Researchers at The Podium Institute for Sports Medicine and Technology, situated within Oxford University\u2019s Institute of Biomedical Engineering, have recruited their first participants for a new study exploring the impact of head injuries on the brains of 11 to 18-year-olds using cutting-edge neuroimaging techniques.
The \u2018Building stress Resilience in Early Adolescents\u2019 Lives\u2019 (BReal) project aimed to create evidence-based resources to improve young people\u2019s resilience, and enable them to develop skills to cope with everyday challenges.
Dr Cl\u00e9mence Ligneul is one of six Oxford researchers selected for a major European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant, who will each receive up to \u20ac1.5 million for a period of five years.
Three projects initiated by WIN have been shortlisted for the University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor's Awards. The Vice-Chancellor\u2019s Awards recognise the achievements and celebrate the success of Oxford\u2019s people.
Our researchers have shown for the first time non-invasively in humans a differential, clinically meaningful impact of Huntington\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s diseases on the sensorimotor functional connection of the subthalamic nucleus and sensorimotor cortex.
The Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging has been awarded the Silver Engage Watermark in recognition of their outstanding commitment to supporting public and community engagement.
The UK Biobank Dementia Risk Score, or UKBDRS for short, outperformed three other widely used risk scores when identifying people at risk of developing dementia.
Oxford University has announced the winners of Beyond Boundaries, its science-inspired schools\u2019 art competition. Their work will be going on public display at Oxford University Museum of Natural History for all to see, from Friday 30 June \u2013 Monday 3 July 2023.
Clare Mackay, Professor of Imaging Neuroscience in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, talks for the first time about her experiences of trichotillomania, an uncontrollable urge to pull out hair, which she has lived with since she was 12. She talks about the stigma and shame that she has felt, how she sought help, and her plans to understand more about this relatively under-researched condition.
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