A blog by Dr Simone Reinders, Senior Research Associate at Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, following the publication of her editorial in The British Journal of Psychiatry. She has studied Dissociative identity disorder (DID) for over a decade.
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 18 Dec 2020
Patients, carers and advocates say better evidence is needed on the safety of ketamine for depression after long-term use, and that those prescribed it must be closely monitored. These are the results of a study undertaken as part of a collaboration between the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 30 Jul 2019
Better care and more research into treatments for people experiencing a first manic episode are urgently needed, according to researchers at the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre.
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 25 Jun 2019
The largest genetic study of bipolar disorder ever, supported by the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, has identified 30 genetic variants that act to increase the risk of developing bipolar disorder, 20 of which are newly discovered.
The large-scale genome-wide association study was undertaken by a group of 207 institutions from 22 countries. The study was published in Nature Genetics.
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 2 May 2019
Researchers at King’s College London launched the largest ever single study of depression and anxiety in September 2018, recruiting in England, and are now opening the study in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. By recruiting at least 40,000 people who have experienced either depression or anxiety at some point in their life, the Genetic Links to Anxiety and Depression (GLAD) study will make important strides towards better understanding of these disorders and improving the lives of future patients.
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 25 Feb 2019