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

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Chaucer Club

Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differences

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease

Professor Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Epigenetics in ageing and dementia

chair: Prof John O'Brien

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Chaucer Club

Non invasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Predicting addiction: myth or reality?

chair: Dr Karen Ersche

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Chaucer Club

Attention, perception, and neural response: testing the limits

Nilli Lavie (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

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

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

Zangwill Club

Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.

Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands World_link.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Chaucer Club

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

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

Modern Outrage and the Perversion of Punishment

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT 12.00PM

Molly J Crockett, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Olaf Dimigen, Humboldt University, Berlin.

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

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

Zangwill Club

Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts

Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Imagers Interest Group

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

Wiktor Olszowy, CHUV Lausanne.

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

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

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

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Chaucer Club

The neural basis of flexible semantic retrieval

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

Social Physiology for Precision Psychiatry

Dr Guillaume Dumas, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Transdiagnostic approaches to common mental health problems

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Chaucer Club

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

Julie Grezes (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) .

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

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

Zangwill Club

Feeling in Seeing is Believing : Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics (When News are Fake)

Manos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Imagers Interest Group

Conceptual and methodological advances in laminar fMRI

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

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

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

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Chaucer Club

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

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Professor Matt Lambon-Ralph, Director, MRC, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

chair: Dr Muzaffer Kaser

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Chaucer Club

How do our brains form maps of the world?

Alexandra Constantinescu (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Smoking cessation in mental health services: from rhetoric to reality

chair: Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea

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

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

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Rafael Romero-Garcia, BCNI, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Minimal clinically important differences: a cornerstone of evidence-based medicine

Professor Glyn Lewis, Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 21 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Elena Boto, University of Nottingham.

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

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

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Robin Ince, University of Glasgow.

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The common link between schizophrenia and diabetes

Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, consultant psychiatrist and associate lecturer, Clozapine Clinic Cambridge and University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 18 June 2020, 12:30-13:30