MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

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We are excited to announce #COGNESTIC 2026 @mrccbu in Cambridge, between 14-25 Sep 2026. Our 2-week summer school provides training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and great opportunities for professional networking:
mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cognest…

New research by Henderson and colleagues found graded distinctions among typical amnestic and atypical (language, visual) Alzheimer’s phenotypes. The findings support a transdiagnostic, multidimensional model of AD that spans all subtypes: doi.org/10.1186/s13195…

People with poorer glucose control show faster learning from rewards, in turn linked to higher depression symptoms. This suggests a neurocognitive bridge between metabolic disease and mood: doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsg…
#MetabolicPsychiatry #Interoception #Depression

What does it mean to be both animal and thinker? Join @MoatazAssem and John Duncan on 25 November at Murray Edwards College for the launch of John’s new book ‘The Animal and the Thinker’. Get your tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-animal-a…