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Modifying Dementia Risk
Modifiable risk factors for dementia include those factors that can be altered or changed in some way (modified), usually for the better. The Lancet 2020 commission (Livingston et al., 2020) advocated that there are 12 risk factors which can be potentially modified to prevent or slow the progression of demen…
Early Adversity & Brain Health
Blossom Early Adversity & Brain Health Programme is dedicated to investigating the effects of early life adversity on later life brain health, including mental health, cognition and dementia.
Heart and Brain Ageing Group
- Alzheimer's
- Brain function
- Brain imaging
- Cognitive
- Dementia
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Medical co-morbidity
- Medicine
Nearly a third of dementia cases can be prevented by modifying our lifestyle, in particular our cardiovascular health. While we know that “what’s good for the heart is good for the brain”, we still don’t entirely know why. Our group investigates this heart-brain link in detail, by studying how the health of our heart an…
Psychopharmacology and Emotion Research Laboratory (PERL)
- Anxiety
- Behaviour
- Behavioural models
- Bipolar
- Brain
- Brain function
- Brain imaging
- Cognitive
- Cognitive models
- Depression
- Experimental
- Functional imaging
- Mental illness
- Neuroimaging
- Neuroscience
- Psychology
- Treatment
We explore how the brain processes emotional information and how this is influenced by brain chemicals and medicines. This helps us to understand disorders such as depression and anxiety and to understand and contribute to the development of drug and psychological treatments.
Oxford Brain-Body Research into Eating Disorders
- Behavioural models
- Brain
- Brain function
- Brain imaging
- Clinical psychology
- Clinical trial
- Cognitive
- Cognitive models
- Dependence
- Experimental
- Functional imaging
- Information processing
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
- Mindfulness
- Mood
- Neuroimaging
- Neuroscience
- Nutrition
- Psychological treatment development and evaluation
- Psychopathology
- Research-based
- Treatment
- Treatment trials
We work to understand the cognitive, biological, emotional and somatic processes underpinning the severe eating disorder Anorexia Nervosa in particular, and Eating Disorders in general. Our trans-disciplinary research, involving clinicians and neuroscientists, aims to translate research findings into novel treat…