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Graph of depth of sleep vs time in the night, showing post-DBS giving deeper sleep occurring earlier in the night than Pre-DBS; also a brain image from MRI showing the location of the DBS electrodes.
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After deep brain stimulation treatment for depression, recordings of brain activity reveal that people achieve deeper sleep that occurs earlier in the night.
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Persistent memories drive ill-advised actions. Heightened coordination across regions underlies enduring memories. Reducing this allows appropriate behaviour to return.
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Proposing that the brain learns in a fundamentally different way to current AI systems, demonstrating a mechanism that enables faster and more effective learning in tasks faced by animals.
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Welcome to the Brain Network Dynamics Unit, a division of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford. 

The Unit integrates exceptional research aligned to understanding and exploiting the moment-to-moment interactions of nerve cell networks that underpin brain function and behaviour.

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27 April 2026
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Portrait phot of Ashwini Oswal
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Associate Professor Ashwini Oswal 

Ashwini Oswal awarded title of Associate Professor
13 March 2026
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Joram van Rheede awarded an EPSRC Open Fellowship
19 February 2026
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Peter Magill to join UK DRI Parkinson’s Research Centre

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Figure comparing the effect of perfectly regular stimulation pulses with stimulation pulses whose timing is slightly varied, called dithering.

Dithering suppresses half-harmonic neural synchronisation to photic stimulation...

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Bidirectional Predictive Coding

cartoon image of a person with Parkinson's on left, with a plot of brainwaves, and classification of neural states on right.

Dynamic neural states underpin motor symptom severity in Parkinson's disease: a...

This study measured brain signals in patients and healthy individuals using EEG combined with MRI-based source localisation techniques to study abnormal coupling across the motor network and its modulation by levodopa in Parkinson’s disease.

Frequency-specific and spatiotemporal dynamics of β-γ phase-amplitude...

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