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Cassandra Sampaio Baptista
Honorary Senior Researcher
I am currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Glasgow, Scotland (effective 1st July 2020) and honorary researcher in the Plasticity lab (Johansen-Berg Lab) at the WIN centre, University of Oxford.
I welcome interest and inquiries from prospective students and postdocs to join my group at the University of Glasgow.
I graduated with a Dphil (PhD) in 2013, University of Oxford, supervised by Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg and Professor David Bannerman.
I use a multidisciplinary approach to investigate functional and structural plasticity, from the cellular level to systems levels, in healthy and clinical populations such as stroke survivors. For instance, we are currently using real-time neurofeedback fMRI to investigate how modulation of brain activity can lead to functional and structural brain changes and behavioural improvements in healthy participants and stroke survivors.
Additionally, I combine MR methods and histological techniques to investigate the underlying cellular mechanism of learning and stroke recovery.
Key publications
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Structural Plasticity in Adulthood with Motor Learning and Stroke Rehabilitation.
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Sampaio-Baptista C. et al, (2018), Annu Rev Neurosci, 41, 25 - 40
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Motor skill learning induces changes in white matter microstructure and myelination.
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Sampaio-Baptista C. et al, (2013), J Neurosci, 33, 19499 - 19503
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Gray matter volume is associated with rate of subsequent skill learning after a long term training intervention.
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Sampaio-Baptista C. et al, (2014), Neuroimage, 96, 158 - 166
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Changes in functional connectivity and GABA levels with long-term motor learning.
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Sampaio-Baptista C. et al, (2015), Neuroimage, 106, 15 - 20
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White Matter Plasticity in the Adult Brain.
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Sampaio-Baptista C. and Johansen-Berg H., (2017), Neuron, 96, 1239 - 1251
Recent publications
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Ablation of oligodendrogenesis in adult mice alters brain microstructure and activity independently of behavioral deficits.
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Kaller MS. et al, (2024), Glia, 72, 1728 - 1745
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Oligodendrocyte dynamics dictate cognitive performance outcomes of working memory training in mice.
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Shimizu T. et al, (2023), Nat Commun, 14