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Professor Keith Hawton Awarded CBE for Services to Suicide Prevention
Awards
12 October 2020
Professor Hawton joined the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford many years ago and became Professor of Psychiatry in 1996. His work on suicide and self-harm continues to lead the field with new guidance, studies, and publications.
New Research to Tackle COVID-19 Impact on Mental Health Received £2m Boost
COVID-19 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Child and adolescent Early intervention Mental Health Psychological therapy
12 October 2020
Professor Cathy Creswell, based in the Departments of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry has been awarded £495k for research to evaluate an online therapy programme for children with anxiety problems, to see if it is an effective remote alternative to existing mental health treatment services and could help treat anxiety problems during the COVID-19 pandemic.
World Mental Health Day 2020
9 October 2020
Expert researchers at the Department of Psychiatry share insights and expertise into mental health issues with celebrity interviewers in open and engaging online conversations.
New partnership with King Abdulaziz University aims to revolutionise drug discovery using artificial intelligence
1 October 2020
The University of Oxford and King Abdulaziz University (KAU) have partnered to create a new Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Precision Medicine.
Computer Model Explains Altered Decision Making in Schizophrenia
29 September 2020
An international team of scientists, including researchers at the University of Oxford's Department of Psychiatry, have built a computer ‘brain circuit’ that mirrors human decision-making processes and sheds light on how circuits might be altered in psychiatric diseases.
MSc Clinical & Therapeutic Neuroscience: Class 2019/20 Prizes
Awards
22 September 2020
Congratulations to our MSc in Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience, Class of 2019/20 for successfully completing the course.
Experiences of End-of-Life Care During the COVID-19 Crisis
COVID-19
21 September 2020
In partnership with members from the Department of Psychiatry this new study investigating the experiences of end-of-life care during the pandemic, now includes specific questions about communication with friends and relatives about their loved ones' illness and death.
New Phase 2 Bipolar Disorder Study with Ebselen (SPI-1005)
Bipolar Disorder Mental Health
21 September 2020
The University of Oxford and Sound Pharmaceuticals completed this new Phase 2a study testing SPI-1005, an investigational drug that contains ebselen, as a new treatment for bipolar disorder.
Psychological Therapy Innovator Wins BPS President's Award
Awards
17 September 2020
Professor Daniel Freeman, an innovator in the research and treatment of psychosis, is the 2020 recipient of the British Psychological Society's President's Award.
First of its kind digital therapeutic research identifies poor sleep as target for improving depressive symptoms
Depression Mental Health
17 September 2020
The effects of the digital therapeutic Sleepio (a digital sleep programme) may extend to depressive symptoms, according to new research published in the Journal of Sleep Research.
Children from Low Income Households Show elevated Mental Health Difficulties in Lockdown
Anxiety COVID-19 Child and adolescent Early intervention Mental Health Psychological therapy
17 September 2020
Emotional and restless/attention difficulties and behaviour difficulties for primary school aged children were consistently elevated among children and young people from low income households over a month of lockdown, according to the most recent report from the Co-SPACE study.
First of its kind in UK - Innovative New Brain Health Centre
Alzheimer's disease Dementia Integrative-neuroimaging Mental Health Old-age psychiatry
17 September 2020
New Oxford Brain Health Centre (BHC) open. Developed with the involvement of members of the public with lived experience of memory problems, the centre is a combined clinical and research service which has the potential to revolutionise NHS memory services.
More than Half of Year 12 Students Report Feeling Worse since Lockdown
Anxiety COVID-19 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Early intervention Mental Health
17 September 2020
School-based survey examines over 200 key factors in the lives and expectations of young people, aged 8-18 years, helping to shed light on mental health during lockdown.
Enriching Engagement (Round 2) awardees announced
Awards
25 August 2020
The awardees for the second round of the University of Oxford’s Enriching Engagement funding scheme have now been announced, including six projects from across the Medical Sciences Division.
New Resource for Psychiatrists: Patient Suicide
Mental Health Suicide
11 August 2020
A new resource aimed to support psychiatrists dealing with the death of a patient by suicide is now available from the Centre for Suicide Research at the University of Oxford.
Power Posing and Paranoia
Mental Health Psychological therapy
11 August 2020
A new study investigates the impact of power posing - the holding of wide and expansive postures - on self-reported feelings of power and the subsequent effect on paranoia.
Ethnic Inequalities in Mental Health Care
Mental Health
10 August 2020
The UK’s first national pledge calling on senior leaders in NHS mental health trusts, public bodies and commissioning to declare their commitment to reduce ethnic inequalities in mental health care launched 5 August 2020. The work to support this is led by the Synergi Collaborative Centre - a national five year initiative focused on eradicating ethnic inequalities in severe mental illness.
A Psychological Approach to Boosting Physical Activity in a Pandemic
COVID-19 Mental Health
3 August 2020
A new guidance paper sets out how psychological theory and techniques can be applied to increase physical activity levels in a pandemic.
Mood Homeostasis Decreases During Lockdown
COVID-19 Mental Health Mood Disorders Psychological therapy
29 July 2020
The decrease in mood homeostasis due to lockdown translates (in simulations) into 3 times more episodes of depressed mood, according to a study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, led by Dr Maxime Taquet, University of Oxford.
Antibiotics Disrupt Development of the 'Social Brain' in Mice
23 July 2020
Antibiotic treatment in early life seems to impede brain signalling pathways that function in social behaviour and pain regulation in mice, a new study, published in BMC Neuroscience, by Dr Katerina Johnson and Associate Professor Philip Burnet has found.