PhD Studentship: Cross-species modelling of rare coding variants associated with schizophrenia University of Exeter in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at Cardiff University in precision psychiatry , focused on the early detection and intervention in schizophrenia . This project investigates how immune pathways may influence brain function in schizophrenia long before symptoms become severe, with the aim of improving diagnosis , prevention , and personalised treatment . The project is hosted by the Cardiff School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and involves interdisciplinary training in neuroscience , immunology , molecu...

Funded PhD project at the University of Bristol (School of Psychology and Neuroscience) in collaboration with the University of Exeter, focused on neuroscience , schizophrenia , GABAergic interneurons , Somatostatin interneurons , NMDA receptors , hippocampal plasticity, electrophysiology, calcium imaging, transcriptomics, and pharmacology. The project asks how NMDA receptor dysfunction alters the properties of Somatostatin interneuron subtypes in a mouse model of schizophrenia, and how these ch...

PhD opportunity at Cardiff University in the Cardiff School of Medicine on shared genetic architecture of neuropsychiatric disorders and novel brain biomarkers . The project sits in the area of imaging genetics and aims to improve the biological specificity of brain phenotypes by implementing novel methods for diffusion weighted imaging in a very large cohort, including UK Biobank data, using the unique Connectome scanner at CUBRIC . The research will generate novel MRI metrics closer to brain b...

Funded PhD project at the University of Bristol (School of Psychology and Neuroscience) on sleep, trauma processing, PTSD, emotional memory, and targeted memory reactivation (TMR) . The project explores how sleep contributes to emotional processing after trauma and whether TMR can be used as a novel intervention to improve outcomes. You will work on experimental trauma paradigms, including distressing video or virtual-reality-based stimuli, and combine them with conditioned auditory cues that ar...

PhD opportunity in pain neuroscience at Cardiff University This project, titled “Pain as neurobiological surprise: Using human brain imaging and animal studies to advance new concepts in persistent pain” , is hosted by Cardiff University (Cardiff School of Psychology) and supervised by Dr George Tackley and Dr Jennifer Davies. The research explores whether pain can be understood as a form of neurobiological surprise, signalling unexpected threat or damage. The project combines human neuroimaging...