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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor Russell Foster has written a new book about circadian neuroscience which is published by Penguin this week. This book review by Jacqueline Pumphrey was first published on the University of Oxford website.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDr Kate Attfield awarded project funding by Connect Immune Research and The Lorna and Yuti Chernajovsky Biomedical Research Foundation.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOxford pain researchers are playing a major role in a new multi-million pound research programme launched by a consortium of funders, including UKRI, Versus Arthritis, Eli Lilly and the Medical Research Foundation.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor of Anaesthetic Neuroscience Irene Tracey, former head of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, has been nominated as the next Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nWe are delighted to announce that the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit has received Collaborative Award funding from Wellcome for a substantial multi-year research programme designed to advance the understanding of why dopamine-producing nerve cells are especially vulnerable in Parkinson\u2019s.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe only project of its kind anywhere that studies patients with all types of acute vascular events - including strokes, heart attacks, aneurysms - in order to develop better diagnostic tests and treatments celebrates its 20th anniversary this month.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new DPAG-led review paper, published in the journal Brain, has shown that a poorly understood region of the brain called the claustrum may play an important role in how we experience pain.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nWe're delighted to introduce our new cohort of public engagement ambassadors for 2022.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe \u00a33.9M Wellcome Collaborative Award will be used to identify the drivers of pain in people living with rheumatoid arthritis.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers from the University of Oxford have used data from UK Biobank participants to look at changes to the brain on average 4.5 months after mild SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Alexander Hayes and Lily Watson for their success in this year's competition.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers at Oxford University have implanted a novel closed-loop research platform for investigating the role of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) \u2013 a brainstem nucleus \u2013 in Parkinson\u2019s-like Multiple Systems Atrophy (MSA).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers from Oxford\u2019s Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Department of Experimental Psychology have shown that people who have had COVID but don\u2019t complain of long COVID symptoms in daily life nevertheless can show degraded attention and memory for up to six to nine months.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAssociate Professor of Radiology, Godwin Ogbole has arrived on a six-month visit to the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, as part of the Africa Oxford Initiative.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nHuman-Centric Drug Discovery is a new Oxford University spinout company from Professor Zameel Cader's lab.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA \u00a3210,000 donation from the Alan Davidson Foundation has been made to our Department to advance our world-leading research into Motor Neuron Disease. The funding will support a project manager to deliver an innovative research project using the genetic causes of MND to develop approaches to early diagnosis.
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