The Early Psychosis Research Group is looking for patient and carer members to join their group! We are a research group from the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry who…
Cannabis is the most commonly used recreational drug by teenagers worldwide. In Canada, among youth aged 15 to 19 years, the rate of past-year cannabis use is 20.6%, while in…
The country’s top mental health researchers and clinicians are joining forces to solve some of the greatest mental health challenges facing the UK public. The group of investigators, based in…
The Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) is launching a new Brain Health Centre to offer patients access to better quality diagnosis and treatment after they have been referred by…
On Thursday 12 July, the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre and Alzheimer’s Research UK Oxford Local Network are hosting the 2018 Oxford Dementia Research Day. The event has been…
Researchers at Oxford Health BRC are developing a smartphone app to support patient choice about antipsychotic medications and side effects. The app will ask patients to choose the side effects…
What is patient and public involvement in mental health research? Why is it important? How can people get involved? We’ve launched a short animated film to answer these questions and…
We are looking a patient, carer or public member to join our CRIS Oversight Group. What is CRIS? CRIS (Clinical Records Interactive Search) is a software solution that removes information…
Researchers working on NIHR & MRC-funded Dementias Platform UK’s Deep and Frequent Phenotyping study find that wearable devices could be a way of monitoring the early progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
Accessible and informative public talk exploring the latest research into the debilitating neurodegenerative disorders Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.
Daniel Freeman, NIHR Research Professor and Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Winner of the 2017 i4i Mental Health Challenge Award. How can we improve…
The National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) awarded £4 million to enable state-of-the-art psychological therapy to be delivered via virtual reality (VR) in the NHS.
Prof Simon Lovestone, our Informatics and Digital Health theme lead, is cycling 300 miles over 3 months to raise funds for dementia research: he will even be cycling down to Buckingham palace tomorrow to receive a knighthood for services to neuroscience research.
Congratulations are pouring in for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and University of Oxford – praised as leaders in their field by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The Trust and the University are partners in the newly established NIHR Oxford Health BRC.
A review led by Professor Simon Lovestone, theme lead at the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, has found the first unambiguous signs of Alzheimer’s disease in a wild animal.
