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« Back to NewsInaugural winners of the DPAG Prize for Public Engagement with Research announced
11 January 2023
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Congratulations are in order for the winners Katherine Brimblecombe and Anna Kordala, and also to Jéssica Luiz and Andia Redpath who were highly commended for their outreach and public engagement work.
Winners of the DPAG Student Poster Day 2022 announced
11 November 2022
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"A Year of Progress" was held in the Sherrington Library on Wednesday 9 November 2022.
Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre awarded £3.8 million to reveal the role of calcium in Parkinson’s
29 April 2022
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A collaborative research team led by the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre (OPDC) has been awarded a £3.8 million Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award to study the function of calcium in dopamine neurons, and how this is plays a role in Parkinson’s. Their research will help explain how and why dopamine neurons are vulnerable in the disease and look at how they may be preserved.
My Primary School Visit for Science Week
21 April 2022
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On 2 March 2022, Dr Katherine Brimblecombe visited two primary school classes (ages 8-11) as part of their “Science week”. Read her interview to learn more about public engagement with school children in the local Oxford community.
New insights into the role of dopamine in reinforcement learning
11 March 2022
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A 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.
Mapping uncharted networks in the progression of Parkinson’s
26 October 2021
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A major new $9 million project funded by the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative will map the original circuits vulnerable to Parkinson’s on an unprecedented scale. The project is a collaboration between core investigators Stephanie Cragg, Richard Wade-Martins, and Peter Magill at Oxford, Mark Howe at Boston University and Dinos Meletis at the Karolinska Institutet, as well as collaborators Yulong Li at Peking University and Michael Lin at Stanford University.
Sites of early dysfunction in Parkinson's identified
2 October 2020
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A new collaborative study from the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre led by Prof Stephanie Cragg and Dr Bradley Roberts has revealed that GABA transporters on astrocytes, the brain's lesser known yet critically important cells, support dopamine release and are sites of early dysfunction in parkinsonism.
Caution when looking at cell recycling in Parkinson’s
4 November 2019
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Our Researchers at the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre have shown that cell recycling in Parkinson’s may play a more complex role than previously thought.
New light shed on what controls our motivated actions
20 September 2019
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The release of dopamine in the brain plays a key role in determining how we respond when we perceive a potential reward or benefit. But so far little has been understood about the mechanism behind this. A new collaborative paper from Prof Stephanie Cragg's Group and Prof Ed Mann published in Nature Communications has uncovered a dominant regulator of the dynamics of dopamine output.
Postdoctoral researchers and students shine at Neuroscience Theme Day
6 June 2019
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The talks given by Postdoctoral Research Scientists and Graduate Students highlighted the full range of research in DPAG, spanning molecular and cellular neuroscience all the way to systems neuroscience.
Viral tweet helps find Oxford medical student and former DPAG member Samaritan
11 April 2019
An Oxford University medical student who stepped in to help a stranger off a train has been identified following a viral appeal to find and thank her. Rebecca te Water Naude was once a member of Stephanie Cragg's Group here in DPAG.
Professor Annette Dolphin FRS gives the 2019 Mabel FitzGerald lecture
23 January 2019
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The annual lecture is held in honour of the pioneering physiologist and clinical pathologist, Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald.
Profiles of Women in Science: Professor Stephanie Cragg
30 July 2018
OPDC's Prof. Stephanie Cragg featured in Profiles of Women in Science series in European Journal of Neuroscience
Sherrington Talks 2016 : Prize Winners
28 June 2016
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On 24 June 12 students presented talks about their works to their peers and colleagues. At the close of the event, prizes were presented to the following students: