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Professor Andrea Cipriani, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and Director of the NIHR Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility (OH CRF), has led on a study which analysed treatments for tardive dyskinesia (TD) in people with schizophrenia or mood disorders. TD is a ... Read More

Dr. Katherine Smith, Clinical Lead for the Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility (OH CRF), recently gave a talk at the first annual symposium of the Society of Digital Psychiatry. The talk is titled "Challenges/Solutions in Digital Mental Health for Schizophrenia", and you can watch it below. ... Read More

Recently Layla Moran, Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West and Abingdon and Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee visited the Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility (OH CRF). The MP and her team were onsite at Warneford Hospital discussing plans for the Warneford Park ... Read More

Dementia is widely recognised as one of the largest global public health challenges and the most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). In 2022, dementia and Alzheimer's disease was the leading cause of death in the UK and with approximately 33% of the UK population aged fifty or ... Read More

Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre (BBRC) and Clinical Research Facility (BCRF) played host to the first Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and Clinical Research Facility (CRF) Inclusion Conference at “The Exchange” in Birmingham on 17 October.   The event provided BRC and ... Read More

Recently, the NIHR Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility (OH CRF) has begun researching a new potential drug treatment for Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD). A significant number of people with depression are not helped by at least two antidepressant medications. This is known as ... Read More

Recently, colleagues from the Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility (OH CRF) and Oxford Health Research & Development team attended the 29th International Mental Health Nursing Research Conference, held at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. The aim of the event was to share knowledge and best ... Read More

Triptans, a drug usually offered as an alternative to painkillers, have been found to be the most effective medicine for adults who experience acute migraines. Findings of a study, which recruited over 89,000 participants, compared 17 oral medications commonly used to treat migraines were ... Read More

Research staff at Oxford Health recently attended the Autumn Information Fayre at the Windmill Centre in Deddington to provide information on dementia and opportunities to take part in dementia research. Clinical Research Facilitators Zoe Collett and Ariana Cortez from the Oxford Health Memory ... Read More

Colleagues from Oxford Health Research & Development team are attending the International Mental Health Nursing Research Conference, a knowledge sharing event dedicated to research in mental health nursing. Debbie Moll, Research Speech and Language Therapist in the Memory and Cognition ... Read More

This week, a product licence for the medicine lecanemab (Leqembi) was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to treat adult patients in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. The medication has shown some evidence of efficacy in slowing progression of the ... Read More

Oxford Health research staff will be attending the Autumn Information Fayre on Wednesday 4 September at the Windmill Centre in Deddington to provide information on dementia research taking place in Oxford. The information drop-in event runs from 10am to 3pm and is hosted ... Read More

Staff from Oxford Health’s Clinical Research Facility (CRF) spent two engaging days at the UK CRF Network conference in Leicester from 4-5 July 2024. Although the event took place during the election, staff were reminded in advance to organise postal votes, and attendance was not affected. The ... Read More

What is Pride and why did we attend? The Oxford Pride 2024 celebrated the LGBTQIA+ community and its 21st anniversary of the event with the theme “One City – One Pride: Embrace Your Rainbow.” The day brought Oxford’s diverse communities together for an annual parade through the ... Read More

People with depression are being invited to be part of a clinical trial testing a new evidence-based AI treatment tool to personalise antidepressant treatment. The revolutionary digital tool, called PETRUSHKA, has been developed and is being trialled by a team at the University of Oxford’s ... Read More

Recently, both Oxford BRCs hosted a joint public talk at the University of Oxford’s Department for Continuing Education in Oxford. Professors Andrea Cipriani and Eva Morris discussed how patient data can transform diagnosis, treatment and care in the NHS. In the talk Professor of Health ... Read More

The University of Oxford and Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility  is part of country-wide trials to identify accurate and quick blood tests that can diagnose dementia. World-class research teams at Dementias Platform UK based at the Department of Psychiatry, University of ... Read More

Good quality sleep is essential for good brain health and sleep studies are vital to improve our understanding of how quality sleep can be achieved for everyone. Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility (OH CRF) hosts a variety of sleep studies and can offer two purpose-built sleep rooms ... Read More