Tilman Lesch (pictured) is a Ph.D. student supervised by Professor Barbara Sahakian. Here, he provides advice to potential students eligible for the CHESS scholarship. The CHESS scholarship All applicants eligible for the Cambridge Home and EU Scholarship Scheme (CHESS) should not miss this easy scholarship opportunity. It requires no separate application form from the one [...]
Paul Wilkinson wins European Psychiatric Association research award
January 9, 2012 by
Congratulations go to Dr Paul Wilkinson who has just been awarded the 2012 European Psychiatric Association research prize for best scientific paper in child and adolescent psychiatry by a young European psychiatrist in 2011. The prize is awarded annually to young researchers working in the field of psychiatry to recognise the very best peer-reviewed psychiatric [...]
Inspiring Careers: Dr Belinda Lennox
January 9, 2012 by
Name: Dr Belinda Lennox Job title: University lecturer and clinical psychiatrist Dr Lennox’s research focuses on the biological basis of psychosis. She is both an academic lecturer and clinical psychiatrist, working as a consultant psychiatrist to the first episode psychosis service in Cambridge, CAMEO. 1. Why did you choose psychiatry? I chose psychiatry as I [...]
Inspiring Careers: Dr Sam Chamberlain
January 9, 2012 by
Name: Dr Sam Chamberlain, Ph.D. Job title: Psychiatric Trainee (CT2) and academic researcher (Ph.D.) Dr Chamberlain has completed a Ph.D. in the neurochemical and neural substrates of cognition. He is particularly interested in obsessive-compulsive disorder and trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling). 1. Why did you choose psychiatry? It has been a source of befuddlement to me [...]
Inspiring Careers: Dr Tom Dening
January 9, 2012 by
Name: Dr Tom Dening Job title: Clinical psychiatrist and academic psychiatrist in old age psychiatry Dr Dening is a clinical psychiatrist and researcher, with a particular interest in old age psychiatry. 1. Why did you choose psychiatry? I got hooked on psychiatry because I had a wonderful teacher during my psychiatry attachment. Then, as I [...]
Inspiring careers: Prof. Peter Jones
January 9, 2012 by
Name: Prof. Peter Jones Job title: Professor of Psychiatry and Head of Department. Professor Jones’ research works at the interface of population-based research, neuroscience and clinical psychiatry. He is both a clinical psychiatrist and academic researcher. His research principally focuses on understanding the causes, mechanisms and treatments for psychosis (particularly schizophrenia) dementia, depression and bipolar [...]
Graduate funding: testimonial – Stephanie Mok
December 20, 2011 by
NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program The NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program is an exceptional international opportunity for PhD students to complete an integrative research project in the United States National Institutes of Health and at a collaborating research facility in Cambridge or Oxford Universities. Selected scholars are accepted as funded full-time PhD students at Oxford or Cambridge [...]
Graduate funding: testimonial – Golam Khandaker
December 20, 2011 by
I am funded by the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme for Clinicians, one of the Wellcome Trust PhD programmes and studentships. The programme supports medically qualified clinicians who wish to undertake rigorous research training. You will have to be registered with the General Medical Council at the time of taking up the post. It’s a brilliant [...]
Inspiring Careers: Dr Paul Wilkinson
December 20, 2011 by
Name: Dr Paul Wilkinson Job title: University Lecturer & Honorary Consultant in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Undergraduate Psychiatry Speciality Director. Paul is both a clinical psychiatrist and academic researcher. His main research interest is the intermediate biology and cognitions of adolescent depression, in particular how such intermediate variables mediate associations between genotype, environment and disorder. [...]
Effects of Modafinil on Cognitive Enhancement
November 11, 2011 by
Professor Barbara Sahakian (Department of Psychiatry) and Dr James Rowe (Clinical Neurosciences) appeared on Newsnight this week (Wednesday 9th November, 2011) to discuss the possibility of using drugs to increase cognitive enhancement with Jeremy Paxman. In a feature length report, Professor Sahakian discussed the possibility that drugs such as Modafinil – usually used to treat [...]