The Neuroplastics 🧠
@neuroplastics.bsky.social
A collaborative network of 3 research groups at OxCIN, University of Oxford (@oxcin.bsky.social) with a shared interest in brain plasticity.
Plasticity (PI: @heidijoberg.bsky.social), PiNG (PI: @cjstagg.bsky.social), and TiNSL (PI: Jacinta O'Shea) labs.
Plasticity (PI: @heidijoberg.bsky.social), PiNG (PI: @cjstagg.bsky.social), and TiNSL (PI: Jacinta O'Shea) labs.
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Happy #WorldRadiographyDay!
At OxCIN, our radiographers make cutting-edge brain imaging possible — combining clinical skill, research expertise and participant care. Over the past year, our Radiography Team have completed 1686 scans.
🔗 oxcin.ox.ac.uk/research/core-staff
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At OxCIN, our radiographers make cutting-edge brain imaging possible — combining clinical skill, research expertise and participant care. Over the past year, our Radiography Team have completed 1686 scans.
🔗 oxcin.ox.ac.uk/research/core-staff
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November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Happy #WorldRadiographyDay!
At OxCIN, our radiographers make cutting-edge brain imaging possible — combining clinical skill, research expertise and participant care. Over the past year, our Radiography Team have completed 1686 scans.
🔗 oxcin.ox.ac.uk/research/core-staff
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At OxCIN, our radiographers make cutting-edge brain imaging possible — combining clinical skill, research expertise and participant care. Over the past year, our Radiography Team have completed 1686 scans.
🔗 oxcin.ox.ac.uk/research/core-staff
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Happy World Radiography Day to our wonderful OxCIN radiographers, who make all of our MR research possible! Why not take a moment today to acknowledge the radiographers in your life? I've heard they enjoy chocolate...
November 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Happy World Radiography Day to our wonderful OxCIN radiographers, who make all of our MR research possible! Why not take a moment today to acknowledge the radiographers in your life? I've heard they enjoy chocolate...
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🎧 Neuroscientist Charlie Stagg hopes to treat neurological conditions using ultrasound; her latest study gets her closer than ever. @neuroplastics.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social #neuroscience #parkinsons #brain
Click here to listen to the latest episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2464891/epis...
Click here to listen to the latest episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2464891/epis...
October 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
🎧 Neuroscientist Charlie Stagg hopes to treat neurological conditions using ultrasound; her latest study gets her closer than ever. @neuroplastics.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social #neuroscience #parkinsons #brain
Click here to listen to the latest episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2464891/epis...
Click here to listen to the latest episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2464891/epis...
📣 We're hiring another role! 📣
Research Assistant in Neurorehabilitation and Sleep
The OxCIN Plasticity Lab are looking for someone who will assist with designing a sleep education package, recruitment of participants, data collection, and analysis.
Details and application:
shorturl.at/Dkx9L
Research Assistant in Neurorehabilitation and Sleep
The OxCIN Plasticity Lab are looking for someone who will assist with designing a sleep education package, recruitment of participants, data collection, and analysis.
Details and application:
shorturl.at/Dkx9L
Research Assistant in Neurorehabilitation and Sleep at University of Oxford
Recruiting now: Research Assistant in Neurorehabilitation and Sleep on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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October 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
📣 We're hiring another role! 📣
Research Assistant in Neurorehabilitation and Sleep
The OxCIN Plasticity Lab are looking for someone who will assist with designing a sleep education package, recruitment of participants, data collection, and analysis.
Details and application:
shorturl.at/Dkx9L
Research Assistant in Neurorehabilitation and Sleep
The OxCIN Plasticity Lab are looking for someone who will assist with designing a sleep education package, recruitment of participants, data collection, and analysis.
Details and application:
shorturl.at/Dkx9L
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🎧 New episode of SOCIALIZING with SCIENTISTS with Charlie Stagg! Charlie has helped create a helmet that shoots ultrasound into very specific spots in the brain. Can it treat disease? @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @neuroplastics.bsky.social #parkinsons #neuroscience
www.buzzsprout.com/2464891/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2464891/epis...
Charlotte Stagg reaches deep into the brain using ultrasound (she's a neuroscientist) - Socializing with Scientists
Charlie grew up in England, surrounded by books. At age 11, she declared that she wanted to be a research scientist. When she was a teenager, however, she started gravitating towards helping people mo...
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October 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🎧 New episode of SOCIALIZING with SCIENTISTS with Charlie Stagg! Charlie has helped create a helmet that shoots ultrasound into very specific spots in the brain. Can it treat disease? @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @neuroplastics.bsky.social #parkinsons #neuroscience
www.buzzsprout.com/2464891/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2464891/epis...
📣 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
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
✨ This week we had our annual Neuroplastics retreat! ✨
We spent 2 days getting to know each other better, having some fun, and doing a bit of science 🧠
Challenges during the retreat included building contraptions to catch eggs, blindfolded jigsaws, and showing off some killer dance moves💃🕺
We spent 2 days getting to know each other better, having some fun, and doing a bit of science 🧠
Challenges during the retreat included building contraptions to catch eggs, blindfolded jigsaws, and showing off some killer dance moves💃🕺
September 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
✨ This week we had our annual Neuroplastics retreat! ✨
We spent 2 days getting to know each other better, having some fun, and doing a bit of science 🧠
Challenges during the retreat included building contraptions to catch eggs, blindfolded jigsaws, and showing off some killer dance moves💃🕺
We spent 2 days getting to know each other better, having some fun, and doing a bit of science 🧠
Challenges during the retreat included building contraptions to catch eggs, blindfolded jigsaws, and showing off some killer dance moves💃🕺
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NEW: Researchers at UCL and Oxford have created an ultrasound device that can target deep areas of the brain without surgery — opening up new ways to study the brain and treat conditions like Parkinson’s and depression.
Read more ⬇️
Read more ⬇️
New ultrasound helmet enables deep brain stimulation in people
An ultrasound device that can precisely stimulate areas deep in the brain without surgery has been developed by researchers from UCL and the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Clinical
www.ox.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
NEW: Researchers at UCL and Oxford have created an ultrasound device that can target deep areas of the brain without surgery — opening up new ways to study the brain and treat conditions like Parkinson’s and depression.
Read more ⬇️
Read more ⬇️
🌟 It's been a day full of celebrations for the Neuroplastics Network! 🌟
🎉 And last, but not least, @igrigoras.bsky.social received a prize for the best post-doc talk at the preclinical stroke symposium
🥳 Great to see such great work coming from our group!
🎉 And last, but not least, @igrigoras.bsky.social received a prize for the best post-doc talk at the preclinical stroke symposium
🥳 Great to see such great work coming from our group!
September 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
🌟 It's been a day full of celebrations for the Neuroplastics Network! 🌟
🎉 And last, but not least, @igrigoras.bsky.social received a prize for the best post-doc talk at the preclinical stroke symposium
🥳 Great to see such great work coming from our group!
🎉 And last, but not least, @igrigoras.bsky.social received a prize for the best post-doc talk at the preclinical stroke symposium
🥳 Great to see such great work coming from our group!
🌟 It's been a day full of celebrations for the Neuroplastics Network! 🌟
🎉 Secondly, @mels-science.bsky.social has been awarded a 5-year fellowship from the Stroke Association to continue her fantastic research in the stroke and sleep field
👏 Very well deserved and we're brimming with pride!
🎉 Secondly, @mels-science.bsky.social has been awarded a 5-year fellowship from the Stroke Association to continue her fantastic research in the stroke and sleep field
👏 Very well deserved and we're brimming with pride!
September 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🌟 It's been a day full of celebrations for the Neuroplastics Network! 🌟
🎉 Secondly, @mels-science.bsky.social has been awarded a 5-year fellowship from the Stroke Association to continue her fantastic research in the stroke and sleep field
👏 Very well deserved and we're brimming with pride!
🎉 Secondly, @mels-science.bsky.social has been awarded a 5-year fellowship from the Stroke Association to continue her fantastic research in the stroke and sleep field
👏 Very well deserved and we're brimming with pride!
🌟 It's been a day full of celebrations for the Neuroplastics Network! 🌟
🎉 Firstly, a huge congratulations to Jacinta O’Shea, one of our lab PIs who has been awarded the title of full Professor.
🧠 She is now Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience - a massive well done from us all!
🎉 Firstly, a huge congratulations to Jacinta O’Shea, one of our lab PIs who has been awarded the title of full Professor.
🧠 She is now Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience - a massive well done from us all!
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September 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🌟 It's been a day full of celebrations for the Neuroplastics Network! 🌟
🎉 Firstly, a huge congratulations to Jacinta O’Shea, one of our lab PIs who has been awarded the title of full Professor.
🧠 She is now Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience - a massive well done from us all!
🎉 Firstly, a huge congratulations to Jacinta O’Shea, one of our lab PIs who has been awarded the title of full Professor.
🧠 She is now Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience - a massive well done from us all!
🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨
🔎 Read about using a novel ultrasound stimulation device to precisely target deep brain nuclei below
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔎 Read about using a novel ultrasound stimulation device to precisely target deep brain nuclei below
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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...
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September 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨
🔎 Read about using a novel ultrasound stimulation device to precisely target deep brain nuclei below
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔎 Read about using a novel ultrasound stimulation device to precisely target deep brain nuclei below
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🎉 A huge con-grad-ulations to our Dr Lasbareilles who had her graduation at the weekend! 🎉
Do Fidem 💙❤️
Today, I graduated from @ox.ac.uk with a DPhil in Clinical Neurosciences!
@stedmundhall.bsky.social
@ndcnoxford.bsky.social
@oxcin.bsky.social
@mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk
Today, I graduated from @ox.ac.uk with a DPhil in Clinical Neurosciences!
@stedmundhall.bsky.social
@ndcnoxford.bsky.social
@oxcin.bsky.social
@mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk
July 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
🎉 A huge con-grad-ulations to our Dr Lasbareilles who had her graduation at the weekend! 🎉
🔗 We're on LinkedIn! 🔗
You can see and follow our page using the link below (or if that's not your cup of tea, we'll still be here on BlueSky!)
www.linkedin.com/company/neur...
You can see and follow our page using the link below (or if that's not your cup of tea, we'll still be here on BlueSky!)
www.linkedin.com/company/neur...
Neuroplastics Network | LinkedIn
Neuroplastics Network | 8 followers on LinkedIn. A collaborative network of 3 research groups at OxCIN, University of Oxford, with a shared interest in brain plasticity. | The Neuroplastics Network is...
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July 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🔗 We're on LinkedIn! 🔗
You can see and follow our page using the link below (or if that's not your cup of tea, we'll still be here on BlueSky!)
www.linkedin.com/company/neur...
You can see and follow our page using the link below (or if that's not your cup of tea, we'll still be here on BlueSky!)
www.linkedin.com/company/neur...
"We have to go where people are" - Juju from our wider department highlighting the importance of improving inclusivity in research and recruitment 🙌
🔗 Read more about it below!
🔗 Read more about it below!
June 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
"We have to go where people are" - Juju from our wider department highlighting the importance of improving inclusivity in research and recruitment 🙌
🔗 Read more about it below!
🔗 Read more about it below!
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Incredibly excited to be a part of this!
🔊NDCN researchers to co-lead new £50m MRC Centre.
The new Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) aims to develop brain stimulation devices to treat conditions such as Parkinson’s, dementia, stroke and childhood epilepsy.
Read more: tinyurl.com/mr359x2d
The new Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) aims to develop brain stimulation devices to treat conditions such as Parkinson’s, dementia, stroke and childhood epilepsy.
Read more: tinyurl.com/mr359x2d
NDCN researchers to co-lead new £50m MRC Centre to develop medical device-based therapies for brain conditions
A new Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) aims to develop brain stimulation devices to treat conditions such as Parkinson’s, dementia, stroke and childhood epilepsy.
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June 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Incredibly excited to be a part of this!
🧠 We're at Westgate in Oxford today! 🧠
Play our games, and learn about the brain! If you're in Oxford, come and see us - we'll be here until 4pm.
@oxcin.bsky.social
Play our games, and learn about the brain! If you're in Oxford, come and see us - we'll be here until 4pm.
@oxcin.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🧠 We're at Westgate in Oxford today! 🧠
Play our games, and learn about the brain! If you're in Oxford, come and see us - we'll be here until 4pm.
@oxcin.bsky.social
Play our games, and learn about the brain! If you're in Oxford, come and see us - we'll be here until 4pm.
@oxcin.bsky.social
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Are you interested in exploring career options in clinical neuroscience? Join the Clinical Neurosciences Society networking and career day focused on AI, big data, and machine learning.
9-5pm, 5 June
LT 2, Academic Centre, JR
FREE entry, plus lunch, refreshments and drinks reception
9-5pm, 5 June
LT 2, Academic Centre, JR
FREE entry, plus lunch, refreshments and drinks reception
May 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Are you interested in exploring career options in clinical neuroscience? Join the Clinical Neurosciences Society networking and career day focused on AI, big data, and machine learning.
9-5pm, 5 June
LT 2, Academic Centre, JR
FREE entry, plus lunch, refreshments and drinks reception
9-5pm, 5 June
LT 2, Academic Centre, JR
FREE entry, plus lunch, refreshments and drinks reception
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Just published my first paper!
Really grateful to everyone at the plasticity lab @oxcin.bsky.social who made this possible.
huge thanks to my co-authors — couldn’t have done it without you.
If you want to check it out:
📄 paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really grateful to everyone at the plasticity lab @oxcin.bsky.social who made this possible.
huge thanks to my co-authors — couldn’t have done it without you.
If you want to check it out:
📄 paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sleep regularity index as a novel indicator of sleep disturbance in stroke survivors: a secondary data analysis - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Sleep regularity index as a novel indicator of sleep disturbance in stroke survivors: a secondary data analysis
www.nature.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Just published my first paper!
Really grateful to everyone at the plasticity lab @oxcin.bsky.social who made this possible.
huge thanks to my co-authors — couldn’t have done it without you.
If you want to check it out:
📄 paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really grateful to everyone at the plasticity lab @oxcin.bsky.social who made this possible.
huge thanks to my co-authors — couldn’t have done it without you.
If you want to check it out:
📄 paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📣 New paper alert! 📣
🔎 The RISES Study looked at the sleep regularity index in stroke survivors compared to people who haven't had a stroke.
🔗 See a summary of our findings in our infographic below, and find the full paper here: rdcu.be/emZ09
@oxcin.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social
🔎 The RISES Study looked at the sleep regularity index in stroke survivors compared to people who haven't had a stroke.
🔗 See a summary of our findings in our infographic below, and find the full paper here: rdcu.be/emZ09
@oxcin.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
📣 New paper alert! 📣
🔎 The RISES Study looked at the sleep regularity index in stroke survivors compared to people who haven't had a stroke.
🔗 See a summary of our findings in our infographic below, and find the full paper here: rdcu.be/emZ09
@oxcin.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social
🔎 The RISES Study looked at the sleep regularity index in stroke survivors compared to people who haven't had a stroke.
🔗 See a summary of our findings in our infographic below, and find the full paper here: rdcu.be/emZ09
@oxcin.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social
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We are excited to be returning to the annual BRC Health Research Showcase event at the Westgate shopping centre, Thursday 29 May, 10am-3.30pm. It's a great opportunity to engage with members of the public we may not otherwise reach. Come say hi! tinyurl.com/3x49x5eh
May 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
We are excited to be returning to the annual BRC Health Research Showcase event at the Westgate shopping centre, Thursday 29 May, 10am-3.30pm. It's a great opportunity to engage with members of the public we may not otherwise reach. Come say hi! tinyurl.com/3x49x5eh
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Not one, but TWO Vice Chancellor's Awards for OxCIN today! 🏆🏆 Massive congratulations to the Ambassadors Programme and the Oxford Young Sports Leaders Programme! Read more about them here: hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/vice-chancel...
May 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Not one, but TWO Vice Chancellor's Awards for OxCIN today! 🏆🏆 Massive congratulations to the Ambassadors Programme and the Oxford Young Sports Leaders Programme! Read more about them here: hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/vice-chancel...
🧠 It's Stroke Awareness Month! 🧠
Our group do a lot of research with stroke recovery - here you can watch two of our researchers discussing sleep after stroke at a Bristol After Stroke session.
@mattweightman26.bsky.social, @oxcin.bsky.social
Our group do a lot of research with stroke recovery - here you can watch two of our researchers discussing sleep after stroke at a Bristol After Stroke session.
@mattweightman26.bsky.social, @oxcin.bsky.social
It’s Stroke Awareness Month: count down our top ten information videos!
No 7: Improving Sleep in rehabilitation after stroke
Dr Matthew Weightman and Barbara Robinson describe the role of sleep in recovery.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIyZ...
No 7: Improving Sleep in rehabilitation after stroke
Dr Matthew Weightman and Barbara Robinson describe the role of sleep in recovery.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIyZ...
Improving Sleep in rehabilitation after stroke
After stroke people often have problems with their sleep. As bad sleep has been related to worse mood, quality of life, and recovery, it is important to look...
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May 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🧠 It's Stroke Awareness Month! 🧠
Our group do a lot of research with stroke recovery - here you can watch two of our researchers discussing sleep after stroke at a Bristol After Stroke session.
@mattweightman26.bsky.social, @oxcin.bsky.social
Our group do a lot of research with stroke recovery - here you can watch two of our researchers discussing sleep after stroke at a Bristol After Stroke session.
@mattweightman26.bsky.social, @oxcin.bsky.social
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So proud of our projects shortlisted for the Vice Chancellor's Awards: BReal & the Ambassador Programmes! All are welcome to learn more at the Showcase event today at the Weston Library until 4pm. Keeping our 🤞for the results on Thursday...
hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/vice-chancel...
hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/vice-chancel...
May 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
So proud of our projects shortlisted for the Vice Chancellor's Awards: BReal & the Ambassador Programmes! All are welcome to learn more at the Showcase event today at the Weston Library until 4pm. Keeping our 🤞for the results on Thursday...
hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/vice-chancel...
hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/vice-chancel...
🎉 We're absolutely delighted that several of our group received an OxCIN Good Citizen Award! 🎉
A huge well done to @lasbareilles.bsky.social, Poly, and Barbara!
A huge well done to @lasbareilles.bsky.social, Poly, and Barbara!
May 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
🎉 We're absolutely delighted that several of our group received an OxCIN Good Citizen Award! 🎉
A huge well done to @lasbareilles.bsky.social, Poly, and Barbara!
A huge well done to @lasbareilles.bsky.social, Poly, and Barbara!