August 2025
28th and 29th of August: Méadhbh, Sarah, and Sorcha attended the 2025 Neuroscience Ireland (NSI) Conference ‘Connectivity for Brain Health’ at Queen’s University Belfast. We are grateful to NSI awarded travel bursaries to Sarah and Sorcha to attend.
8th August: Congratulations to Sorcha, who submitted her thesis, ‘Neural signatures of response speed in young adults’ as a part of her Master’s in Behavioural Neuroscience!
July 2024
Congratulations to Claire for receiving ethical approval for her study ‘How motivation and lifestyle impact cognition throughout the lifespan.’
June 2025
UCD Ageing Network Launch: An interdisciplinary initiative, the UCD Ageing Network brings together researchers and academics across various fields to advance knowledge and foster collaboration in the field of ageing. Méadhbh presented some of her work on ageing to the network. Link to the network: https://www.ucd.ie/geary/research/ageingnetwork/
April 2025
Welcome to Rory Boyle who is visiting from the Penn Frontotemporal Degeneration Center, University of Pennsylvania. As a part of the Cognitive Reserve and Resilience Seminars, Rory gave an overview of evidence for cognitive reserve and resilience in ageing and across different neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal degeneration. He presented data from multiple cohort studies that suggest that certain factors, including reading levels and engagement in cognitive activities, are associated with resilience.
March 2025
Applications are invited for a Research Assistant position in the Cognitive Neural Systems Research Group in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin.
The project examines the neuromuscular-cognitive interactions in decision-making using human neurophysiology, and is funded by Research Ireland. The successful candidate will perform the collection of electroencephalogram (EEG), electromyography (EMG), behavioural, eye tracking, and neuropsychological assessment data and will receive in depth training in each of these techniques if necessary.
The position will involve working collaboratively on a project with Dr Méadhbh Brosnan (UCD School of Psychology), and would be ideal for anyone interested in conducting PhD research in cognitive neuroscience in the future.
Informal enquiries may be directed to Elaine Corbett (corbette@ucd.ie). Apply at the UCD jobs website (https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/; job Reference 018295) by 12pm on March 13, 2025.
September 2024
We would like to welcome Sarah, our new PhD student, to the lab! Sarah’s PhD will focus on the neurobiological mechanisms of cognitive resilience in ageing. We also welcome undergraduate students Sarah, Nele, Martine, and Caroline! We are looking forward to having you in the lab for the year ahead.
August 2024
Congratulations to Dr Jake Toth for graduating from his PhD in Advancing Transcranial Electrical Stimulation for Personalised Cognitive Enhancement from the University of Sheffield! Jake’s PhD was supervised by Méadhbh and Mahnaz Arvaneh. Jake is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the biomedical ultrasonics, biotherapy and biopharmaceuticals laboratory (BUBBL) group at the University of Oxford.
July 2024
Welcome Dr Daniel Pearce to Dublin with his newly minted PhD! Daniel was awarded his PhD in Clinical Neuropsychology from Monash University. His PhD was supervised by Méadhbh and Mark Bellgrove. Daniel is now a psychologist and neuropsychology registrar, working with people of all ages.