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Opinion: Brain scanners allow scientists to ‘read minds’ – could they now enable a ‘Big Brother’ future?

13 Feb 2017

Brain imaging can reveal a great deal about who we are and what is going inside our heads. But how far can – and should – this research take us...

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ADHD

Differences in brain structure and memory suggest adolescents may not ‘grow out of’ 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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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...

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Browsing the internet

Brain activity in sex addiction mirrors that of drug addiction

11 Jul 2014

Pornography triggers brain activity in people with compulsive sexual behaviour – known commonly as sex addiction – similar to that triggered by drugs...

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Patient in ‘vegetative state’ not just aware, but paying attention

31 Oct 2013

Research raises possibility of devices in the future to help some patients in a vegetative state interact with the outside world.

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Cancer imaging centres get £35 million boost

29 Oct 2013

Cancer imaging is set to get a major boost from a £35 million nationwide initiative to develop cutting edge imaging technologies for basic and...

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Sunlight and Shadow

Looking into the brain

04 Jan 2011

The Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre is a unique venture that brings together scientists and doctors from Cambridge University and Cambridge’s...

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Brain imaging

Beliefs, predictions and shortcuts in the deceitful brain

01 May 2010

Professor Paul Fletcher believes that exploring how the brain makes predictions about the world will help us to understand mental illness.

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BioResource

The Cambridge BioResource: the study of health and disease

01 Sep 2009

Cambridge BioResource provides a new approach to understanding why some of us suffer from certain common diseases while others don't.

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brain

Obsessive compulsive disorder linked to brain activity

16 Jul 2008

Cambridge researchers have discovered that measuring activity in a region of the brain could help to identify people at risk of developing obsessive...

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Magnetic resonance image of the mouth, ear and brain

Asking ‘are you awake?’ with brain imaging

08 Feb 2008

Even though we might be able to hear someone speaking, our powers for understanding what is actually being said switch off as we go to sleep.

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Peacocks

Can old brains learn new tricks?

01 Sep 2007

Although our brains deteriorate as we get older, Cambridge researchers are finding that some abilities are preserved through ‘flexible’ use of neural...

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