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You’ve probably heard people say they enjoy running because it lets them switch off. Perhaps you feel that way yourself. Well recent research in mice suggests there may actually be a scientific basis for this, because brain activity really does decrease when you’re performing a simple, repetitive action. What’s more, while running may tire your body out, such exercise might actually reduce your brain’s need for sleep.

Gero Miesenböck elected to the US National Academy of Sciences

Molnár, Mann, Bannerman and Lak Groups publish collaborative research on anxiety

New Research Uncovers Key Brain Cells Behind Anxiety and Stress Responses

Child heart disease may be more likely if mother has anaemia during pregnancy

New paper investigates CSF biomarkers for idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

Journal special issue edited by and featuring DPAG scientists

New paper on sleep published in Current Biology by members of the Vyazovskiy Group and colleagues

Remembering the Need for Sleep

Sleep is the only ubiquitous behaviour whose function remains unknown. The Miesenböck group is looking for—and finding—clues to the mystery of sleep in the properties of sleep-inducing cells in the brain.

Florina Szabó makes the cover of the Journal of Anatomy

Two DPAG projects announced as part of ENCODE AI for Science Fellowship programme

A new method for detecting haemolysis, developed by DPAG’s Professor Pawel Swietach and Dr Alzbeta Hulikova, has been licenced to Muhdo Health and Camtech Innovations by OUI

New Cragg lab paper published in Nature Neuroscience - Acetylcholine and dopamine: friends or foes?

A special pacemaker that can reverse heart failure through switching its fuel from sugar to fat

New research led by the Riley Group identifies that the capacity to regenerate the cardiac conduction system is reduced with age

Oxford biologists and engineers awarded £2 million to grow human neurons as brain circuits in chambers made of oil

Professor Dame Molly Stevens will lead research team contributing to ARIA’s new Precision Neurotechnologies initiative

Stone Group publishes new research in Nature Cardiovascular Research on the cellular mechanisms underpinning the formation of lymphatic endothelial cells

Understanding the functional connectivity of neurons in the visual cortex - new research from the King group published in Current Biology

Researchers given $6 million for ground-breaking research to tackle Parkinson’s

A way to test the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen by measuring their shape

Florina Szabó publishes paper in the Journal of Anatomy

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