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Clinical Neurosciences

Welcome to the Department of Clinical Neurosciences. 

Our mission is to improve the lives of people with neurological illness and injury through discovery, innovative treatments and training the next generation.

We are embedded within Cambridge University Hospitals, allowing our research questions to stem from problems we have encountered in the clinic, and to directly address the needs of patients and families. We work in partnership with the Departments of Psychiatry, Genetics and Paediatrics, to improve brain and mind health, through life, together.

We investigate the mechanisms of brain disease and injury, to devise new diagnostics and treatments, as well as using large data to improve the way we deliver current treatments. Our work has already led to new treatments in use world-wide.

Professor Alasdair Coles
Head of Department

 


 



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Latest news

Daniel Maddison receives prestigious Alzheimer’s Society Postdoctoral Fellowship

11 June 2026

Dr Daniel Maddison was one of 17 early career researchers honoured by the Alzheimer’s Society this year. He has been awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship and over the next three years will be working in the Avezov lab at UK Dementia Research Institute at Cambridge with the goal of developing new ways to see and clear toxic...

New Cambridge collaboration formed to deliver breakthrough drugs for neuroinflammation

10 June 2026

The ALBORADA Drug Discovery Institute at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge Enterprise have signed a major new partnership with the drug development company AndzonBio2. Together they aim to advance a new class of therapeutics targeting neuroinflammation, a central driver of multiple neurodegenerative and...

Psychedelics change how brain networks talk to each other

2 June 2026

An international study has found the clearest overview yet on the effects of psychedelics on the human brain. In this article, Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis, lead of the Cognition and Consciousness Imaging Group at the University of Cambridge, explores the findings and why this signals a new phase for psychedelic...

Research Impact Report 2025


Download our PDF report showcasing our latest research findings, major discoveries and trials in 2025:
Clinical Neuroscience Research Impacts Report 2025 
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