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\n \n 8 April 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Oxford Book Launch 'Body Brain Behavior - The Need For Conversations' brought together three world leading scientist authors, Professor Zolt\u00e1n Moln\u00e1r and Yale Professors Tamas Horvath and Joy Hirsch, with Oxford's neuroscience community on Thursday 7 April 2022.
\n \n\n\n \n 6 April 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA 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.
\n \n\n\n \n 18 March 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers 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.
\n \n\n\n \n 22 February 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new study has tested if a daily, 4-week intake of a multispecies probiotic improved emotional processing in people with untreated moderate depression.
\n \n\n\n \n 18 February 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new paper from the Moln\u00e1r 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.
\n \n\n\n \n 17 February 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers at Oxford University have implanted a novel closed-loop research platform for investigating the role of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) \u2013 a brainstem nucleus \u2013 in Parkinson\u2019s-like Multiple Systems Atrophy (MSA).
\n \n\n\n \n 15 February 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nLeading 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.
\n \n\n\n \n 7 February 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAlex 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new study led by Professor Seena Fazel at the University of Oxford found that among patients with chronic, non-communicable diseases, the risk of death is more than doubled if they also have a psychiatric disease.
\n \n\n\n \n 20 January 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nNew research from Emma Osborne, Research Assistant at the Centre for Research on Eating Disorders (CREDO) at the University of Oxford (and PhD Candidate at the University of Bath), and Dr Melissa Atkinson, University of Bath, investigated two ways in which mindfulness might improve body satisfaction and mood.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers at Oxford University\u2019s Department of Psychiatry have found that people with schizophrenia and related disorders are at higher-than-average risk of perpetrating violence, but that the overall risk remains low (less than 1 in 20 in women, and less than 1 in 4 for men over a 35-year period for violent arrests and crimes).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA pioneering book from Professor Zolt\u00e1n Moln\u00e1r and Yale Professors Tamas Horvath and Joy Hirsch to be released on 1 February 2022 addresses the fundamental relationship between the body, brain and behaviour.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOxford researchers involved nearly 4,000 children across the UK in three specially developed science lessons to educate pupils about brain development during early childhood. The SEEN (Secondary Education around Early Neurodevelopment) project was commissioned and funded by KindredSquared and is part of a wider drive to increase public understanding of how early experiences can shape the adults we become.
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