New York Times on Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust IAPT service
4 August 2017
An article in the New York Times discusses how talk therapy provided by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is helping patients.
New theory revolutionises understanding of autism
20 July 2017
The wiser brain: insights from healthy elders
13 July 2017
Dr Joana Cabral leads a study published in Scientific Reports, that reveals that participants with better cognitive performance have different brain activity even when resting quietly inside the MRI scanner.
Number 1 for Psychology and Medicine
10 July 2017
Brain stimulation may help children with learning difficulties
5 July 2017
Applying a brain stimulation method, which was previously suggested to enhance mathematical learning in healthy adults, may improve the performance of children with mathematical learning difficulties, according to an exploratory study by researchers from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Helping others can be too much effort
4 July 2017
Researchers have developed an equation to explain how motivated people are to help others.
Brain Diaries exhibition picks up public engagement award
29 June 2017
Our most comprehensive public engagement event to date
Through the Looking Glass
21 June 2017
Stroll through a series of beautiful microscopy images displaying the works of University of Oxford scientists.
Simon Lovestone knighted in Queen’s Birthday honours
20 June 2017
Professor Simon Lovestone, MRCPsych, Professor of Translational Neuroscience, is knighted for services to neuroscience research.
Cheltenham Science Festival
20 June 2017
The Cheltenham Science Festival was first held in 2002, and has quickly grown to become one of the most significant of its kind in the UK. The 2017 festival ran from 6-11 June among the presenters were three Oxford Neuroscientists.
Success at OxTALENT Awards
20 June 2017
Members of the Oxford Neuroscience community were successful in two categories of these awards, which celebrate the digital world at the University of Oxford
Researchers take major step forward in Artificial Intelligence
14 June 2017
The long-standing dream of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to build an artificial brain has taken a significant step forward, as a team led by Professor Newton Howard from the University of Oxford has successfully prototyped a nanoscale, AI-powered, artificial brain in the form factor of a high-bandwidth neural implant.
Treatments for Eating Disorders developed at Oxford are recommended by NICE
14 June 2017
A treatment developed in Oxford's Department of Psychiatry is recommended for all forms of eating disorder seen in adults
Long-term aspirin use linked to bleeding risk in over 75s
14 June 2017
In people aged 75 or over, long-term daily aspirin use is linked to a higher than expected risk of disabling or fatal bleeding, according to a new study in The Lancet.
Even moderate drinking linked to a decline in brain health, finds study
7 June 2017
Alcohol consumption, even at moderate levels, is associated with increased risk of adverse brain outcomes and steeper decline in cognitive skills, finds a study led by Dr Anya Topiwala at the University of Oxford's Department of Psychiatry, and published by The BMJ.