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
https://www.mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-ioana-grigoras
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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
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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...
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...
doi.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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...
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📣 We're hiring! 📣
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:
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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
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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October 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
📣 We're hiring! 📣
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
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
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...
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...
www.nature.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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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🚨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.
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.
August 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
🚨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.
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.
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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.
Apply now to join the 2025/26 cohort. Please repost!
oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/traini...
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...
May 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
🌍 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...
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...
Reposted by Ioana Grigoras
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!
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!
April 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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!
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!
Reposted by Ioana Grigoras
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...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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...
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
We found that baclofen impair motor sequence learning and changes [GABA] dynamics during learning in motor areas
April 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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
We found that baclofen impair motor sequence learning and changes [GABA] dynamics during learning in motor areas