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Depressive Symptoms and Risky Behaviours Among Adolescents in Low-and Middle-Income Countries
Child and adolescent Depression Mental Health
1 July 2021
New meta-analysis, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, shows adolescents with depressive symptoms were more likely to engage in risky behaviours compared with non-depressed adolescents.
Adolescent Mental Health and Development in the Digital World
Anxiety Awards Child and adolescent Depression Early intervention Mental Health Self-harm
29 June 2021
A new project has been awarded funding from the UKRI £24 million investment into improving the mental health and wellbeing of adolescents in the UK.
SSRI Treatment in Young People with Depression and Anxiety
Anxiety Depression Mental Health
24 November 2020
Results from an insight review commissioned by the Wellcome Trust, highlights what is currently known about the benefits and risks of using selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for the treatment of depression and anxiety in young people.
Collaborating with Youth is Key to Studying Mental Health Management
Anxiety Depression Mental Health
23 November 2020
The Global Mental Health Databank, a feasibility study, hopes to enable youth from the United Kingdom, South Africa, and India to work directly with mental health researchers to better understand how young people can manage their own mental health.
Almost 20% of COVID-19 Patients Receive Psychiatric Diagnosis within 90 Days
Anxiety COVID-19 Depression Mental Health
10 November 2020
New study suggests that having COVID-19 increases a person’s risk of developing psychiatric disorders, and that having a psychiatric disorder increases the chance of getting COVID-19. The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, used the TriNetX electronic health records of 69 million people in the USA including over 62,000 cases of COVID-19.
Our Mental Wellness Series
Anxiety Depression Mental Health Mindfulness Psychological therapy
2 November 2020
The Our Mental Wellness series is organised by the Department of Experimental Psychology. There will be 7 talks in this first series from experts in the field of mental health. Topics include stress and anxiety, sleep, depression and low mood, mistrust and paranoia, eating disorders, coping with trauma and bullying.
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.
Funded by Wellcome to advance science so no one is held back by mental health problems
Anxiety Child and adolescent Depression Mental Health Psychological medicine
8 June 2020
We are excited to announce that Catherine Harmer, Susannah Murphy and Liliana Capitão are one of a select number of teams funded by Wellcome to review the evidence on which aspects of interventions really make a difference in preventing and treating youth anxiety and depression.
Talking to Children about Illness and Death of a Loved One During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Anxiety COVID-19 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Depression Early intervention Global child development Mental Health
8 June 2020
The news that children could be faced with in the current COVID-19 pandemic may seem almost unspeakable. But, together, we must find words, and ways, to give voice to their experience and prevent millions of children struggling with their fears and uncertainty alone, say authors of a new Comment published in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health.
How has COVID-19 Impacted on People's Vulnerability to Mental Illness and Depression?
COVID-19 Depression Mental Health
26 May 2020
The Oxford University COSIE study (COvid-19, Social Isolation and Emotion) is an online study which asked people about their experiences during the coronavirus lockdown in late April 2020, while also using objective tests of psychological function to measure vulnerability to mental illness such as depression.
Natural mood regulation low or even absent in people with depression: how will lockdown affect this?
COVID-19 Depression Mental Health Mood Disorders
22 April 2020
Supporting natural mood regulation is a new direct target for developing novel treatments, optimising existing ones and integrating drug and psychotherapies to reduce the disease burden of depression, according to new research, published in JAMA Psychiatry, from the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.
Digital technology could uncover links between stress and disease
Depression Mental Health
12 September 2019
Wearable devices offer exciting opportunities to longitudinally detect and track multi-modal stress and symptoms of disease in an objective and unobtrusive way.
Experts call for new kind of registry for deployment of psychedelics as medicines
Depression Mental Health
1 July 2019
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently licensed a form of ketamine – esketamine – as a treatment for depression which is resistant to other treatments. It is administered as a nasal spray in a clinic, initially twice a week, then weekly or fortnightly. Regular doses of the drug are necessary to prevent relapse.
First evidence of early effects of antidepressant drug treatment on brain responses to anger in depressed adolescents
Depression Mood Disorders
21 February 2019
Depression is very common in adolescence and is associated with a high risk of recurrence and suicide. Adolescents with depression experience the same symptoms as adults, such as sadness and fatigue, but some key differences exist. Depressed youth often feel irritable rather than or in addition to feeling low.
Cannabis use in teens raises risk of depression in young adults
Depression Mood Disorders Suicide and self-harm
13 February 2019
Researchers from McGill University and the University of Oxford carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis of the best existing evidence and analysed 23,317 individuals (from 11 international studies) to see whether use of cannabis in young people is associated with depression, anxiety and suicidality in early adulthood.
Group therapy most effective treatment for anxiety in young people
Anxiety Depression
2 November 2018
Group-based talking therapies shown to be most effective treatment for young people with anxiety disorders.
Professor Catherine Harmer gives this year's Monica Fooks Memorial Lecture
Depression Events
4 November 2015
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Catherine Harmer, from Oxford University Department of Psychiatry is presenting this year's lecture on 'How do antidepressants work?'.