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“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 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 on a Live…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 >