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Access to dementia research trials to be extended across the UK
Alzheimer's disease Dementia
24 January 2024
The announcement comes as the government announces nearly £50 million of new funding.
Next step in plans for Warneford Park
Mental Health
8 January 2024
Plans for Warneford Park have taken a step forward as partners in the project signed a Conditional Option Agreement (COA) and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), agreeing how they will work together going forward.
2023 Highlights: Head of Department
Awards
22 December 2023
Professor Belinda Lennox recounts her highlights of the past year in the Department of Psychiatry.
Research in the Department of Psychiatry 2023
14 December 2023
Associate Head of Department for Research Professor Paul Harrison outlines the research highlights of the past year.
People and Culture in the Department of Psychiatry in 2023
14 December 2023
Associate Head of Department for People and Culture Professor Catherine Harmer reflects on some of the progress made during the past year.
Launch of innovative new study to tackle mental health inequalities
29 November 2023
Learning more about how to tackle mental health inequalities will be the focus of an innovative new study working with diverse people living with psychosis and other long-term physical health conditions.
Taking a statin at the same time as an antidepressant leads to better treatment adherence
Depression
14 November 2023
New study by Oxford University shows that taking a statin at the same time as an antidepressant leads to better treatment adherence, which may be of importance to people with depression.
A new approach to recruiting for clinical trials
Randomised controlled trial
2 November 2023
‘Count Me In’: Transforming research practice in mental healthcare through a novel recruitment approach that offers access to a large and diverse patient cohort.
Digital atlas of human fetal brain
Global child development
30 October 2023
The first digital atlas showing how the human brain develops in the womb has been published by a global research team led by the University of Oxford.
New fellowships in brain science established with philanthropic support
Awards
30 October 2023
Two members of the Department of Psychiatry, Sana Suri and Andrea Reinecke, have been awarded the fellowships.
Celebrating a successful year of biomedical research with Oxford Health BRC
Dementia Mental Health Psychosis
23 October 2023
National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre colleagues and partners gathered to share information and updates as well as celebrate progress made during the last 12 months.
Racism on mental health wards creates toxic and unhealthy atmosphere – new research
Mental Health Patient involvement
18 October 2023
Racism harms mental health and is associated with mental illness – but a new study has highlighted ‘alarming’ racism on mental health wards.
Cannabis intoxication triggers cognitive mechanism of addiction
12 October 2023
New research has found that the main component of cannabis, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), leads to people’s attention being more drawn to other cannabis stimuli when using the drug.
Tackling mental illness by supporting industry to develop new drugs
Depression Psychological medicine
11 October 2023
An academic/industry partnership, based at the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, is helping companies use experimental medicine approaches to speed up development of new drugs to treat psychiatric disorders.
MSc in Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience student prizes announced
Awards
11 October 2023
The academic standard of the 2022/23 cohort was extremely high with two students getting special recognition.
Artificial intelligence (AI) language tools could be used to help detect mental health conditions
Psychosis Schizophrenia
10 October 2023
Scientists are using AI to detect language differences in people with mental health difficulties that could eventually be used to help diagnose and monitor psychiatric conditions.
Alan Stein retires as Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Child and adolescent
10 October 2023
Professor Alan Stein, Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, is retiring from Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry and will be taking up a senior post at the Blavatnik School of Government in global health and public policy.
Response to study on esketamine nasal spray
Depression
5 October 2023
Leading Oxford consultant psychiatrist Rupert McShane has responded to a new paper on the effectiveness of esketamine nasal spray, a form of ketamine, for treatment-resistant depression.
Husseini Manji awarded international prize in mental health
Depression
3 October 2023
Professor Manji is one of the recipients of the 2023 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health for the discovery of the rapid antidepressant effects of ketamine.
'There's never been a more difficult time to be young'
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Child and adolescent
2 October 2023
Researchers from Oxford, Kent, Falmouth, London and Leeds came to together to address the complexities of adolescent mental health at the Attune conference.