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« Back to NewsHow to use the science of the body clock to improve our sleep and health
25 May 2022
Public Engagement Research Highlights
Professor Russell Foster has written a new book about circadian neuroscience which is published by Penguin this week. This book review by Jacqueline Pumphrey was first published on the University of Oxford website.
NICE recommends offering app-based treatment for people with insomnia instead of sleeping pills
24 May 2022
Research Highlights Strategic Developments
Hundreds of thousands of people suffering from insomnia who would usually be prescribed sleeping pills could be offered an app-based treatment programme instead, NICE has said.
New Study Shows Simvastatin Can Change the Way People Experience Certain Emotions
19 May 2022
This new study examines the effects of simvastatin on emotional processing, reward learning, verbal memory, and inflammation.
Developmental dynamics of the neural crest–mesenchymal axis in creating the thymic microenvironment
16 May 2022
Research Highlights Strategic Developments
A new paper from researchers at the Department of Paediatrics and the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences has shown that fibroblasts in the thymus, often considered simply as dull “structural” cells, are much more complex than previously thought.
Oxford researchers part of major UK initiative to understand chronic pain
10 May 2022
Oxford pain researchers are playing a major role in a new multi-million pound research programme launched by a consortium of funders, including UKRI, Versus Arthritis, Eli Lilly and the Medical Research Foundation.
Unique study of vascular disease reaches 20th anniversary
19 April 2022
Research Highlights Strategic Developments
The only project of its kind anywhere that studies patients with all types of acute vascular events - including strokes, heart attacks, aneurysms - in order to develop better diagnostic tests and treatments celebrates its 20th anniversary this month.
DPAG launches “Body, Brain, Behavior: Three Views and a Conversation” in Oxford
8 April 2022
The Oxford Book Launch 'Body Brain Behavior - The Need For Conversations' brought together three world leading scientist authors, Professor Zoltán Molnár and Yale Professors Tamas Horvath and Joy Hirsch, with Oxford's neuroscience community on Thursday 7 April 2022.
Little understood brain region linked to how we perceive pain
28 March 2022
A new review paper, published in the journal Brain, has shown that a poorly understood region of the brain called the claustrum may play an important role in how we experience pain.
Armin Lak set to reveal neural code for learning under uncertainty with ERC Starting Grant
18 March 2022
Congratulations are in order for Sir Henry Dale Fellow Dr Armin Lak who has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. His funded project will investigate the neural circuits for learning under perceptual uncertainty.
Massive Publicity for Study of Effects of Mild COVID on Smell
7 March 2022
Research Highlights Strategic Developments
Researchers from the University of Oxford have used data from UK Biobank participants to look at changes to the brain on average 4.5 months after mild SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Hearing Aid Use Linked to Slower Decline in Thinking Skills
7 March 2022
A new study, co-funded by Dementias Platform UK (DPUK), has found that hearing loss increased the risk of a precursor to dementia called mild cognitive impairment, but this increased risk is not present in people who wear hearing aids.
Brain regions related to smell show decline following mild COVID-19
7 March 2022
Researchers from the University of Oxford have used data from UK Biobank participants to look at changes to the brain on average 4.5 months after mild SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Taking Multispecies Probiotic Supplements May Improve Mood
22 February 2022
A new study has tested if a daily, 4-week intake of a multispecies probiotic improved emotional processing in people with untreated moderate depression.
New insights into how the brain rewires after early sensory loss
18 February 2022
A new paper from the Molnár Group has shed light on substantial rewiring of corticothalamic connections that is triggered by early sensory loss during development. The study has identified a new mechanism that significantly rearranges the cortico-thalamo-cortical circuits but has not been considered before in patients with sensory loss for potential therapies.
First-in-human implant of a “closed-loop” bioelectronic research system for investigating treatments for brain disorders
17 February 2022
Researchers at Oxford University have implanted a novel closed-loop research platform for investigating the role of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) – a brainstem nucleus – in Parkinson’s-like Multiple Systems Atrophy (MSA).
Children and Young People's Wellbeing
15 February 2022
Leading child and adolescent experts, Professor Cathy Creswell and Associate Professor Polly Waite, have contributed important information from the Co-SPACE study findings to the recent - State of the nation 2021: children and young people's wellbeing - report.
Children's Mental Health Week 2022
7 February 2022
Alex Hendry's latest report shows that during the first year of the pandemic, the more time parents were able to engage in a range of activities with their child, the better their executive function skills.