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\n \n 12 July 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor Kam Bhui, Departments of Psychiatry and Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, comments on a recent POSTnote briefing (based on literature reviews and interviews) from the UK parliament. The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology has summarised the evidence - Mental Health Act Reform - Race and Ethnic Inequalities - to inform debate and offer a series of resources to support legal scrutiny and apprise parliamentarians.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA recent survey found that young people who self-harm primarily turn to friends (one in three) and parents (one in four) for support. Formal sources of support, such as Child and Adolescent Mental Health services (CAMHS), psychologists, psychiatrists, or GPs, and online or phone-based services, were accessed by considerably fewer young people.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAt an event organised by the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator at the House of Commons on 18 May 2022, parliamentarians, policy makers and academics joined together to discuss how to bring ethical thinking and debate into public policy on pandemic recovery and preparedness, and how to involve the public.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDr Sana Suri has been conferred the title of Associate Professor, in recognition of her exceptional contribution to research.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe award honours Professor Nobre's innovative approach to imaging and understanding the human brain as well as the impact of this work on numerous subfields of cognitive neuroscience, including attention, working memory, long-term memory, and language.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThis new study examines the effects of simvastatin on emotional processing, reward learning, verbal memory, and inflammation.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResults of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 for UK universities indicate that Oxford has the largest volume of world-leading research*.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCathy Creswell, Professor of Developmental Clinical Psychology, Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOxford pain researchers are playing a major role in a new multi-million pound research programme launched by a consortium of funders, including UKRI, Versus Arthritis, Eli Lilly and the Medical Research Foundation.
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\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nA renowned neuroscientist, Professor Tracey has led Merton College since 2019 and is also currently Professor of Anaesthetic Neuroscience in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, a department she led for several years whilst holding a Statutory Chair. She is also President-elect of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAnxiety disorders are the most common mental health disorders among children, yet there is limited guidance on the process of assessing child anxiety disorders and sharing diagnostic outcomes with families.
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\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nAfter 25 years as a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, Paul Harrison speaks to The Lancet Psychiatry about his inspirations from the early days to present-day.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe gameChange automated VR program is designed to treat agoraphobia in patients with psychosis. In the largest ever clinical trial of virtual reality for mental health, gameChange especially helped people whose anxiety had previously left them virtually housebound.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDr Simona Skripkauskaite, Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, is the UK lead for one of the ten collaborative research projects jointly awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), to address the challenges presented by the global pandemic.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nToday we announce the prize winners of the first Department of Psychiatry Recognition Awards. One award is designed to offer early career researchers (ECRs) the opportunity to showcase their work, motivations and aspirations for research into mental health. Alongside this we launch the 'Good Citizen' award, where all department members have been able to make nominations.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nTwo of the 11 new Public Engagement Ambassadors selected in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging training programme are from the Department of Psychiatry.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new study, co-funded by Dementias Platform UK (DPUK), has found that hearing loss increased the risk of a precursor to dementia called mild cognitive impairment, but this increased risk is not present in people who wear hearing aids.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility (OH CRF) is one of 28 facilities across England to benefit from nearly \u00a3161 million that has been awarded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to expand early phase clinical research delivery in NHS hospitals.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new study analyses responses of self-reported wellbeing from 17,000 UK school students (aged 8-18 years) during the COVID-19 lockdown. One third (33%) of students reported improved mental wellbeing during the first UK lockdown, similarly a third (32.9%) reported that mental wellbeing had remained the same, and another third (33.9%) of students reported their mental wellbeing had deteriorated.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThis is a five-day programme of activities for Year 12 students based in Oxfordshire who are interested in brain research and are planning to go to university.
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