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« Back to NewsThe brain’s one-sided teaching signals
16 July 2021
A new study by the Lak group reveals a novel facet of dopamine signalling during visual decision making.
£36 Million Boost for AI Technologies to Revolutionise NHS Care
24 June 2021
Major Funding Awards Research Highlights Strategic Developments
An Oxford project using artificial intelligence to develop digital triage tools for mental health clinicians (CHRONOS) is one of 38 projects support by the second wave of the NHS AI Lab's AI in Health and Care Award.
Newborn brain scans clarify how some diseases develop
24 June 2021
Newborn brain scans from the Developing Human Connectome Project are now available online in large-scale open-source project, clarifying how some diseases develop.
New Head of the Department of Psychiatry – Professor Belinda Lennox
11 June 2021
Research Highlights Strategic Developments
Professor Belinda Lennox has been welcomed to the role of Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and will take over leadership in October 2021.
Sustainable funding needed to provide nursery places
26 May 2021
Extra funding should be made available for early years care in the wake of the pandemic, researchers say.
Living and Dying with COVID-19: An Ethical Perspective is Vital
26 May 2021
World-leading researchers from the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator Collaborative consider - how we should evaluate decisions made during the covid-19 pandemic and the future response to pandemic threats.
Childhood Abdominal Pain May Be Linked to Disordered Eating in Teenagers
26 May 2021
New research shows that people who suffer from recurrent abdominal pain in childhood may be more likely to have disordered eating as teenagers.
Being "in the zone": how waking activity controls sleep need
23 April 2021
A new study from the Vyazovskiy group suggests that how and where we spend our time while awake impacts how much we need to sleep - it does not only depend on how long we are awake.
No Evidence of Increased Risk of Suicide in First Months of Pandemic
23 April 2021
A new observational study is the first to examine suicides occurring during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in multiple countries and finds that suicide numbers largely remained unchanged or declined.
Link between COVID-19 infection and mental health and neurological conditions
23 April 2021
One in three COVID-19 survivors received a neurological or psychiatric diagnosis within six months of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
New research to radically alter our understanding of synaptic development
22 April 2021
A new study from the Molnár group on the role of regulated synaptic vesicular release in specialised synapse formation has made it to the cover of Cerebral Cortex.
Healthy Start, Happy Start Study
26 March 2021
Healthy Start, Happy start is a randomised controlled trial that tested the clinical- and cost-effectiveness of a brief parenting programme - Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD).
New Way of Understanding Dissociation Could Improve Patient Care
26 March 2021
New research has developed a novel measure of dissociative experiences that share a subjective 'felt sense of anomaly'. This new approach could revolutionise how clinicians understand dissociative experiences across a range of mental health disorders, and how they work with patients with dissociation in the future.
New Analysis Challenges Guidelines on Treating Anorexia Nervosa
24 February 2021
A new analysis, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, has shown a lack of strong evidence to support current guidance on psychological therapies for treating anorexia nervosa over expert treatment as usual.
Capturing immune cells that colonise the brain to prevent disease progression in multiple sclerosis
23 February 2021
Researchers have revealed a disease-causing population of immune cells, which travel to the brain in patients with multiple sclerosis. They demonstrate how to trap these cells in the blood, which means they can be targeted to prevent disease progression.
How the brain reorganises old memories when new ones are made
23 February 2021
Researchers have discovered that the arrangement of existing memories in the brain is altered when we embed new memories
Improving Experiences of People with Serious Mental Health Problems
28 January 2021
A project led by Professor Kam Bhui and Dr Roisin Mooney, University of Oxford, will focus on reducing the number of people admitted or readmitted to compulsory care under the Mental Health Act. This is one of four new research projects funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) with the aim to improve patient experiences and outcomes under the Mental Health Act.