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I'm delighted to announce that we're going to host a (virtual) Oxford Autumn School in Neuroscience this year with a great range of topics - and free to anyone. Details, including registration, here: neuroscience.ox.ac.uk/about/autumn-s…

"This is possibly the most statistically dim-witted utterance I have witnessed from any authority during this crisis..."! Spicy article from our own David Spiegelhalter just out in the The Guardian. Enjoy! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A final plug for the upcoming Graduate Access Summer school St Edmund Hall University of Oxford that I, Triin Ojakäär, @OlgaMun_ED and other are organising. Academics: please RT and share with your final year science UG/MSc students! forms.gle/ce2QGE5GhzeGEJ…

Our paper Superior short-term memory in APOE ε2 carriers across the age range with Masud Husain, Kia Nobre, Clare Mackay is out now! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32961217/

The misuse of colour in science communication nature.com/articles/s4146… "We highlight ways for the scientific community to identify and prevent the misuse of colour in science, and call for a proactive step away from colour misuse among the community, publishers, and the press"

Eternally thankful for such a wonderful year of growth and adventures!

Applying for a PhD, or know someone who is? Check out this awesome resource from the Grad Access Team St Edmund Hall Teddy Hall MCR, discussing all the things you need to know about/do before you apply! Graduate Study at Oxford University of Oxford bit.ly/seh-grad-access

Request for help! Dept of Psychology are planning a series of online talks as an opportunity to reach out to UK schools we may not normally get to, and from which we don't normally receive many undergraduate applications. Please contact Lee de-Wit if you'd like more information!

It's #DementiaActionWeek. Can exploring & learning throughout our lives reduce the risk of developing #dementia in later life? Find out more by reading the latest Oxford ExpPsychology blog at bit.ly/3hJRhS7. Méadhbh Brosnan Jemma Pitt Andrew Quinn Sarah Clayton Medical Sciences

So glad to contribute to this important project led by Delshad Vaghari and @rikhens! MRI and MEG data from 158 individuals with MCI and 166 controls: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

New research job alert!!!! We have a 2 year research assistant post to help us look at MRI biomarkers of #dementia Background in neuroimaging and familiarity with MATLAB desirable. Enthusiasm & passion for dementia research essential. Read more: jobs.ac.uk/job/CGD534/res…

I woke up to my very first publication yesterday and got too excited to share. Here is what we wrote on secondary prevention of dementia through cardiovascular risk factors and scalable risk monitoring using blood-based biomarkers and digital tools: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

A new review authored by Ivan Koychev and Triin Ojakäär summarises the landscape of secondary prevention of dementia and calls for investment in tools for early #dementia detection. Read more: dementiasplatform.uk/news-and-media…

10 days left to apply for a Research Assistant role with us! jobs.ac.uk/job/CMB990/res…

Job alert: We are looking for a machine learning expert with a neuroscience/cognitive psych background to build predictive models and run research projects at Five Lives. Join us & help us build digital therapeutics for early dementia prevention. 🧠📉apply.workable.com/fivelives/j/F2…

Volunteers needed! We are looking for healthy adults, aged 40+ and stroke survivors for a home-based study measuring brain activity during sleep. If you would like to take part, email us: [email protected] Melanie Fleming @OxfordWIN The Neuroplastics

Our latest The Neuroplastics #stroke recovery #research newsletter is now out, you can view it and sign up to our mailing list here: ndcn.ox.ac.uk/research/WIN-n…

I am so excited and honoured to announce I've been awarded a Postgraduate Fellowship by the Stroke Association to continue work on sleep after stroke for the next 3 years. A huge thank you to my wonderful supervisors for all the support Melanie Fleming Heidi Johansen-Berg Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging 🥳🙏

📢New paper📢 Delighted to see our paper on the feasibility and reliability of a smartphone application for monitoring future #dementia risk out now in The British Journal of Psychiatry @grahamreidpsych Ivan Koychev Triin Ojakäär Jenny Barnett BJPsych Journals cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Risk factors for faster ageing in the brain revealed: Led by Gwenaëlle Douaud, researchers have found that diabetes, traffic-related air pollution and alcohol intake are the most harmful out of 15 modifiable risk factors for dementia: ox.ac.uk/news/2024-03-2…