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New findings from the Roberts lab have identified a specific brain circuit in primates that, when disrupted, reduces motivation and increases anxiety — symptoms closely linked to depression. The findings, published in Science , offer new insights into how therapies like transcranial magnetic brain stimulation (TMS) and...

A new study from the Roberts Lab , led by Dr Kevin Mulvihill, and published in Biological Psychiatry , reveals that not all anxiety is created equal—and neither is its treatment. Dr Mulvihill and Professor Roberts have discovered that different forms of heightened anxiety-like behaviour, driven by dysregulation in specific...

Two representatives of PDN won prizes at the recent Summer Scientific Meeting of BACA (British Association of Clinical Anatomists) at Aston University, Birmingham, for their oral presentations. Dave Duru (Gonville & Caius, Part II student from the academic year that has just ended) won the Conrad Lewin Prize for best...

Congratulations to Dr Keita Tamura who has received the MRC New Investigator Award. The award will support Dr Tamura's research into object memory. Why can we easily notice a friend in a crowd and say ‘Hello’? Previous studies have revealed how visual inputs are analysed, memorised and recalled, but how the recalled memory...