Researchers from Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry and Population Health, with colleagues at Harvard Medical School, have published a study in JAMA…
Recently, the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Developmental Adversity and Resilience hosted an event exploring the future of child attachment assessment. Child attachment assessments evaluate the quality of a child’s emotional bonds with…
Parents and carers of neurodivergent children are open to the use of digital tools in neurodevelopmental assessments, provided they are safe, accessible and designed around families’ needs, according to a new study. …
Researchers from NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC): Oxford Health Depression Therapeutics Theme have published new study findings that could help pave the way for a new generation of treatments for…
Count Me In is an Oxford Health and BRC: Oxford Health supported initiative that gives patients the choice to hear about research opportunities they may be eligible for, so they…
A ground-breaking new study, led by the University of Oxford and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), suggests that needle phobia can be successfully treated…
A new study is helping to answer an important question in mental health research: how do we make sure digital mental health trials produce results that are genuinely useful for…
Targeted serotonin receptor drug used in chronic constipation increased executive function and short- and long-term memory after seven to ten-day course. People with depression who find that it affects their…
A new study has deepened understanding of how iron is stored in the brain in people with psychosis, including schizophrenia. The findings offer important clues about the biology of the…
Study found children who had ongoing shorter sleep at time points between 6 months and 7 years old were associated with depression between 13 and 22 years old Children who…
A new UK-wide research project led by the University of Glasgow will test an innovative approach to improving children’s mental health services, aiming to address growing demand and long waiting…
A national digital platform that helps clinicians track information related to early psychosis care has launched in Birmingham, Nottinghamshire and Cambridgeshire. The Early Psychosis Informatics into Care (EPICare) study is a patient…
A team from the University of Oxford and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust created a therapeutic horticulture garden in a psychiatric intensive care unit for young people, as part of…
A study with more than 3,700 UK participants challenges idea that cognitive decline would be associated with relapse risk. Experiences of cognitive problems such as memory loss or difficulty concentrating,…
It is well known that poor mental health can cause problems during pregnancy and early parenthood. A study, supported by the NIHR Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration (MH-TRC) Mission, evaluates new methods of assessing and monitoring mental health during…
Researchers in our Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)’s Brain Technologies and Depression Therapeutics Themes have demonstrated, for the first time, that a key emotional centre deep in the human brain directly influences how we interpret ambiguous (unclear or…
Congratulations to Nnenna Omeje, Governance and Contracting Lead for the NIHR Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration (MH-TRC) at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust (OHFT) who has been nationally recognised for her…
A new way of supporting primary age children’s mental health via schools has been shown to be highly effective in reducing anxiety problems, according to a new trial. Researchers led…
New study highlights how water management and environmental change may be shaping mental health. A new interdisciplinary study published in The Lancet Planetary Health finds that declining water levels in…
World Bipolar Day provides an opportunity to highlight our specialist Bipolar research clinic at Oxford Health NHS FT (OHFT) which is helping to improve understanding, treatment and care for people…
