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« Back to NewsInternational collaboration aims to reveal key insights into Postpartum Depression
29 August 2023
Integrative Neuroscience Research
DPAG is proud to announce a new collaboration, alongside St Anne's College and the Pranaiya and Arthur Magoffin Foundation (PAM Foundation), to research postpartum depression (PPD) and other perinatal mental health illnesses.
Computational neuroscientist Rui Ponte Costa joins DPAG
10 August 2023
CNCB Costa Group News Head of Department's News Integrative Neuroscience
This September, Dr Rui Ponte Costa relocates his Neural and Machine Learning group to DPAG. He was previously a Senior Lecturer in Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning at the University of Bristol. His research group focuses on producing AI-driven brain-wide computational models of learning.
Exploring the importance of early brain development
12 July 2023
Integrative Neuroscience Long Read Molnar Group News Research
Mental health is not written in the stars – but some conditions can be determined even before birth and the origins of some vulnerabilities may lie in the first few months of life, says Professor Zoltán Molnár. Part of the University of Oxford's 'Brain and mental health' campaign.
Auguste Vadisiute returns to DPAG to shed light on how immune cells interact with the developing neuronal network
5 April 2023
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Dr Auguste Vadisiute has been awarded a St John’s College Research Centre Grant to study the 'Cellular and Molecular Interactions between Neurons and Microglia in Normal and Altered Cerebral Cortical Development'.
Armin Lak appointed Associate Professor of Integrative Neuroscience
24 February 2023
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The post is in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at St John's College.
New BBSRC grant to further our insights into how the cortex controls sleep
15 December 2022
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Professor of Sleep Physiology Vladyslav Vyazovskiy and Professor of Developmental Neuroscience Zoltán Molnár have been awarded a Project Grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) for “Brain mechanisms of sleep: top-down or bottom-up?”
Collaborative MRC grant paves the way to new therapeutic targets for stress and anxiety disorders
25 October 2022
Awards and Honours Integrative Neuroscience Molnar Group News Research
Dr Armin Lak, Associate Professor Ed Mann and Professor Zoltán Molnár have been awarded a £733K Project Grant from the Medical Research Council on “Orexinergic projections to neocortex: potential role in arousal, stress and anxiety-related disorders”.
How desk jobs alter your brain – and why they’re so tiring
20 October 2022
Integrative Neuroscience Molnar Group News Outreach
A fascinating new article on The Conversation website by DPAG's Professor Zoltán Molnár and Professor Tamas Horvath from Yale University.
Zoltán Molnár honoured by the Royal Society of Biology
4 October 2022
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Congratulations are in order to Professor Zoltán Molnár on being elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.
New evidence for how our brains handle surprise
30 September 2022
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A new study from the Bruno Group is challenging our perceptions of how the different regions of the cerebral cortex function. A group of ‘quiet’ cells in the somatosensory cortex that rarely respond to touch have been found to react mainly to surprising circumstances. The results suggest their function is not necessarily driven by touch, but may indicate an important and previously unidentified role across all the major cortices.
Zoltán Molnár delivers Keynote Lecture at first-of-its-kind Anatomical conference
21 September 2022
Awards and Honours Integrative Neuroscience Molnar Group News
Professor Zoltán Molnár delivers the first Keynote Lecture at the 116th Annual Meeting of the Anatomische Gesellschaft, which this year is held as a Joint Meeting with the Anatomical Society for the first time.
Randy Bruno and Scott Waddell receive Wellcome Discovery Awards
18 July 2022
Awards and Honours CNCB Integrative Neuroscience Research
Congratulations are in order for Professors Randy Bruno and Scott Waddell who have each been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Discovery Award to significantly enhance our understanding of higher cognitive functions.
Researchers discover novel form of adaptation in the auditory system
21 June 2022
Integrative Neuroscience Publication Research
DPAG’s auditory neuroscience researchers have found that the auditory system adapts to the changing acoustics of reverberant environments by temporally shifting the inhibitory tuning of cortical neurons to remove reverberation.
Randy Bruno named Academy of Medical Sciences Professor
19 May 2022
Awards and Honours Integrative Neuroscience
Congratulations are in order for Professor Randy Bruno, who has been awarded an AMS Professorship. The AMS Professorship Scheme provides a package of support to biomedical and healthcare researchers taking up a full Professorship in the UK.
DPAG launches “Body, Brain, Behavior: Three Views and a Conversation” in Oxford
8 April 2022
Integrative Neuroscience Molnar Group News
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.
A role of sleep in tinnitus identified for the first time
8 April 2022
Integrative Neuroscience Publication Research
Phantom percepts, such as subjective tinnitus, are driven by fundamental changes in spontaneous brain activity. Sleep is a natural example of major shifts in spontaneous brain activity and perceptual state, suggesting an interaction between sleep and tinnitus that has so far been little considered. In a new collaborative review article from DPAG’s auditory and sleep neuroscientists, tinnitus and sleep research is brought together for the first time, and, in conclusion, they propose a fundamental relationship between natural brain dynamics and the expression and pathogenesis of tinnitus.
Little understood brain region linked to how we perceive pain
28 March 2022
Integrative Neuroscience Publication Research Vyazovskiy Group News
A new DPAG-led 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
Awards and Honours Integrative Neuroscience Research
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.
New insights into how the brain rewires after early sensory loss
18 February 2022
Integrative Neuroscience Molnar Group News Publication Research
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.
Winners of DPAG Image Competition announced
21 January 2022
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A department-wide image competition has yielded a range of stunning images showcasing the diversity and breadth of DPAG's science. Three prize winners and eight commended pictures are announced.