Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 19, 2025

A new Optically Pumped Magnetometers (OPM-MEG) brain scanner has been installed at the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA), based at the Department of Psychiatry. By measuring tiny magnetic fields generated by the activity of neurons in the brain the OPM-MEG scanner reveals which areas are active during specific tasks.

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 12, 2025

Cookies on this website We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you click Accept all cookies well assume that you are happy to receive all cookies and you wont see this message again. Daria Bukhman is an educator, health coach and wellbeing expert.

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 24, 2025

Cookies on this website We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you click Accept all cookies well assume that you are happy to receive all cookies and you wont see this message again. The work has already been featured in the countrys leading newspaper, El Mercurio.

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Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health 52

Department of Psychiatry News

JULY 1, 2025

Cookies on this website We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you click Accept all cookies well assume that you are happy to receive all cookies and you wont see this message again. The award was created in her memory following her death in March last year.

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International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The ability to mentalize is a fundamental capacity required in our social environment and impairments may utilise a risk for clinical psychiatric disorders (A. Individuals on the autism spectrum often experience comorbid depression, social stress, and difficulties in relating to themselves and others. Bateman & Fonagy, 2008).

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Autism spectrum Self-awareness Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain 40

Mad in America

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Naturally, I developed an eating disorder and OCD at an early age. At age 15, I was sent to a psychiatrist when I was unable to stay awake for more than a couple of hours, or eat proper food for several days, and my self-harming with sharp objects and cigarettes got too visible and out of control. I was disgusted by my body.

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