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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.

Schematic illustration of ‘striatal damping’ by antidromic activation of striatopallidal axons. DA, dopaminergic; SNpc, substantia nigra pars compacta © James Fitzgerald
Schematic illustration of ‘striatal damping’ by antidromic activation of striatopallidal axons. DA, dopaminergic; SNpc, substantia nigra pars compacta
Vladyslav Vyazovskiy

Vladyslav Vyazovskiy

PhD Vladyslav Vyazovskiy - Professor of Sleep Physiology

Paul Harrison

Paul Harrison

MA, BM. BCh, DM (Oxon), FRCPsych Paul Harrison - Professor of Psychiatry; Associate Head of Department (Research)

Sridhar Vasudevan

Sridhar Vasudevan

Sridhar Vasudevan - Associate Professor in Pharmacology and Drug Discovery

Gurman Kaur

Gurman Kaur

Gurman Kaur - Senior Postdoctoral Scientist

Guy Goodwin

Guy Goodwin

FMedSci Guy Goodwin - Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry

Michele Hu

Michele Hu

MBBS FRCP PhD Michele Hu - Professor of Clinical Neuroscience and Consultant Neurologist

Ruxandra Dafinca

Ruxandra Dafinca

MSc DPhil Ruxandra Dafinca - Alzheimer's Society Dementia Research Leader Fellow

Carinne Piekema

Carinne Piekema

PhD Carinne Piekema - Engagement Manager

Samantha de Silva

Samantha de Silva

MA (Cantab) BMBCh MRCP FRCOphth DPhil Samantha de Silva - Consultant Ophthalmologist

Martin Turner

Martin Turner

MA (Cantab) MBBS PhD FRCP (Lond) Martin Turner - Professor of Clinical Neurology & Neuroscience

Stuart Clare

Stuart Clare

PhD Stuart Clare - Professor of Practice and Director of Operations, OxCIN

Melanie Alexis-Butler

Melanie Alexis-Butler

PGDip HRM. Assoc CIPD Melanie Alexis-Butler - HR MANAGER

Masud Husain

Masud Husain

FRS FRCP FMedSci FAAN FEAN MA DPhil BMBCh Masud Husain - Professor of Neurology & Cognitive Neuroscience

Jasmina Cehajic-Kapetanovic

Jasmina Cehajic-Kapetanovic

M.A. Phy. Sci., B.M. B.Ch. Oxon., M.Sc. I.O.V.S., M.R.C.Ophth., Ph.D., F.R.C.Ophth. Jasmina Cehajic-Kapetanovic - MRC Clinician Scientist and Consultant Vitreo-Retinal Surgeon

David Bennett

David Bennett

David Bennett - Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology

Sanjay Manohar

Sanjay Manohar

MRCP PhD MBPsS Sanjay Manohar - Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant

Denize Atan

Denize Atan

Sophie Binks

Sophie Binks

Sophie Binks - Clinical Lecturer

Elena Escudero Gonzalez

Elena Escudero Gonzalez

Iain Hodgson

Iain Hodgson

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