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\n \n\n \n14 December 2021
\n \n \n \nA new study finds that media coverage of positive vaccine research can have a positive effect on overall social media sentiment, countering vaccine misinformation, but the effects wane over time.
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\n \n\n \n13 December 2021
\n \n \n \nNew Rapid Ethics Review from the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator investigates the question of whether or not children should be offered vaccination against COVID-19, a question which has raised significant ethical challenges.
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\n \n\n \n10 December 2021
\n \n \n \nA new study led through a collaboration between the Diabetes Trials Unit and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, and the global healthcare company, Novo Nordisk, will examine whether semaglutide, a tablet used to treat diabetes, can change the course of the earliest changes that happen in the brains of people at risk of developing Alzheimer\u2019s dementia.
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\n \n\n \n9 December 2021
\n \n \n \nProfessors Mina Fazel, Morten Kringelbach and Mike Browning have been given the title of Professor in the 2021 Recognition of Distinction Exercise at the University of Oxford.
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\n \n\n \n30 November 2021
\n \n \n \nA new research study involving more than 200 teachers from across the UK investigated how their experiences and levels of stress, mental health and burn out were impacted by either taught or self-taught mindfulness training.
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\n \n\n \n25 November 2021
\n \n \n \nOxford researchers involved nearly 4,000 children across the UK in three specially developed science lessons to educate pupils about brain development during early childhood. The SEEN (Secondary Education around Early Neurodevelopment) project was commissioned and funded by KindredSquared and is part of a wider drive to increase public understanding of how early experiences can shape the adults we become.
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\n \n\n \n16 November 2021
\n \n \n \nFour researchers in the Department of Psychiatry are in the Highly Cited Researcher 2021 list.
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\n \n\n \n4 November 2021
\n \n \n \nNew research conducted by the Neuroscience, Ethics and Society group and NeurOX Young People\u2019s Advisory Group in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, and the NSPCC, has looked at how Childline\u2019s message boards help support young people.
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\n \n\n \n2 November 2021
\n \n \n \nThis year's annual meeting focused again on research related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide and self-harm. There was another session on online safety in the context of suicidal behaviour and the Online Safety Bill. Organised by the Centre for Suicide Research, University of Oxford, these virtual workshops for both senior and early career researchers from the UK and Ireland provide an important opportunity to share knowledge and discuss the latest research. This year there were also contributions from Australia and Denmark.
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\n \n\n \n1 November 2021
\n \n \n \nThe recent launch event of the Experimental Medicine Industry Partnership was an exciting collaboration between industry representatives and researchers from the University of Oxford. During the event, a series of workshops were held to discuss opportunities, challenges, and future directions for the application of experimental medicine in psychiatric drug development.
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\n \n\n \n21 October 2021
\n \n \n \nA new summary report, What science has shown can help young people with anxiety and depression - Identifying and reviewing the 'active ingredients' of effective interventions, from Wellcome has been published. It includes new research from Oxford University, which investigates the knowns and unknowns of SSRI treatment (antidepressant drugs) in young people with depression and anxiety.
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\n \n\n \n11 October 2021
\n \n \n \nDr Angharad de Cates and Dr Liliana Capit\u00e3o were just two of the department's researchers presenting and publishing new research at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Conference 2021, in Lisbon.
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\n \n\n \n8 October 2021
\n \n \n \nIn a new policy briefing, a team of researchers at King\u2019s College London and Oxford University highlight the multiple effects that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on children and young people in the UK through their education and daily life, including challenges around social isolation, academic pressures, adjusting to online learning and coping with reopening of schools.
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\n \n\n \n5 October 2021
\n \n \n \nProfessor John Geddes, WA Handley-elect Chair of Psychiatry, is one of the thirty-three University of Oxford researchers, which have been named Turing Fellows for the 2021/22 academic year.
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\n \n\n \n30 September 2021
\n \n \n \nNew research shows that even a very simple intervention, administered by non-specialists with just 15 hours of training, can effectively treat depression during COVID-19.
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\n \n\n \n29 September 2021
\n \n \n \nA new study from the University of Oxford and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) investigated long-COVID in over 270,000 people recovering from COVID-19 infection, using data from the US-based TriNetX electronic health record network.
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\n \n\n \n28 September 2021
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\n \n\n \n28 September 2021
\n \n \n \nThe OxWell School Survey 2021 highlights that younger children and adolescents are the least willing to have the COVID-19 vaccination. These young people come from the most socioeconomically deprived backgrounds, feel less belonging to their school community and think they have probably had COVID-19 already.
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\n \n\n \n14 September 2021
\n \n \n \nThe International Public Policy Observatory's (IPPO) Rapid Evidence Review has now been released. Co-authored by Professor Cathy Creswell, the Review was commissioned by the UK Department for Education following a recommendation from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).
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\n \n\n \n2 September 2021
\n \n \n \nThis new study using Canadian and Swiss data showed that the risk calculator used to predict the likelihood of developing a major mood disorder was correct approximately 70% of the time. The study results suggest this may be a useful clinical tool in routine practice for improved individualised risk estimation of bipolar spectrum disorders among the adolescent offspring of a parent with a bipolar disorder.
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