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Cambridge researchers are advancing understanding of mental illness and wellbeing – and putting this into practice.

Professor Gordon Harold, Cambridge’s newly-appointed Professor of the Psychology of Education and Mental Health

Cambridge creates new Professorship in education and mental health

12 Mar 2020

ֱ̽new post will strengthen existing research into how better to support young people’s well-being and mental health, in particular through the...

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Brain development during adolescence: red brain regions belong to the “conservative” pattern of adolescent development, while the blue brain regions belong to the “disruptive” pattern

Brain networks come ‘online’ during adolescence to prepare teenagers for adult life

29 Jan 2020

New brain networks come ‘online’ during adolescence, allowing teenagers to develop more complex adult social skills, but potentially putting them at...

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Women in STEM: Anna Chaplin

09 Jan 2020

Anna Chaplin is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychiatry who studies the association between depression and cardiovascular health in young...

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Study identifies brain networks that play crucial role in suicide risk

02 Dec 2019

An international team of researchers has identified key networks within the brain which they say interact to increase the risk that an individual...

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Opinion: Depression - men far more at risk than women in deprived areas

27 Nov 2019

Deprivation affects men and women differently, writes Olivia Remes, PhD candidate at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, with men more likely...

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GP clinics could help bridge mental health treatment gap, study finds

07 Nov 2019

Patients experiencing mild to moderate mental health issues could be managed effectively by GP practices, suggests new research from the ֱ̽...

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Genetic variants for autism linked to higher rates of self-harm and childhood maltreatment

29 Oct 2019

People with a higher genetic likelihood of autism are more likely to report higher childhood maltreatment, self-harm and suicidal thoughts according...

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Antidepressant use more than doubles among over 65s in two decades

07 Oct 2019

ֱ̽proportion of people aged over 65 on antidepressants has more than doubled in two decades, according to new research led by the ֱ̽ of...

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A still from the game Hellblade.

ֱ̽Pict warrior fighting her inner demons

11 Sep 2019

How games developers, a Cambridge psychiatrist and people who live with hearing voices helped bring to life the psychoses experienced by the lead...

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ֱ̽ joins Mind initiative to boost mental health support

10 Sep 2019

Cambridge is one of 10 UK universities taking part in a new pilot programme to help support mental health provision for students and staff.

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Police workforce: almost one in five suffer with a form of PTSD

09 May 2019

Rates of PTSD in the police service revealed as close to five times higher than in the UK population. Cambridge researchers and a policing charity...

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State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin

25 Apr 2019

Towards the end of the 1960s, rumours began to spread that nonconformist citizens of the USSR were being diagnosed with mental illnesses and confined...

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