An Interview with Chifundo Stubbs

Chifundo Stubbs is a Clinical Research Nurse at NIHR Wellcome King’s Clinical Research Facility (CRF), a purpose-built facility to support clinical trials in mental health, neurology, general and acute medicine.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 12 May 2021
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An interview with Dr Faith Matcham

Dr Faith Matcham is the NIHR Maudsley BRC Research Champion for diversity and inclusion. Faith also co-ordinates the major depression study within RADAR-CNS, which uses data collected from wearable devices and smartphone sensors to predict health outcomes in people with major depressive disorder, epilepsy and MS.

 

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 19 Apr 2021
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Cognitive flexibility potential new target in treatment resistant schizophrenia

Researchers at King’s College London have found that an important brain mechanism that allows us to switch between thinking about two or more ideas may help treat patients with schizophrenia who do not respond well to current treatments. 

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 1 Apr 2021
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IBS Digital therapeutic Parallel™ developed by King’s researchers gets approval in UK and US

Parallel™ is the first prescription only digital therapeutic to provide cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)  to adults with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) to receive the FDA Marketing Authorization in the US.  ParallelTM has also obtained a CE mark and been recommended for Evaluation in Practice by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

 

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 1 Apr 2021
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COVID-19 pandemic leads to rapid uptake of remote consultations in mental healthcare

Travel and social distancing restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic are leading to a significant shift in mental healthcare delivery, as clinicians make the switch from predominantly in-person to remote consultations, a study by King’s College London finds.

 

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 31 Mar 2021
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