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\n \n\n \n28 February 2023
\n \n \n \nAndrey Kormilitzin outlines a new participatory study aimed at improving AI to take account of LGBTQI+ people so that their needs are better met by mental health services.
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\n \n\n \n27 February 2023
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\n \n\n \n16 February 2023
\n \n \n \nA project led by Alex Hendry working with Oxford Brookes has engaged with parents and early years practitioners in a bid to help families spend more time playing with their children.
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\n \n\n \n16 February 2023
\n \n \n \nGlobal study involving three clinical trials will investigate the effectiveness of cannabidiol (CBD) in treating people with psychosis or psychotic symptoms, thanks to a multi-million pound grant to Oxford University.
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\n \n\n \n9 February 2023
\n \n \n \nTanya Manchanda's new paper investigates the role of friendship on the mental health outcomes of adolescents
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\n \n\n \n8 February 2023
\n \n \n \nTwo digital tools were recommended for use in the NHS to help children and young people with symptoms of anxiety or low mood.
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\n \n\n \n6 February 2023
\n \n \n \nIt may not be quite time to throw out the psychiatrist\u2019s couch, but Oxford Professor of Psychiatry Andrea Cipriani is hoping his research might transform the traditional approach to mental health treatment.
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\n \n\n \n3 February 2023
\n \n \n \nThe first participants in a clinical trial of a bioelectrical therapy to treat incontinence have received their \u201csmart\u201d bioelectronic implants.
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\n \n\n \n20 January 2023
\n \n \n \nNMDAR-antibody encephalitis is an autoimmune brain condition caused by patient\u2019s own antibodies that bind to NMDA (N-Methyl-D-Aspartate) receptors in the synapses between nerve cells.
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\n \n\n \n18 January 2023
\n \n \n \nResearch by Sarah Bauermeister of Dementias Platform UK into hearing loss and its impacts on the progress of dementia in later life has featured in extensive media coverage of a Brain Health Check-In tool created by Alzheimer's Research UK.
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\n \n\n \n22 December 2022
\n \n \n \nData comes from more than 2,600 individuals from four different countries and looks at links between factors like childhood stature, IQ and schooling.
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\n \n\n \n13 December 2022
\n \n \n \nA new study, co-authored by Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, published in Nature Neuroscience, has revealed that intracellular chloride levels within cortical pyramidal neurons reflect sleep\u2013wake history.
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\n \n\n \n21 November 2022
\n \n \n \nA new review from Professor Ana Domingos\u2019 lab and colleagues offers a fresh modern viewpoint on sympathetic neurons and their relation to immune cells and obesity.
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\n \n\n \n21 November 2022
\n \n \n \nAlthough many school-age adolescents are spending considerable time gaming, it is not having a negative impact on their wellbeing.
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\n \n\n \n21 November 2022
\n \n \n \nDespite enthusiasm for digital technology in addressing young people\u2019s mental health, few effective apps have been successfully rolled out.
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\n \n\n \n21 November 2022
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\n \n\n \n21 November 2022
\n \n \n \nNew research from the University of Oxford has shown an increased risk of severe illness and death from both COVID-19 and other severe respiratory infections, such as influenza and pneumonia, among people with a pre-existing mental health condition.
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\n \n\n \n21 November 2022
\n \n \n \nEstablishing preclinical models of Alzheimer\u2019s that reflect in-life clinical symptoms of each individual is a critically important goal, yet so far it has not been fully realised. A new collaborative study from the University of Oxford has demonstrated that clinical vulnerability to an abnormally abundant protein in Alzheimer\u2019s brain is in fact reflected in individual patient induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cortical neurons.
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\n \n\n \n30 September 2022
\n \n \n \nIn the most comprehensive study of its kind, researchers at the University of Oxford and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust found a substantially higher rate of fractures in people with intellectual disability compared with people of the same age and gender without an intellectual disability
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\n \n\n \n27 September 2022
\n \n \n \nScientists have developed a new way to test the theory that active neurons can change what they signal in the world, rather than keeping a stable correspondence to things (such as a features of an object, or ideas).
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