Brainbox new equipment demonstration (Oct 2025)
Callum from Brainbox visited our new Life and Mind Building to give an induction to the latest transcranial ultrasound stimulation kit we recently purchased. Multiple different research groups gathered to learn about the latest updates to the system and about safety and best practices in using it. The MoDeS lab are excited to start using the new equipment and to continue to contribute to the growing field of human ultrasound research.
Life and Mind Building opens (Aug/Sep 2025)
Our lab has now fully moved and is settling in well in the lovely new Life and Mind Building (LaMB).
Photo credits: John Cairns.
Zilu passes her viva (Sep 2025)
Zilu defended her thesis, titled “Neural Computational Mechanism ofCompositional Generalization”, requiring no corrections!
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 passes 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