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 [...]
Researchers develop tool for predicting annual incidence of first episode psychosis.
February 27, 2013 by
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, [...]
Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia: The 2012 Paykel Lecture
October 4, 2012 by
The 2012 Paykel lecture in Psychiatry, entitled ’The Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia: Neural Basis and Clinical Relevance”, was given this week by Professor Eileen Joyce, Professor of Neuropsychiatry at UCL. Prof Joyce, who is also Chair of the British Neuropsychiatry Association, began with a short history of schizophrenia research, from Freud through the sociology of the 1960s [...]