Miriam, Maja, Rong, and Eleonora attend the Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation Conference in Hong Kong (July 2025)
Miriam gave a talk on the lab’s project entitled “Focused ultrasound reveals causal role for human basolateral amygdala in resolving emotional ambiguity”, while Maja presented a poster of her ongoing research titled “Investtigating the role of human pgACC in cost-benefit decision making using transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS)” for which she won the best poster award.
Miruna wins Young Investigators Award (May 2025)
Miruna won the prize with an “oral blitz” presentation of her DPhil research at the Annual Conference of the National Neuroscience Society of Romania.
MoDeS lab secures funding for TUS low mood study (Feb 2025)
Our team has been awarded £42,000 from the Mental Health Pump Priming fund from the NIHR to undertake a transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) study on low mood.
Sankalp passed his viva (Dec 2024)
Sankalp successfully defended his thesis, titled “Friend Request Accepted: Fundamental Features of Social Environments Determine Social Affiliation Decisions”
Miriam awarded the Leverhulme prize (Oct 2024)
Our PI Dr Miriam Klein-Flügge was recently awarded the prestigious Philip Leverhulme prize in psychology. Please find the press release here.
Amygdala TUS and ketamine studies complete data collection (Oct 2024)
Two important studies in the lab complete data collection
Bolu received AfOx grant (Oct 2024)
D.Phil. student Bolu was awarded an Afox grant to acquire behavioural data in rural South Africa
Rong wins guarantors of brain award (Sept 2024)
Post-doc Bi-Rong was awarded the prestigious Guarantors of Brain award to attend the Society for Neuroscience conference in Lisbon