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Researchers develop tool for predicting annual incidence of first episode psychosis.

February 27, 2013 by

Researchers in the Department of Psychiatry have developed a new tool for predicting the annual incidence of first episode psychosis in England and Wales. This work has recently been published in the British Medical Journal. Data concerning 1037 participants who have experienced an episode of psychosis was drawn from 2 previously conducted cross-sectional studies. This [...]

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Dr Graham Murray appointed Unversity Lecturer in Psychiatry

November 1, 2012 by

The Department would like to extend congratulations to Dr Graham Murray who has recently been appointed as University Lecturer in Psychiatry and honorary consultant psychiatrist. Julia Graham caught up with him to discuss his research and his plans for the new role. Dr Murray first came to Cambridge in 2000 to begin his clinical psychiatry training, [...]

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Early infection link to schizophrenia

July 5, 2012 by

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder for which the cause remains unclear. In a recent set of findings, Dr Golam Khandaker and colleagues have confirmed that exposure to certain infections before birth or during early childhood can increase the chances of developing schizophrenia as an adult. In a systematic review recently published in Psychological Medicine, Dr Khandaker [...]

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Charting the past to anticipate the future

March 22, 2012 by

A new Cambridge-led study, published today in PLoS One, has examined the past 60 years of incidence data on psychotic disorders in England in the hope that the data can reveal clues about the possible social factors which appear to underpin such conditions. The systematic review, which was led by Dr James Kirkbride, of the [...]

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