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\n \n\n \n \n \nNewborn brain scans from the Developing Human Connectome Project are now available online in large-scale open-source project, clarifying how some diseases develop.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor 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.
\n \n\n\n \n 26 May 2021\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nExtra funding should be made available for early years care in the wake of the pandemic, researchers say.
\n \n\n\n \n 26 May 2021\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nWorld-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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nNew research shows that people who suffer from recurrent abdominal pain in childhood may be more likely to have disordered eating as teenagers.
\n \n\n\n \n 23 April 2021\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOne in three COVID-19 survivors received a neurological or psychiatric diagnosis within six months of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new study from the Moln\u00e1r group on the role of regulated synaptic vesicular release in specialised synapse formation has made it to the cover of Cerebral Cortex.
\n \n\n\n \n 26 March 2021\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nHealthy 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).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nNew 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n 24 February 2021\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers have discovered that the arrangement of existing memories in the brain is altered when we embed new memories
\n \n\n\n \n 28 January 2021\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nNew study shows targeting arterial stiffening earlier in a person\u2019s lifespan could provide cognitive benefits in older age and may help to delay the onset of dementia.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA partnership between University of Oxford, the Earlham Institute, and the global pharmaceutical companies Biogen Inc and Boehringer Ingelheim has been announced to investigate a new drug target for the treatment of schizophrenia.
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