Department of Psychiatry

The CHiMES Collaborative

A Creative Collaborative for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Policy & Practice * Underpinned by Methodologies and Critiques from Cultural Psychiatry and Health Inequalities Research * Testing and Evolving Eco-Social, Bio-Psycho-Social, and Syndemic Frameworks

True Colours

A daily and weekly remote symptom monitoring system for patients with over a decade of use in research and clinical service

Heart and Brain Ageing Group

Nearly a third of dementia cases can be prevented by modifying our lifestyle, in particular our cardiovascular health. While we know that “what’s good for the heart is good for the brain”, we still don’t entirely know why. Our group investigates this heart-brain link in detail, by studying how the health of our heart and large blood vessels affect the brain and memory as we grow older.

MindKind Study: preventing and treating depression and anxiety in young people

We want to understand how best to design a mental health databank which identifies active ingredients in preventing and treating depression and anxiety in young people. We have brought on board young people's voices on how to measure such active ingredients, and how such a databank might be designed, used, and shared. Along with colleagues in Cambridge, we work closely with young people, professionals, and researchers in South Africa and India. We welcome other collaborations and enquiries.

Translational NeuroStimulation Laboratory

We aim to understand processes of selective attention and action, learning and memory in the human brain. Through experiments in healthy volunteers and patients with brain disorders we seek to characterize how information processing networks respond (adaptively or maladaptively) when challenged by interference. Our motivation is to develop rational neurocognitive intervention strategies to help promote recovery from conditions such as depression and brain injury.

Early Psychosis Research Group

We undertake research across the translational spectrum, ranging from basis science studies, through to trials of new treatments and approaches for psychosis, right through to researching clinical services and their effectiveness. We work closely with the Oxfordshire Early Intervention in Psychosis Service in Oxford Health NHS FT. This service provides high quality, multi-discliplinary care for people experiencing first episode of psychosis and their families. We also lead the Early Intervention Psychosis network for the NHS in the South of England, providing the opportunity to speed up the translation of new research findings into routine clinical care. You can find out more about our current studies below.

OxWell Student Survey

The OxWell Student Survey is an online school-based study that directly asks students about their mental health, wellbeing and school experience. Our aim is to learn from school-aged children and adolescents aged 9-18 years about what they need, which factors influence their wellbeing, and how they would like to access support if they have mental health difficulties. Since 2019, we have conducted five waves of the survey and collected over 120,000 responses, providing us with unique and current insights into the lives of today's young people.We are so grateful to the students who take part and the schools and local authorities who have partnered with us.

Talking to children about serious illness

Talking to children and young people about illness and death is important for their mental health.

Oxford Precision Psychiatry Lab

We are an international multidisciplinary group of researchers, clinicians (both psychiatrists and psychologists), statisticians, methodologists and students who aim to improve the current treatment practice in the NHS and across the world, using innovative approaches from artificial intelligence and machine learning, to digital mental health and bioethics.

U-Flourish: Student Wellbeing Research

We aim to understand and promote mental health and wellbeing for university students.

Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity Analysis Group

Developing new machine learning tools for understanding human brain activity

Neuroscience, Ethics and Society

We conduct independent ethics research and we deliver ethical guidance for a range of scientific and clinical studies in the Oxford Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. We also work with a variety of international institutions and researchers. Our core research interests involve young people, mental health and neuroscience innovations in a global context.

Computational Psychiatry

Using computer models of behaviour, we aim to better understand anxiety and depression, and to guide the development of novel treatments.

Computational and Molecular Neuroscience

The Computational and Molecular Neuroscience Research Group is a multidisciplinary laboratory specialized on the intersection of computational and molecular methods to study neurodegenerative diseases. The computational methods entail mainly Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics, while the molecular side brings state of the art multi-culture iPSC models of disease and high throughput screening. We are especially interested in Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s disease, and how we can use the computational and molecular methods mentioned above to find new drug targets and therapies. We have three main areas of activity: better understanding disease to identify new therapies; discovering biomarkers to enable preventative trials; and validating findings in advanced cell models of disease.

Translational Neuroimaging

Neuroimaging provides a window into the living brain, and is an increasingly vital experimental medicine tool for neuro-psychiatric disease. With a particular focus on early and pre-clinical disease, we explore how the brain changes before symptoms take hold.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Our mission is to promote the healthy mental and physical development of children and their families, irrespective of their life circumstances. We are working on improving access to supports and services for children, adolescents and parents, communication about neuroscience and illness and our understanding of the impact of climate change. This includes community and school-based provision as well as online and digital mental health interventions. Our work focuses on the implementation of school, healthcare, social care and community-based interventions.

Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity

OHBA is a research facility providing state-of-the-art techniques to measure or stimulate activity in the living human brain. Groups at OHBA investigate brain function in healthy volunteers, and in individuals affected by psychiatric and neurological conditions.

Forensic Psychiatry

Our research includes projects in the epidemiology of mental illness and violent crime, violence risk assessment, prison health, pharmacoepidemiology studies, forensic services, and suicide and self-harm in prisoners and offenders. More recent work has focused on suicide prevention, particularly in people with severe mental illness.

Centre for Suicide Research

Centre for Research on Eating Disorders at Oxford

CREDO was established in 1981. The main focus of its research is on the treatment of eating disorders. More recently, it has also developed methods to facilitate the dissemination of effective psychological interventions. It is in the process of creating a digital treatment for eating disorders (Digital CBTe).

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