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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. 

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New network for evolutionary genetics

14 Jan 2010

Leading researchers in the field of evolutionary and population genetics from the University of Cambridge and beyond are meeting today for a special...

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dyslexia

The educational neuroscience of dyslexia and dyscalculia

01 Jan 2010

For some children, acquiring the important skills of learning to read or do arithmetic is fraught with difficulty. Educational neuroscience is...

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Desert locust

Ladder-walking locusts show big brains aren’t always best

22 Dec 2009

Scientists have shown for the first time that insects, like mammals, use vision rather than touch to find footholds. They made the discovery thanks...

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Tangled rope

New funding to untangle Alzheimer’s disease

01 Dec 2009

A major new drive to understand, diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s disease has begun in Cambridge.

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RBC's trading floor

Biology, training, and profit sharing make best traders

24 Nov 2009

Cambridge researchers have identified a group of traders consistently able to outperform the market, even during the credit crisis.

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Does chance have a spiritual and scientific purpose?

30 Oct 2009

The relationship between chance, free will and God will be the topic of today’s research seminar hosted by The Faraday Institute for Science and...

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Sharing the results of research critical to advancement of biological sciences

10 Sep 2009

Sharing the fruits of research in the biomedical sciences is critical for the advance of knowledge, yet with the advent of large-scale data gathering...

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Funding awarded to help understand the causes of Dyscalculia

06 Aug 2009

Scientists at the Centre for Neuroscience in Education have been awarded more than £1 million by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to investigate...

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Waldmann, Clark and Hale

Campath: from innovation to impact

01 Aug 2009

The path from innovation to impact can be long and complex. Here we describe the 30-year journey behind the development of a drug now being used to...

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Seven Cambridge academics elected as Fellows of The British Academy

16 Jul 2009

The British Academy today announced 35 scholars who have been elected to Fellowships this year in recognition of their research achievements. The...

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Generation to Reproduction – Wellcome Trust support for History of Medicine

13 Jul 2009

A major new research programme which proposes a comprehensive reassessment of the history of reproduction is to be launched at the University of...

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Neuron Connection

Brain stem cell discovery

01 Jul 2009

Insight could lead to new therapies to repair damage caused by MS.

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