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Graph of depth of sleep vs time in the night, showing post-DBS giving deeper sleep occurring earlier in the night than Pre-DBS; also a brain image from MRI showing the location of the DBS electrodes.
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After deep brain stimulation treatment for depression, recordings of brain activity reveal that people achieve deeper sleep that occurs earlier in the night.
a banner image showing a mouse in an arena in the middle, with legned on left showing place is related to the LED that will illuminate, and a second part with LED colour related to substances administered- cocaine or saline. The electrical activity of brain areas is shown on the left.
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Persistent memories drive ill-advised actions. Heightened coordination across regions underlies enduring memories. Reducing this allows appropriate behaviour to return.
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Proposing that the brain learns in a fundamentally different way to current AI systems, demonstrating a mechanism that enables faster and more effective learning in tasks faced by animals.
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a blue ribbon encloses space that resembles the shape of a brain, with nerve cell networks inside, resembling the folding on the surface of a brain
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Welcome to the Brain Network Dynamics Unit, a division of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford.

The Unit integrates exceptional research aligned to understanding and exploiting the moment-to-moment interactions of nerve cell networks that underpin brain function and behaviour.

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13 March 2026
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Portrait photo of Joram van Rheede
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Joram van Rheede awarded an EPSRC Open Fellowship
19 February 2026
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Peter Magill to join UK DRI Parkinson’s Research Centre
11 December 2025
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Ioana Grigoras receives MSD Early Career Excellent Teacher Award
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Papers
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Dopamine and the dynamics of subthalamic and leg muscle activities in...

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The Effects of Theta-Gamma Peak Stimulation on Sensorimotor Learning During...

Three rows. Top two are grey-scale brain sections with blue and red maps overlapped on them. Bottom row is a figure of red and blue circles and squares showing changes in GABA during motor learning

Baclofen, a GABAb receptor agonist, impairs motor learning in healthy people...

micrograph showing purple cells- fired-egg-like appearance with dark centres where the nucleus is. Clumps of spikey-looking material is showing in cyan, inside the cells.

Large-scale visualization of α-synuclein oligomers in Parkinson's disease...

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