The research at OHBA is placed at the critical interface between basic neuroscience and neuropsychiatric research. The information gleaned from techniques with high temporal resolution, such as MEG, is crucial to further our understanding of normal brain function, and how these mechanisms can go wrong in disease. OHBA's focus on methods with high temporal resolution complements the research activities at Oxford’s Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the brain (FMRIB).

Please find below further information on the research activities that take place at OHBA.

Clinical Projects

Ongoing or currently planned clinical neuroscience research at OHBA:

Temporal processing in autism spectrum disorders

Neural Correlates of Gestalt Grouping in Autism Spectrum Disorders

From GABA to gamma-oscillations: in search of biomarkers of depression

The effect of APOE on brain function

Role of different basal ganglia-cortical loops in Parkinson’s symptoms

The roles of impulsivity and mood shifts in decision making

Effect of mood induction on cognition

Deep brain stimulation for chronic pain and movement disorders

Examining Connectivity Changes in Adolescent Psychosis Using MEG

Genetic and pharmacological variation in catechol-O-methyl transferase (COMT)

Modulation of emotional processing by antidepressants

Basic Cognitive Neuroscience

Ongoing or currently planned fundamental neuroscience research at OHBA:

Perceptual decision making and reward

Development of spoken language perception in children

Visual short-term memory maintenance and retrieval in children and adults

Dissociable effects of prior expectations on perceptual decision-making

Neural dynamics in human decision making

Triggering perceptual decisions

Using visual mapping to compare source localisation approaches with MEG

The functional neuroanatomy of parent-infant interactions