Last week the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit hosted a very special Festschrift for Prof. John Duncan FBA FRS, who has recently retired after 45 dedicated years at the Unit.

12 mth postdoc available to work with me and Sheri Odoula UEA on a project identifying mental health research priorities with our local Norfolk and Suffolk communities vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/870/…

Are you a UK or Republic Ireland student studying psychology, cognitive neurosciences or related, and in your penultimate year looking to gain research experience? The MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit is offering a 6-week undergraduate summer placement scheme. Find out more: ow.ly/tY7M50R21QC

We know #genetic #diagnosis matters for #parents ' #mentalhealth - but when and why?

Pleased to share 1st PhD paper from Zhaotian Chi
bit.ly/49dQq43

We hope these results get people talking - tell us what you think!

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Centre for Family Research IMAGINE ID

New paper! We propose a novel hypothesis on the diversity of human executive functions. We used cutting-edge multimodal fMRI approaches to unveil an intricate dance between domain-general and domain-specific circuits.

Link: doi.org/10.1093/cercor…
Data: balsa.wustl.edu/study/0qk6K

Well Blackburn you were flipping aces! Thanks to Sarah Millican If you want to come to my show with support by my long suffering soon to be husband Eddy Brimson then go to my website for tickets or go to the link in my bio. May 14th is the date for your diary.

Brilliant crowd in Blackburn. Thank you for coming if you did. And thank you for putting up with the cold. My ace support was Lou Conran (own show tickets ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/lanca… ) Mugs etc are via the shop page of my website and my podcast is Standard Issue. Thanks for…

About to end a 46 year wait to see this new sci-fi film that everyone is talking about on the big screen. Thanks Prince Charles Cinema

Still a few tickets available for tonight’s festive night of neuroscience comedy at the Bloomsbury Theatre studio from 7pm. I’ll be sciencing up the greatest Christmas song of all time (merry Christmas everyone). ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-the…

Congratulations to MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit's Amy Orben who has been awarded a UKRI £1.9m Future Leaders Fellowship.
Amy will use this to enhance her research into social media and teenage mental health. 👏

mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/blog/2023/12/d…

we have a fully funded PhD position on #digitalinterventions and #behaviouralchange

Congratulations Dr Rose!! Alexandra Rose PhD viva successfully passed!!!

Just one week to go till #CBUMethodsDay ! Please join us on Monday, December 4th MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.
imaging.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/methods/Method…

Only a couple of days left to apply!

Hot off the pre-print press - a great study led by Chloe Carrick & with A/Prof Nele Demeyere we find that executive dysfunction uniquely relates to post-stroke fatigue, above and beyond other cognitive abilities, suggesting it is a unique marker of fatigue

osf.io/preprints/psya…

Goodness, what an excellent study led by Andrea Kusec! Well done MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit!

Choice reaction times and aging. #ReactionTime #comedy #standup #exaggeration #ICNComedy

The science of cold noses this morning on BBC Radio 6 Music!

A millisecond is an important unit of time #ReactionTime #comedy #standup #exaggeration #ICNComedy

I should add that this excellent study of mood interventions in acquired brain injury led by Andrea Kusec was conducted at Cambridge University MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit