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\n \n 23 September 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThis week DPAG marked World Alzheimer's Day, which took place on Wednesday 21 September 2022, with an inside look into the Wade-Martins Laboratory.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new study finds that engaging with arts and culture online can improve mental health in young people.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new study investigates immune mechanisms that underlie a brain disease called NMDAR-antibody encephalitis, an autoimmune disease in which antibodies are produced, and subsequently disrupt brain NMDA receptors, crucial in maintaining normal brain function.
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n 18 August 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nNew 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nClinical researchers from Oxford University\u2019s 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.
\n \n\n\n \n 8 August 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor Chrystalina Antoniades explains how the COVID pandemic accelerated an innovation in one research project into Parkinson's Disease.
\n \n\n\n \n 18 July 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThis 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers from Oxford\u2019s Department of Paediatrics have discovered that infection can increase a baby\u2019s sensitivity to pain, which may last longer than the infection.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nHundreds 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.
\n \n\n\n \n 19 May 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThis new study examines the effects of simvastatin on emotional processing, reward learning, verbal memory, and inflammation.
\n \n\n\n \n 16 May 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA 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 \u201cstructural\u201d cells, are much more complex than previously thought.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOxford 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe 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.
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