Dr. Tim Viney

Biography

Tim Viney is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford, specializing in Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience. His research investigates the neural circuit mechanisms underlying spatial orientation and coordinated neuronal activity, particularly in relation to disorientation, a key early symptom of dementia. The Viney Group focuses on the mechanisms that lead to disorientation, examining vulnerable neurons through post-mortem human brain tissue and recording in equivalent neurons in mice. Current projects involve identifying the cell types vulnerable to Tau pathology in the human Papez circuit and defining specific cell types within the mouse thalamus. His past research has included studying the synaptic mechanisms of various GABAergic neurons in the medial septum that implement rhythmic neuronal activity in the cortex, especially theta network oscillations. Viney holds a PhD awarded by a group led by Dr. Botond Roska at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel, where he studied the neural circuits in the retina. He has also worked as a MRC Career Development Fellow and as an Investigator Scientist.

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