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We were pleased to welcome last week our new early career researchers, including new PhD and MSc Placement students to CINN. The week's activities provided an in-depth orientation to the...Read More >

The BRAIN Conference will be held on 7 March 2025, at De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms, London. Register for the conference. The conference will have the following sessions: Movement Disorder...Read More >

We are seeking a talented postdoctoral researcher to join our team as Research Fellow.

Are you an Early Career Researcher with an interest in Neuroscience and Neurodegeneration? Join the ARUK ECR Science Meeting at Reading! Alzheimer's Research UK (ARUK) Thames Valley Network (TVN) Early...Read More >

We are seeking a talented postdoctoral researcher to join our team as Research Fellow.

We are looking for a resourceful and creative junior member of our management team.

Andrew Glennerster will be giving a talk at the 5th iNAV Symposium, a premier scientific conference on navigation, held in-person from June 17-21, 2024 in Merano, Italy. "A canvas for spikes"...Read More >

Reading ECRs are invited to face the Dragons on the 18th of June to compete for project pump-priming funds Deadline for submission: 7th June Short-listing: 11th June Dragon's Den event:...Read More >

We are thrilled to announce our new CINNergies leads: Piril Hepsomali, Tania Korin, Wahab Shahbaz Three early career Reading researchers to lead our ECR community with the remit to explore...Read More >

Tuesday 21st May 2024 The event has a dual objective of both showcasing the in-house expertise of the University of Reading's Pain Research team, but also to provide a platform...Read More >

Reading Emotions Symposium 20-21 June 2024 University of Reading Mechanisms of Resilience From bench to bedside This year’s Reading Emotions will feature step-change developments in the theory and practice of...Read More >

Join us in CINN for a paid summer research placement through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP). Open to mid-degree students from all disciplines with an interest in integrative neuroscience....Read More >

Who are CINNergies? CINNergies is a training and development initiative of the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN) open to all early career researchers, scientists, and scholars in the...Read More >

We are organising a reading group on dense neuroimaging based on a special issue published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 2021, 40:iii–vi The reading group will meet on 2...Read More >

UKAgeNet is a new network of all major research centres on ageing in the UK and is designed to bring together the UK's great strengths in this field, to promote...Read More >

We are inviting applicants for PhD studentships in Psychology, Language Sciences, Cognitive and Physiological Neuroscience and related disciplines. We are looking for students interested in pursuing PhD projects within our...Read More >

ENIGMA-Language (ENIGMA-LANG) is a new working group aiming to focus on the neurobiology of language, one of the most fundamental traits of our species, in order to investigate associations between...Read More >

Saturday, 21 October – Monday, 23 October, 2023 The 61st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia will be hosted by the University of Reading, Whitenights campus, UK. The on-campus…Read More >

The annual Reading Emotions inter-disciplinary affective neuroscience symposium, recently took place at the University of Reading. This year’s symposium brought together more than 200 researchers from across the globe, at...Read More >

As part of the e-ReproNim experiment of co-teaching between the MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Reading, the BSc/MSc in Cognitive Science at Nicolaus Copernicus University and the…Read More >

Following the success of last year’s Pain Research Reading Conference, which focused on the translatability of pain research, this year’s event aims to tackle the general concept of pain, taking…Read More >

The Edith Morley Lecture 2023 delivered by Professor Nazanin Derakhshan provided a powerful message regarding the problems and struggles faced by those diagnosed with breast cancer, whilst highlighting the important…Read More >

This year’s edition of Reading Emotions will explore how we measure and understand the fluctuations in neural and psychological components of thought and behaviour, across development and through the course…Read More >

The annual Early Career Researcher (ECR) Conference at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences will take place on the 31st of March 2023. The conference, whilst open to…Read More >

CINN-affiliated Professor Nazanin Derakhshan has been selected to deliver the 2023 Edith Morley Annual Lecture entitled “Coping with Cancer”. The School’s Annual Lecture series is named after Edith Morley, who…Read More >

CINN has been awarded a total of £366,000 from two successful funding bids to the University’s Annual Research Infrastructure and Equipment Fund! The ARIEF considers major investments of values of…Read More >

In a bid to improve research skills and practice, for staff and students alike at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, Associate Professor Dr Etienne Roesch and Lecturer…Read More >

CINN are excited to host Dr Ann-Kathrin Beck who will be temporarily joining the Centre from the University of Kaiserslautern for the remainder of the term, on a training and…Read More >

Professor Claire Williams, Professor in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, is part of a group at the University of Reading awarded funding to “support research and translation…Read More >

The University of Reading is part of a £35.4 million award to the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, which aims to “directly translate research into potential new treatments, diagnostic…Read More >

On the 18th October 2022, part of the Unit of Neurology of the San Marino State Hospital, visited Reading to give a seminar. The delegation was led by Dr Susanna…Read More >

A vital aspect of neuroscience is the ability to share research ideas and methods through collaborations, and by promoting open-source practices by making data and software freely available. Reflecting this…Read More >

A new exciting opportunity has arose to work with CINN-affiliated researchers Dr Michiko Sakaki and Professor Kou Murayama at the University of Tubingen as part of a PhD investigating the…Read More >

The Nencki School of Ideas in Neuroscience was a 6-day interactive workshop ran by the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology aimed “at teaching how to develop theoretical thinking, how to…Read More >

June 8th/9th - Avoidance and Exposure: From Brain to Clinic Learning to avoid potential threats is key to survival, but it can become maladaptive when the perceived danger is objectively...Read More >

Sense About Science is an independent charity that promotes the public interest in sound science and evidence. Their many worthwhile activities include: The John Maddox Prize, which recognises the work…Read More >

We are excited to announce the First International Concurrent TMS-fMRI Workshop, being held May 4-6 in Cyprus. The CINN is one of two UK centres with concurrent TMS-fMRI capability. This…Read More >

The event is organised by the CINN Pain Lab with Pain Research Reading, and focuses on research all the way from the lab to the clinic. It aims to explore...Read More >

Thursday 31st March 2022 Do you have a really great idea for a collaborative project? Have you been planning to write a grant but don’t have the pilot data to…Read More >

Wednesday 9th Feb 2022: 13:00-17:00 BST Are you interested in collaborative research? Looking to engage in ECR-led research? Have you got ideas that could benefit from others skills and expertise?…Read More >

PhD studentship competitions are now open. For details visit: PhD fees and funding – School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences (reading.ac.uk) Contact us to discuss research interests, or get…Read More >

New approaches to 3D vision | Royal Society Leading approaches to computer vision (SLAM: simultaneous localization and mapping), animal navigation (cognitive maps), and human vision (optimal cue integration), start from…Read More >

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading seeks applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work for two years on an interdisciplinary research project funded by the John…Read More >

Every two years, the Applied Vision Association (AVA) invites nominations for the David Marr medal, which recognizes the achievements of an outstanding vision scientist in the early part of his…Read More >

“Multi-level approach to human health research: A working example bridging haemostatic, vascular, and neurocognitive health research” The session will be led by Dr Gabriella Rossetti, CINN Research Fellow, with presentations...Read More >

Professor Daniel Wolpert FMedSci FRS will be awarded the 2021 Ferrier Medal and Lecture for distinguished contributions on the structure and function of the nervous system. The Lecture will be…Read More >

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT Although the human brain constitutes only 2% of body mass, it accounts for 20% of an individual’s oxygen consumption (Raichle and Gusnard, 2002). As such, it is dependent...Read More >

Professor Barry Everitt FMedSci FRS will be awarded the 2021 Croonian Medal and Lecture for elucidating brain mechanisms of motivation and applying them to important societal issues such as drug…Read More >

Friday 7th May 2021: 09:00-12:00 BST CINNergies are hosting a reading club and debate on the “Brain-Cognitive behaviour problem”. This debate is set to get to the heart of the challenges…Read More >

Complex interactions between the resident bacteria in the gut and the host nervous system constitute one of the frontier areas of neuroscience. In the tenth anniversary meeting of Reading Emotions,…Read More >

Oxytocin modulation of the neurocomputational mechanisms underlying prosocial learning Thursday 4 March 2021, 3pm GMT Humans often act on the best interest of others. While questions remain about the intrinsic…Read More >

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, adventurous, interdisciplinary neuroscientist to help us understand how humans prioritise information in support of the decisions they make. We focus on visual…Read More >

Monday 29th March 15.30-17.00 Do you have a really great idea for a collaborative project? Have you been planning to write a grant but don’t have the pilot data to…Read More >

Friday 18-Dec-2020, 13:00-17:00 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences) theme issue ‘Key relationships between non-invasive functional neuroimaging and the underlying neuronal activity’ Compiled and edited by Anusha…Read More >

We are currently looking for our next CINN Research Fellow. The post holder will split their time between: developing their own research under the supervision of the Centre Director and…Read More >

11 and 12 June – online virtual meeting! The complex ability to respond to change and other challenges in the environment renders a person resilient to major life stressors. Difficulties…Read More >

Putting a name to a mental health condition can allow faster access to public services and supportive patient groups – but these diagnostic labels are of limited use to clinicians…Read More >

Professor Doug Saddy’s lecture entitled “Augmented Humans: mind and machine” changed the way I think about myself and about the role that brain science will play in the progression of…Read More >

Blog post by Tim Yates, Research Communications Business Partner (Institutes). We (Research Communications) want to talk about your research. We want to help you find ways to showcase your innovations…Read More >

Blog post by Dr Lily FitzGibbon, a former psychologist from the Motivation Science Lab at the University of Reading Researchers from the University of Reading’s School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences are embarking…Read More >

Dr Kou Murayama wins the Leverhulme Research Leadership Award, worth £1 million. Taking place once every four years, the Leverhulme Research Leadership Award is given to support academics who need to build a research…Read More >

From the Internet of Things to the Internet of Everything, from autonomous vehicles to the future delivery of healthcare therapies. Professor Doug Saddy, director of CINN, explored how the application…Read More >

Dr Anastasia Christakou, Professor Doug Saddy, and Professor Tom Johnstone talk about the importance of staying on the cutting edge of technology in neuroscience. With the installation of a new…Read More >

The opportunities a new scanner will bring to CINN is not only the core research agendas, but the chance for collaborations with clinical trials units, Royal Berkshire Hospital and other…Read More >

Associate Professor Ciara McCabe was asked to speak about, Cannabinoids as Medicines, to the DrugScience committee led by David Nutt, Imperial College London. The DrugScience committee works to provide clear, evidence-based information…Read More >

Clues from reward & mimicry to understand Autism Humans are social beings. Most of us find looking at, hearing, and interacting with other humans to be a rewarding experience. One…Read More >

Professor Ciara McCabe was included in a write up by The Dana Foundation on the BNA Festival of Neuroscience. Discussing research looking at how disorders of motivation affect a significant minority of people…Read More >

Associate Professor Ciara McCabe has had the prestigious honour of being selected by the 2017 Lundbeck Foundation Brain Prize program committee and the Brain Prize winners Peter Dayan, Wolfram Schultz and Ray Dolan to…Read More >

During the Cheltenham Science Festival in June 2017 a highly informative symposium focusing on drug use and drug research was sponsored by the BAP called Drugs and the Brain. The panel…Read More >

As part of the CINN’s remit to foster interdisciplinary research in all aspects of the brain, 15 new research projects have been supported through pump priming grants of between £500…Read More >

Professor Arlene Astell from the University of Reading has been speaking on BBC Radio 4 about the effect sound can have on dementia sufferers. She has been closely involved with a BBC project, where…Read More >

A member of CINN has been awarded funding by the ESRC, the Brain & Behaviour Research Foundation and the British Academy for her work around uncertainty and anxiety. Postdoctoral researcher Dr Jayne Morriss has…Read More >

Dr McCabe, the Director of Outreach for PCLS (School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences), along with the help of undergraduate mentors hosted the first Psychology Reading Scholars Programme on…Read More >

We would like to invite you to a short session to learn about the Centre, meet fellow researchers and share your views on how CINN can help develop your research….Read More >

CINNergies is a community of early career researchers who share an openness for and motivation to engage in interdisciplinary research. Their mission is to provide opportunities for researchers to meet,…Read More >

The TMS-Neurostimulation lab offers a workshop on the integration of TMS and EEG signals. Both theoretical and practical aspects are covered. A live recording, applying TMS and EEG, will be…Read More >

The OHBM Annual Meeting will bring together those dedicated to using neuroimaging to discover the organization of the human brain. The meeting will include workshops on imaging and imaging technology,…Read More >

CINNergies is a community of early career researchers who share an openness for and motivation to engage in interdisciplinary research. Their mission is to provide opportunities for researchers to meet,…Read More >

This intensive three-day workshop will focus on the set up and analysis of language experiments in EEG, including presentations and workshops from Vitoria Piai of the Donders Centre for Cognition…Read More >

Virtual technologies have become increasingly prevalent in the modern world. The affordability of such technologies have made them accessible across disciplines and we continue to see a growing interest in…Read More >

Reading Emotions is a research interest group, bringing together affective neuroscientists at the University of Reading, and our collaborators in the UK and internationally. Now in its 7th year, the…Read More >

As robots, artificial intelligence and machine learning are becoming more common in the world of work, what needs to happen in policy and practice in universities and businesses to enable…Read More >

Presentation 11 October 2018, from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, Room 1L08 in AGRIC by Arij Daou (American University of Beirut) Neurons regulate their intrinsic physiological properties but how this contributes…Read More >

The iCog network aims to promote dialogue and collaboration between disciplines by encouraging postgraduate and early career researchers from cognate fields to share their knowledge and skills. The 5th iCog…Read More >

Affective processes are inherently dynamic, from both first and second person perspectives. How we perceive and respond to the expression of emotion in others, and how we experience emotion ourselves…Read More >

Who should attend? This  summer school is for postgraduates in the Social Sciences/Humanities who are interested in attending introductory classes on methods in Cognitive Neuroscience. It is more specifically for…Read More >