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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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Science and religion in the Islamic world

02 Mar 2009

The scientist and philosopher Mehdi Golshani will discuss the current debate about science and religion in the Islamic World during a seminar at the...

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Women in Science: what women and men should know

20 Feb 2009

A mini-symposium at the Clinical School will explore the special issues that women may face in pursuing a successful career in science.

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Roulette wheel

New research provides insight into compulsive gambling

11 Feb 2009

Why do people gamble if they know that the house always wins? Researchers at the University of Cambridge argue that near-misses, where the gambler...

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Nerve cell

New hopes for the nervous system: Parkinson's disease

01 Jan 2009

The way a common virus hijacks the cell it infects could hold the clue to combating Parkinson's disease.

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Nerve cell

New hopes for the nervous system: multiple sclerosis

01 Jan 2009

Cambridge neurologists have shown that an antibody used to treat leukaemia also limits and repairs the damage in multiple sclerosis.

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Risky decision-making essential to entrepreneurialism

12 Nov 2008

Whether someone will become the next Richard Branson, Steve Jobs or Henry Ford may be down to whether they make risky decisions, scientists at the...

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New hope for multiple sclerosis sufferers

22 Oct 2008

A drug which was developed in Cambridge and initially designed to treat a form of leukaemia has also proven effective against combating the...

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Medical Imaging

Expanding horizons for medical imaging

01 Sep 2008

Medical imaging in Cambridge is pushing the boundaries in diagnosis and therapy as well as helping scientists within their own disciplines.

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‘Erasing’ drug-associated memories may stop drug addiction relapses

12 Aug 2008

"Erasing" drug-associated memories may prevent recovering drug abusers from relapsing, researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered.

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chemistry

Glaxosmithkline teams up with Cambridge to deliver new medicines

25 Jul 2008

University of Cambridge to pioneer drug development by academic incubators.

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drugs

Brain switch clues to drug addiction

15 Jul 2008

In the quest to find the biological route of drug addiction, research at Cambridge University is revealing what makes some people more vulnerable...

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New centre to research biological relationship between a mother and her fetus

08 Jul 2008

A new centre which will research the vital biological interactions between a mother and her fetus launched today, Wednesday 9 July, at the University...

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