 18-29 Sep 2023. We will provide training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and related methods. Please visit more information.
Gladys West is a mathematician whose work on the mathematical modelling of the shape of the Earth later became GPS (Global Positioning System). Her ground-breaking work was not officially recognised until 2018.
#Pride
#lgbtSTEM
It's our 75th Anniversary this year + we'll be sharing some pics to celebrate!🎉
Kenneth Craik,1938 (left,who would later become our 1st Director), conducting experiments on visual adaption,w/ Oliver L. Zangwill acting as the participant.
@The_MRC
#75thAnniversary
#CBU75
#75Years
What great weather today for Ice Cream and Fizz to say goodbye and best wishes to our friend, colleague and great researcher, Sally Butterfield, who after 34 years (!) at the
@mrccbu
, is moving onto new adventures. Thank you for everything, Sally!
@calmcbu
☘☀️⭐🍦🍾
Research by David Howett, Rik Henson & Dennis Chan, University of Cambridge, in collaboration with researchers at UCL, has shown that virtual reality (VR) can identify early Alzheimer's disease more accurately than 'gold standard' cognitive tests used now:
Today we celebrate the lives of transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people with the transgender flag, next to the rainbow flag at the
@mrccbu
.
#TDOR
🏳️⚧️
Congratulations to
@mrccbu
's
@OrbenAmy
who has been awarded a UKRI £1.9m Future Leaders Fellowship.
Amy will use this to enhance her research into social media and teenage mental health. 👏
Huge congratulations to not only
@mrccbu
's Director, Prof. Matt Lambon Ralph, but also Prof. Tim Dalgeish (
@TimDalgleish
) who have been elected as new fellows to the Academy of Medical Sciences. Very well deserved! 🍾
Belonging in School is a new, FREE educator resource about developing inclusive policies. Join our launch celebration on 20th Sept for the details. All welcome!
👉Mail 'inclusive-education-subscribe (at) ' to be notified of release!
Congratulations to all the
@mrccbu
staff and students who created and delivered the BrainBus project, which has won the BNA award for public engagement of neuroscience! 🎉
New paper out now in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
@APA
,
@TimDalgleish
,
@MJBlack_psych
, David Johnston & Anna Bevan introduce a special issue they have co-edited on Transdiagnostic Approaches to Mental Health.
@CPFT_Research
Happy
#LGBTSTEMday
! Camilla is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge. She works with brain imaging, brain stimulation, and computational modelling to develop and improve treatments for mental health disorders.
@CamNeuro
@PrideinSTEM
Many congratulations to Matt Lambon Ralph,
@mrccbu
Director, for being elected as a Fellow of the
@BritishAcademy_today
, in recognition of achievements in humanities and social sciences. 👏
The full list of Fellows can be read here:
Applications now open to our Master’s in Cognitive Neuroscience, an innovative course combining cutting-edge teaching & deep research experience in a cognitive neuroscience lab
Sign up to a webinar on 20th Sept to find out more –
Fluid intelligence drops with age. This may be partly due to reduced frontoparietal brain activity, but buffered by varied physical exercise.
New paper by
@mrccbu
's
@djmitch81
et al:
New paper!
Contrary to evidence from cross-sectional data, longitudinal data show that education does not slow brain aging 👇
@rikhens
@ethanknights
@rogierK
We thank everyone for the many wonderful supportive messages about the MRC CBU 🙏
It is important to clarify the current situation: The MRC will shift from direct Unit funding to new long-term Centres of Research Excellence = partnership model between universities and the MRC
Next year our Unit
@mrccbu
in Cambridge will be 80 years old (). Sadly, the UK MRC has decided to now close all its units and our funding ends in 2027 so it’s the end of an era for the CBU as we know it. 1/n
Congratulations to
@_c_hitchcock
, who was awarded an ESRC New Investigator Grant, and has started a great new study to discover if a new autobiographical memory-based technique will help people suffering from
#depression
get the most out of
#CBT
.
Please join us for another
#CBUMethodsDay
at the
@mrccbu
: on February 7th. We have over 20 short talks on methodological innovations and new application in brain imaging, brain stimulation, behavioural research and web-based experiments. 1/2
We now have just over 20,000 followers!!🎉🥳🙌
Thank you one and all, and if you want to know more about our research, events, & how to participate in our studies, do check out our website.😎
👇
#brainresearch
#CBU75
#75thAnniversary
Today we take occupancy of the new extension to the MRC CBU, named the South Pole! It has been designed to provide the space to take in even more talented researchers to investigate cognition and the brain, how it changes across the lifespan.
#SouthPole
#NewBuild
Many congratulations to our friend and colleague,
Prof. Karalyn Patterson, for winning this very prestigious award! 🎉 An inspiration to many, and very well deserved.
👏👏👏
#suffragescience
#WomenInSTEM
The interview is brilliant too 👇
We are thrilled to announce the next Life Sciences awardee 2020.
Congratulations to Karalyn Patterson of
@Cambridge_Uni
Read more about Karalyn in this interview:
#SuffrageScience
#womeninSTEM
You can now pre-register your interest to attend the Cognitive Neuroscience Skills Training In Cambridge (COGNESTIC)
@mrccbu
between 19-30 September 2022. You can find more information here:
In new work published in
@NatMachIntell
today,
@mrccbu
scientists use a newly developed artificial neural network to show how many features we observe in brains across species are caused by their shared functional, structural & energetic constraints -
Happy
#PrideMonth
! 🎉🏳️🌈
Over the next couple of days, we'll be highlighting the incredible research from some of our
@mrccbu
-ers from the
#LGBT
+ Community.
Watch this space...😃🏳️🌈
@PrideinSTEM
New paper that reviews the nature of the AG in episodic and semantic memory, and other things.
By
@mrccbu
's Gina Humphreys, Matt Lambon Ralph, and
@CambPsych
's Jon Simons (
@js_simons
).
Happy
#PrideMonth
!🎉🏳️🌈 Camilla Nord is a cognitive neuroscientist at
@Cambridge_Uni
. She works with brain imaging, brain stimulation, and computational modelling to develop and improve treatments for mental health disorders.
@CamNeuro
@PrideinSTEM
Applications open today
@mrccbu
We welcome applications from UK and Overseas individuals who wish to do research on mental health, child development, ageing and dementias, neurological and sensory disorders or basic cognitive neuroscience
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