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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?'.