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\n \n 28 March 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 25 March 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe \u00a33.9M Wellcome Collaborative Award will be used to identify the drivers of pain in people living with rheumatoid arthritis.
\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\n \n \n \nA new study from Dr Yanfeng Zhang has uncovered the first evidence that dopamine-dependent long-term potentiation is also gated by the pause of striatal cholinergic interneurons and the depolarisation of the striatal spiny projection neurons. This discovery overturns previous ideas that the phasic dopamine release is the only factor gate corticostriatal synaptic plasticity, thus changing our understanding of dopamine functions in reinforcement learning.
\n \n\n\n \n 7 March 2022\n \n
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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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility (OH CRF) is one of 28 facilities across England to benefit from nearly \u00a3161 million that has been awarded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to expand early phase clinical research delivery in NHS hospitals.
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\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Alexander Hayes and Lily Watson for their success in this year's competition.
\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 \nProfessor Keith Channon has been appointed as the next Head of the Radcliffe Department of Medicine (RDM).
\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 11 February 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe United Nation's International Day of Women and Girls in Science is a reminder that women and girls play a critical role in science and technology communities and that their participation and access should be strengthened.\r\n\r\nTo celebrate the day, the Experimental Psychology Department interviewed a cross section of its faculty and students to learn more about their unique experiences and insights as women in and around science.
\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\n \n \n \nThe Duke of Westminster visited the University of Oxford on 1st February to see first-hand the positive impact of funding research in mental health.
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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 21 January 2022\n \n
\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n In Memoriam\n \n \n\n \n\n\n
\n \n\n \n \n \nFormer Head of Experimental Psychology, Professor Oliver \"Ol\" Braddick, sadly passed away on 17 January 2022 surrounded by friends and family.
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