Adolescents who sleep for longer – and from an earlier bedtime – than their peers tend to have improved brain function and perform better at cognitive tests, researchers from the UK and China have shown.
Meet the winner of the Cambridge Awards 2024 for Research Impact and Engagement and learn more about their projects.
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, new research suggests.
Five Cambridge experts share their top tips on ways to boost your body and mind, backed up by their own research
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 standard treatments have been ineffective.
A team from across the Cambridge life sciences, technology and business worlds has announced a multi-million-pound, three-year collaboration with the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), the UK government’s new research funding agency.
Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge and programme lead, Dr Anna Moore, discusses the NIHR BioResource’s national childhood health research programme, D-CYPHR. ̽»¨Ö±²¥groundbreaking programme is a world first and aims to be the largest ever DNA research programme involving children aged 0-15.Â
Contrary to the commonly-held view, the brain does not have the ability to rewire itself to compensate for the loss of sight, an amputation or stroke, for example, say scientists from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins ̽»¨Ö±²¥.
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 biological constraints – allows it to develop features of the brains of complex organisms in order to solve tasks.
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