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2020-10-13 16:00: Is the COVID-19 pandemic really causing mental illness?  (Professor Paul Fletcher)

2020-10-20 16:00: NeuroCOVID: Epidemiology, biomarkers, and pathophysiology (Professor David Menon)

2020-10-27 16:00: The impact of Covid-19 on the mental health of children and young people. (Professor Tamsin Ford)

2020-11-02 16:00:  Population studies and ageing brains, in a time of COVID (Professor Carol Brayne ( Department of Public Health and Primary Care))

2020-11-10 16:00: The early impact of COVID-19 on mental health and community physical health services and their patients’ mortality in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, UK (Dr Rudolf Cardinal)

2020-11-24 16:00:  Development of the social brain in adolescence and effects of social distancing  (Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore)

2020-12-01 16:00: Generation Covid-19: Should the fetus be worried? (Dr. Topun Austin (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) & Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox (Dept. of Psychology) )

2020-12-08 16:00: Social deprivation, coping and drugs: a bad cocktail in the COVID-19 era: evidence from preclinical studies (Dr. David Belin)

2021-02-16 16:00: Recurrent problems in spinal-cord and cerebellar circuits (Dr Steve Edgley, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)

2021-02-23 16:00: Electronics on the brain (Professor George Malliaras, Department of Engineering)

2021-03-02 16:00: A developmental-cognitive perspective on the impact of adolescent social media use (Dr Amy Orben, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)

2021-03-09 16:00: Organization of Midbrain Serotonin System (Dr Jing Ren, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2021-03-16 16:00: Data-driven Artificial Social Intelligence: From Social Appropriateness to Fairness (Dr Hatice Gunes, Computer Science and Technology)

2021-04-20 16:00: Learning in pain: probabilistic inference and (mal)adaptive control. (Dr Flavia Mancini, Engineering)

2021-04-27 16:00: Unpacking Nature from Nurture: Understanding how Family Processes Affect Child and Adolescent Mental Health (Professor Gordon Harold, Education)

2021-05-04 16:00: Can we repair the Parkinsonian brain? (Professor Roger Barker, Clinical Neurosciences)

2021-05-11 16:00: Covid And Cognition (Dr Lucy Cheke, Psychology)

2021-05-18 16:00: Bedside to bench and back again, a path to translational pain research? (Dr Ewan St John Smith, Department of Pharmacology)

2021-05-25 16:00: AI-guided solutions for early detection of neurodegenerative disorders (Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Department of Psychology)

2021-06-01 16:00: Regenerative Neuroimmunology - a stem cell perspective (Professor Stefano Pluchino, Clinical Neurosciences)

2021-10-05 16:00: From Vulnerable Plaque to Vulnerable Brain: Understanding the Role of Inflammation in Vascular Health, Stroke, and Cerebrovascular Disease (Dr Nicholas Evans, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2021-10-12 16:00: Activity dependent myelination: a mechanism for learning and regeneration? (Dr Thóra Káradóttir, WT-MRC Stem Cell Institute)

2021-10-19 16:00: In vitro bioelectronic models of the gut-brain axis (Professor Róisín Owens, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology)

2021-11-02 16:00: The brain control of appetite: Can an old dog teach us new tricks? (Dr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs)

2021-11-09 16:00: Transdiagnostic approaches to understanding neurodevelopment (Dr Duncan Astle, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)

2021-11-16 16:00: Embodied Artificial Intelligence: Building brain and body together in bio-inspired robots (Dr Fumiya Iida, Department of Engineering)

2021-11-30 16:00: Mechanisms to medicines in neurodegeneration (Professor Giovanna Mallucci, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2022-01-18 16:00: Common elements: An innovative methodology for identifying effective interventions in early childhood education (Dr Sara Baker, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2022-02-01 16:00: How bilingualism modulates the neural mechanisms of selective attention  (Dr Mirjana Bozic, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2022-02-08 16:00: Why is the suprachiasmatic nucleus such a brilliant circadian time-keeper? (Dr Michael Hastings, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2022-02-15 16:00: Dissecting the neural circuits underlying prefrontal regulation of reward and threat responsivity in a primate (Professor Angela Roberts, Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2022-03-01 16:00: Cross-modality imaging of the neural systems that support executive functions (Dr Yaara Erez, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2022-03-15 16:00: Network science and network medicine: New strategies for understanding and treating the biological basis of mental ill-health (Dr Petra Vértes, Department of Psychiatry)

2022-04-26 16:00: Brain and behavioural impacts of early life adversity (Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychology/Psychiatry)

2022-05-17 16:00: Exploring mechanisms of human brain expansion in cerebral organoids (Dr Madeline Lancaster MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2022-05-24 16:00: Apathy and impulsivity in neurological disease – cause, effect and treatment (Professor James Rowe)

2022-06-07 16:00: The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism (Professor Simon Baron Cohen, Department of Psychiatry)

2022-10-11 16:00: Designing the BEARS (Both Ears) Virtual Reality Training Package to Improve Spatial Hearing in Young People with Bilateral Cochlear Implant (Dr Deborah Vickers, Clinical Neurosciences)

2022-10-18 16:00: Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain is Built (Professor Bill Harris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosciences, University of Cambridge)

2022-11-08 16:00: Hypothalamic episode generators underlying the neural control of fertility (Professor Allan Herbison, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)

2022-11-23 16:00: Dr Kate Baker (Dr Kate Baker, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2022-11-23 16:00: Developmental disorders of presynaptic vesicle cycling - Synaptotagmin-1 and beyond (Dr Kate Baker, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2022-11-29 16:00: How can we treat visceral pain? (Dr David Bulmer, Department of Pharmacology)

2023-01-17 16:00: Can we have jam today and jam tomorrow? Improving outcomes for older people living with mental illness using applied and translational research (Dr Ben Underwood, Department of Psychiatry)

2023-01-31 16:00: Programmed axon death: from animal models into human disease (Professor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2023-02-07 16:00: Children-Agent Interaction For Assessment and Rehabilitation: From Linguistic Skills To Mental Well-being (Dr Micole Spitale, Department of Computer Science and Technology)

2023-02-14 16:00: Valentine’s Day for people with multiple sclerosis: promoting brain repair through remyelination (Professor Alasdair Coles, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2023-02-28 16:00: Fidelity and Replication: Modelling the Impact of Protocol Deviations on Effect Size (Professor Michelle Ellefson)

2023-03-07 16:00: Integrative Neuromodulation: from biomarker identification to optimizing neuromodulation (Dr Valerie Voon, Department of Psychiatry)

2023-03-14 16:00: Fragile minds in a scary world: trauma and post traumatic stress in very young children (Dr Tim Dalgleish, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2023-05-09 16:00: Targeting Maladaptive Emotional Memories to Treat Mental Health Disorders: Insights from Rodent Models (Professor Amy Milton, Department of Psychology)

2023-05-16 14:00: Feedback control in the nervous system: from cells and circuits to behaviour (Dr Timothy O'Leary, Department of Engineering)

2023-06-06 16:00: Immunosuppression for Parkinson's disease - a new therapeutic strategy? (Dr Caroline Williams-Gray, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)