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Understanding how we perceive the threat of breathlessness
Anaesthetics Integrative Neuroimaging Research
1 March 2016
Researchers find that components of a small group of brain cells in the brainstem are important in how people perceive the threat of breathlessness.
Unravelling the mystery of pain and anaesthesia
Anaesthetics Integrative Neuroimaging Research
15 February 2016
Listen to Irene Tracey discussing her work on pain at the Wellcome Collection/BBC World Service 'Exchanges at the Frontier' series
Omega-3 levels affect whether B vitamins can slow brain’s decline
Research Stroke & Dementia
18 January 2016
While research has already established that B vitamin supplements can help slow mental decline in older people with memory problems, an international team have now found that having higher levels of Omega-3 fatty acids in your body could boost the B vitamins' effect.
Blind woman’s joy as she is able to read the time thanks to 'bionic eye'
Ophthalmology Research
5 January 2016
A patient who is the first in the UK to receive the world’s most advanced 'bionic eye' has been able to read the time for the first time in more than five years.
Celebrating 50 years of the British Neuroscience Association
21 December 2015
The British Neuroscience Association Christmas Symposium was held on the 14 December at the Kings College campus in The Strand, London.
Teaching old drugs new tricks
Clinical Neurology Research
24 November 2015
Researchers looking at multiple sclerosis investigate using drugs normally prescribed for other diseases.
Angela Vincent receives British Neuroscience Association Award
Award Clinical Neurology
19 November 2015
The British Neuroscience Association (BNA) has awarded Angela Vincent, FRS the 2016 Outstanding Contribution to British Neuroscience Award.
Patients, carers, and researchers discuss a rare form of motor neuron disease
Clinical Neurology Event Integrative Neuroimaging
13 November 2015
On Friday 23 October, patients, carers, researchers and healthcare professionals gathered together at the Oxford Spires Four Pillars Hotel for the first ever UK day dedicated to primary lateral sclerosis.
Brain structure may be root of apathy
Research
13 November 2015
Can't be bothered to read on? It might be due looser connections in your brain
Why sleep could be the key to tackling mental illness
Ophthalmology
10 November 2015
Professor Russell Foster writes about circadian rhythm and health on the online news platform 'The Conversation'
£23 million boost for Oxford spinout company
Ophthalmology
9 November 2015
More money comes in to further work on gene therapy for choroideremia
What makes you tick?
Ophthalmology
9 November 2015
Find out a bit about our research into circadian rhythms
Martin Turner receives Graham Bull Prize
Award Clinical Neurology
2 November 2015
Professor Martin Turner has received the prestigious Graham Bull Prize for Clinical Science from the Royal College of Physicians.
New Fellow to develop treatment for retinal disorder
Ophthalmology
26 October 2015
Harry Orlans will work with Robert MacLaren to develop a treatment for retinitis pigmentosa.
New insight into light detection in vertebrates
Ophthalmology Publication Research
19 October 2015
Research carried out in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences is paving the way for a better understanding of how light detection works in vertebrates.
New evidence on how deep brain stimulation works
Clinical Neurology Research
15 October 2015
Deep brain stimulation is known to treat the symptoms of stiffness, slow movement, and tremor in people with Parkinson’s disease. Researchers are now a step closer to understanding exactly how this electrical stimulation of specific areas in the brain works.