Alan Stein retires as Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
10 October 2023
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Child and adolescent
Professor Alan Stein, Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, is retiring from Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry and will be taking up a senior post at the Blavatnik School of Government in global health and public policy.
Response to study on esketamine nasal spray
5 October 2023
Leading Oxford consultant psychiatrist Rupert McShane has responded to a new paper on the effectiveness of esketamine nasal spray, a form of ketamine, for treatment-resistant depression.
Husseini Manji awarded international prize in mental health
3 October 2023
Professor Manji is one of the recipients of the 2023 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health for the discovery of the rapid antidepressant effects of ketamine.
'There's never been a more difficult time to be young'
2 October 2023
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Child and adolescent
Researchers from Oxford, Kent, Falmouth, London and Leeds came to together to address the complexities of adolescent mental health at the Attune conference.
New MND Accelerator to facilitate the development of treatments for Motor Neuron Disease.
28 September 2023
£6 million experimental medicine programme aims to make the translation of discoveries into therapeutics easier.
New tool to streamline prescribing of antidepressants
27 September 2023
A new web tool has been developed to simplify the prescription of antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs.
Advice on chronic pain for young people
27 September 2023
A new video produced by young people offers advice on living with chronic pain.
Photo exhibition highlights experiences of detention under Mental Health Act
26 September 2023
Mental Health Public involvement
An online and in person photo exhibition displayed in London and Manchester will detail the experiences of diverse people detained under the Mental Health Act.
Young people’s mental health deteriorated at greater rate during the pandemic
21 September 2023
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Child and adolescent Depression Mental Health
Major new study shows young people’s mental health deteriorated during COVID-19, with higher levels of depression and social, emotional and behavioural difficulties than before the pandemic hit.
Response to Suicide Prevention Strategy
13 September 2023
Director of the Centre for Suicide Research Keith Hawton responds to publication of the government's Suicide Prevention Strategy for England.
Blood clots during COVID-19 may be a cause of ongoing cognitive problems
31 August 2023
High levels of two proteins at the time of COVID-19 have been found in patients who later experienced cognitive problems, including ‘brain fog'.
New dementia risk score helps identify people at risk
24 August 2023
Dementia Early intervention Old-age psychiatry
The UK Biobank Dementia Risk Score, or UKBDRS for short, outperformed three other widely used risk scores when identifying people at risk of developing dementia.
High premature mortality in those given community sentences who had psychiatric or substance use disorders
2 August 2023
People who had mental health or substance use disorders when they were given community orders were three times more likely to die prematurely, and particularly from suicide, accidents, drug overdose, or homicide, compared to those without any psychiatric diagnoses.
Prioritising the children of parents with severe mental illness
24 July 2023
Bipolar Disorder Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Child and adolescent Schizophrenia
The needs of children whose parents have severe mental illness should be prioritised, according to a new paper written by a consortium of international experts.
'Ketamine may offer hope for treatment-resistant depression'
24 July 2023
Oxford University and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust consultant psychiatrist Professor Rupert McShane is calling for ketamine to be used as an option for those patients with severe or very treatment resistant depression being considered for Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT).
Routine brain scanning may improve clinical care for people with psychosis
12 July 2023
Integrative-neuroimaging Psychosis
Routine brain scanning in people experiencing psychosis could help to identify underlying physical conditions that are causing their symptoms, according to a new study.
Glastonbury: taking science into people's lives
10 July 2023
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Child and adolescent Public involvement
Georgina Donati from the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry research group reflects on her weekend at the Glastonbury Festival talking to the public about science, developmental psychology and mental health.
Links between air pollution and mental health – new review
5 July 2023
Child and adolescent Mental Health
Poor air quality affects mental health in many ways, according to a new review of evidence published in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
Trichotillomania - emerging from under the cloak of shame
20 June 2023
Clare Mackay, Professor of Imaging Neuroscience in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, talks for the first time about her experiences of trichotillomania, an uncontrollable urge to pull out hair, which she has lived with since she was 12. She talks about the stigma and shame that she has felt, how she sought help, and her plans to understand more about this relatively under-researched condition.
New paper shows young people interested in online arts and culture for their mental health
19 June 2023
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Child and adolescent Mental Health
Researchers spoke to young people for qualitative study exploring their perceptions of using arts and culture online to improve mental health.