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Details for Professor Matt Jones
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Matt Jones |
| Job title | Professorial Research Fellow in Neuroscience |
| Department | School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience University of Bristol |
| Personal web page | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/phys-pharm/people/matt-w-jones/index.html |
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| Qualifications | B.A.(Cantab.), Ph.D.(Bristol) |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | British Neuroscience Association Society for Neuroscience (US) |
| Keywords | neuronal networks brain learning and memory frontal cortex hippcampus neuronal oscillations schizophrenia sleep |
| Areas of expertise | How are networks of neurons across numerous brain regions organized during complex processes and behaviour such as learning and memory or decision-making? One likely mechanism is through the coordinated, rhythmic activity of neuronal populations, which give rise to oscillations in local field potentials (LFP) and electroencephalogram (EEG) at a broad range of frequencies. Like musicians in an orchestra - who play in time with one other by following the beat of their conductor - so groups of neurons may align the relative timing of their activities by tracking the phase of rhythmic oscillations. Unfortunately, neither orchestras nor nervous systems behave perfectly all the time. Complex and debilitating psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, ADHD and autism are thought to arise as a consequence of dysfunctional interactions between brain regions. For example, the EEG of schizophrenic patients shows abnormal rhythmicity likely to reflect impaired neural coordination. |
| Media experience | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6727727.stm 'Questions, questions' - Radio 4 |