Ioana Grigoras

OHBM International Mentoring Program The OHBM Student and Postdoc SIG is pleased to invite you to join the 2025-2026 OHBM International Mentoring Program and (optionally) the OHBM Fellowship Program application. Applications close Monda...

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ioana-Florentina Grigoras, Charlotte J. Stagg, et al:

Baclofen, a GABAb receptor agonist, impairs motor learning in healthy people and changes inhibitory dynamics in motor areas

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Baclofen, a GABAB receptor agonist, impairs motor learning in healthy people and changes inhibitory dynamics in motor areas Abstract. Inhibition mediated by γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is implicated in motor plasticity and learning, with [GABA] in the motor cortex decreasing during motor learning. However, the causal relati...

New paper out in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social! 🎉 We found that baclofen, a GABAB receptor agonist, leads to impairments in motor learning in healthy people and blunting of the expected GABA decrease during learning @oxcin.bsky.social @mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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.

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Ultrasound ‘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...

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...

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🌍 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.

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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...

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