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Victims of cyberbullying at greater risk of self-harm and suicidal behaviors
24 April 2018
Findings of investigation into the link between cyberbullying and self-harm and suicide in children and young people.
Dr Kate Saunders outlines potential of digital phenotying
24 April 2018
New treatment targets for mental health disorders can be identified by using data collected from wearables and mobile phones.
'Tapping the full potential of Europe's health data'
17 April 2018
A focus on the EU and industry-funded EMIF project, co-coordinated by Professor Simon Lovestone, which has created a secure online platform consolidating metadata from a wide variety of sources.
Professor Michael Gelder (1929 - 2018)
9 April 2018
A tribute to the founder of the University of Oxford's Department of Psychiatry.
Prof Simon Lovestone and Oxford win major MRC Mental Health Pathfinder Award
28 March 2018
Oxford is one of nine universities to receive a multimillion pound grant from the MRC to harness the power of data science for mental health research.
Prof Ilina Singh on the ethics of medicating children for ADHD
27 March 2018
The Professor of Neuroscience and Society at the Department of Psychiatry talks to Tes (Times Educational Supplement).
Treating depression in cancer hugely increases quality of life, but probably not length of life
14 March 2018
Professor Michael Sharpe and colleagues identify that treating depression doesn’t make cancer patients live longer, but it does make lives immeasurably better.
'LSD Brings Your Brain to the Edge of Chaos'
7 March 2018
VICE magazine reports on the research of postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford's Department of Psychiatry, Selen Atasoy.
BBC: Could psychosis be an autoimmune disease?
5 March 2018
As part of an online BBC series - 'Rethinking mental illness' - Prof Belinda Lennox explains her latest research and the new direction it is taking the treatment of psychiatric disorders.
The Deep and Frequent Phenotyping Study
28 February 2018
'Sir Simon Lovestone, a professor of translational neuroscience at Oxford University, explains the evidence behind treating Alzheimer’s disease' for The Daily Mail
'Up to 60 per cent of prisoners have head injuries, as experts warn brain damage may fuel crime'
28 February 2018
Prof Seena Fazel at the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, and co-authors, recently published a paper in The Lancet Psychiatry highlighting the high proportion of prison inmates having suffered previous head injuries. The Telegraph reports.
Presenting evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Suicide and Self-harm Prevention
22 February 2018
CLAHRC Oxford supported researchers were recently invited to present evidence to the ‘suicide and self-harm’ All-party Parliamentary Group (APPG). The group were surprised and impressed by the evidence presented and intend to forward it to the Minister for Health and Social Care, Jeremy Hunt.
'Antidepressants are more effective than placebo at treating acute depression'
22 February 2018
Network meta-analysis led by Dr Andrea Cipriani of 522 trials includes the largest amount of unpublished data to date.
Pioneering dementia study opens first site in England in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
20 February 2018
People over the age of 50 are being invited by the NHS to join a pioneering European-wide study looking at long term risks for developing Alzheimer’s dementia.
5th Course on Network Meta-Analysis
5 February 2018
Andrea Cipriani leads this 3-day interactive course with lectures, group work, hands-on tutorials and supervised statistical sessions for clinicians, researchers and policy makers.
Major award to develop VR treatment in the NHS for mental health disorders
5 February 2018
The National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) awarded £4 million to enable state-of-the-art psychological therapy to be delivered via virtual reality (VR) in the NHS.
A tribute: Elisa Favaron
5 February 2018
Valeria Frighi honours friend and colleague, Elisa Favaron, who tragically passed away on 19th January 2018 from breast cancer.
Intensive treatment of postnatal depression benefits children
30 January 2018
Early intervention for PND using a combination of psychological treatments can transform outcomes for both mothers and children.
Turing and Oxford Psychiatry join forces on machine learning and mood disorders
24 January 2018
The Alan Turing Institute and University of Oxford are launching a new collaboration bringing together the fields of psychiatry and data science.