Close Monitoring Essential to Ensure Safety of Ketamine for Depression
30 July 2019
Patients, carers and advocates say better evidence is needed on the safety of ketamine for depression after long-term use, and that those prescribed it must be closely monitored.
Virtual Reality Could Transform Psychological Therapy in the NHS
27 June 2019
Research Highlights Strategic Developments
A new clinical trial is testing a virtual reality (VR) based psychological therapy for people with severe mental health difficulties. gameChange is the largest ever clinical trial of virtual reality for a mental health disorder. Automated delivery of therapy using VR has potential to transform NHS provision of psychological therapy.
Clinical Guidelines for Antidepressant Dosage Must Reflect the Evidence
27 June 2019
New analysis shows the lower range of the licensed dose of the most commonly used second-generation antidepressants achieves the optimal balance between efficacy, tolerability and acceptability in the acute treatment of adults with major depression.
Cristal Health uses industrial scale data science to improve lives
27 June 2019
Research Highlights Strategic Developments
New spinout enterprise from Oxford seeks to accelerate evidence based innovation for treatments and services in mental health and dementia.
Let’s talk about loneliness – the importance of social psychology
27 June 2019
Public Engagement Research Highlights
his year’s focal point of Loneliness Awareness Week , 17th -21st June, is about reducing the stigma about loneliness. We’re using the opportunity to shine a light on some of the psychological research that can be utilised to help tackle loneliness.
BBC documentary on anxiety
29 May 2019
Public Engagement Research Highlights
As part of its Mental Health Season, BBC 1 showed their documentary on anxiety presented by Great British Bake Off Winner, Nadiya Hussain. the show featured Professor of Experimental Psychology, David Clark, who discusses with Nadiya the various features of anxiety.
3-dimensional landscape of European data availability for Alzheimer’s disease research launched 3-dimensional landscape of European data availability for Alzheimer’s disease research launched
29 May 2019
Research Highlights Strategic Developments
The ROADMAP project launches its Data Cube. The Cube offers a dynamic overview of the ‘landscape’ of data availability in Europe for Alzheimer’s disease research.
Risk of dementia after TIA or stroke
29 May 2019
Risk of dementia after stroke is a major concern for patients and carers. Reliable data on risk of dementia, particularly after TIA or minor stroke, are scarce.
Thomas Willis Day 2019
29 May 2019
Events Research Highlights Strategic Developments
On 16 May the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences celebrated the work of the previous year, marking their successes in research, teaching and public engagement
‘Night-time Cat’ - a children’s book to support improved grammar understanding
24 April 2019
Public Engagement Research Highlights
Postdoctoral research associate publishes a children's book that enables greater exposure to complex grammar structures at a young age, supporting children's long-term reading and learning development.
Queen of Pain on her Life Scientific
24 April 2019
Public Engagement Research Highlights
The Head of NDCN Professor Irene Tracey talks to Radio 4's Jim Al-Khalili about imaging pain in the brain
Inside the Wade-Martins Lab for World Parkinson's Day
24 April 2019
Events Public Engagement Research Highlights
We are raising awareness of Parkinson's Disease and related disorders with a unique video insight into the work of the Wade-Martins Group.
New insight uncovered into one of the most important features of hearing
24 April 2019
Dr Kerry Walker and her team help us to better understand how we perceive pitch, a feature of hearing critical to recognising communication through sound, such as speech and music.
Link confirmed between white matter pathways and strength of communication between brain regions
23 April 2019
The degree to which functional connectivity between brain regions is affected by the properties of white matter pathways is a fundamental question in neuroscience.
Research leads to drug discovery programme for treating pain
23 April 2019
LifeArc, one of the UK’s leading medical research charities, has signed a deal to license an ion channel drug discovery programme to Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited.
Urgent need for guidelines to communicate with children about life threatening conditions
28 March 2019
The global prevalence of life threatening conditions in children and parents makes it an urgent priority to develop child-focused communication guidelines for healthcare professionals to support families in their time of need.
NMDAR-Antibody Encephalitis: A new clinical way to identify patients
25 February 2019
Paper published in Lancet Psychiatry may help with the accurate detection of this form of autoimmune encephalitis
World’s first gene therapy operation for common cause of sight loss carried out
25 February 2019
Researchers in Oxford have carried out the world’s first gene therapy operation to tackle the root cause of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the UK’s most common cause of sight loss.