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- Community led third year project submissions 8 January 2024 Our third year Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience students dedicate 40 days to a research, literature review or scientific outreach project. We want to use these projects to benefit the local community. Projects will be centred around physiology, pharmacology or neuroscience. They could involve anything around physical and mental health, agrochemical use, drug use or other relevant topics. If you are a community organisation who has a research question, get in touch.
- Could measuring ultrasonic vocalisations help refine rat welfare? 19 September 2023 Listening to rats' ultrasonic vocalisations could help provide a method to measure the impact of potential refinements on rat welfare without needing to remove the animals from their home cage.
- The Cerebellum- Best Review Paper 10 July 2023
- PPN PGR Away Day 2023 21 June 2023
- Neuroscience researchers awarded £2.1 million to study the biological changes that occur in schizophrenia 24 May 2023 The award from the Medical Research Council will help scientists understand how genetic mutations in multiple different genes lead to common biological and cognitive changes and identify new therapeutic targets.
- Professor Frankie MacMillan receives teaching prize from the Physiological Society 16 May 2023 Frankie MacMillan, Professor of Biomedical Science Education in the School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, has been awarded the 2024 Otto Hutter Teaching Prize Lecture by the Physiological Society.
- PPN Annual Public Lecture *recording available to view online*. 14 April 2023 Paul Chadderton’s lecture about the cerebellum is now available to view online. Click on the link below to enjoy:
- PPN Annual Public Lecture *recording available to view online*. 14 April 2023 Paul Chadderton’s lecture about the cerebellum is now available to view online. Click on the link below to enjoy:
- Long-term use of steroids could impair memory, study finds 13 April 2023 Memory impairment associated with steroid use has been identified in a new study. The University of Bristol-led findings, published in PNAS, show great potential for the identification of drugs that could be adapted to treat certain memory disorders.
- Memories could be lost if two key brain regions fail to sync together, study finds 21 March 2023 Learning, remembering something, and recalling memories is supported by multiple separate groups of neurons connected inside and across key regions in the brain. If these neural assemblies fail to sync together at the right time, the memories are lost, a new study led by the universities of Bristol and Heidelberg has found.