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Multimillion pound research project to explore mental health in Essex

4 April 2025

Professor Tamsin Ford from the University of Cambridge said: “ This is a fabulous opportunity to increase the focus on high-quality mental health research in the East of England, which we greatly look forward to. ” The University of Essex’s Institute for Public Health and Wellbeing (IPHW) has been awarded £2.5 million by...

The promise of psychedelic medicine

25 March 2025

New study highlights the challenges of under-18s admitted to adult mental health wards

24 March 2025

A groundbreaking study published in this month’s BJPsych Open reveals significant concerns regarding the admission of young people to adult mental health wards in England, calling for urgent reforms to improve age-appropriate care. The research, conducted by experts from leading UK universities and NHS Trusts, explores the...

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PhD Completion Interview Tomáš Formánek

20 March 2025

tomas_photo.jpg Name: Tomáš Formánek Research group: epiCentre Supervisor: Prof. Peter B. Jones Advisor: Prof. Rudolf N. Cardinal Title of your PhD: Investigating the Mental-Physical Health Interface Using National Register-based Data Can you give us a short background into what your PhD/MPhil was about? The causality...

PhD Completion Interview Jodie Rawles

19 March 2025

jodie_rawles.jpg Name : Jodie Rawles Research group: Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group Supervisor: Dr. Isabel Clare Advisor: Dr. Jillian Craigie (Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London) Title of your PhD: Supporting the contraceptive decision-making of adults with intellectual...

PhD Completion Interview Franziska Katharina Bünz

18 March 2025

franziska_photo.png Name : Franziska Katharina Bünz Research group : Old Age Psychiatry Supervisor: Dr Maria-Eleni Dounavi Advisor: Professor John T. O’Brien Title of your PhD/MPhil: Investigation of deep medullary vein alterations and their association with cerebral small vessel disease and cognition in the dementia...

‘Brain pacemakers’: implants to be tested to help alcohol and opioid addicts

18 March 2025

Surgeons are to put implants into the brains of alcoholics and opioid addicts in a trial aimed at testing the use of electrical impulses to combat drink and drug cravings. The technique is already used to help patients control some of the effects of Parkinson’s disease , depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)...

PhD Completion Interview Hailun Cui

5 March 2025

hailun_cui.png Name: Hailun Cui Research group: The Voon Lab Supervisor: Valerie Voon Advisor: Rafael Romero Garcia Title of your PhD/MPhil : Optimizing the neuromodulation of pathological neural circuits: multiparametric approaches and biomarker prediction. Can you give us a short background into what your PhD/MPhil was...

PhD Completion Interview Samantha Sallie

5 March 2025

Name: Samantha N. Sallie Research group: Interventional Neuropsychiatry Group Supervisor: Professor Valerie Voon Advisor: Professor Jeffrey Dalley Title of your PhD: The Neurocognitive Dynamics Underlying Loss of Control in Alcohol Misuse and Addiction Can you give us a short background into what your PhD was about? My...

ATTEND study: testing a new mindfulness therapy in Cambridgeshire

12 February 2025

Mindfulness for Adolescents and Carers (MAC) is Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) adapted for young people aged 15-18. Mindfulness is about noticing what is happening in the present moment nonjudgmentally. By combining mindfulness meditation techniques with principles from cognitive therapy, MBCT teaches skills to...