Ioana Grigoras
MD MSc
DPhil Student
I am a DPhil in the Physiological Neuroimaging Group, under the supervision of Professor Charlotte Stagg. I am using behavioural tasks, neuroimaging and non-invasive brain stimulation to investigate how pharmacological modulation of GABA-mediated inhibition can influence motor learning and brain chemistry in healthy volunteers and stroke survivors.
Prior to my DPhil, I graduated with a medical degree from the "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania and then completed a M.Sc. in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford.
Websites
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Weekly Winner of Medical Research Zone 2020
I represented 'Brains and Neuroscience' in the Medical Research Zone of this year's edition of 'I'm a scientist, get me out of here!', an online public engagement event that took place over four weeks in March.
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Centre for Creative Brain event - Synesthesia: tasting words & seeing sounds
I help organise regular events for the Centre for the Creative Brain at St Edmund Hall. We aim to bring together people from a wide range of disciplines and provide an opportunity for discussion and dialogue.
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Pistol Shooting Varsity Match 2020
I won a half-blue award in Pistol Shooting after the Oxford University Pistol Club beat Cambridge in the 2020 Varsity match. I am the current Captain of the Oxford University Pistol Club
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Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2019
I was part of the team of volunteers organising the Breathe Oxford stand at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.
Recent publications
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A single, clinically relevant dose of the GABAB agonist baclofen impairs visuomotor learning.
Journal article
Johnstone A. et al, (2021), J Physiol, 599, 307 - 322
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Investigating Different Levels of Bimanual Interaction With a Novel Motor Learning Task: A Behavioural and Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Study.
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Schoenfeld MJ. et al, (2021), Front Hum Neurosci, 15
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Recent advances in the role of excitation-inhibition balance in motor recovery post-stroke.
Journal article
Grigoras I-F. and Stagg CJ., (2021), Fac Rev, 10
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Neuronal Transmembrane Chloride Transport Has a Time-Dependent Influence on Survival of Hippocampal Cultures to Oxygen-Glucose Deprivation.
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Zagrean A-M. et al, (2019), Brain Sci, 9
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Maternal High-Fat Diet Modifies the Immature Hippocampus Vulnerability to Perinatal Asphyxia in Rats
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Isac S. et al, (2018), NEONATOLOGY, 114, 355 - 361
Websites
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OHBM Video Poster 789
A single, clinically relevant dose of baclofen significatly impairs motor sequence learning