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Ioana Grigoras

@igrigoras.bsky.social

Postdoc researcher at University of Oxford, interested in movement, motor learning and brain plasticity https://www.mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-ioana-grigoras

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Research Assistant in Sleep and Stroke Rehabilitation at University of Oxford Discover an exciting academic career path as a Research Assistant in Sleep and Stroke Rehabilitation at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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Research Assistant in Sleep and Stroke Rehabilitation

The Plasticity Lab are looking for a research assistant who will carry out studies investigating sleep, motor learning and recovery in healthy adults and people with brain injury.

Details and application:
shorturl.at/fgdm7

02.10.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Ultrasound β€˜helmet’ could treat Parkinson’s non-invasively, study shows Device could replace deep brain stimulation and may also help with Tourette syndrome, Alzheimer’s and depression

Delighted to see our research has been picked up by @theguardian.com! Very excited about the next steps www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

05.09.2025 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ultrasound system for precise neuromodulation of human deep brain circuits - Nature Communications Modulating deep brain structure can lead to therapies for neurological conditions. Here, the authors show a transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) system featuring a 256-element helmet-shaped trans...

Paper alert: our study using a novel ultrasound stimulation device to precisely target deep brain nuclei is out in Nature Communications @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @oxcin.bsky.social @mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk www.nature.com/articles/s41...

05.09.2025 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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🚨OPPORTUNITY!!🚨

We're looking for enthusiastic students and postdocs to join our team. Connect with other trainees, contribute to the OHBM community, and support the next generation of researchers!

Apply Here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Nominations close September 12, 2025.

13.08.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Stylized brain (the OxCIN logo) coloured as a blue/green map of the world, with the text OxCIN Global Scholars underneath

Stylized brain (the OxCIN logo) coloured as a blue/green map of the world, with the text OxCIN Global Scholars underneath

🌍 OxCIN Global Scholars: apply by June 30th! 🌎

Our Global Scholars programme provides a year of remote MRI training and collaboration for early-career researchers from the Global South.

Apply now to join the 2025/26 cohort. Please repost!

oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/traini...

01.05.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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!

29.04.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

04.04.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

03.04.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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