Some research highlights arising from projects followed on the MSc and Wellcome Trust four year doctoral programme.

• Over 200 students have completed the programme successfully

• Currently, more than 80 full papers have been published in peer-reviewed journals by students who have been on the course.
  
  

Selected publications:

Mrsic-Flogel T. D., King A. J., Jenison R. L., and Schnupp J. W. (2001) Listening through different ears alters spatial response fields in ferret primary auditory cortex. J Neurophysiol. 86, 1043-1046.

Johansen-Berg H., Rushworth M.F.S., Bogdanovic M., Kischka U., Wimalaratna S. and Matthews P.M. (2002) The role of ipsilateral premotor cortex in hand movement after stroke. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99, 14518-14523.

Meredith, R.M., Floyer-Lea, A.M. & Paulsen, O (2003) Maturation of long-term potentiation induction rules in rodent hippocampus: Role of GABAergic inhibition. J Neurosci, 23, 11142-11146

Akerman, C.J., Grubb, M.S. & Thompson, I.D. (2004) Spatial and temporal properties of visual responses in the thalamus of the developing ferret. J Neurosci, 24, 170-182.

Holmes N.P., Crozier G., & Spence C. (2004). When mirrors lie: 'Visual capture' of arm position impairs reaching performance. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 193-200.

Devlin, J.T., Jamison, H.L., Gonnerman, L.M., Matthews, P.M. (2004) Morphology and the internal structure of words. Proc Natl Acad Sci 101, 14984-8.

Walton M.E., Croxson, P.L., Rushworth M.F., Bannerman D.M. (2005) The mesocortical dopamine projection to anterior cingulate cortex plays no role in guiding effort-related decisions. Behav Neurosci 119, 323-328.

Nobre A.C., O'Reilly J. (2004) Time is of the essence. T.I.C.S 8, 387-9.

Cavazzini, M., Bliss, T. and Emptage, N., (2005) Ca(2+) and synaptic plasticity. Cell Calcium 38, 355-67.

O'Shea, J., Johansen-Berg, H., Trief, D., Gobel, S and Rushworth, M (2007) Functionally specific re-organisation in human premotor cortex Neuron 54, 479-490

Sheehan, K.A., McArthur, G.M. and Bishop, D.V., Is discrimination training necessary to cause changes in the P2 auditory event-related brain potential to speech sounds?, Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 25 (2005) 547-53

Briese, M., Esmaeili, B., Johnson, N.M. and Sattelle, D.B., pWormgatePro enables promoter-driven knockdown by hairpin RNA interference of muscle and neuronal gene products in Caenorhabditis elegans, Invert Neurosci 6 (2006) 5-12

Rauschecker AM, Solomon SG, Glennerster A Stereo and motion parallax cues in human 3D vision: can they vanish without a trace? Journal of vision 6:1471-1485.2006

Harmer CJ, Heinzen J, O'Sullivan U, Ayres RA, Cowen PJ  Dissociable effects of acute antidepressant drug administration on subjective and emotional processing measures in healthy volunteers. Psychopharmacology 199:495-502.2008

Cheung AF, Pollen AA, Tavare A, DeProto J, Molnar Z Comparative aspects of cortical neurogenesis in vertebrates. Journal of anatomy 211:164-176.2007

Pringle A, Jennings KA, Line S, Bannerman DM, Higgs S, Sharp T (Mice overexpressing the 5-hydroxytryptamine transporter show no alterations in feeding behaviour and increased non-feeding responses to fenfluramine. Psychopharmacology 200:291-300.2008

Goings GE, Greisman A, James RE, Abram LK, Begolka WS, Miller SD, Szele FG (Hematopoietic cell activation in the subventricular zone after Theiler's virus infection. Journal of neuroinflammation 5:44.2008

Potential Research Supervisors

For potential supervisors (at both the MSc and DPhil level) you should consult the webpages for Oxford Neuroscience.