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Today, I graduated from @ox.ac.uk with a DPhil in Clinical Neurosciences!

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@ndcnoxford.bsky.social
@oxcin.bsky.social
@mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk

New name, same values! As OxCIN we continue to be:
🤝a team
📢engaged with public, patients & policy
🌈inclusive
🔑open
Congrats to this year's winners of our Good Citizen Awards, who went above and beyond to promote positive research culture! www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/vision/culture/good-citizen-awards

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Catharina Zich, Charlotte J. Stagg, et al:

Human motor cortical gamma activity relates to GABAergic intracortical inhibition and motor learning

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

We proudly present... 🥁 our Associate Directors, who will oversee the 3 pillars of OxCIN:

Laurence Hunt (Technological bridges) @lhuntneuro.bsky.social
Saad Jbabdi (People & Training) @saadjbabdi.bsky.social
Charlotte Stagg (Translation)

www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/governance/associate-directors

OxCIN's mission to understand the brain and improve health is built on 3 pillars:

Building technological bridges
Training curious teams
Delivering real solutions

In the next series of posts we'll take you on a tour of our research and training to show you how we do that!

Yesterday we launched into a new era as the "Oxford Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging" (OxCIN) in the most wholesome and fun day! Really looking forward to seeing where this next stage takes us 👏👏

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Great to see this out @mareikegann.bsky.social ! 👏

Excited to share our latest preprint on connectivity modulation with dual-site tACS! We show that in-phase tACS at 20 Hz can disrupt fMRI connectivity between the primary motor cortices, but also affects connectivity with other motor regions.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Some of my PhD results are now out as a preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We found that baclofen impair motor sequence learning and changes [GABA] dynamics during learning in motor areas

So magical seeing the Magnolia at New College! 🌷☀️

I love my job. The @mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk opened its doors to Oxfordshire schools to tell them all about our exciting research. We quickly turned the students into "neurosurgeons" by getting them to "implant" DBS electrodes into jello brains! Our "targets" were strawberries in lieu of thalamic nuclei...

🧠 My friends, family, lab mates who provided so so so much love and support throughout this DPhil ❤️

🧠 My funder, Jean Chagnon for his incredibly generous financial support throughout this DPhil.

🧠 My incredible supervisor Professor Charlie Stagg without whom any of this would have been possible. Thank you for believing in me since day 1 and supporting me unconditionally ever since!

🧠 My wonderful examiners Associate Professor Katherine Dyke and Associate Professor Melanie Flemming for their insightful questions and interesting discussion.

1 BSc, 2 MSc degrees, countless hours of studying, reading, writing, meetings, coding, later... I've gained a new title! I have so many people to thank, but I'd like to thank 🧵

🧠 My friends, family, lab mates who provided so so so much love and support throughout this DPhil ❤️

🧠 My funder, Jean Chagnon for his incredibly generous financial support throughout this DPhil.

🧠 My incredible supervisor Professor Charlie Stagg without whom any of this would have been possible. Thank you for believing in me since day 1 and supporting me unconditionally ever since!

🧠 My wonderful examiners Assistant Professor Katherine Dyke and Associate Professor Melanie Flemming for their insightful questions and interesting discussion.

We successfully held our 19th Science Day! Thanks to our brilliant ECRs and alumni speakers Dr PD Dodson (University of Bristol), Dr S Trouche (University of Montpellier), Dr H Cagnan (Imperial College London), and Dr AH Becker (Medtronic)[email protected] www.mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/news/unit-sc...

Such a fun and wholesome @mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk Winter Science Day at St Hilda's College and @stedmundhall.bsky.social! Thank you for the opportunity to present my recent fMRI work 🧠🩵⚡

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