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Cambridge researchers are advancing understanding of mental illness and wellbeing – and putting this into practice.

Teenager

Changes in brain structure during teenage years provide clues to onset of mental health problems

25 Jul 2016

Scientists have mapped the structural changes that occur in teenagers’ brains as they develop, showing how these changes may help explain why the...

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Anxiety

Women and people under the age of 35 at greatest risk of anxiety

06 Jun 2016

Women are almost twice as likely to experience anxiety as men, according to a review of existing scientific literature, led by the University of...

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Opinion: Accurate science or accessible science in the media – why not both?

02 Jun 2016

Michael Gaultois (Department of Chemistry), Joshua Conrad Jackson (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), Ian Mahar (Boston University), and...

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Living with adversity: What Tupac and Eminem can tell us about risk factors for mental health

12 Apr 2016

Hip-hop artists Tupac and Eminem are among the most iconic music artists of the past two decades, and as Dr Akeem Sule and Dr Becky Inkster, co-...

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Psychotic disorders in minority groups: the high price of being an ‘outsider’

01 Apr 2016

Immigrant groups experience a high incidence of mental illness. Hannah Jongsma (Department of Psychiatry) is looking at data from an international...

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Schizophrenia and the teenage brain: how can imaging help?

17 Feb 2016

Adolescence is a dangerous time for the onset of mental health problems. Advances in brain imaging are helping to picture how neural changes in these...

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Unhappy families: Nine out ten adults estranged from family find Christmas difficult

10 Dec 2015

A new report looking at the experiences of people who are estranged from family members and the challenges they face has highlighted the particular...

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Mindfulness study to look at benefits in helping build resilience to stress among university students

29 Sep 2015

Students at the University of Cambridge are to be offered free, eight-week mindfulness training to help build resilience against stress as part of a...

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Kendrick Lamar

Exploring mental health through Kendrick Lamar’s lyrics

01 May 2015

Kendrick Lamar’s major-label debut album good kid m.A.A.d. city , released in October 2012, provides rich narratives relating to important mental...

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OCD patients’ brains light up to reveal how compulsive habits develop

19 Dec 2014

Misfiring of the brain’s control system might underpin compulsions in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to researchers at the University...

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HIP HOP PSYCH initiative aims to tackle mental health issues through hip-hop

11 Nov 2014

The two worlds of hip-hop and psychiatry are being brought together in a unique project led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, which aims...

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Depression

Mind and body: Scientists identify immune system link to mental illness

13 Aug 2014

Children with high everyday levels of a protein released into the blood in response to infection are at greater risk of developing depression and...

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