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Inviting nature into a secure ward for young people

A team from the University of Oxford and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust created a therapeutic horticulture garden in a psychiatric intensive care unit for young people, as part of a new study looking at how green spaces can benefit patients and staff.

Front cover of book reading: Eighth Edition Shorter Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry. By Paul Harrison, Philip Cowen, Mina Fazel and Kamaldeep Bhui. Includes an artistic image of a head with a brain inside.

New psychiatry textbook by Oxford experts published

The latest edition of the Shorter Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry has just been published by Oxford University Press.

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New mental health pathway for primary school children reduces anxiety problems – study shows

A new way of supporting primary age children’s mental health via schools has been shown to be highly effective in reducing anxiety problems, according to a new trial.

Declining water levels linked to air pollution and depression severity

New study highlights how water management and environmental change may be shaping mental health around the Great Salt Lake in Utah, USA.

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Clinical Trial of Ketogenic Therapy for Early Psychosis funded by Baszucki Group

26 May 2026

The University Oxford has received £1.17m of funding from Baszucki Group to assess the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of a ketogenic diet for patients at clinical high risk of psychosis (CHR-P).

Dozens of participants seated and standing at the event in the Seminar Room at the Department of Psychiatry to mark 50 years of the Oxford Self-harm Monitoring System. Emeritus Professor Keith Hawton is pictured third from right on the front row.

The 50th Anniversary of the Oxford Self-harm Monitoring System

18 May 2026

Influential and impactful Oxford Self-harm Monitoring System had been in place, and continuously funded, for 50 years.

Laura Winchester and Rongqin Yu standing outside the Department of Psychiatry building.

Two new Associate Professors appointed in the Department of Psychiatry

15 May 2026

Laura Winchester and Rongqin Yu have both been conferred the title Associate Professor by the Medical Sciences Division.

Talks, discussions, events

Department of Psychiatry Seminar Series | Remote volunteering via smartphone to address patients' loneliness and social isolation and volunteer's stigma

Tuesday, 09 June 2026, 9.30am to 10.30am

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NIHR Oxford Health BRC

Find out more about the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) based in the Department of Psychiatry.

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Beginnings

Listen to the late Professor Michael Gelder on how he founded the Department of Psychiatry at Oxford, 1969.

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