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« Back to NewsLittle 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.
Switch with a spring: a new model for sleep regulation
16 December 2021
Publication Research Vyazovskiy Group News
New collaborative research led by the Vyazovskiy Group has shed new light on the role of the hypothalamus in the transition between sleep and wake states.
Vladyslav Vyazovskiy becomes Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy
9 December 2021
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Congratulations are in order to Vladyslav Vyazovskiy on his conferral of the title of full Professor. Research in the Vyazovskiy Lab aims to understand the fundamental questions of "what is sleep?" and “why do we sleep?”
Feeling tired? Here’s how the brain’s ‘hourglass’ controls your need for sleep – new research
24 August 2021
Publication Research Vyazovskiy Group News
New article on The Conversation website written by Dr Lukas Krone, Associate Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy and Professor Zoltán Molnár.
Gosia Cyranka and Sian Wilcox honoured by The Physiological Society
6 August 2021
Awards and Honours EDI News Students Vyazovskiy Group News
DPAG DPhil students Gosia Cyranka and Sian Wilcox have been awarded prestigious Early Career Researcher Prizes at Physiology 2021, The Physiological Society's Annual Conference celebrating first-class physiology.
Continued ethical animal research needed to advance treatment of brain disease, researchers argue
5 August 2021
Publication Research Vyazovskiy Group News
More research is needed to improve the treatment of brain diseases such as depression, Alzheimer’s or ADHD. A widely held view within the scientific community is that this cannot be done without ethically conducted animal research. A team of seventy international neuroscientists, including DPAG’s Associate Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, have now published a warning that animal research is under pressure, which endangers the further development of treatments.
Cortex may regulate the need for sleep
2 August 2021
Integrative Neuroscience Publication Research Vyazovskiy Group News
Why we sleep, and the processes behind sleep, are amongst the most interesting questions in modern neuroscience. Researchers at the University of Oxford, including DPAG's Molnár and Vyazovskiy group scientists, have now uncovered a new target for sleep investigations within the mammalian brain – the cerebral cortex. The paper, first authored by Dr Lukas Krone, was published today in Nature Neuroscience.
Being "in the zone": how waking activity controls sleep need
7 April 2021
Publication Research Vyazovskiy Group News
A new study from the Vyazovskiy group suggests that how and where we spend our time while awake impacts how much we need to sleep - it does not only depend on how long we are awake.
Lukas Krone to represent Oxford at the Global Young Scientists Summit
3 December 2020
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Congratulations are in order for Dr Lukas Krone who is one of just five University of Oxford researchers selected to attend the Global Young Scientists Summit 2021.
Lukas Krone honoured by the World Sleep Society
16 October 2020
Awards and Honours EDI News Students Vyazovskiy Group News
Congratulations are in order for Lukas Krone, who has been presented the 2020 Christian Guilleminault Young Investigator Award by the World Sleep Society.
How brain networks cooperate to control our sleep
13 August 2020
Publication Research Vyazovskiy Group News
Two new papers from the Vyazovskiy Group and both Oxford University and international collaborators have made important progress in bridging the gap between the local and global levels of sleep regulation.
Shaping our understanding of why we sleep
1 July 2020
Publication Research Vyazovskiy Group News
Associate Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy has edited a special issue of Current Opinion of Physiology with Professor A. Jennifer Morton from the University of Cambridge. “Physiology of Sleep” compiles the latest developments in sleep research around the complex question of ‘why do we sleep?’
Cristina Blanco Duque is a CSF 2019 Award Winner
7 November 2019
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Congratulations are in order for Wellcome Trust doctoral student Cristina Blanco Duque, the winner of the Travel Award and the Award for Best Contribution at the International Conference of Advanced Sleep Modulation Technologies.
DPAG Researchers participate at the Parliamentary launch of The Physiological Society's new ageing report
18 October 2019
EDI News Postdoctoral Research Vyazovskiy Group News
The new Physiological Society report "Growing Older, Better" highlights physiology's role in meeting the UK Government's healthy ageing mission. Associate Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy and Novo Nordisk Postdoctoral Fellow Laura McKillop contributed a research spotlight at the report's launch at the Houses of Parliament.
New study discovers the impact of environment on sleep patterns in wild primates
15 July 2019
Publication Research Vyazovskiy Group News
Associate Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy has co-authored a paper based on a pioneering sleep study led by Oxford Brookes researchers. Their research into a nocturnal primate performed in the wild is the first of its kind and could enhance our understanding of human sleep.
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.
Lukas Krone wins the Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar Poster Prize
29 March 2019
Awards and Honours EDI News Students Vyazovskiy Group News
Congratulations are in order for Lukas Krone, who has just achieved the third in a recent trio of poster prizes.
New Vyazovskiy Group led project set to make a major advance in our understanding of how sleep restores our brain
26 February 2019
Research Vyazovskiy Group News
A collaborative Medical Research Council project grant awarded to DPAG's Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, UCL's Kenneth Harris and the Department of Pharmacology's Colin Akerman will explore “Local sleep homeostasis and single cell rest."
Vladyslav Vyazovskiy awarded NC3Rs studentship
23 January 2019
Awards and Honours Students Teaching Vyazovskiy Group News
Associate Professor Vyazovskiy's studentship, ‘Fasting-induced torpor in mice: effects on sleep and behaviour’ offers a fantastic new opportunity for early career researchers.
Winners of the DPAG Poster Day 2018 announced
3 December 2018
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Congratulations to winner Dr Lukas Krone and runners-up Eboni Bucknor and Sebastian Birtles.