Michael C. Anderson
Neuroscientist at MRC Cognition an Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge, studying memory, cognitive control, and mechanisms of adaptive forgetting
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- To my complete surprise, our Nature Reviews Neuroscience review on the Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Inhibitory Control of Thought has landed on the cover! Cover art below! For an "explainer thread", see earlier tweet. bsky.app/profile/memo... @mrccbu.bsky.social #neuroskyence #memory #ptsd
- How does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with Subbu Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia www.nature.com/articles/s41... that integrates 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this vital function.@mrccbu.bsky.social sky.social #neuroskyence #neuroscience
- Reposted by Michael C. AndersonWhen I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- This looks shockingly useful. Thanks, on behalf of the field!!
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- How does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with Subbu Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia www.nature.com/articles/s41... that integrates 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this vital function.@mrccbu.bsky.social sky.social #neuroskyence #neuroscience
- Why is thought stopping vital? First, concentration.We all know the challenge to remain focused, of banishing distracting thoughts. @themindwanders.bsky.social and Kalina Christoff have learned much about mind wandering. Thought stopping is our rebuttal to these excursions, a reassertion of control.
- Congratulations to Ken Paller, this year's recipient of the George Miller Award at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeeting! Superb talk on his work on sleep and memory. @cogneuronews.bsky.social @paller.bsky.social @neurosky.bsky.social
- Should the Medical Research Council end sustained funding for its internationally renowned scientific units? 600 scientists don't think so.The UK needs sustained investment in basic science and challenge-led investments. #Neuroskyence @mrccbu.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nobelis...
- Suppressing memories promotes resilience! Terrorist attack survivors who recovered from PTSD showed normalised inhibitory control of the hippocampus during retrieval stopping before intrusive memory declines, mitigating hippocampal atrophy. #memory #PTSD #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- A nice piece by @sciam.bsky.social on @harrington-mo.bsky.social's recent work showing that sleep loss impairs the control of intrusive thoughts; useful comments by @marwimber.bsky.social and @zarabergstrom.bsky.social @mrccbu.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-...
- Can someone forget much of their life? Yes! In Psychogenic amnesia, extreme stress leads to the loss of years of memories, including all the people the patient knows. Why? Read about what we have discovered in @laura-marsh.bsky.social 's new paper or in the outstanding thread below #neuroskyence
- Sleep much? I hope so! A new fMRI study with @harrington-mo.bsky.social and @sacairney.bsky.social shows how inducing sleep loss impairs the prefrontal cortex's ability to suppress unwanted memories, and suggests that REM sleep restores this function.Congrats Marcus! @sleepdiplomat.bsky.social
- Are you a fan with the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit? If so, read this Science story and then join the 500 scientists (inc two Nobels and two former Royal Society heads), who are asking the MRC to adjust course by signing the Open Letter linked in the story. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Hello Bluesky world. I am renewing my commitment to this platform, prompted in part by the New York Times article today on this subject!
- Reposted by Michael C. AndersonOur paper with showing that memory control improves immediate emotions of autobiographical memories just got published. Massive thanks to @robinhellerstedt.bsky.social, @memorycontrol.bsky.social and @zarabergstrom.bsky.social 🙏😁 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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