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How do vaccines reduce the risk of dementia?

Chemicals (‘adjuvants’) contained in some vaccines may be one reason, according to new study by a team at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

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Oxford-developed support for child anxiety to be adapted for families in Chile

The successful parent-led programme, developed with support from the NIHR ARC OxTV, is being culturally adapted in a new international collaboration.

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New OPM-MEG brain scanner installed at the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA)

The advanced technology will open new avenues for research, including scanning children, dementia patients and enable full-body movement studies.

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