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Warneford Park: Mental health and medical research campus development gets green light from Oxford City Council

Plans to create a £750m mental health and medical research campus in Oxford have been given the go-ahead by Oxford City Council.

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New Oxford Centre for Women’s Mental Health established

The University of Oxford is set to launch a new research centre dedicated to women’s mental health, bringing together expertise from medical and biological sciences with humanities for the first time.

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

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).

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

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