From helping to inoculate the public against misinformation to tackling air pollution in rapidly urbanising African cities, researchers from across the 探花直播 of Cambridge were honoured at the Cambridge Awards on 3 February.
探花直播2024 Collaboration Award winner is Representing psychosis in video games: Communicating clinical science and tackling stigma, a project led by Prof Paul Fletcher Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, Clare College.
Meet the winner of the Cambridge Awards 2024 for Research Impact and Engagement and learn more about their projects.
Almost two thirds of UK adults are overweight or obese. Are weight loss drugs the solution? Cambridge experts share their opinions.
Cambridge scientists have shown that the hypothalamus, a key region of the brain involved in controlling appetite, is different in the brains of people who are overweight and people with obesity when compared to people who are a healthy weight.
In 2017, Ninja Theory, advised by Cambridge academic Professor Paul Fletcher, took the gaming world by storm with Hellblade, which accurately depicted psychosis. Now the company has teamed up with one of Fletcher鈥檚 PhD students to see whether gaming might help improve people鈥檚 mental health.
A unique residential study has concluded that, contrary to perceived wisdom, people with eating disorders do not lose self-control 鈥 leading to binge-eating 鈥 in response to stress. 探花直播findings of the Cambridge-led research are published today in the Journal of Neuroscience.
It鈥檚 been decades since Professor Paul Fletcher last donned scrubs, but he now finds himself helping treat psychiatric patients, sometimes in full protective gear, and learning that the best strategy is to 鈥渟hut up and listen鈥 to his colleagues.
Obesity in children is associated with differences in brain structure in regions linked to cognitive control compared to the brains of children who are normal weight, according to new research from the 探花直播 of Cambridge.
How games developers, a Cambridge psychiatrist and people who live with hearing voices helped bring to life the psychoses experienced by the lead character in a BAFTA award-winning video game.
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