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\n \n 8 June 2020\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nWe are excited to announce that Catherine Harmer, Susannah Murphy and Liliana Capit\u00e3o 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe 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\u202fmillions of\u202fchildren\u202fstruggling\u202fwith\u202ftheir fears and\u202funcertainty\u202falone, say authors of a new Comment published in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nHalf of UK parents do not feel comfortable about their children attending school following lockdown, according to early results from a new study asking parents and carers about their children\u2019s mental health through the COVID-19 crisis.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe new teaching package aims to give students greater confidence and experience when consulting with patients who live with psychiatric illness.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nHugh Grosvenor, The Duke of Westminster, has donated \u00a31m towards Oxford University\u2019s COVID-19 mental health research programmes. This is part of the \u00a310m donation announced by the Westminster Foundation last month to support the national COVID-19 relief effort.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers from the Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University, Imperial College London and two third-sector organisations, The McPin Foundation and Youth Era are collaborating to co-design and deliver online peer support training for young people aged 16-18 years old in the UK.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new study from the University of Oxford shows that people who hold coronavirus conspiracy beliefs are less likely to comply with social distancing guidelines or take-up future vaccines.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new online seminar series is exploring the \u2018ethics of exercise\u2019 during coronavirus lockdown measures in the UK.
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\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nResearch leads in the Department of Psychiatry compete to share highlights from important projects in a speed round of talks. How did they do?
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\n \n\n \n \n \nNew study from the Oxford Centre for Suicide Research, the Nuffield Department of Population Health and the UCL Division of Psychiatry shows that risk of repeat self-harm in patients who present to the general hospital after self-harm (intentional self-poisoning or self-injury) is the same whether they are assessed by a liaison psychiatric nurse or by a psychiatrist.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe COVID-19 Supporting Parents, Adolescents, and Children in Epidemics (Co-SPACE) study materials have been shared with international collaborators in more than 15 countries. This new funding will support the development of further collaborations, enable work to bring together datasets and make the linked data open access, as well as help increase recruitment to the study, especially among harder to reach groups.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new study will determine current risks to adolescents with regards to isolation, online behaviours, anxiety and patterns of seeking support during COVID-19 crisis. In partnership with researchers at the University of Oxford, schools in Oxfordshire can agree to take part in the study for pupils aged 9 to 18 years (Years 5 to 13).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOver 800 Oxford undergraduate first year students took part in the initial wave of the U-Flourish study. The follow-up study will now ask these same students about their experiences to-date with questions specifically added into the survey about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their mental health and aspects of their student experience.
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\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nRecently published, the new edition of the Oxford Textbook of Medicine includes a much expanded section on Psychiatry for the physician.
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\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nA new BBC Radio 4 series: The Anatomy of Melancholy will air from Monday 11 May at 1.45 pm. The first episode is entitled - Who is free from melancholy?
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\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nNew research shows our genes influence the way our brains are \u2018wired up\u2019 in childhood making us more vulnerable to a range of mental health conditions in later life.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nWork was cited as the most frequent source of stress for parents, followed by their children's wellbeing and education, in a new interim report from 5,000 responses to the Co-SPACE (COVID-19 Supporting Parents, Adolescents, and Children in Epidemics) survey led by experts at the University of Oxford.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new national survey evaluation - The Social and Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on Medical Students (SPICE-19) - is a multicentre prospective cohort study that will systematically explore the impact of the crisis on medical students at two time points during 2020.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor Kia Nobre is elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of 120 new members and 26 new international members elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
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