Helen Barron

Exciting preprint from @glitzleonie.bsky.social on curriculum learning and cognitive maps !

Reminder to get in touch if you want to apply to the below PhD positions!

Supervisors: Associate Prof. Helen Barron and Prof. Andrew Sharott.

🎓NEW PhD Studentship-Project FIVE

🧠Enhancing memory using cross-species closed-loop Targeted Memory Reactivation

⏳Deadline: Tue 2nd Dec 2025, 12:00 midday (BST).

www.mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/project/enha...

@ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

Supervisors: Associate Prof. Helen Barron, Prof. Charlotte Stagg, and Dr Ashwini Oswal.

🎓NEW PhD Studentship-Project SIX

🧠Enhancing memory using Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation and Targeted Memory Reactivation

⏳Deadline: Tue 2nd Dec 2025, 12:00 midday (BST).

www.mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/project/enha...

@ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet **

Deadline: 2nd December

1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6

2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj

Happy to chat to interested applicants.

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.

🔊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

Great to see this out - congratulations!

Neurons in the brain.

@ukri.org announces new MRC Centre of Research Excellence in Restorative Neural Dynamics. 🎉🏆🚀

National flagship aiming to transform medical device-based treatments for brain conditions. #neurotech

@ox.ac.uk ‪‪@greatormondst.bsky.social‬ @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social

I'm pleased to share our new work, “Spatio-temporal organization of network activity patterns in the hippocampus”, out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social !
With Demi Brizee & David Dupret, we track how oscillations and spiking behaviour map onto hippocampal layers using an LFP-based embedding.

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Memory by a thousand rules: Automated discovery of functional multi-type plasticity rules reveals variety & degeneracy at the heart of learning Synaptic plasticity is the basis of learning and memory, but the link between synaptic changes and neural function remains elusive. Here, we used automated search algorithms to obtain thousands of str...

We just pushed “Memory by a 1000 rules” onto bioRxiv, where we use clever #ML to find #plasticity quadruplets (EE, EI, IE, II) that learn basic stability in spiking nets. Why is it cool? We find 1000s!! of solutions, and they don’t just stabilise. They #memorise! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

*** ! Closing soon ! Postdoc position available in the lab ***

!! 1 WEEK to go !! postdoc position available in our lab with deadline 3rd June. Do get in touch if you'd like to chat. Details below.

(And here is a cool picture of some of the related work from the lab - I'll leave you to guess what we're showing!)

More info? Send an email or DM to Helen Barron
How to apply: tinyurl.com/ut4vbwt4

Where? You will be based in the Barron lab tinyurl.com/bdf4drjf @MRCBNDU @NDCNOxford

Neuronal Computation Underlying Inferential Reasoning in Humans and Mice In humans and mice, the hippocampus supports inferential reasoning by computing a prospective code to predict upcoming events, before extracting logical links between discrete events during rest to fo...

How? You will use state-of-the-art electrophysiology, calcium-imaging, optogenetic and anatomical tract-tracing methods. We aim to use parallel tasks across species and apply a common analytical framework for statistical analysis. For an example of our work: tinyurl.com/ymkzpbsw

What? You will join a cross-species project to gain mechanistic insights in mouse models and translate these findings into humans, including patients with psychosis. This postdoc position focuses on the mouse models

*** Come join us !! We are recruiting !! ***
How does the brain generate beliefs that go beyond direct experience? How do these mechanisms go awry in psychosis?

The Barron lab tinyurl.com/bdf4drjf @MRCBNDU @NDCNOxford are recruiting a new postdoc tinyurl.com/ut4vbwt4 to work in mouse models

Huge congratulations to Dr Mufeng Tang!! www.mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/news/mufeng-...

And looking forward to this symposium on Sunday!

Reasoning Algorithms Across Species, Diagnoses, and Development: Theoretical Frameworks Informing Causal Manipulations DescriptionThe goal of this workshop is to advance our understanding of the brain's reasoning algorithms, explore effects of brain disorders on these algorithms, and discuss whether computational mode...

Excited to be speaking at ‘Reasoning Algorithms Across Species, Diagnoses and Development’, upcoming online conference April 23rd 11:00am-5pm ET. obssr.od.nih.gov/news-and-eve...