NEW PUBLICATION
A cluster-randomised trial in 84 English primary schools evaluated a screening-to-intervention pathway in children aged 8 - 9 years.
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🎙️ A lot of us won’t think twice when it comes to #reading, but what #brain processes lie beneath this complex skill? We chat to @olejensen.bsky.social about his research.
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In a recent University of Oxford Podcast, Professor Cathy Creswell spoke about the role of philanthropy in sustaining a global research university.
Professor Creswell discusses how a gift of £27 million has been used to establish the Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research.
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Some of the awardees and their nominators stand at the stairs in the Department of Biochemistry after the awards ceremony
Another fantastic evening celebrating truly inspirational women at the Suffrage Science Awards in Life Sciences 2026.
Read about the awardees and what the nominators - previous recipients - had to say about why they nominated these exceptional women: bit.ly/LifeSciences2026
Great time at the UK–Japan Dialogue on Hikikomori at Oxford yesterday. Thanks to the Experimental Psychology colleagues
@oxexppsy.bsky.social for the Life & Mind Building tour, especially the fully soundproof booths! 🇬🇧🇯🇵
Great news🚨Our article "Mismatching expressions: spatiotemporal and kinematic differences in autistic and non-autistic facial expressions" is published in Autism Research⭐ Thanks to Jennifer Cook, Sophie Sowden & Holly O'Donoghue. Check out the thread below for a summary
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📢 Announcing the winners of our 2025 Emerging Leaders Prize! 📢
Thanks to our generous donors, the award winners will be able to further their research into the underfunded area of children and young people's mental health, as well as developing their careers 👏
👉 Read more: https://bit.ly/4qK85co
🌟 Overall, our study provides novel insights into the mechanistic and neural basis of how humans perceive their control in social contexts.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@oxexppsy.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk
Congratulations to Dr Adam Al-Diwani, Dr Alex Lau-Zhu and Dr Felicity Waite who have been named as the NIHR Oxford Senior Research Fellows from our BRC.
The programme offers 2 years of flexible support and leadership development to accelerate high‑impact research.
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Well done Pin-Chun! Thanks also to @oxexppsy.bsky.social,
@oxcin.bsky.social, and @erc.europa.eu
NEWS: Sir Paul Nurse officially opens the Life and Mind building
The Life and Mind building is one of the largest building projects in the University’s history, and home to @biology.ox.ac.uk and @oxexppsy.bsky.social, as well as @ineosoxford.bsky.social
An image of Professor Clare Mackay, Professor of Neuroscience, with a quote from her saying: "Many of us with BFRBs know that shame plays a huge role, so it is no surprise that it shows up strongly in this group. What is important is that we have demonstrated that shame is already prevalent in young people aged 13-18, and that it strongly relates to depression and anxiety.”
🔊NEW RESEARCH: Shame plays a major role in hairpulling, a type of body-focused repetitive behaviour (BFRB), among young people, according to a study by @ox.ac.uk
Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/ajjxz7rz
@claremackay.bsky.social @pollywaite.bsky.social #BFRBs @acamh.bsky.social @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social
Congratulations to Dr Sage Boettcher! 👏🌟💫
How do we decide to reach out and make friends?
My PhD work on this question is out today in @pnas.org 🎉
Study done in collaboration with the incredible
@mirunarascu.bsky.social, @sorcha-hamilton.bsky.social, Ingrid Yu, and my two amazing supervisors, Matthew Rushworth and @mkflugge.bsky.social👇
Photo from from the Award Ceremony with Professor Gavin R. Screaton, Head of the Medical Sciences Division.
Honoured to receive the Teaching Excellence Award at University of Oxford after my 1st year with the university
The real credit goes to the students: teaching such talented minds is a privilege
📸 Thanks to my lovely colleague, Kate Nation
@ox.ac.uk @oxexppsy.bsky.social @magdalenoxford.bsky.social
Professors Kate Nation and Laurence Hunt with their certificates
Congratulations to Professors Kate Nation and Laurence Hunt (@oxexppsy.bsky.social) on receiving well-deserved Excellent Teacher Awards from @ox.ac.uk, recognising their inspiring, inclusive, and innovative teaching - a testament to the outstanding academic community at St John’s!
Could you be the Deputy Director of our new Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research? Exciting (permanent) opportunity to push forward research that has a meaningful impact on children, adolescents and families
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In this paper we examined how the mental health of parents and offspring related to each other over time during the #COVID19 pandemic. TLDR: It differs markedly with child age doi.org/10.1002/jcv2...
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Find out more here: youtu.be/KDp7NrhuJrs
#DLDDay #YouCantSeeDLD #SupportiveEnvironmnets #Neurodiversity @oxfordsparks.bsky.social
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Research from our department, led by Dr Sinziana Oncioiu, explored why some adolescents with DLD experience more bullying victimisation than their peers without DLD @sinzianaoncioiu.bsky.social
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Today is Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day #DLDDay
DLD is a hidden but common disability that affects 1 in 14 people causing difficulties understanding and using language for no known reason.
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Exterior view of the Life and Mind building
NEW: The Life and Mind Building is now open 🎉
Home to @biology.ox.ac.uk, @oxexppsy.bsky.social and @ineosoxford.bsky.social, the building will bring together 1,400+ researchers and students to tackle global challenges – from mental health to climate change.
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New paper with @claremackay.bsky.social led by MSc student Talia Mayerson on the role of shame in the adolescent hairpulling and co-occurring anxiety and depressive symptomology: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/....
Summary below:
"Researchers and practitioners may assume that their priorities are the same as patient priorities for research; nevertheless, these priorities are often somewhat mismatched.”
DPhil student David Sher has identified the research priorities for people with severe paranoia for the first time.
📢 Our systematic review, led by Bomikazi Lupindo, is out in BJPsych International!
We examined how school and community violence affect adolescents’ mental health in Sub-Saharan Africa.
#YouthMentalHealth @topicgroup.bsky.social @oxexppsy.bsky.social
📄Read full article here ➡️ bit.ly/424I4tT
📣A milestone for child mental health research
Prof Cathy Creswell, OH BRC Theme Lead, will co-lead Oxford’s new Centre for Emerging Minds advancing research to support youth mental health, thanks to a £27m gift from The Paul Foundation.
🌐 tinyurl.com/yvrb3tn4
🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)
📢📢 We are hiring 3 postdocs to join us in our new Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research on an exciting new project to develop a strengths-based assessment toolkit to support neurodivergent children and young people:
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