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Neuroscience has transformed our understanding of the brain and promises treatments for devastating disorders that affect millions.

Charts map rapid growth and slow decline of brains

06 April 2022

An international team of researchers has created a series of brain charts spanning our entire lifespan 鈥 from a 15 week old fetus to 100 year old adult 鈥 that show how our brains expand rapidly in early life and slowly shrink as we age.聽

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Help from Mr Handyman

Study of half a million people reveals sex and job predict how many autistic traits you have

03 Nov 2015

Measuring autistic traits in just under half a million people reveals that your sex, and whether you work in a STEM (science, technology, engineering...

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Jello Cubes

Breaking the mould: Untangling the jelly-like properties of diseased proteins

29 Oct 2015

Scientists at the 探花直播 of Cambridge have identified a new property of essential proteins which, when it malfunctions, can cause the build up...

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Meine Augen zur Zeit der Erscheinungen

How hallucinations emerge from trying to make sense of an ambiguous world

12 Oct 2015

Why are some people prone to hallucinations? According to new research from the 探花直播 of Cambridge and Cardiff 探花直播, hallucinations may...

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First Aid Kit (cropped)

Calling for help: damaged nerve cells communicate with stem cells

06 Oct 2015

Nerve cells damaged in diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS), 鈥榯alk鈥 to stem cells in the same way that they communicate with other nerve cells...

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Left: cricket on a trackball during experiment. Right: Auditory neuron in cricket brain.

Neural circuit in the cricket brain detects the rhythm of the right mating call

11 Sep 2015

Delay mechanism within elegant brain circuit consisting of just five neurons means female crickets can automatically detect chirps of males from same...

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365.060 - Watching TV

Use of TV, internet and computer games associated with poorer GCSE grades

04 Sep 2015

Each extra hour per day spent watching TV, using the internet or playing computer games during Year 10 is associated with poorer grades at GCSE at...

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Evening watching television

Every hour you spend in front of a screen is linked to poorer exam results

04 Sep 2015

We need to think about how our teenagers spend their spare time, writes Dr Kirsten Corder from the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit at the...

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ADHD

Differences in brain structure and memory suggest adolescents may not 鈥榞row out of鈥 ADHD

27 Aug 2015

Young adults diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adolescence show differences in brain structure and perform poorly in...

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鈥淚t ought to be lovely to be old, To be full of the peace that comes with experience And wrinkled ripe fulfillment鈥 D.H. Lawrence

Despite the headlines, dementia epidemic may not actually be getting worse

21 Aug 2015

探花直播number of people with dementia 鈥 both new cases and total numbers with the disease 鈥 appears to be stabilising in some Western European countries...

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Hitchcock

Young minds think alike 鈥 and older people are more distractible

14 Aug 2015

鈥楤ang! You鈥檙e Dead鈥, a 1961 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, continues to surprise 鈥 but not just with the twist in its tale. Scientists at the...

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Cambridge Advanced Training Programme

鈥楤rain training鈥 app may improve memory and daily functioning in schizophrenia

03 Aug 2015

A 鈥榖rain training鈥 iPad game developed and tested by researchers at the 探花直播 of Cambridge may improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia...

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Patrick Chinnery

Mitochondrial disease expert to lead Department of Clinical Neurosciences

23 Jul 2015

Professor Patrick Chinnery, an expert in diseases that affect mitochondria 鈥 the 鈥榖atteries鈥 that power our cells 鈥 has been appointed as Professor...

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