Jon Simons, by Susana Camacho

The Cambridge view on memory

By tying together more than a century of memory research at Cambridge, the Memory Lab gives us tangible ways to improve, preserve and understand our memory.

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Too many croissants yesterday... (cropped)

Being overweight linked to poorer memory

Overweight young adults may have poorer episodic memory – the ability to recall past events – than their peers, suggests new research from the University of Cambridge, adding to increasing evidence of a link between memory and overeating.

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HALLUZINATION

Hallucinations linked to differences in brain structure

People diagnosed with schizophrenia who are prone to hallucinations are likely to have structural differences in a key region of the brain compared to both healthy individuals and people diagnosed with schizophrenia who do not hallucinate, according to research published today.

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Brain scan

Test your memory!

Online test allows public to assess their recall; scientists will use data to study long-term memory.

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