🔊 STUDENTSHIPS IN NEUROIMMUNOLOGY Two studentships are available in neuroimmunology, with a particular focus on multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD). Apply by 2 March: tinyurl.com/24dedpu2

🎧NEW PODCAST: Our Head of Department, Professor Kevin Talbot, has taken part in a The Naked Scientist podcast on Motor Neurone Disease (MND) 👇 tinyurl.com/mtbcahyr

#WIMMReads 🧪 #MRCWIMM Group Leader Yin Dong is among clinicians and scientists with expertise in congenital #MyasthenicSyndrome suggesting it may be time to update the disease name to reduce misdiagnosis and improve care. #Neurology #RareDisease @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk

🔊 STUDENTSHIP IN PAIN RHYTHMS This studentship will combine multidisciplinary approaches to understand the role of biological rhythms in pain using mouse spinal cord slices and advanced in vitro human pain models. Apply by 2 March: tinyurl.com/24dedpu2

Applications for the new MSc in Pain Neurosciences starting in October 2026 are currently open. Apply here: bit.ly/4h53b5x. Up to a week's notice of closure to admissions will be provided on our course webpage.

Applications for UNIQplus 2026, the University’s flagship graduate access programme, are now open. UNIQplus supports UK-resident students and graduates from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds to explore postgraduate study.

🗞️Read more here: www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/ndorms-... @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social

Curious about postgraduate study? Take part in a paid summer research internship in Oxford. UNIQplus is open to UK undergraduates from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds. 📆 Deadline: 18 February 👉 Apply: buff.ly/G46gZqF #UNIQplus #PostgraduateStudy #ResearchCareers

📢 EVENT: 'Airway management in neuromuscular respiratory failure' by Professor Sahar F Zafar, Harvard Medical School. Hosted by the Ventilator Weaning and Extubation in Neurocritical Care Network, and taking place 1-2pm, 23 January, online . More information and Teams link: tinyurl.com/reeyxj4n

New year, new sleep health? 💤 A new short animation explains the 5 Principles of Good Sleep Health which are essential for our daily health and well-being. The guidance is based on research by Professor Colin Espie, Professor of Sleep Medicine @ox.ac.uk

NEWS: Honorary degree recipients for the Chancellor’s ceremony announced Recipients include Professor Irene Tracey, CBE, FRS, FMedSci, neuroscientist at @ndcnoxford.bsky.social and Vice-Chancellor of @ox.ac.uk Many congratulations!

A gift of a gift for the 12th day of NDCN Christmas. A huge thank you to the Alan Davidson Foundation whose renewed commitment of funding will facilitate ground-breaking motor neuron disease research through the ACORN study: buff.ly/MYpc21s

For Day 11 of our 12 days of NDCN Christmas meet the six academics at NDCN recognised on the Clarivate Highly Cited List, which identifies and celebrates researchers who have demonstrated a "significant and broad influence" in science or medicine-related disciplines. Read more: buff.ly/QWhfOMO

Day 10 of the 12 days of NDCN Christmas and we're proudly reflecting on our Vice-Chancellor's Awards 🏆 The Awards are a University-wide celebration of outstanding people. Teams including members of NDCN and OxCIN were recognised for Teaching, Research Culture and Engagement: buff.ly/ywSFuit

Day 9 of 12 days of NDCN Christmas – in case you missed it we launched a new course this year!🎓 The MSc in Pain Neurosciences is a two-year, part-time blended programme rooted in the pioneering work of Oxford’s vibrant pain research community. Applications are open for 2026 entry: buff.ly/I3M6CmB

Happy New Year! 🥳 Did you stay up to see in 2026? Appropriately, for day 8 of our 12 Days of NDCN Christmas, we are thinking about sleep 💤 For World Sleep Day Rachel Sharman shared 5 top tips for a good night's sleep Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRwp... @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social

On day seven of 12 Days of NDCN Christmas we welcome our new Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetic Science, @brucebiccard.bsky.social In this conversation with Head of Department Prof Kevin Talbot, Prof Biccard talks about his career, global health, and research in South Africa buff.ly/99MgDUa

For day six of our 12 Days of Christmas we're congratulating our three new Professors and three new Associate Professors who were conferred their titles this year👏 Read more: buff.ly/FYhxLVP buff.ly/YeCyBca

For day five we are looking back on our interview with Prof Helen Higham, who became the first woman to be awarded the Frederic Hewitt Lectureship by the Royal College of Anaesthetists (@rcoanews.bsky.social ). Many congratulations Helen! 🎉 Read the interview: buff.ly/joApTaw

Day four of 12 Days of NDCN Christmas celebrates our Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework awards! #LEAF is a sustainability standard designed to help research groups reduce environmental impact and we're proud that many NDCN labs achieved bronze, silver and gold awards 🥇 🥈 🥉 buff.ly/CbQOPoW

On day three of our NDCN 12 Days of Christmas we're spotlighting the Oxford Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (@oxcin.bsky.social ) who gained a new name and a brand-new wearable brain scanner this year! Read more about the OPM-MEG: buff.ly/RLT3NMU

Welcome to day two of NDCN's 12 Days of Christmas! Today we're celebrating two new centres established in 2025: - The Centre for Global Epilepsy (@cgepilepsy.bsky.social ) led by Prof Arjune Sen 💜 - The MRC CoRE in Restorative Neural Dynamics (@rnd.ac.uk) directed by Prof Peter Magill 🧠

We've had a busy year here at NDCN. We've rounded up our highlights to share over the next 12 days! Day one is all about books 📚

Many congratulations to Unit postdoctoral researcher Dr Ioana Grigoras on receiving one of the 2025 Early Career Excellent Teacher Awards from the Medical Sciences Division! www.mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/news/ioana-g... @mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

New Research supported by our BRC: Scientists have identified key symptoms and created a scoring system to help frontline clinicians recognise possible #NMDAR-antibodyencephalitis, a condition that can sometimes be mistaken for #psychosis. Read more: tinyurl.com/NMDARantibod...

#ScientistSpotlight This week we’re introducing Anna Li, a postdoctoral researcher in the Yin Dong Lab at the #MRCWIMM. @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk #WIMMSpotlight #WIMMCommunity #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #IonChannels #Neuroscience Photo credit: Susan Maxwell

Our Pain Theme have launched What We Carry at John Radcliffe Hospital – an art-science collaboration led by artist Marysa Dowling exploring #chronicpain through photography and narrative. 📆Exhibition open until 6 December Read more online: tinyurl.com/PainWhatWeCa...

We are excited to share that the residential weeks on our brand-new Pain Neurosciences MSc will be held at Pembroke College. Apply by midday tomorrow to be considered for the fullest range of funding opportunities. bit.ly/4qiNFrc

Earlier this month, the launch of the new MSc in Pain Neurosciences was marked with a successful event bringing together colleagues from the Department and Oxford Pain community. Apply by 2 December to be considered for the fullest range of funding opportunities: bit.ly/4qiNFrc

Professor Rafal Bogacz from the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit will lead the computational modelling in this study 👇 @mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk

🚨FINAL CALL Applications for our new MSc in Pain Neurosciences will be closing on 2 December. The course is a two-year, part-time blended programme that combines the flexibility of online learning with the richness of in-person teaching. Apply now: bit.ly/4qiNFrc

🔊 APPLICATIONS OPEN for 2026/27 graduate entry until 2 December 2025. Full details for applications: buff.ly/zA7Xgsj #OxfordMedSciGradStudy

New unit paper on “Baclofen, a GABAb receptor agonist, impairs motor learning in healthy people and changes inhibitory dynamics in motor areas”, published in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social! mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/papers/baclo... @mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

🔊 New project aims to revolutionise chronic pain treatment The new six-year, £11 million project backed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) aims to develop a new generation of personalised treatments capable of reducing or abolishing chronic pain: buff.ly/Jjgr8U1

🔊 🔊 🔊 The new MRC CoRE in Restorative Neural Dynamics has started! Follow them now at @rnd.ac.uk & check out their new website: www.rnd.ac.uk

Applications are open for our new MSc in Pain Neurosciences. Apply by 2 December for the chance to learn from and conduct research with world-leading scientists 👇 bit.ly/4qiNFrc

@NDCNOxford MSc in Pain Neurosciences Applications are now open! The course offers the chance to learn from world-leading scientists in a flexible online format, and also includes residential weeks in Oxford. Apply by 2 December 👇

'I've stayed in Oxford as a researcher because of the phenomenal people that work here. So you need to have that curiosity and that thirst for knowledge.' Professor and alumna Heidi Johansen-Berg reflects on her time at Oxford. Apply now for 2026/27 graduate study 👇 buff.ly/yZDcMRE

📣Nearly 28M UK adults live with #chronicpain. Oxford researchers are leading EPIONE, an £11M project combining engineering & neuroscience to develop personalised pain solutions, shifting focus from symptom relief to root-cause understanding for scalable NHS solutions. tinyurl.com/EPIONEOxford

👏 Congratulations to the prize winners and everyone graduating from the MSc in Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience course!

🔊 Studentship opportunities The Brain Network Dynamics Unit are offering six exciting PhD projects. Deadline is midday 2 December 2025. Read more: buff.ly/B3T4AAT @mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk

Why are more younger adults having strokes? Come along to our next free public talk on Tues 4 Nov 6pm to hear researcher Linxin Li discuss what is driving the recent increase and how we tackle it oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/brc-event/fr... @ouhospitals.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social

Graduate admissions are now open for 2026. Find out why 2200 students currently call us home. #OxfordMedSciGradStudy www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...

🔊 Applications are now open for our new MSc in Pain Neurosciences! The course offers the chance to learn from world-leading scientists in a flexible online format, and also includes residential weeks in Oxford. Apply by 2 December 👇 bit.ly/4qiNFrc

In the latest paper by the OxTBI Group, a multidisciplinary team of clinicians and academics come together to discuss inconsistencies current challenges within outcome measures in mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in children.

Congratulations to @masudhusain.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 @royalsociety.org Trivedi Science Book Prize for 'Our Brains, Our Selves' 👏🎉

The Oxford Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging MRI Graduate Programme is now open for registration, and is starting on 13 October 2025. This course is for students or professionals who are looking to learn more about MRI and its use in research. Sign up now: buff.ly/oCTpXDj @oxcin.bsky.social

September is #PainAwarenessMonth, and we are excited to be launching our brand-new MSc in Pain Neurosciences. Could you help shape the future of #pain research? Opening soon for 2026 admissions 👀 Learn more 👇 bit.ly/OxMScPain

New unit paper on “Thalamo-frontal functional connectivity patterns in Tourette Syndrome: Insights from combined intracranial DBS and EEG recordings”, published in Molecular Psychiatry. www.mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/papers/thala... @mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

New unit paper on “Ultrasound system for precise neuromodulation of human deep brain circuits”, published in @natcomms.nature.com. mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/papers/ultra... @mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk