Prof James Ainge
Head of the School of Psychology and Neuroscience
Professor
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 2057
- jaa7@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Research areas
The focus of the lab is to try and understand the neural mechanisms that support our ability to remember the things that have happened to us – episodic memory. Most of our work takes a systems neuroscience approach to examine how networks within the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex process memory information.Ìý We use in vivo electrophysiology to examine firing patterns of individual neurons as lab rats carry out memory tasks. We also use molecular and genetic tools to manipulate the network and understand the cellular mechanisms underlying episodic memory.
Complimenting the neuroscientific approach, other lines of research in the lab examine the cognitive mechanisms underlying episodic memory in both human adults and children. Ultimately, we aim to apply this work by using our knowledge of mammalian memory networks to help test therapeutic strategies for disorders of memory such as Alzheimer’s disease.
PhD supervision
- NikolayÌýKokinov
Selected publications
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Open access
Duncan, S., Kuruvilla, M., Thompson, B., Bush, D. & Ainge, J., 6 Oct 2025, In: Current Biology. 35, 19, p. 4810-4819 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Warne, S., Ainge, J. & Ozakinci, G., 6 Nov 2025, In: BMC Public Health. 25, p. 1-16 16 p., 3803.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Warne, S. J., Ainge, J. A. & Ozakinci, G., Jun 2025, In: Journal of Physical Activity and Health. 22, 6, p. 726-736 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Easton, A., Horner, A. J., James, S. J., Kendal, J., Sutton, J. & Ainge, J. A., 1 Dec 2024, In: Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 167, 6 p., 105934.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Ventura, S., Duncan, S. & Ainge, J., 6 May 2024, In: Current Biology. 34, 9, p. 2011-2019
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Collaro, E., Barton, R. A., Ainge, J. A. & Easton, A., 4 Nov 2024, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 379, 1913, 7 p., 20230406.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Niven, A., Ainge, J. A., Allison, M., Gorely, T., Kelly, P., Ozakinci, G., Ryde, G. C., Tomaz, S. A., Warne, S., Whiteford, V. & Greenwood, C., 4 Jan 2023, In: Frontiers in Sports and Active living. 4, 8 p., 1067127.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Chao, O., Barbosa, F. F., Inostroza, M., Ainge, J. A. & Li, J.-S., 3 May 2023, In: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 17, 3 p., 1184935.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Doherty, G. H., Holiday, A., Malekizadeh, Y., Manolescu, C., Duncan, S., Flewitt, I., Hamilton, K., MacLeod, B., Ainge, J. & Harvey, J., 1 Jun 2023, In: Journal of Neurochemistry. 165, 6, p. 809-826 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Persson, B. M., Ambrozova, V., Duncan, S., Wood, E., O'Connor, A. R. & Ainge, J., 22 Mar 2022, In: Journal of Neuroscience Research. 100, 4, p. 1030-1046 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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