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Anxiety Disorders Among Children, Assessment and Working with Families
Anxiety Child and adolescent Early intervention Mental Health
9 May 2022
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health disorders among children, yet there is limited guidance on the process of assessing child anxiety disorders and sharing diagnostic outcomes with families.
Investigating the Psychiatric Sequelae of COVID-19
3 May 2022
After 25 years as a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, Paul Harrison speaks to The Lancet Psychiatry about his inspirations from the early days to present-day.
Landmark New Clinical Trial Shows Benefits of Automated Virtual Reality (VR) Treatment for Severe Psychological Problems
Mental Health Psychological therapy Virtual reality
6 April 2022
The gameChange automated VR program is designed to treat agoraphobia in patients with psychosis. In the largest ever clinical trial of virtual reality for mental health, gameChange especially helped people whose anxiety had previously left them virtually housebound.
UK-Japanese Collaboration Researches Mental Health Challenges Faced by Young People and their Families
Awards COVID-19 Child and adolescent Early intervention Global child development Mental Health
31 March 2022
Dr Simona Skripkauskaite, Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, is the UK lead for one of the ten collaborative research projects jointly awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), to address the challenges presented by the global pandemic.
Department of Psychiatry Recognition Awards
Awards Mental Health
16 March 2022
Today we announce the prize winners of the first Department of Psychiatry Recognition Awards. One award is designed to offer early career researchers (ECRs) the opportunity to showcase their work, motivations and aspirations for research into mental health. Alongside this we launch the 'Good Citizen' award, where all department members have been able to make nominations.
New Public Engagement Ambassadors
Public involvement
15 March 2022
Two of the 11 new Public Engagement Ambassadors selected in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging training programme are from the Department of Psychiatry.
Hearing Aid Use Linked to Slower Decline in Thinking Skills
Dementia Mental Health Old-age psychiatry
7 March 2022
A new study, co-funded by Dementias Platform UK (DPUK), has found that hearing loss increased the risk of a precursor to dementia called mild cognitive impairment, but this increased risk is not present in people who wear hearing aids.
NIHR Awards Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility £4 million Over Next Five Years
Awards COVID-19 Early intervention Mental Health
7 March 2022
The Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility (OH CRF) is one of 28 facilities across England to benefit from nearly £161 million that has been awarded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to expand early phase clinical research delivery in NHS hospitals.
Happier During Lockdown?
COVID-19 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Mental Health
1 March 2022
A new study analyses responses of self-reported wellbeing from 17,000 UK school students (aged 8-18 years) during the COVID-19 lockdown. One third (33%) of students reported improved mental wellbeing during the first UK lockdown, similarly a third (32.9%) reported that mental wellbeing had remained the same, and another third (33.9%) of students reported their mental wellbeing had deteriorated.
Oxford Neuroscience Experience
Events Mental Health
28 February 2022
This is a five-day programme of activities for Year 12 students based in Oxfordshire who are interested in brain research and are planning to go to university.
Taking Multispecies Probiotic Supplements May Improve Mood
Early intervention Mental Health
22 February 2022
A new study has tested if a daily, 4-week intake of a multispecies probiotic improved emotional processing in people with untreated moderate depression.
Children and Young People's Wellbeing
COVID-19 Child and adolescent Mental Health
15 February 2022
Leading child and adolescent experts, Professor Cathy Creswell and Associate Professor Polly Waite, have contributed important information from the Co-SPACE study findings to the recent - State of the nation 2021: children and young people's wellbeing - report.
Positive Impact of Funding Research in Mental Health
COVID-19 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Child and adolescent Early intervention Mental Health Psychological therapy
2 February 2022
The Duke of Westminster visited the University of Oxford on 1st February to see first-hand the positive impact of funding research in mental health.
Risk of Death Doubled in Patients with Chronic Disease and Co-occurring Psychiatric Disorders
Medical comorbidity Mental Health
27 January 2022
A new study led by Professor Seena Fazel at the University of Oxford found that among patients with chronic, non-communicable diseases, the risk of death is more than doubled if they also have a psychiatric disease.
Ethics in Mental Health Digital Innovations for Young People in Africa: Digital Campaign
Early intervention Global child development Mental Health Public involvement
27 January 2022
This campaign was led by a team of 29 Early Career Researchers (ECRs) and a Young People's Advisory Group (YPAG) across five African countries. The young people wanted to share contextual and accessible information on digital mental health and ethical issues that are important to them.
New Review Shows Improved Transparency in Antidepressant Drug Trials
20 January 2022
A new review and meta-analysis, published today in the journal PLOS Medicine, indicates that drug companies conducting clinical trials on new antidepressants have increased disclosure of clinical trials with negative outcomes, that is, trials that fail to show the drug is more effective than a placebo.
How Mindfulness May Improve Body Satisfaction and Mood
Early intervention Mental Health Mindfulness
20 January 2022
New research from Emma Osborne, Research Assistant at the Centre for Research on Eating Disorders (CREDO) at the University of Oxford (and PhD Candidate at the University of Bath), and Dr Melissa Atkinson, University of Bath, investigated two ways in which mindfulness might improve body satisfaction and mood.
Review Highlights Risk Factors Associated with Violence in Schizophrenia
Mental Health Schizophrenia
20 January 2022
Researchers at Oxford University’s Department of Psychiatry have found that people with schizophrenia and related disorders are at higher-than-average risk of perpetrating violence, but that the overall risk remains low (less than 1 in 20 in women, and less than 1 in 4 for men over a 35-year period for violent arrests and crimes).
New Study will Investigate Brain Fog Symptoms in Post-Hospitalised COVID-19 Patients
COVID-19 Mental Health
17 January 2022
C-Fog is a collaborative new study led by Oxford University researcher, Dr Maxime Taquet, which will investigate the reasons why brain fog or cognition problems affect patients after COVID-19 infection. With a better understanding of the mechanisms involved it may be possible to understand how to treat brain fog and help many thousands of people worldwide.
A New Experimental Study Investigated the Effects of Atorvastatin on Emotional Processing
Mental Health
10 January 2022
Atorvastatin is one of a group of statins widely used to treat heart and blood vessel diseases. The medication works by lowering cholesterol in the blood. This new study shows that atorvastatin influences the way people experience certain emotions, giving us important insights about disorders such as anxiety and depression.