Neuroscience

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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 – from a 15 week old fetus to 100 year old adult – that show how our brains expand rapidly in early life and slowly shrink as we age.

Study finds GB’s most extroverted, agreeable and emotionally stable regions

25 Mar 2015

A survey of almost 400,000 British residents has highlighted significant differences in personalities between regions. Amongst its findings, it shows...

Recalling memories may make us forget

16 Mar 2015

Intentionally recalling memories may lead us to forget other competing experiences that interfere with retrieval, according to a study published...

Brain areas with rich blood supply lower their vascular reactivity with ageing

Your brain might not be as ‘old’ as you think

09 Mar 2015

Our standard way of measuring brain activity could be giving us a misleading picture of how our brains age, argues Dr Kamen Tsvetanov from the...

Transmission electron microscopy image showing a molecular chaperone (the black dots) binding to thread-like amyloid-beta (Aβ42)

Molecular inhibitor breaks cycle that leads to Alzheimer’s

16 Feb 2015

A molecular chaperone has been found to inhibit a key stage in the development of Alzheimer’s disease and break the toxic chain reaction that leads...

Cambridge Drug Discovery Institute to fast-track development of new treatments for dementia

16 Feb 2015

Alzheimer’s Research UK, the world’s largest dedicated dementia research charity, has announced a £30 million Drug Discovery Alliance, launching...

Detail of an atomic force microscopy image which shows amyloid fibrils of alpha-synuclein grown out of synthetic lipid vesicles

Protein threshold linked to Parkinson’s Disease

02 Feb 2015

Excess quantities of a specific protein in the brain dramatically increase the chances of so-called “nucleation events” that could eventually result...

Tired of London? Maybe it’s time to change postal districts

12 Jan 2015

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,” observed the writer Samuel Johnson in the eighteenth century. In fact, research published today...

Practice really does make perfect

08 Jan 2015

New research into the way in which we learn new skills finds that a single skill can be learned faster if its follow-through motion is consistent...

OCD patients’ brains light up to reveal how compulsive habits develop

19 Dec 2014

Misfiring of the brain’s control system might underpin compulsions in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to researchers at the ̽��ֱ��...

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Lifelong learning and the plastic brain

19 Nov 2014

Our brains are plastic. They continually remould neural connections as we learn, experience and adapt. Now researchers are asking if new...

HIP HOP PSYCH initiative aims to tackle mental health issues through hip-hop

11 Nov 2014

̽��ֱ��two worlds of hip-hop and psychiatry are being brought together in a unique project led by researchers at the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge, which aims...

Brain signals from healthy and vegetative state patients

Scientists find ‘hidden brain signatures’ of consciousness in vegetative state patients

16 Oct 2014

Scientists in Cambridge have found hidden signatures in the brains of people in a vegetative state, which point to networks that could support...

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Neuroscience

Topic description and stories

Charts map rapid growth and slow decline of brains

Study finds GB’s most extroverted, agreeable and emotionally stable regions

Recalling memories may make us forget

Your brain might not be as ‘old’ as you think

Molecular inhibitor breaks cycle that leads to Alzheimer’s

Cambridge Drug Discovery Institute to fast-track development of new treatments for dementia

Protein threshold linked to Parkinson’s Disease

Tired of London? Maybe it’s time to change postal districts

Practice really does make perfect

OCD patients’ brains light up to reveal how compulsive habits develop

Lifelong learning and the plastic brain

HIP HOP PSYCH initiative aims to tackle mental health issues through hip-hop

Scientists find ‘hidden brain signatures’ of consciousness in vegetative state patients

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