The Centre for Human Brain Health

We are a research facility @unibirmingham with the mission to understand what makes a brain healthy, how to maintain health & how to prevent and reverse damage.

[The Centre for Human Brain Health @TheCHBH]

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: https://t.co/J9b4RZUxgj

[Systems Modelling & Quantitative Biomedicine @SMQB_UoB]

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.

[Lydia Hickman @LydiaJHickman]

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

https://t.co/qAAGtEjPKk

[Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social @dagmarfraser]

🎉 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

[Katrien Segaert @katrien_segaert]

New paper out🧠Brain training apps have only limited cognitive benefits for healthy older adults
@e__sutton @JetVvanZanten
https://t.co/flKOpEFwlY

[Birmingham Alumni @birminghamalum]

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. https://t.co/vLhx1HQbTJ

[The Centre for Human Brain Health @TheCHBH]

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!

[The Centre for Human Brain Health @TheCHBH]

More information on what will be showcased can be found on our event page: https://t.co/sRy4ozXgMc

[The Centre for Human Brain Health @TheCHBH]

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!

[UoB Translational Research Team 💙 @unibirm_TRT]

📢📢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.

[Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social @dagmarfraser]

🧠 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

[Felix Chan @Dr_FelixChan]

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.

[Felix Chan @Dr_FelixChan]

@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

[Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social @dagmarfraser]

📢 💡 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;

🔗 📅 https://t.co/nxhg1Y4rnT 5/6

[Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social @dagmarfraser]

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

[Lei Zhang | 张磊 (@lei-zhang.bsky.social) @lei_zhang_lz]

🚨 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 (https://t.co/7xiZwGJGcS) and RT!

[Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social @dagmarfraser]

🔗 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

[Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist]

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

[SCAN Lab @SCAN_Lab]

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
👇 https://t.co/h1Gh37XS7w
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[Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social @dagmarfraser]

🔬 💻 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