CamBRAIN Virtual Journal Club


2021-02-03 16:00: GABA relates to functional connectivity changes and retention in visuomotor adaptation (Caroline Nettekoven, Brain Mapping Unit, University of Cambridge)

2021-02-10 16:00: Two pathways to self-harm in adolescence (Stepheni Uh, MRC CBU)

2021-02-17 16:00: Associations between brain interoceptive network dysconnectivity and heightened peripheral inflammation in depression (Athina Aruldass, Brain Mapping Unit)

2021-02-24 16:00: A generative n​etwork model of neurodevelopment (Dr Danyal Akarca, MRC CBU)

2021-03-03 16:00: The anterior insular cortex in the rat exerts an inhibitory influence over the loss of control of heroin intake and subsequent propensity to relapse (Dhaval Joshi, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2021-03-10 16:00: Myelination: another form of brain plasticity (Dr Giulia Bonetto, MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)

2021-03-17 16:00: Early constipation predicts faster dementia onset in Parkinson’s disease (Marta Camacho, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2021-03-24 16:00: Cortical and subcortical grey matter micro-structure is associated with polygenic risk for schizophrenia (Eva-Maria Stauffer, Department of Psychiatry)

2021-04-28 16:00: Brief Sensory Deprivation Triggers Cell Type-Specific Structural and Functional Plasticity in Olfactory Bulb Neurons (Li Huang, Joseph Innes, Emily Winson-Bushby, University of Cambridge)

2021-05-12 16:00: Application of Airy beam light sheet microscopy to examine early neurodevelopmental structures in 3D hiPSC-derived human cortical spheroids (Dr Deep Adhya, Department of Psychiatry)

2021-05-19 16:00: Meta-analytic evidence of differential prefrontal and early sensory cortex activity during non-social sensory perception in autism (Nazia Jassim, Department of Psychiatry)

2021-05-26 16:00: Psychological mechanisms and functions of 5-HT and SSRIs in potential therapeutic change: Lessons from the serotonergic modulation of action selection, learning, affect, and social cognition (Clark Roberts, Department of Psychology)

2021-06-02 16:00: Bridging brain and cognition: A multilayer network analysis of brain structural covariance and general intelligence in a developmental sample of struggling learners (Ivan Simpson-Kent)

2021-06-09 16:00: Parp mutations protect from mitochondrial toxicity in Alzheimer’s disease (Yizhou Yu)

2021-06-16 16:00: Learning under uncertainty in autism and anxiety (Timothy Sandhu, MRC CBU)

2021-06-23 16:00: Developing a mouse incentive delay task (Miao Ge, Fudan University)

2021-10-27 17:00: A universal probabilistic spike count model reveals ongoing modulation of neural variability in head direction cell activity in mice (David Liu, Department of Engineering)

2021-11-03 17:00: The generation of cortical novelty responses through inhibitory plasticity (Nicholas Gale, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2021-11-10 17:00: Keeping axons alive after injury: Inhibiting programmed axon death (Dr Stacey Gould, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2021-11-17 17:00: Networking—the key to success… especially in the brain. (Mr Alexander Dunn (University of Cambridge))

2021-11-24 17:00: A transdiagnostic data-driven study of children’s behaviour and the functional connectome (Dr Jonathan Jones)

2021-12-01 17:00: Finding needles in the neural haystack: unsupervised analyses of noisy data (Marine Schimel, Kris Jensen, Department of Engineering)

2021-12-08 17:00: ​Improving the identification of cardiometabolic risk in early psychosis (Benjamin Perry (University of Cambridge))

2022-01-19 17:00: Stress deceleration theory: chronic adolescent stress exposure results in decelerated neurobehavioral maturation (Kshitij Jadhav, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2022-02-23 17:00: Apathy and Anhedonia in Adult and Adolescent Cannabis Users and Controls Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown (Martine Skumlien (University of Cambridge))