Stagg Group
The Stagg Group is based at the Brain Network Dynamics Unit and Oxford Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford.
Research Themes
Targeting motor learning & execution
We have two major research interests - to understand how brain dynamics change during motor skill acquisition, both in health and after brain injuries such as a stroke, and to develop new methods to modulate these dynamics to improve functional outcome.
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Approaches
Experimental Medicine
We work with people living with neurological disorders, particularly stroke survivors, to understand how the brain can recover motor function after an injury, and how we can develop novel approaches to improve these physiological mechanisms to improve recovery.
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Recent Papers
MRC CoRE in RND Output
Modulation of motor cortical theta and gamma oscillations using phase-targeted, closed-loop optogenetic stimulation of local excitatory and inhibitory neurons.
2026. Brain Stimul, 19(2):103034.
MRC CoRE in RND Output
The hippocampus as a generative model.
2026. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 381(1954).
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The Effects of Theta-Gamma Peak Stimulation on Sensorimotor Learning During Speech Production
2025. Neurobiology of Language, 6.
Recent Preprints
MRC CoRE in RND Output
Distinct In Vivo Electrophysiological Profiles of Mediodorsal Thalamus Subdivisions
Phase-targeted modulation of essential tremor with transcranial magnetic stimulation of motor cortex
Driving theta-gamma oscillations modulates extrasynaptic GABAergic tone: a tACS-TMS study
Higher-Order Thalamus is Pivotal in Schizophrenia-Associated Pathophysiology
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