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The BrainHealthX Hub are working with the Cambridge Centre for Data Driven Discovery (C2D3) to host this year's prestigious FENS-CHEN summer school. The summer school will focus on AI-Accelerated Neuroscience Discovery and Translation on the latest advances at the interface of AI and Neuroscience.Applications close on Monday February 16th, at midni…

Postdoc position in NeurocomputationInterested in uncovering the brain mechanisms for adaptive behaviour? Join us @CambridgeABLApply by January 27th and help us advance the science of learning and brain plasticity:https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/research-associate-in-neurocomputation-fixed-term-pj48441

An expert panel explores the opportunities and challenges of translating AI into the clinic for brain and mental health disorders.Read the full article here.

New paper showing how AI can help accelerate drug discovery and our fight against Alzheimer'sYou can find the press release here and the paper here.

We have a position available for a post-doctoral Research Associate position in Neuroimaging and NeurocomputationThe position will focus on neuroimaging and neurocomputational studies of learning and brain plasticity. Our studies combine ultra-high field brain imaging (7T fMRI, MR Spectroscopy), electrophysiology (EEG), interventional (TMS, tDCS) a…

New paper investigating the interplay of genetic expression and macroscopic mechanisms of structural and functional plasticity that drives learning and flexible behaviour.Lee, L.Y., Ziminski, J.J., Frangou, P. et al. Neurogenetic phenotypes of learning-dependent plasticity for improved perceptual decisions. Commun Biol 8, 779 (2025). https://doi.or…

The work of Professor Zoe Kourtzi and the Adaptive Brain Lab is featured as one of the key ways that Cambridge researchers are looking at and using AI in health and medicine. You can read more details about how Cambridge is #ShapingAIForEveryone and specifically tackling dementia via the following link: AI can be good for our health and wellbeing

The analytical capabilities of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used in both clinical and preclinical imaging applications to understand structural and functional information with high spatial and temporal resolution.Professor Uzay Emir, Dr. Stephen Sawiak, and the teams from Purdue University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill…

On Monday January 20th 2025, Professor Zoe Kourtzi was delighted to discuss with the Minister for AI and Digital Government our work on AI for early dementia prediction and translation of AI to healthcare during her visit at the University of Cambridge.  More information about the Minister's visit can be found via the link below:Minister for AI and…

Research Programme Manager Position @ABLWe are looking for a Research Programme Manager to support the programme of research at the Adaptive Brain LabThe position involves co-ordinating research activity, managing a number of large scale grants and providing a broad range of project management activities to support our diverse and cross-disciplinar…

New multimodal brain imaging study reveals a recurrent inhibitory plasticity mechanism that enhances sensory representations and optimises perceptual decisions.Jia K, Wang M, Steinwurzel C, Ziminski JJ, Xi Y, Emir U, Kourtzi Z. Recurrent inhibition refines mental templates to optimize perceptual decisions. Sci Adv. 2024 Aug 2;10(31):eado7378. doi:1…

Our cross-disciplinary team has developed new tools that predict dementia more precisely than the standard of carehttps://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/artificial-intelligence-outperforms-clinical-tests-at-predicting-progress-of-alzheimers-diseasehttps://youtu.be/FnDsNw57kuAA digital marker powered by AI detects dementia early and preciselyhttps://au…

New review paper by @CambridgeABL on opportunities and challenges of training cognitive flexibility in real-world settingshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101413@CambPsych@CamNeuro@CamBrainCNS

Learn more about ABL’s work as part of the 2024 Cambridge Festival.  There is an augmented reality Cambridge ReseARch trail which can be followed by downloading the app, "Cambridge AR Trail", from the relevant app store or by scanning the QR codes on posters at each trail location to get exploring. Further details about the Cambridge ReseARch trail…

The Adaptive Brain Lab features in BBC's Brain Hacks. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001qr3k/brain-hacks to find more details.