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https://thesleepcharity.org.uk/the-5-principles-of-good-sleep-health/ When we strip things down to life’s essentials, we discover that sleep gives us the capability to live our best lives. We need… The 5 Principles of Good Sleep Health

New year, new sleep health? 💤

A new short animation explains the 5 Principles of Good Sleep Health which are essential for our daily health and well-being.

The guidance is based on research by Professor Colin Espie, Professor of Sleep Medicine @ox.ac.uk

Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)

Immunoassay for pyruvate kinase M1/2 as an Alzheimer’s biomarker in CSF Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by amyloid-beta plaques and tau tangles in the brain, but these markers alone do not predict disease progression. The intersection of these pathologies with o...

#TuesdayReads:
Becky Carlyle et al develop and validate an ELISA to measure PKM in cerebrospinal fluid—linking elevated levels to accelerated cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s and highlighting PKM as a potential early biomarker.
🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

🗨️ "One of the brilliant things about Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre is that it helps to bridge the gap between academia and the clinical world."

In this new interview, Dr Howard Ryland discusses his career and what has led him into his current roles.

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New study mapping infectious diseases, co-led by
@akiversen.bsky.social, provides new insights into zoonoses - diseases transmitted from animals to humans ⬇️

£27 million gift funds new Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research focused on young people’s mental health Oxford University will create a pioneering mental health research centre for children and families with £27 million from The Paul Foundation.

Oxford University will create a pioneering mental health research centre for children and families, thanks to a £27 million gift from The Paul Foundation @cathycreswell.bsky.social @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social

www.psy.ox.ac.uk/news/ps27-mi...

An exciting year ahead for EP...

We look forward to moving into the new Life and Mind Building with Biology! 🎉

#HappyNewYear #LifeandMindBuilding

Our Dementia Research Oxford Seminar series recommences on Sept 11th with Prof Martin Turner on 'Advancing therapy development in ALS'. 12 Noon on Zoom us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@masudhusain.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social

Enjoyed the 1st International Feline Encephalitis Owners Day which focused on researching autoimmune encephalitis in cats, particularly those with acute-onset seizures and limbic encephalitis, with a goal of improving diagnosis and treatment. @royalvetcollege.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social

Michael Colwell presenting in lecture theatre

It’s the Oxford Neuroscience Symposium today and Psychiatry’s Michael Colwell just presented on direct serotonin release in humans and how it shapes aversive learning and inhibition.

You can read more about Michael’s paper on this here: www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/seroton... @oxneuro.bsky.social

Dr Ashwini Oswal

We’re at the #OxfordNeuroscienceSymposium today. Dr Ashwini Oswal is now presenting on the network mechanisms of motor impairment in Parkinson’s disease @oxneuro.bsky.social @ashwinioswal.bsky.social @mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk

Looking forward to the inaugural International Feline Encephalitis Group Owners Day @encephalitisint.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @britishneuro.bsky.social www.rvc.ac.uk/research/fel...

Increasing sleep awareness on #WorldSleepDay @oxfordbrc.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @neuroplastics.bsky.social

Good turnout for our public activies at the John Radcliffe Hospital on #WorldSleepDay @oxfordbrc.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @neuroplastics.bsky.social

Looking for ward to our public activies at the John Radcliffe Hospital for #WorldSleepDay @oxfordbrc.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @britishneuro.bsky.social

New reserarch by Yan et al., will simplify the assessment of extracellular vesicle membrane proteins and facilitate their application as diagnostic biomarkers across diverse clinical indications. www.cell.com/cell-reports... @ndcnoxford.bsky.social
@kavlioxford.bsky.social

Association of early life cardiovascular risk factors with grey matter structure in young adults in the United Kingdom: the ALSPAC study Cumulative exposures to obesity, hypertension, and physical inactivity from midlife (40–65 years) onwards are three known cardiovascular risk factors …

New 🫀🧠 paper in eBiomedicine: we show that BMI, blood pressure, and physical activity in childhood and adolescence are linked with early structural differences in brain regions that are known to be affected in dementia.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lukas Krone sworn in as Staines Medical Research Fellow at Exeter College

Congratulations to Lukas Krone, new Staines Medical Research Fellow @exetercollegeox.bsky.social

www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/lukas-k...

Celebrating our highly cited researchers www.neuroscience.ox.ac.uk/news/leading... @saadjbabdi.bsky.social @oxexppsy.bsky.social

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

Rapid modulation of striatal cholinergic interneurons and dopamine release by satellite astrocytes Nature Communications - Astrocytes perform intriguing roles in neural circuits. Here, the authors show that in striatum, astrocytes adopt a satellite-like proximity to cholinergic interneurons,...

Excited to share our new publication out today in Nature Communications! Congrats to the team! @craggasap.bsky.social
#dopamine #astrocytes #acetylcholine #openscience Supported by @ukri.org and @asapresearch.bsky.social
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I'm happy to share our Review article, "Cognitive Maps and Schizophrenia", synthesising evidence for representation-level abnormalities in the condition, and proposing directions for future work. Out now in Trends in Cognitive Science.

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👏Congratulations to colleagues from our BRC and the University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry who have been named on the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers List 2024.
Read more: oxfordhealthbrc.nihr.ac.uk/2024-highly-...

Please keep the date for HUMAN CEREBRAL CORTEX DEVELOPMENT III - Anatomical Society Meeting 14-16th July 2025, St John’s College, Oxford
Follow up to two meetings in 2010 and in 2018 issues of the Journal of Anatomy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... and onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14697580...

Pleased to share our #neuroscience preprint on how tau pathology affects head direction cells of the anterodorsal thalamus and induces disorientation, an early sign of #dementia

We are new here - let us know what you would like to see from Oxford Neuroscience on Bluesky. @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social @oxexppsy.bsky.social