Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge


2011-11-28 13:00: Neuroimaging studies in pathological gambling; similarities and differences with alcohol dependence (Dr Ruth van Holst)

2012-02-13 13:00: Stuck in a rut:  Cognitive inflexibility in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Dr Natalia Lawrence)

2012-02-27 13:00: The spatiotemporal dynamics of source recollection (Dr Zara Bergstrom)

2012-05-21 13:00: Weighted and spatial network characterization of the human functional connectome (Dr Mika Rubinov, BCNI, Dept of Psychiatry)

2012-06-11 13:00: Using optimised fMRI to investigate prediction errors in the human midbrain (Ms Eve Limbrick-Oldfield, BCNI, Dept of Experimental Psychology)

2012-07-03 13:00: Reconsolidation: a long way from crabs to humans (Dr Maria Pedreira, Univ of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

2012-10-29 13:00: Molecular aspects of the transition from reconsolidation to extinction of fear memory (Dr Emiliano Merlo - BCNI, Department of Psychology)

2012-11-05 13:00: Time-dependent changes in alturistic punishment following stress (Dr Tobias Kalenscher - Comparative Psychology, Heinrich Heine University )

2012-11-12 13:00: Response inhibition and control: an exploration of compulsivity (Dr Sharon Morein-Zamir - BCNI, Department of Psychiatry)

2012-11-19 13:00: Mechanisms in disorders of energy balance (Dr Tony Coll - Department of Clinical Biochemistry)

2013-02-04 13:00: Orbitofrontal cortex is required for behavioural report of perceptual decision confidence (Armin Lak - BCNI, Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, Cambridge)

2013-02-25 13:00: Unveiling the neural basis of autobiographical memory (Dr Heidi Bonnici - BCNI, Psychology, Cambridge)

2013-03-04 13:00: Development of Reward-driven decision-making in typical and atypical adolescence (Dr Anastasia Christakou - Centre for Integrative Neuroscience & Neurodynamics, Reading)

2013-03-11 13:00: What's new in limbic-striatal systems of 'wanting' & 'liking'? (Professor Kent Berridge - Psychology & Neuroscience, Michigan)

2013-05-07 13:00: Molecular imaging of the brain serotonin system: implications for neuropsychiatric disorders  (Dr Katarina Varnas - Karolinska Institute, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Stockholm, Sweden)

2013-05-13 13:00: Genetic variation in the serotonin transporter gene:  from molecules to anxiety via neural circuits (Dr Andrea M Santangela - BCNI, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge)

2013-05-20 13:00: Suppressing unwanted memories reduces their unconscious influence via targeted cortical inhibition (Dr Michael Anderson - Memory and Perception Group, MRC Cognition and brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2013-06-17 13:00: My fascination with punishment - it's to do with the fronto-striatal system honest... (Dr Liat Levita - Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield)

2013-10-14 13:00: Neurofunctional circuits of emotion processing in mood and anxiety disorders and in therapeutic approaches (Dr Annette Bruhl - BCNI, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge)

2013-10-21 13:00: Endocannabinoid modulation of impulsivity and motivated behaviour (Dr Tommy Pattij - Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences Vrije University Medical Center, Amsterdam )

2013-11-04 13:00: Toward a neurobiological model of social learning: neural markers and pharmacological effects (Dr Daniel Campbell-Meiklejohn - BCNI, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2013-11-18 13:00: Boundaries and conditions for reconsolidation and extinction (Dr Gonzalo Urcelay - BCNI, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2013-11-25 13:00: The relationship between decision-making, serotonin and mood (Dr Paul Faulkner - Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)

2014-04-22 13:00: We forgot forgetting: forgetting as the active erasure of long term memories (Professor Karim Nader - Department of Psychology, McGill University)

2014-04-28 13:00: High performance computing for neuroscience applications (Dr Roger Tait - BCNI, Department of Psychology)

2014-05-12 13:00: Improving translation in neuropsychiatry: development and validation of novel touchscreen tests of cognition for rodents (Dr Adam Mar - BCNI, Department of Psychology)

2014-05-19 13:00: Neurobiological substrates of drug addiction: new insights from preclinical models (Dr David Belin - BCNI, Department of Pharmacology, Cambridge)

2014-06-02 13:00: Fronto-subcortical circuits and anxiety behaviour (Dr Hannah Clarke - BCNI, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)

2014-06-30 13:00: Animal models of relapse after self-imposed asbtinence (Dr Yavin Shaham - Behavioural Neuroscience Branch, NIH, NIDA, Baltimore)

2014-09-29 13:00: Neural Systems for Resolving Mnemonic Interference (Professor David Smith - Dept. of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)

2014-10-10 13:00: Cognitive effects of sex hormones in nonhuman primates (Dr Agnes Lacreuse - Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)

2014-10-27 13:00: Prosocial and prosexual effects of gammahydroxybutyrate (Dr Oliver Bosch - Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich)

2014-11-03 13:00: Cocaine and Heroin: Two Peas in Two Pods (Professor Aldo Badiani - Neuroscience, University of Sussex)

2014-11-05 13:00: The role of consciousness in cognitive control and decision making (Dr Simon Van Gaal - Brain & Cognition, University of Amsterdam)

2014-11-10 13:00: POSTPONED  (Dr Yevheniia Mikheenko - BCNI, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)

2015-01-19 13:00: Wakefulness modulates cognition: transition of consciousness in sleep and sedation (Dr Tristan Beckinschtein - Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2015-01-26 13:00: Don't panic:  The endocannabinoid system as protective mechanisms again aversive stimuli (Dr Fabricio Moreira - Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2015-02-02 13:00: Compulsive alcohol-seeking behaviour is attenuated by inhibiting u-opioid receptors (Dr Chiara Giuliano - BCNI, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2015-02-09 13:00: Understanding the OCD brain: using new technologies to build bridges between humans and mice (Dr Susanne Ahmari - Translational OCD Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, USA)

2015-02-16 13:00: Getting curvature straight - a review of cortical gyrification theory (Dr Lisa Ronan - BCNI, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge)

2015-03-02 13:00: CANCELLED (Dr Yevheniia Mikheenko - BCNI, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)

2015-04-27 13:00: Molecular Genetic Dissection of Psychiatric Phenotypes and Treatment Response (Professor James Kennedy - Neuroscience Research Department, Psychiatry, University of Toronto)

2015-04-27 16:00: Environment Enrichment, Striatal Maturation and Behaviour (Dr Angela O'Connor - Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Sydney)

2015-05-04 13:00: Studying the neural basis of sensory perception and decision-making using head-fixed behaviour, imaging and physiology in the mouse (Dr Dara Sosulski - University of Sydney)

2015-05-11 13:00: The neural basis of cognitive distortions in pathological gambling (Dr Eve Limbrick-Oldfield - BCNI, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2015-05-18 13:00: anhedonia (Dr Graham Murray - BCNI, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge)

2015-06-01 13:00: The hippocampus, spatial memory and the diagnosis of pre-dementia Alzheimer's disease (Dr Dennis Chan - Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge)

2015-06-08 13:00: NMDA receptor antagonism and schizophrenia risk genes: translational approaches for drug discovery (Professor Judith Pratt - Systems Neuroscience, University of Strathclyde)

2015-06-12 15:00: Engram cells retain memory under retrograde amnesia (Tomas J Ryan Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. )

2015-06-15 13:00: Neuropsychiatric symptoms in neurodegenerative disease (Ms Claire O'Callaghan - Cognitive Neuroscience, NeuRA, School of Medical Sciences, University of NSW)

2015-06-22 13:00: Testing a Perceptual Theory of Amnesia with fMRI:  Perceptual Interference Disrupts Neural Signatures of Familiarity in Visual Cortex (Dr Rosie Cowell - Computational Memory & Perception Lab, Psychology, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst)

2015-06-29 13:00: Nicotine dependence, reward, impulsivity and attentional performance:  Taking a step back into the future (Dr Stella Vlachou - Nursing and Human Sciences, Dublin City University )

2015-06-30 13:00:  Episodic Memory and Spatial Navigation in the Medial Temporal Lobe (Dr David E Huber - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

2015-07-13 13:00: Novel genes associated with trait anxiety: from postmortem discovery to experimental and clinical validation (Professor Turhan Canli - Director, SCAN (Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience) Center, Senior Fellow, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Stony Brook University)

2015-07-20 13:00: Flexible Adaptation in Perception and Action (Dr Anne-Marike Schiffer - Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2015-07-20 15:00: Structural, functional and neurochemical plasticity in memory systems (Professor Paula Croxson - Neuroscience Department, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA)

2015-09-07 13:00: Early adversity, stress response, hippocampal development and risks of psychiatric and neurological diseases (Dr Veronique Bohbot - Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Quebec, Canada)

2015-09-07 15:00: Implicit learning: Cognitive consequences of human neuroplasticity (Professor Paul Reber - Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA)

2015-10-26 13:00: Deconstructing Neuronal Targets of Deep Brain Stimulation to Treat Parkinsonism (Dr Ilse S Pienaar - Centre for Neuroinflammation & Neurodegeneration, Division of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London)

2015-11-02 13:00: Disrupted resting state brain network in obese subjects|: A data-driven graph theory analysis (Dr Kwangyeol Baek - Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2015-11-09 13:00: Genetic analysis of individual differences in the acquisition and extinction of fear (Dr Johanna Baas - Experimental Psychology, Social & Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University )

2015-11-10 13:00: Assembling cognitive moments across limbic-cortical circuits (Dr Matt Jones - Reader in Cognitive Neurophysiology & MRC Senior Research Fellow, School of Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Bristol)

2015-11-23 13:00: Flexible or "leaky" attention in creative people?  Distinct patterns of attention for different types of creative thinking (Dr Darya Zabelina - Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, USA)

2015-11-24 13:00: Serotonergic markers and memory (Dr Aldredo Meneses - Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute Mexico City)

2015-11-30 13:00: Reorganisation of Striatal Connectivity After Cocaine Exposure (Dr Andrew MacAskill - Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, University College London )

2015-12-07 15:00: The identification and electrophysiological characterisation of neuronal ensembles encoding appetitive associations  (Dr Eisuke Koya - Department of Psychology, University of Sussex)

2016-01-25 13:00: Olfactory processing and learning during human sleep (Dr Anat Arzi - Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2016-01-25 14:15: Neural Adaptation Underlies Escalation in Dishonesty (Neil Garrett, University College London)

2016-02-02 13:00: Using different phenotypes to dissect the genetics of obsessive-compulsive disorder (Dr Gwyneth Zai - BCNI, Dept of Psychiatry, Univ of Cambridge and Inst of Medical Science & Dept of Psychiatry, Univ of Toronto)

2016-02-08 14:15: A distributed, hierarchical and recurrent model of choice (Laurence Hunt, University College London)

2016-02-22 13:00: Neurocognitive dynamics in the transition from wakefulness to sleep: EEG and TMS/EEG studies  (Dr Valdas Noreika – Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2016-02-22 14:15: Determinants of economic choice and information-seeking behavior (Caroline Charpentier, University College London)

2016-02-29 13:00: Effects of acute stress and anxiety on cognition (Dr Annette Bruhl - BCNI, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2016-03-07 13:00: Mentalising or Submentalising in Perspective-taking Tasks: Evidence from Behavioural and Brain Stimulation Studies (Dr Idalmis Santiesteban - Comparative Cognition Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge )

2016-03-07 14:15: Economic irrationality is optimal during noisy decision-making (Konstantinos Tsetsos, Birkbeck, University of London)

2016-04-18 14:15: Hierarchical Neural Computations in Decision, Action, and Belief (Daniel McNamee, University of Cambridge)

2016-04-25 13:00: Neurocognitive dynamics in the transition from wakefulness to sleep: EEG and TMS/EEG studies  (Dr Valdas Noreika – BCNI, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2016-04-25 14:15: How acute stress impairs self-control in goal-directed choice: Behavioral and neural evidence (Silvia Maier, University of Zurich)

2016-05-09 13:00: Motivation in Action - from decision neuroscience to neurorehabilitation (Dr Bettina Studer - Inst for Clinical Neuroscience & Medical Psychology, Univ of Dusseldorf, Germany)

2016-05-09 14:15: Control of entropy in internal models (Jill O'Reilly, University of Oxford)

2016-05-13 13:00: The neurophysiology of decision-making in the rat: implications for psychiatry and economics (Dr David Redish - Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota)

2016-05-16 13:00: Novel primate model to study the neurobiological mechanisms underlying genetic variation associated with affective behaviour (Dr Andrea M Santangela - BCNI, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge)

2016-05-23 14:15: Towards a whole brain account of decisions for actions using high precision MEG (Sven Bestmann, University College London)

2016-06-06 13:00: Listening to the brain:  sonification of EEGs (Dr Francesca Panin - Faculty of Medical Science, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge )

2016-06-13 13:00: Measuring attention in rodent models of schizophrenia (Dr Karly Turner - Queensland Brain Institute, The Univ of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia)

2016-06-20 14:15: Constructing and updating models of the world (Mona Garvert, University College London)

2016-06-22 14:15: Metacognitive control of reinforcement learning and causal inference (Sang Wan Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST))

2016-07-11 14:15: How habits become compulsions? Investigating habit perseveration in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. (Paula Banca, University of Cambridge)

2016-10-17 13:00: The benefits and challenges of commissioning bespoke websites, apps and games for behavioural research (Dr Jo Evershed - CEO, Cauldron.sc)

2016-10-31 12:30: Elucidating the neurobiology of problem gambling using a novel rodent slot machine task (Dr Paul Cocker - University of British Columbia, Vancouver)

2016-11-07 13:00: While you don't ask it's both a vase and a face:  Simultaneous neural processing of an inattentively viewed bistable stimulus (Professor Eugenio Rodriguez - Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile)

2016-11-28 13:00:  Dynamic shifts in large-scale network balance during stress (Professor Erno Hermans - Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

2017-01-23 13:00: Beyond E/I balance: Inhibitory cell-type regulating circuit wide defects in Rett syndrome  (Dr Abhishek Banerjee - Brain Research Institute, University of Zürich)

2017-01-30 13:00: Stimulating OCD (Professor Damiaan Denys - Professor of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Amsterdam)

2017-02-06 13:00: Higher-order cognitive flexibility:  influences of catecholamines, tVNS and stress (Dr Klodiana-Daphne Tona - Cognitive Psychology Univt, Leiden Institute for Brain & Cognition, and Leiden Medical Center, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

2017-02-13 13:00: The promises and challenges of using transcranial current stimulation to modulate social perception (Dr Michael Banissy - Reader in Psychology, Head of Research at Goldsmiths, University of London)

2017-02-20 13:00: Understanding the Long-Term Consequences of Marijuana Use by Adolescents:  A Psychobiological Perspective (Dr Alejandro Higuera Matas - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychobiology, School of Psychology, National University for Distance Learning (UNED), Madrid, Spain)

2017-05-08 13:00: Behavioural measurements versus assessments of personality (Dr Jana Uher - Senior Research Fellow, Marie Curie Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science)

2017-05-15 13:00: Structural brain connectivity in autism spectrum disorder (Dr Clare Gibbard - Visiting Postdoc, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2017-05-16 13:00: International research networks in imaging genetics: Developing imaging predictors and neurobehavioural phenotypes of psychopathology (Professor Gunter Schumann)

2017-05-22 13:00: Lateral septal interneurons broadcast hippocampal signals to calibrate fear responses (Dr Antoine Besnard - Center for Regenerative Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital)

2017-11-06 13:00: Associative vs hierarchical account of human cue-elicited responding (Dr Sara Garofalo - IRCCS NEUROMED, Pozzilli (IS), and NEUROBIOTECH, Caserta, Italy)

2017-11-20 13:00: Developmental trajectories of ADHD symptoms from childhood to late adolescence (Dr Aja Murray - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2018-01-17 13:00: Psychedelics: mechanisms of action and therapeutic potential (Dr Robin Carhart-Harris - Head of Psychedelic Research, Centre for Neuropsychopharmacology, Division of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London)

2018-03-09 13:00: Time-dependent regulation of memory retrieval by hippocampal clock (Professor Satoshi Kida - Department of Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture (TUA))

2018-03-19 13:00: Capturing the Full Spectrum of Repetitive Behaviour in Typical and Atypical Development (Professor David W. Evans - Psychology Program in Neuroscience, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA)

2018-09-24 13:00: Using Computational Models to Characterise and Engage and Putative Treatment Targets for Depression (Professor Michael Browning - Computational Psychiatry Lab, Dept. of Psychiatry, Univ. of Oxford)

2018-10-05 13:00: New approaches to old problems in behavioral neuroscience: The role of locus coeruleus in anxiety and cognitive control (Andrea Bari, PhD - Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences & The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA )

2019-02-25 12:30: Serotonergic modulation of emotion and cognition: the search for specific functions and future research directions (Clark Roberts, The LeDoux Lab, Center for Neural Science, NY Univ)

2019-03-25 13:00: A Computational Approach to Adolescent Brain Development in the Context of Schizophrenia (Dr Qiang Luo - BCNI/Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China)

2019-04-29 13:00: Re-evaluation of learned behaviour, changing memory - on the fly (Dr Johannes Felsenberg - Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, Waddell Lab, University of Oxford)

2019-05-13 13:00: Affective biases and other cognitive disturbances in Major Depressive Disorder (Vibeke N. H. Dam - Cand.psych., PhD student, Neurobiology Research Unit, 6931 The Neuroscience Centre Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital)

2019-07-01 13:00: Stimulus-driven behaviors in OCD: inhibition and action tendencies (Dr Gideon Anholt, Psychology Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev)

2019-07-08 13:00: STaR (Stress Timing affects Relapse): A model of the effects of stress/glucocorticoids on extinction and relapse  (Dr Shira Meir Drexler - Department of Cognitive Psychology Ruhr-University Bochum Germany)

2019-08-12 13:00: Determining the mechanism underlying retrieval-extinction: reconsolidation or extinction? (Eloise Kuijer - Masters Student, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)