We are delighted to announce that The Gates Cambridge Trust have completed their selection process and 3 Psychiatry PhD applicants have been awarded funding from October 2018! Congratulations to the successful applicants who will be supervised by Dr John Suckling, Prof Peter Jones and Prof Ed Bullmore. We look forward to meeting them later in the […]
Dr Anne-Laura Van Harmelen awarded Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen has been awarded a prestigious 5-year Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship from the Royal Society to investigate the neurobiology of resilient functioning after child maltreatment. Dr van Harmelen completed her PhD at Leiden University in the Netherlands, where she showed that child emotional maltreatment alters the structure and function of the brain in […]
Mapping the brain connectome before neurosurgery.
Safe and effective neurosurgical procedures are increasingly reliant on a thorough understanding of the brain and its functional organisation. To this end, sophisticated neuroimaging techniques are increasingly used to chart how different regions in the brain are connected with one another. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have recently used this novel approach to make accurate […]