Questionnaires need to be relevant and accessible. The CamQUAIT is designed with these goals in mind. This new questionnaire measures apathy and impulsivity in people with frontotemporal dementia,providing a helpful outcome measure to test symptomatic treatments: Doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0345545
Using a stochastic dynamical model, Grodem et al show that, before age 60, inter-individual differences in neuroanatomical volumes almost exclusively reflect stable differences between individuals, rather than systematic differences in rate-of-change:
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1242
Genomics & Mental Health Research Day 2026 is taking place tomorrow at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social.
Hosted by the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and the NHS Genomics and Mental Health Network of Excellence, it explores post-diagnostic challenges in rare neurodevelopmental conditions.
Intracranial electrophysiology and multivariate decoding reveal that all spectral frequencies of neural activity encode semantic information:
https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1201
Congratulations to CBU Director, Prof. Matthew Lambon Ralph, on receiving an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Málaga, recognising his internationally leading work on language, semantic cognition and aphasia, and long standing Cambridge–Málaga collaboration.
Across 1,000+ people, eating disorder symptoms were linked to “empathic disequilibrium”, feeling others’ emotions strongly while finding them harder to understand. Heightened emotional reactivity helped explain the link: DOI.org/10.1186/s40337-026-01600-2
#EatingDisorders #Empathy
Read more on the conference page: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/other...
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge
Delighted to celebrate today @jvonseth.bsky.social from @mrccbu.bsky.social passing her PhD viva. Special thanks to examiners @olafhauk.bsky.social and @pattiadank.bsky.social for asking all the right questions
Applications Open! We are looking for a motivated summer intern to support a podcast in development in collaboration with the Plasticity Lab, exploring what restorative, assistive, and augmentative neurotechnology reveals about hidden human capacity 🦾 Full details here: forms.office.com/e/PDjanEYkSE
Así vivimos el jueves la ceremonia de nombramiento como 🎓 Doctor Honoris Causa por la UMA del neurocientífico Matthew A. Lambon.
📽️ Vídeo completo en nuestro canal de YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyUR...
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The UK government says under-16s will be banned from social media by spring 2027.
@orbenamy.bsky.social from @mrccbu.bsky.social gives her reaction to today's announcement, and measures it against the evidence we already have about social media restrictions.
More expert reactions 👉 bit.ly/3Qq453H
