Neuroscience Seminars

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Resting-State fMRI Pre-processing and Denoising

User Joff Jones and Rik Henson, MRC CBU; Vasilis Karlaftis, Department of Psychology.

Monday 09 December 2019, 12:30-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Blood is thicker than water

User Michael Brecht, Bernstein Center Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

House St John's College Lightfoot Room.

Monday 09 December 2019, 18:30-20:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales

User Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) .

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales

User Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) .

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

User Peter Watson, MRC CBU.

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 11:00-12:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Motherhood and madness: bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis

chair: Dr Nikolett Kabacs

User Professor Ian Jones, Professor of Psychiatry, Cardiff University.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 12 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Dementia Journal Club

Cryo-EM structures of Aß amyloid fibrils

User Veronica Kane Dickson (University of Cambridge).

House Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

An update on progress for the Autism Centre of Excellence

User Aileen Thomson, Appeal Director for the ACE, Autism Research Trust.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The use of mobile games to assess cognitive function of elderly with and without cognitive impairment

chair: Prof Barbara J. Sahakian

User Dr Bruno Bonnechère, Department of Electronics and Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel .

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 16 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Talk title tbc

User Tim Rogers (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Wisconsin-Madison).

Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Mechanics of epithelial migration, growth and folding

User Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 17 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Jona Sassenhagen, Goethe-University Frankfurt.

Monday 20 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Blogs, social media and gamification: how elves and humans can close the gap between research and practice.

chair: Dr Christopher O'Loughlin

User André Tomlin, Minervation Ltd, coordinator of the Mental Elf blog website.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differences

User Simon Eickhoff (Institute of Systems Neuroscience, U. of Dusseldorf).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageing

User Steve Harridge, King's College London.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

User Dr Stefanie Schelinski, Visiting Researcher, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge; Research Associate, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden & Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Tribalism in War and Peace: The nature and evolution of ideological epistemology and its significance for modern social science

User Dr Cory Clark, Durham University.

House Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Epigenetics in ageing and dementia

chair: Prof John O'Brien

User Dr Leonidas Chouliaras, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 30 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Non invasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields

User Nir Grossman (Dept. of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London).

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 31 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Marta Correia, MRC CBU.

Monday 03 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Predicting addiction: myth or reality?

chair: Dr Karen Ersche

User Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Attention, perception, and neural response: testing the limits

User Nilli Lavie (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell migration and pluripotency

User Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 07 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Mood Instability: a possible transdiagnostic construct in psychopathology?

chair: Prof Jesus Perez

User Professor Matthew Broome, Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 13 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

How listeners track the changing statistics of rapidly unfolding auditory scenes – evidence from brain imaging and pupillometry

User Maria Chait (The Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL).

Thursday 13 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 14 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Olaf Dimigen, Humboldt University, Berlin.

Monday 17 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

The use of multi-parametric maps (MPMs) in ageing research

User Wiktor Olszowy, CHUV Lausanne.

Monday 24 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The promise of early intervention: testing a video-feedback intervention (ViPP) to prevent mental health problems in childhood in a randomised trial

chair: Dr Paul Wilkinson

User Professor Paul Ramchandani, LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 27 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

The neural basis of flexible semantic retrieval

User Beth Jefferies (Dept. of Psychology, U. of York).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Formation and activation of ovarian follicles using germline stem cells

User Evelyn Telfer, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Transdiagnostic approaches to common mental health problems

User Dr Melissa Black, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 05 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

User Julie Grezes (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) .

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Conceptual and methodological advances in laminar fMRI

User David Norris, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University.

Monday 09 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Trauma, Stress and Biomarkers in Somatic Symptom Disorders

chair: Prof Peter Jones

User Professor Christina Van Der Feltz-Cornelis, Chair of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, University of York.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 12 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Broca’s region: cytoarchitecture, transmitter receptors and brain mapping

User Katrin Amunts (Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine, Juelich).

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

3D Genomics in development and disease

User Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 13 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Sleep and Mental Health: better nights for better days

User Dr Kirstie Anderson, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 19 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

How do our brains form maps of the world?

User Alexandra Constantinescu (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

Thursday 19 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Prof Tamsin Ford, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 10:30-11:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Smoking cessation in mental health services: from rhetoric to reality

chair: Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea

User Professor Simon Gilbody, Director of the Mental Health & Addictions Research Group, University of York.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 26 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

A Computational Approach to Understanding Motivational Symptoms in Depression

chair: Dr Rudolf Cardinal

User Professor Jonathan Roiser, Department of Psychiatry, University College London.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 02 April 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Girls and women on the autism spectrum

User Dr William Mandy, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 10:30-11:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Jessica Bird, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 30 April 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

The role of sensory inputs in generating and sustaining cognitive maps

User Francesca Cacucci, UCL.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Rafael Romero-Garcia, BCNI, University of Cambridge.

Monday 04 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Morality in the Body: From Intuitions to Moral Judgments and Prosocial Behaviour

User Dr Simone Schnall, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos

User Kathy Niakan, Francis Crick Institute, London.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Mechanobiology of cell shape control

User Ewa Paluch, PDN Department, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 10:30-11:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Elena Boto, University of Nottingham.

Monday 01 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 10:30-11:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Robin Ince, University of Glasgow.

Monday 15 June 2020, 12:30-14:00