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« Back to NewsEngagement with arts and culture can have a positive impact on mental health in young people
21 September 2022
A new study finds that engaging with arts and culture online can improve mental health in young people.
Increased Risk of Some Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Remains 2 Years After COVID-19 Infection
18 August 2022
New study from the University of Oxford and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre investigated neurological and psychiatric diagnoses in over 1.25 million people following diagnosed COVID-19 infection, using data from the US-based TriNetX electronic health record network.
Repurposed drug could help patients with motor neuron disease
11 August 2022
A drug typically used to treat enlarged prostates and high blood pressure has shown promise as a potential new therapy for motor neuron disease (MND), according to a new study.
Tackling Suicide Risk in People With Mental Disorders
9 August 2022
Clinical researchers from Oxford University’s Department of Psychiatry and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, together with colleagues from elsewhere, have developed guidance to help clinicians identify and treat patients at risk of suicide.
Finding out more about Parkinson’s by monitoring symptoms at home
8 August 2022
Professor Chrystalina Antoniades explains how the COVID pandemic accelerated an innovation in one research project into Parkinson's Disease.
New Meta-Analysis Highlights No Antidepressant Effect of Statins Administered in Monotherapy
18 July 2022
This new systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials assesses the effects of statins given alone, without concomitant antidepressant treatment, in people with depressive symptoms, but who do not have a formal diagnosis of a depressive disorder.
Early life infection increases sensitivity to pain in newborn babies
14 July 2022
Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Paediatrics have discovered that infection can increase a baby’s sensitivity to pain, which may last longer than the infection.
How to use the science of the body clock to improve our sleep and health
25 May 2022
Public Engagement Research Highlights
Professor Russell Foster has written a new book about circadian neuroscience which is published by Penguin this week. This book review by Jacqueline Pumphrey was first published on the University of Oxford website.
NICE recommends offering app-based treatment for people with insomnia instead of sleeping pills
24 May 2022
Research Highlights Strategic Developments
Hundreds of thousands of people suffering from insomnia who would usually be prescribed sleeping pills could be offered an app-based treatment programme instead, NICE has said.
New Study Shows Simvastatin Can Change the Way People Experience Certain Emotions
19 May 2022
This new study examines the effects of simvastatin on emotional processing, reward learning, verbal memory, and inflammation.
Developmental dynamics of the neural crest–mesenchymal axis in creating the thymic microenvironment
16 May 2022
Research Highlights Strategic Developments
A new paper from researchers at the Department of Paediatrics and the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences has shown that fibroblasts in the thymus, often considered simply as dull “structural” cells, are much more complex than previously thought.
Oxford researchers part of major UK initiative to understand chronic pain
10 May 2022
Oxford 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.
Unique study of vascular disease reaches 20th anniversary
19 April 2022
Research Highlights Strategic Developments
The only project of its kind anywhere that studies patients with all types of acute vascular events - including strokes, heart attacks, aneurysms - in order to develop better diagnostic tests and treatments celebrates its 20th anniversary this month.
DPAG launches “Body, Brain, Behavior: Three Views and a Conversation” in Oxford
8 April 2022
The Oxford Book Launch 'Body Brain Behavior - The Need For Conversations' brought together three world leading scientist authors, Professor Zoltán Molnár and Yale Professors Tamas Horvath and Joy Hirsch, with Oxford's neuroscience community on Thursday 7 April 2022.