16 March 2022
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n7 March 2022
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n7 March 2022
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n1 March 2022
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n28 February 2022
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n22 February 2022
\n \n \n \nA new study has tested if a daily, 4-week intake of a multispecies probiotic improved emotional processing in people with untreated moderate depression.
\n \n\n \n \n15 February 2022
\n \n \n \nLeading child and adolescent experts, Professor Cathy Creswell and Associate Professor Polly Waite, have contributed important information from the Co-SPACE study findings to the recent - State of the nation 2021: children and young people's wellbeing - report.
\n \n\n \n \n2 February 2022
\n \n \n \nThe Duke of Westminster visited the University of Oxford on 1st February to see first-hand the positive impact of funding research in mental health.
\n \n\n \n \n27 January 2022
\n \n \n \nA new study led by Professor Seena Fazel at the University of Oxford found that among patients with chronic, non-communicable diseases, the risk of death is more than doubled if they also have a psychiatric disease.
\n \n\n \n \n27 January 2022
\n \n \n \nThis campaign was led by a team of 29 Early Career Researchers (ECRs) and a Young People's Advisory Group (YPAG) across five African countries. The young people wanted to share contextual and accessible information on digital mental health and ethical issues that are important to them.
\n \n\n \n \n20 January 2022
\n \n \n \nNew research from Emma Osborne, Research Assistant at the Centre for Research on Eating Disorders (CREDO) at the University of Oxford (and PhD Candidate at the University of Bath), and Dr Melissa Atkinson, University of Bath, investigated two ways in which mindfulness might improve body satisfaction and mood.
\n \n\n \n \n20 January 2022
\n \n \n \nResearchers at Oxford University\u2019s Department of Psychiatry have found that people with schizophrenia and related disorders are at higher-than-average risk of perpetrating violence, but that the overall risk remains low (less than 1 in 20 in women, and less than 1 in 4 for men over a 35-year period for violent arrests and crimes).
\n \n\n \n \n17 January 2022
\n \n \n \nC-Fog is a collaborative new study led by Oxford University researcher, Dr Maxime Taquet, which will investigate the reasons why brain fog or cognition problems affect patients after COVID-19 infection. With a better understanding of the mechanisms involved it may be possible to understand how to treat brain fog and help many thousands of people worldwide.
\n \n\n \n \n10 January 2022
\n \n \n \nAtorvastatin is one of a group of statins widely used to treat heart and blood vessel diseases. The medication works by lowering cholesterol in the blood. This new study shows that atorvastatin influences the way people experience certain emotions, giving us important insights about disorders such as anxiety and depression.
\n \n\n \n \n16 December 2021
\n \n \n \nPeople who were hospitalised with COVID-19 and continued to experience symptoms five months later, show limited further recovery one year after hospital discharge, according to the latest results of a major national study looking at the long-term health impacts of COVID-19 on hospitalised patients.
\n \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.
\n \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.
\n \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.
\n \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.
\n \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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