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Researchers target intensive care noise problem
Anaesthetics Research
8 April 2016
TV presents one picture of an intensive care unit (ICU) – dimmed lights, hushed voices and softly bleeping machines. The reality is that it's more like a busy restaurant and frequently it's noisy enough to compete with a pneumatic drill. That's why Oxford University researchers have been trying to make intensive care noise less intensive.
Antimatter changed physics, and the discovery of antimemories could revolutionise neuroscience
Integrative Neuroimaging Research
31 March 2016
Scientists pinpoint molecular signal that drives and enables spinal cord repair
Clinical Neurology Research
23 March 2016
Dave Bennett and colleagues from King's College London have identified a molecular signal which drives and enables the spinal cord’s natural capacity for repair after injury. The findings could one day lead to new treatments which enhance this spontaneous repair mechanism..
Electrical brain stimulation could support stroke recovery
Integrative Neuroimaging Research
17 March 2016
Applying an electric current to the brain can help recovery from stroke, Oxford University researchers have found.
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.
Teaching old drugs new tricks
Clinical Neurology Research
24 November 2015
Researchers looking at multiple sclerosis investigate using drugs normally prescribed for other diseases.
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
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.
£50,000 dementia drug discovery project gets underway
Award Clinical Neurology Research
7 October 2015
Researchers in our Department are embarking on a £50,000 study to develop treatments for dementia. The funding from Alzheimer’s Research UK will kick off new drug discovery efforts that specifically target dementia with Lewy bodies.
New £1.3m research consortium for spinal muscular atrophy
Clinical Neurology Research
2 October 2015
Researchers in our Department will lead a new collaborative initiative for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) research in the UK over the next three years. The programme is funded by the SMA Trust.
Particular brain connections linked to positive human traits
Integrative Neuroimaging Research
28 September 2015
There is a strong correspondence between a particular set of connections in the brain and positive lifestyle and behaviour traits, according to a new study by Oxford University researchers.
Our researchers test health technology on zero gravity flights with NASA
Anaesthetics Research
22 September 2015
A team of doctors and scientists from the University of Oxford have tested a tissue oxygen monitor in microgravity for the first time.
Pedalling like a professional is a losing strategy for most cyclists
Research
21 September 2015
Pedalling like Chris Froome or Alberto Contador might seem appealing, but researchers from our Department have found that for most of us it’s likely to reduce rather than improve our performance.
The effects of working the night shift
Ophthalmology Research
29 July 2015
BBC Radio 4 presenter Sarah Montague, with input from Professor Russell Foster, investigates how working when most people are sleeping affects our bodies.
Gene therapy gives long-term protection to photoreceptor cells in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa
Ophthalmology Research
15 July 2015
A collaboration between scientists in the UK and the USA has shown that gene therapy can give life-long protection to the light-sensitive photoreceptor cells responsible for colour vision in a mouse model of the most common inherited eye disorder.