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Our team

Peter Magill

Director of the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit & Founding Director of the MRC Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) in Restorative Neural Dynamics
Stephanie Cragg

Professor of Neuroscience

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Our team

Peter Magill

Stephanie Cragg

Recent publications

The superior colliculus gates dopamine responses to conditioned stimuli in visual classical conditioning

Selective GRAB sensors reveal distinct endocannabinoid dynamics in vivo

5-HT4 Receptor Ligand RS67333 Modulates Striatal Acetylcholine and Dopamine Release via the Inhibition of Acetylcholinesterase

Dopamine release from Parkinson’s patient-derived neurons is disrupted due to impaired synaptic vesicle loading

Corrigendum to "New insights into axonal regulators of dopamine transmission in health and disease" [Curr Op Neurobiol 94 (2025) 103093

An anatomical hotspot for striatal dopamine-acetylcholine interactions during reward and movement.

Dopamine neurotransmission in Parkinson's disease

TAAR1 Regulates Presynaptic Dopamine Function: Evidence From Preclinical Studies and a Phase 1b Trial in Patients With Schizophrenia

Dopamine D2 receptor upregulation in dorsal striatum in the LRRK2-R1441C rat model of early Parkinson’s disease revealed by in vivo PET imaging

Adenosine in the Brain: Recent Progress on Detection, Function, and Translation

New insights into axonal regulators of dopamine transmission in health and disease

The Handbook of Dopamine

An axonal brake on striatal dopamine output by cholinergic interneurons

Large-scale visualization of α-synuclein oligomers in Parkinson’s disease brain tissue

Axonal regulation of dopamine transmission by striatal neuromodulators

Gabapentinoids promote striatal dopamine release and rescue multiple deficits of a mouse model of early Parkinson’s

The superior colliculus gates dopamine responses to conditioned stimuli in visual classical conditioning

Rapid modulation of striatal cholinergic interneurons and dopamine release by satellite astrocytes

Impaired striatal glutathione–ascorbate metabolism induces transient dopamine increase and motor dysfunction

Beta bursts in the parkinsonian cortico-basal ganglia network form spatially discrete ensembles