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Oxford-developed support for child anxiety to be adapted for families in Chile

Department of Psychiatry News

Search NIHR OXFORD HEALTH BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE NEWS Please follow the link below to read the news on the NIHR BRC website. Professor Cathy Creswell The successful parent-led programme, developed with support from the NIHR ARC OxTV, is being culturally adapted in a new international collaboration.

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New OPM-MEG brain scanner installed at the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA)

Department of Psychiatry News

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.

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Oxford strengthens global mindfulness research with £1 million gift

Department of Psychiatry News

© Shutterstock Generously contributed by Daria and Dmitri Bukhman of Bukhman Philanthropies, the gift will bolster Oxford’s pioneering research and help expand mindfulness-based cognitive therapy – an evidence-based approach that helps people recover from depression, enjoy mental health and flourish.

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The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer

Mad in America

Forthcoming in July 2025, Healing and the Invention of Metaphor explores how language, culture, and imagination shape our experiences of illness and healing, offering a critical lens on the symbolic frameworks of psychiatry and biomedicine. But you’re also helping to reveal the larger narratives that we’re all embedded in.

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Award in memory of Dr Valeria Frighi given to psychology trainee Michael Barry

Department of Psychiatry News

Get Involved Search News Award in memory of Dr Valeria Frighi given to psychology trainee Michael Barry Award in memory of Dr Valeria Frighi given to psychology trainee Michael Barry Share Share Awards 1 July 2025 The £1,000 fund was set up to support researchers with an interest in intellectual disabilities.