Search

24 Oct 2019: Psychiatry. “The links that we observed suggest that there are very real structural brain and cognitive differences in children who are obese. ... Dr Lisa Ronan, a Senior Research Associate and Bernard Wolfe Research Fellow at the Department of

17 Feb 2014: Clinical depression affects one in six people at some point in their lives. ... Until now, however, doctors have lacked a biomarker for clinical depression, partly because its causes and symptoms are so varied.

4 Oct 2006: In many patients with schizophrenia, cognitive difficulties are the main factor limiting full rehabilitation – such as returning to work – and quality of life, particularly after the clinical symptoms have remitted. ... This work will utilise

2 Dec 2019: Molecular Psychiatry; 2 Dec 2019; DOI: 10.1038/s41380-019-0587-x.

27 Jan 2020: Previous studies in rats and small clinical trials involving children with ASD suggest that the drug bumetanide, which has been approved for use in oedema, a condition that results in a ... Dr Fei Li from Xinhua Hospital, Jiao Tong University School of

7 Mar 2019: A randomised trial directly comparing ventral capsule and anteromedial sub thalamic nucleus stimulation in obsessive compulsive disorder: Clinical and Imaging evidence for dissociable effects. ... Biological Psychiatry; 7 March 2019; DOI:

14 Jan 2019: Mental health disorders that first occur in adolescence are more severe and more likely to recur in later life,” says Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen from the Department of Psychiatry at ... Anne-Laura is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow at the

25 Jun 2015: Around 16,000 people in the UK are estimated to be affected by frontotemporal dementia (also known as Pick’s disease). Patients are often affected at a young

17 Dec 2013: A study published this month in the journal Molecular Autism confirms previous research that people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) are more likely to carry

26 Oct 2022: In the study, led by researchers at the Autism Research Centre, 524 non-autistic people and 417 autistic people completed an online survey about their

12 May 2020: The UK was first placed on lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic on 23 March. Only essential businesses were allowed to remain open and everyone was

22 Mar 2012: Dr James Kirkbride. The systematic review published in PLoS One, which was conducted by the Department of Psychiatry EpiCentre at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry,

11 Jul 2014: In a study funded by the Wellcome Trust, researchers from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge looked at brain activity in nineteen male patients affected by compulsive sexual ... Valerie Voon, a Wellcome Trust Intermediate

1 Sep 2022: With colleagues in Cambridge’s Department of Psychiatry, Gunes and her team designed an experiment to see if robots could be a useful tool to assess mental wellbeing in children.

23 Oct 2020: Professor Tamsin Ford from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge said: “These findings suggest that more children are struggling with poor mental health than in 2017, particularly those

9 Jan 2020: OCD can be an extremely debilitating condition for many people, but the treatments are not always straightforward,” explained Baland Jalal, a neuroscientist based in the Department of Psychiatry at the University ... Jalal says the next step is to do

15 Sep 2017: young people who have contact with mental health services in the community and in clinics are significantly less likely to suffer from clinical depression later in their adolescence than those with ... In the study, Sharon Neufeld and colleagues from the

4 Mar 2019: In a study published today in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, a team of researchers at Cambridge’s Department of Psychiatry, in collaboration with a group at Aarhus University in Denmark, has shown ... I hope to run these sorts of early-stage

26 Dec 2022: Researchers found that females, on average, score higher than males on the widely used ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’ Test, which measures ‘theory of mind’

1 Dec 2016: Good evidence exists that psychological treatments are effective – around 70% of adolescents who receive treatment go into clinical remission – but there is very little evidence about whether these effects last. ... Follow up over the next 12 months

30 Sep 2021: Professor Tamsin Ford, Head of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge and one of the study authors, said: “We can be reassured that the mental health of children and young people

2 Jan 2018: rely on IQ tests,” says Professor Ed Bullmore, Head of Psychiatry at Cambridge. ... It’s great being able to work on such amazing large-scale neuroimaging datasets that allow for answering longstanding questions in psychiatry,” he says.

29 Jan 2014: We need collaboration on this sort of scale to characterise TBI as a disease and to identify the most effective clinical interventions,” explained Menon. ... Work with Dr Alasdair Coles in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences has shown that some

28 Nov 2012: Before there are any clinical symptoms of depression or anxiety, this test reveals a deficient ability to efficiently and effectively perceive emotion processes in some teenagers – a biomarker for low resilience ... Professor Barbara Sahakian, a

6 Jul 2016: Barbara Sahakian, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge.

13 Jul 2022: The MY Resilience In ADolescence (MYRIAD) study programme span spans eight years of research and explore whether schools-based mindfulness training could

24 Aug 2021: Following feedback from autistic people, their families, and charities, the Spectrum 10K team has decided to pause any further recruitment of new participants.

12 Aug 2020: Despite the condition being known about for some time, to date there are no empirically-based treatments or published clinical trials for the condition. ... The therapy was originally developed by Dr Baland Jalal from the Department of Psychiatry,

1 Sep 2022: A team led by scientists at UCL, the University of Cambridge and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London carried out a study examining whether cannabis users ... Martine Skumlien, a PhD candidate in the

1 May 2010: For more information, please contact the author Professor Paul Fletcher (pcf22@cam.ac.uk) at the Department of Psychiatry. ... Research described here takes place within the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, which is jointly funded by the

29 Jan 2020: Professor Ed Bullmore, joint senior author of the paper and head of the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge, said: “We know that depression, anxiety and other mental health disorders often occur

14 Feb 2023: Dr Shanquan Chen from the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, said: “Jobs that involve working face to face with the public, particularly where the employee has a degree of responsibility,

15 Feb 2022: The research is published today in the British Journal of Psychiatry.

6 Mar 2017: In this study, researchers at Cambridge’s Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute tested 43 OCD patients and 35 matched healthy volunteers to see how well those people with OCD were able ... In a second study, published recently in Biological

3 Aug 2015: In a study published today in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, a team of researchers led by Professor Barbara Sahakian from the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge describe ... The training module is based on the Wizard memory game

21 Mar 2019: The questionnaire gives a score of 0 to 31, and children scoring 15 or above were then given a clinical assessment.

3 Jul 2017: To overcome this problem, researchers from the Departments of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences and the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cambridge developed ‘Game Show’, a memory game

8 Jun 2022: Professor Barbara Sahakian from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, a study co-author, added: “People who reported high levels of social isolation were more likely to show

12 Apr 2021: For some participants, the order of the days was reversed.). Dr Margaret Westwater, who led the research while a PhD student at Cambridge’s Department of Psychiatry, said: “The idea was ... Professor Paul Fletcher, joint senior author at the

7 Sep 2011: Professor Barbara Sahakian, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge. ... Professor Barbara Sahakian, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge, said: “Alzheimer’s disease generally starts by

1 Aug 2018: Translational Psychiatry; 1 Aug 2018; DOI: 10.1038/s41398-018-0186-7 .

6 Oct 2016: Nonetheless, the amazing achievements made by basic and clinical neuroscientists will not only help us understand the healthy brain but also improve brain health for everyone, including those with neuropsychiatric disorders, ... Professor of Clinical

17 Jan 2017: In a study funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Wellcome, researchers from the Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cambridge investigated ... Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive

18 Jan 2017: Sharon Neufeld. The study, published in Lancet Psychiatry, found that 14-year-old adolescents who had contact with mental health services had a greater decrease in depressive symptoms than those with ... Lancet Psychiatry; 10 Jan 2017; DOI:

16 Aug 2016: Julieta Galante, Research associate at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

12 Oct 2015: This suggested that people from the clinical group were indeed relying more strongly on the information that they had been given to make sense of the ambiguous pictures. ... Additional support for the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute at

25 Jun 2014: Simon Baron-Cohen. The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, surveyed 374 individuals (256 men and 118 women) diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome as adults between 2004 and 2013 at the Cambridge ... Our findings confirm anecdotal reports that adults

13 May 2020: Dr Helen Firth, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, Cambridge University Hospitals, Honorary Faculty Member, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Bye-Fellow, Newnham College. ... Professor Tamsin Ford CBE, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of

11 Jan 2021: In a report published today in PLOS Medicine, a team of researchers from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge led a systematic review and meta-analysis to examine ... Mindfulness-based programmes for mental health promotion in

20 May 2016: Researchers at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge studied almost 800 teenagers (322 boys and 449 girls), and used mathematical modelling to examine the impact of friendships and