Our congratulations go to Unit D.Phil. student Naomi Berry for successfully defending her doctoral thesis, entitled “Anatomical and physiological connectivity of the basal ganglia-thalamocortical motor circuit”, in her viva voce examination on 4th March 2021.

Naomi’s viva examiners were Professor Gordon Arbuthnott (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) and Professor Colin Akerman (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford). The viva took place remotely via digital conferencing.

Naomi was supervised by Associate Professor Andrew Sharott (MRC BNDU) and Associate Professor Anna Mitchell (Experimental Psychology).