Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Cognitive Remediation Therapy confers broad benefits to people with bipolar disorder

Dr Becci Strawbridge, post-doctoral researcher at Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 26 September 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Ablative surgeries for psychiatric disorders. The Vancouver capsulotomy and new insights into the neuroanatomy of depression

Professor Trevor Hurwitz, Medical Director, BC Neuropsychiatry Programme, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 03 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

What's new in PsychoPy3?

Dr Jon Peirce (U. of Nottingham).

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

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Prodromal Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Professor Alan Thomas, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Newcastle University.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 10 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Using narratives to understand human conscious experience

Lorina Naci (Trinity College, Dublin).

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

Thursday 10 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Zangwill Club

Rethinking sex and the brain beyond the binary: Mosaic brains in a multi-dimensional space

Professor Daphna Joel, School of Psychological Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 11 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The emotional modulation of memory

Dr Deborah Talmi (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The perceptual prediction paradox

Clare Press (U. of London, Dept of Psychology Sciences).

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

Thursday 17 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Please note: There will be no Zangwill Talk this week

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 18 October 2019, 00:00-00:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The science of fate, and a science communication Q&A

Dr Hannah Critchlow (Magdalene College).

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

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Life in a Zero-Sum Game: How implicit game theories can shape social and economic realities

Patricia Andrews Fearon.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networks

Andrew Saxe (U. of Oxford, Dept of Experimental Psychology) .

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

Thursday 24 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Zangwill Club

How we remember and how we forget

Aidan J Horner, Department of Psychology, University of York, York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Reinforcement learning in disease and disorder

Bronagh McCoy (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The anatomo-functional role of the subthalamic nucleus in strategic decision making

Birte Forstmann (U. of Amsterdam).

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

Thursday 31 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Zangwill Club

Quantifying conscious states by means of self-initiated brain activity

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

Dr Athena Demertzi, Physiology of Cognition Research Lab, GIGA Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Belgium .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mechanisms and anatomy of selective attention in multi-target environments

Dr Bianca De Haan (Brunel University London).

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

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Meng-Shan Tan.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 November 2019, 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 07 November 2019, 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 08 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Costs and benefits of cognitive control: When a little frontal cortex goes a long way

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL SEMINAR

Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Ph.D, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A critique of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing

Dr Denes Szucs (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Neurocognitive psychometrics of intelligence

Anna-Lena Schubert (U. of Heidelberg).

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

Thursday 14 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Professor Suliann Ben Hamed, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

When the mind lingers - how sensory history impacts working memory

Dr Athena Akrami (University College London).

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

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The neuropsychiatry of social knowledge and moral motivation

Dr Roland Zahn, Reader in the Neurocognitive Bases of Mood Disorders, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 21 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Chemistry of the adaptive mind: on dopamine and mental work

Roshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour).

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

Thursday 21 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Zangwill Club

Visual learning: Babies, bodies and machines

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

Professor Linda Smith, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington, USA.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Fear the Fork! Why we should all care about our analytical garden of forking paths

Dr Amy Orben (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, And Why

Joseph Marks.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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 28 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Mechanisms of remembering: separation, replay, and integration in the human brain

Anthony Wagner (Stanford University).

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

Thursday 28 November 2019, 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.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 29 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Primary Care

Exploring healthcare staff responses to patient complaints

Please book your place at this event, via link below

Alex Gillespie, Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Dr Mary Adams, Senior Research fellow, King’s College London .

Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Large Seminar Room (First Floor), Forvie Site, Robinson Way. CB2 0SR.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 16:00-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Professor Nita Forouhi, Programme Leader of the Nutritional Epidemiology programme, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge..

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 05 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Attentive learning: Understanding mechanisms by studying outcomes, risk and protective factors

Gaia Scerif, Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Motherhood and madness: bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis

Professor Ian Jones, Professor of Psychiatry, Cardiff University.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

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

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Epigenetics in ageing and dementia

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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