The Centre for Human Brain Health

To keep up with all the latest news and updates from us, here at the Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, head over to our LinkedIn profile: linkedin.com/company/thechbh

Today we've bought together 4 strategic research centres across UoBirmingham @SMQB_UoB, @TheCHBH, COSIMO modelling centre and @COMPARE_UoBUoN for exciting discussions to explore joint initiatives for challenge-led research which will utilise overlapping expertise & methods.

How do people with mental health conditions experience bodily signals? 🧠🫀🫁 Our (@gabriel_mackie) new paper in eClinicalMedicine explores lived experiences and patient priorities for interoception research. 🧵1/n sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🎉 New paper alert! 🧠 The velocity-curvature power law is one of the 'kinematic laws of nature' (Flash 2021), a 'fundamental law of human control' (Zago et al. 2016), and one of the 'kinematic regularities' (Frith & Frith 2023) thought to underlie all biological motion. 1/9

New paper out🧠Brain training apps have only limited cognitive benefits for healthy older adults @e__sutton @JetVvanZanten link.springer.com/10.1007/s00426…

In celebration of Brain Awareness Week 2025, @TheCHBH will be showcasing its ground-breaking research at an event at MAC on Sunday 16 March. Come along for interactive sessions, craft activities and more, to spark curiosity for all ages. Find out more. ow.ly/Eosr50Vh5RY

In honour of #BrainAwarenessWeek all this week, we'll be hosting a stall at the @mac_birmingham this Sunday, with our researchers showcasing their research and hosting a variety of wonderful brain-tastic activities for all the family! Come along 10am-5pm and join us!

More information on what will be showcased can be found on our event page: birmingham.ac.uk/university/col…

📢📢Workshop ALERT!! @unibirmingham, @BHPComms & @HTIbham Are you an ECR working in medical research, or NEW to translation? Join us and @UnicornBuilders , an experienced translational trainer to focus on the skills and knowledge needed to create health impact from your research.

🧠 Do you know about Research Software Engineers (RSEs)? #RSEMidlands2025 #MATLAB #MATLABAmbassador 💻 Academic outputs increasingly depend on software, yet academia primarily rewards papers, not the code behind them! 📝 1/5

One more post for #RareDiseaseDay2025; on behalf of all my great colleagues at @unibirmingham. We have great rare disease research community across different schools, institutes, and colleges here at @unibirmingham. Join us in raising awareness of #RareDiseases.

@unibirmingham Some colleagues featured in the post are @CShannonLowe @BilkisIslamAli @DrSarahGordon @MarieDunnion. Our institutes featured here: @CerebraNetwork @UoB_SoP @UoBhealthsci @ImmunologyUoB @UoBinfectionsch @UoBmedicalsci @TheCHBH @HTIbham @UoB_Pharmacy

📢 💡 If you would like to know more about MATLAB and using it with Python, C/C++, Jupyter Notebooks, VSCode - María Elena Gavilán and Mike Croucher (@walkingrandomly.bsky.social) are giving a webinar (twice) on the 27th February – sign up here; 🔗 📅 uk.mathworks.com/company/events… 5/6

🚀 Want to make your MATLAB code instantly accessible on GitHub? Let’s whip up some GitHub magic! 🧑‍💻 #MATLAB #github #MATLABAmbassador 1/7

🚨 Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025. Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @DianaTamir, and David Amodio @david_m_amodio. 👇 Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!

🔗 Connect your MATLAB Projects with Visual Studio Code, Python, Jupyter Notebooks, C/C++ and other Open-Source Tools? 🚀 Join the MATLAB Without Borders webinar this week! 📊 📅 27th Feb 2025 ⏰ 2:00-3:00 PM or 7:00-8:00 PM GMT #MATLAB #MATLABAmbassador 1/2

Fantastic funded PhD opportunity! With wonderful team of supervisors across @TheCHBH and in San Francisco ⭐️👇

Final call to UK and international candidates (Closing date: 2nd March 2025)! Join us as Full Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience with the opportunity to step in as (Co-)Director at the @TheCHBH 👇 edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… please share

🔬 💻 In previous posts we discussed the more modern places you can play with MATLAB; Jupyter Notebooks, VSCode & Cursor. MATLAB itself allows you to play with C/C++. #MATLAB #MATLABAmbassador 1/6