Charlotte Jane Stagg

This study uses longitudinal edited 1H-MRS to track GABA and glutamate changes after experimental stroke in rats, finding a transient GABA reduction without persistent inflammation or major behavioral impairment.

This study examines how acute cholinergic potentiation with donepezil affects resting-state functional connectivity in healthy adults, finding localized changes in the dorsal attention network.

The paper describes distinct in vivo electrophysiological profiles of three subdivisions of the mediodorsal thalamus in mice, showing differences in waveform amplitude, firing rate, and burst firing.

This paper introduces POPE13C-MRS, a method to non-invasively measure neurotransmitter-specific glucose metabolism in the human brain using standard MRI hardware, demonstrating its feasibility in mice and humans.

The paper identifies a hippocampal metabolic signature linked to mood and insulin signalling in depression, showing conserved effects across humans and mice.

This study shows that tACS at the theta peak modulates extrasynaptic GABAergic tone in motor cortex without affecting corticospinal excitability or synaptic inhibition.

The paper identifies higher-order thalamus as a critical node in schizophrenia pathophysiology, showing that restoring its activity can normalize connected brain regions.

This study uses closed-loop optogenetic stimulation to modulate theta and gamma oscillations in the motor cortex of mice, showing phase-dependent effects based on neuron type and stimulation protocol.

This study examines how unilateral handgrip fatigue at different intensities affects bimanual movement quality, finding no measurable impact on movement quality despite changes in neural dynamics.

This study uses closed-loop tACS to enhance beta ERS during motor tasks, improving motor adaptation retention.

This study investigates implicit motor sequence learning using multimodal neuroimaging, showing early learning links to default mode network connectivity and motor network connectivity for sustained learning.

This paper introduces an advanced transcranial ultrasound system that precisely modulates deep brain circuits with high spatial resolution and specificity.

This study uses dual-site beta tACS over primary motor cortices during bimanual coordination to modulate functional connectivity, finding altered connectivity but no behavioral changes.

This study examines how beta and gamma neural activity differs between unimanual and bimanual motor tasks and how these patterns change with learning.

This study shows baclofen, a GABAB receptor agonist, impairs motor learning and reduces expected decreases in GABA levels during motor learning.

The paper shows that reward expectations during goal-directed reaching are encoded in distributed neural population dynamics across brain regions.

The paper uses 7 Tesla MRS and TMS-hdEEG to show that MRS-GABA correlates with physiological measures of tonic inhibition in the human motor cortex.

This study shows that transcranial random noise stimulation improves inhibitory behavior by increasing low-beta power and intermittent beta-burst duration, particularly in impulsive individuals.

This study quantifies motor cortical high-gamma oscillations in stroke survivors and controls, finding reduced power linked to movement speed and stroke.

Theta-burst transcranial ultrasound lowered GABA+ in the posterior cingulate but not dorsal anterior cingulate cortex in 24 adults, while raising resting-state connectivity of both targets.

This study compares monophasic and biphasic theta-burst stimulation (iTBS) effects on motor corticospinal excitability, finding monophasic iTBS induces a larger increase in motor evoked potential amplitude.

This study uses ramped transcranial ultrasonic stimulation to investigate its effects on visual evoked potentials, finding no direct evoked potentials but modulation of VEPs when combined with a checkerboard stimulus.

This study uses MRSI to show GABA changes in the cerebellum during visuomotor adaptation correlate with performance and network connectivity.

This paper investigates how the electric field induced by tDCS in the motor cortex correlates with changes in GABA levels, finding that grey matter volume modulates this relationship.

This study shows that modulating theta-gamma coupling during motor skill training improves skill acquisition and persists beyond stimulation.

This study shows that repeated unilateral handgrip contractions at 50% MVC improve contralateral hand response times and alter functional connectivity and neurochemical levels in sensorimotor areas.

This paper reassesses WM-behaviour relationships using multimodal microstructural imaging in 50 healthy individuals, finding partial support for FA-behaviour links and suggesting multimodal approaches may better capture WM-behaviour associations.

This study shows that brain stimulation enhances perceptual learning by reducing GABA levels and altering functional connectivity between visual and decision-related brain areas.

This study identifies two distinct gamma sub-bands in human motor cortex linked to GABAergic signaling and motor learning through combined MEG and TMS methods.

The paper develops a mean-field model to link neurotransmitter dynamics at the microscopic level to fMRS signals, showing how neural activity affects observed MRS signals.