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

New unit paper on “Flexible and stable cycle-by-cycle phase-locked deep brain stimulation system targeting brain oscillations in the management of movement disorders”, published in @braistimjournal.bsky.social. www.mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/papers/flexi... @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

Many congratulations to our new Professors at NDCN: Chrystalina Antoniades, Stuart Clare and Simon Rinaldi👏 Read more about their research: buff.ly/XdzoAYO

🔊 WE'RE HIRING: Research Technician This is an exciting opportunity to join a vibrant network of researchers within NDCN to investigate the mechanisms underlying the development of neuropathic pain, a highly debilitating condition. Apply now: buff.ly/4zJLY4B

NEW paper published this week in @thelancet.com from NDCN's Critical Care Group This new study has developed a machine learning-based prediction model and a simplified graphical tool to estimate the risk NOAF in patients admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU).

🧠 A new ultrasound helmet developed by Oxford and UCL researchers enables deep brain stimulation without surgery. This breakthrough could transform research and treatment for conditions like Parkinson’s. Proudly supported by Oxford Health BRC’s Brain Technologies Theme. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2wdzm74d

📣NEW study from NDCN's Physiological Neuroimaging Group, in collaboration with @ucl.ac.uk , introduces an ultrasound device capable of influencing deep brain regions without surgery for the first time. Read more about the study published this week in @nature.com⬇️ www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/news/new-ult...

Paper alert: our study using a novel ultrasound stimulation device to precisely target deep brain nuclei is out in Nature Communications @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @oxcin.bsky.social @mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Delighted to share our new review in ICM Experimental 🧠 on serum biomarkers of ICU delirium V proud of first author Fergus O’Keeffe, a grad-entry med student, whose hard work & persistence made this possible #CriticalCare #Delirium #Biomarkers 🔗 icm-experimental.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Many congratulations to Professor Timothy Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social on being awarded a Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship. This prestigious award supports exceptional mid-career research leaders in the UK. Read more: tinyurl.com/bdedz663

📣 NEW: Breakthrough discovery of a genetic link to pain co-led by NDCN's Prof David Bennett and Prof Simon Newstead @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social The results of the research, published in @nature.com, could lead to a promising new target for the treatment of #chronicpain.

#MeetTheResearcher Introducing Tamiris Borges da Silva this week from the Becker Lab. Tamiris is a postdoctoral researcher developing induced human pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) models and reporter lines to study human cerebellar development.

We are very happy to announce that our refreshed website is ready to launch! A BIG 'thank you' to everyone who has worked hard to make it happen, and special thanks to our amazing @ndcnoxford.bsky.social Comms team! Take a look for yourselves at the link below: www.scni.ox.ac.uk/study-with-us

New study mapping infectious diseases, co-led by @akiversen.bsky.social, provides new insights into zoonoses - diseases transmitted from animals to humans ⬇️

Our librarian Neal Thurley has co-authored an umbrella review with colleagues @manchester.ac.uk @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social @kavlioxford.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social on non-pharma interventions to improve sleep in shift workers OA in Sleep Medicine Reviews www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our Dementia Research Oxford Seminar series recommences on Sept 11th with Prof Martin Turner on 'Advancing therapy development in ALS'. 12 Noon on Zoom us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @masudhusain.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social

NEW: @nature.com study, co-led by @akiversen.bsky.social (@ndcnoxford.bsky.social), maps infectious diseases across millennia 🧪 Learn more 👇

'For children who wear patches, seeing Elio leading a space mission, not sidelined by his visual condition, can be deeply affirming' Megan Groombridge, Betina Ip and Rebecca Willis @oxcin.bsky.social explore positive representation of eye conditions 👇 buff.ly/PdLx2Wi

#TuesdayReads: A new review from the Talbot Group explores how extracellular vesicles carrying TDP-43 may influence ALS and FTD pathology—and their potential as biomarkers in neurodegenerative disease. 👇 molecularneurodegeneration.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

'Perhaps this is the launch we needed.' Eye patches aren’t just for pirates and villains. In Elio, Disney/Pixar introduces a young hero with a patch – and breaks old stereotypes in the process. @ndcnoxford.bsky.social experts explain why it matters ⬇️

"We have to go where people are" - Juju from our wider department highlighting the importance of improving inclusivity in research and recruitment 🙌 🔗 Read more about it below!

🌙 Trouble sleeping with anxiety or depression? Aged 18–30 and living in Oxford? Join the Spectrum Sleep Study! 🧠💤 We’re comparing two behavioural sleep interventions to improve mental health. 👉 Volunteer now: tinyurl.com/SpectrumSleep

HIGH-Q Exchange Webinar Series #4: epilepsy diagnosis in Kenya Join for HIGH-Q Exchange's final #webinar on #epilepsydiagonosis in Kenya, featuring Prof. Arjune Sen @ndcnoxford.bsky.social and Dr Symon Kariuki from @aphrc.bsky.social Register here👉 zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New unit paper by He et al. on “Tremor asymmetry and the development of bilateral phase-specific deep brain stimulation for postural tremor”, published in Movement Disorders @mdj-journal.bsky.social 🎉🎉 mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/publications... @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk