Our congratulations go to Unit D.Phil. student Patricia Cambalova for successfully defending her doctoral thesis, entitled "Investigating the function of inhibition in the human primary motor cortex using multimodal approaches", in her viva voce examination on 11th September 2025.

Patricia’s viva examiners were Professor Stephen Hall (University of Plymouth) and Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg (University of Oxford).

Patricia was supervised by Professor Charlotte Stagg and Dr. Catharina Zich, both at the Unit, and by Prof. Martin Turner from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences.