A collaborative research effort between Cambridge University’s Department of Psychiatry and universities in Tokyo, London and York has found that poor self-control during adolescence predicts hallucinatory experiences during midlife. Professor Peter Jones worked on the study, which aimed to follow up people from the Medical Research Council’s National Survey of Health and Development – a large birth […]
Rubicon Fellowship awarded to study “The hereditary basis of autism investigated through matching brain networks”
Dr Rolf Ypma, a research associate in the department of Psychiatry, has been awarded a prestigious Rubicon fellowship to study “The hereditary basis of autism investigated through matching brain networks” Dr Ypma’s research looks at how the brain is wired. Together with Dr Mikail Rubinov and Prof Ed Bullmore, he uses neuroimaging data to statistically […]
BFI Documentary Award
We are pleased to announce that the Dept of Psychiatry’s latest film won the BFI Film Future Best Documentary Award in the 15-18 age group. Valerie Dunn from the Department said: “Ten of us (5 young people) went along to the Southbank today to the awards screening. There had been over 400 entries and today the […]
