website and information for our ketamine study is up. Looking for healthy volunteers in #Oxford please RT!! psych.ox.ac.uk/research/psych…

PERL at the Bodleian library late session on melancholy- mind and matter. Was so much fun to be a living book and play our brain games! Thanks to everyone who dropped by! ⁦Oxford Psychiatry⁩ & ⁦Michael Browning⁩

Great to be involved in recruiting for the RELAKS study: a fun trial aimed to better understand Ketamine and the potential benefits this could have! If you want to participate, sign up here: bit.ly/34fU6WI oxfordstudent.com/2022/02/03/dep…

Clinical Trial diversity needs to be more than just a buzzword. We’ve all seen the evidence of ethnic minority underrepresentation but what is actually going to have an impact in the future? Read our action plan here: bit.ly/33BCOmw #health #diversity

Pilar Artiach Hortelano is leading our partnership with Oxford University to provide data driven and actionable advice on how to increase participant diversity within clinical trials...! read on for more info! 👇

*Recruiting Oxford PERL Lab* 18-55, recovered from 2+ episodes of depression, & no other health problems? We are looking for healthy volunteers for a study investigating how a licensed drug (prucalopride) affects thinking & emotion. Time & travel reimbursed. oxprogress.co.uk

Some of our RAs (Chloe Wigg Sorcha Hamilton Pilar Artiach Hortelano @shonawaterss) had a great time yesterday at the Banbury Museum exhibition "Your Amazing Brain", discussing how we use experimental medicine approaches in mental health research, w/ a group of people who use Mind

Thank you to Merethe (@MBlandhol), our Norwegian RA, for inviting us to join the tradition of a Potato Race to celebrate the Norwegian national day today! The sun in South Park shone down on us, but unfortunately, there were some potato casualties...

Public engagement with Oxford PERL Lab at the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre open day 🧠💊

We've updated our public engagement blog with some new entries, including a joint submission by Oxford PERL Lab members Shona, Sorcha, Pilar, and Chloe, about their collaborative 'art and neuroscience' workshop with @OxfordshireMind and Banbury Museum & Gallery: win.ox.ac.uk/for-the-public…

PERL at #ECNP2022 ❤️

Great #ECNP2022 session highlighting the relation between sleep and anxiety disorders with @LauraPalagini showing Bei Bei work. It’s good to see that sleep disturbances on mental health are getting more and more recognition!

What’s it like to take part in RELAKS? Read Meri Beckwith post about his experience taking part in the study! Happy to be directly involved in such important research for mental health conditions like depression and even happier to have Lindus Health support with recruitment!

First paper for Pilar Artiach Hortelano published today! A great start to the lab library day… link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Effect of lithium administration on brain activity under an emotion regulation paradigm in healthy participants: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study dlvr.it/Sqz722

I am very happy to see my first publication out now! This is the work I did at Oxford PERL Lab for my Master’s Thesis. Thanks to all the team at PERL, but specially to Marieke Martens who has been an amazing colleague and mentor! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Our colleagues from WIN's Football on the Brain public engagement project brought neuroscience activities to Football Beyond Borders in Northampton yesterday. Louise Aukland Morgan Mitchell Esther Teo (she/her) Pilar Artiach Hortelano Dr Hanna Smyth and Lorenzo met 100+ teen players on the pitch yesterday:

Saying goodbye to two of the best today. Our amazing Research Assistants Sorcha Hamilton and Pilar Artiach Hortelano are off to start their PhDs. We will miss you! Oxford PERL Lab

“Our study provides the first experimental evidence that lithium influences the brain processes that underlie how we regulate our emotions." Dr Marieke Martens Oxford PERL Lab talks to PsyPost.org about new research on lithium psypost.org/2023/11/new-st…

Excited to see this interesting article out about our lithium paper from earlier in the year - an attempt to understand how lithium acts as a mood stabilizer in Bipolar Disorder! 👇🏼👇🏼