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This Sunday, 8th March, Professor Tim Bussey will host a session that celebrates women scientists and the difference their scientific contributions have made to the world. Tim's session, Wonderwomen: Discoverers and Pioneers, will run from 13:30 to 14:30 at the Junction, and is part of this year's Women of the World (WOW)...

Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Tim Bussey , was interviewed for an Ask an Academic feature in the Cambridge Evening News this week. Questions posed included 'What one thing don't your students or colleagues know about you?' The fact that Tim is a musician, and lead singer of a pop group, is something most of his...

The touchscreen operant platform enables assessment of cognitive function in rodents such as mice and rats. It enables tests to be run similarly to touchscreen methods used to test human subjects. These three protocols describe how to use this platform to test learning and memory, executive function, working memory and...

In two papers published today in ‘Nature Neuroscience’, researchers have identified the key genes involved in the evolution of intelligence and complex behaviours in humans and other mammals. The same genes that gave rise to higher mental function are also responsible for a number of brain disorders, the results reveal...