Deep brain stimulation is successful for one in two patients with treatment-resistant severe depression and anxiety, finds Professor Valerie Voon

🧠⚡️https://bit.ly/4oWoUA4

A major new UK-wide data initiative is set to transform mental health research.

The Open Psychiatry Project run by @maryellenlynall.bsky.social will unite diverse datasets to speed discovery of targeted treatments and improve personalised care.

➡️https://bit.ly/49Z7Qo2

Living in a deprived neighbourhood increases your #dementia risk and now @psychiatry-ucam.bsky.social researchers know why.

@audreylow.bsky.social and Prof John O'Brien found links to brain vessel damage and poorer management of lifestyle factors known to affect dementia risk: bit.ly/3JNMxv7

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The Hidden Cost of ADHD: How Attention Challenges Impact Financial Wellbeing with Professor Barbara Sahakian in the @the-independent.com

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Your brain isn’t just shrinking with age, it’s doing something much stranger

Opening Doors to Postgraduate Psychology: The Story of Summer CAMP

👉 www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/news/opening...

Fellow Dr Varun Warrier (2019) & team have revealed that #autism diagnosed in early childhood has a different genetic & developmental profile to autism diagnosed from late childhood onwards: www.caths.cam.ac.uk/... @vw1234.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk @psychiatry-ucam.bsky.social

@tamsinford.bsky.social, Prof of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry @cam.ac.uk, speaks to BBC 5 (from 2hr 20:20) to raise concerns about the impact of government decisions on children during the pandemic, a current focus of the UK Covid Inquiry.

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Understanding why antidepressants don't always work 🧠🛡️
New research by @maryellenlynall.bsky.social reveals the key role played by the immune system in symptoms of depression.

📖https://bit.ly/469cXyI

How do neutrophils contribute to mental health? Delighted to share research led by @staceykigar.bsky.social: meningeal neutrophils shape how the brain responds to stress. Out today @natcomms.nature.com. More in the thread⬇️ @psychiatry-ucam.bsky.social @medcambridge.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social

🫀 Want to slash your risk of heart disease without a total lifestyle overhaul? These seven tiny changes can make a huge difference:

🔹 Micro workouts
🔹 Quiet sleep
🔹 Sing daily
🔹 Eat real food
🔹 Avoid long naps
🔹 Stay social
🔹 Guard your heart=protect your brain

Full read 👉 bit.ly/4onWL4Q

Lonely? Skip the chatbot—grab a book, say
Professor Barbara Sahakian and Dr ChristelleLangley.

New research shows reading fiction reduces stress, boosts brain health, and helps fight loneliness more effectively than AI “companions.”

Books connect us more deeply than bots ever could bit.ly/46DQefY

We are delighted to hear that our very own Professor Ed Bullmore has been announced as a new Fellow of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.

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New study in collaboration with @nihr.bsky.social highlights the challenges of under-18s admitted to adult mental health wards

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‘Brain pacemakers’: implants to be tested to help alcohol and opioid addicts

Read Professor Valerie Voon's latest research➡️ www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/news/brain-p...