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A presentation of Hellblade at a public event.

Collaboration Award 2024

03 Feb 2025

The 2024 Collaboration Award winner is Representing psychosis in video games: Communicating clinical science and tackling stigma, a project led by...

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A still from the game Hellblade.

The Pict warrior fighting her inner demons

11 Sep 2019

How games developers, a Cambridge psychiatrist and people who live with hearing voices helped bring to life the psychoses experienced by the lead...

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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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Meine Augen zur Zeit der Erscheinungen

How hallucinations emerge from trying to make sense of an ambiguous world

12 Oct 2015

Why are some people prone to hallucinations? According to new research from the University of Cambridge and Cardiff University, hallucinations may...

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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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Artist's representation of schizophrenia

Antipsychotic drugs linked to slight decrease in brain volume

18 Jul 2014

A study published today has confirmed a link between antipsychotic medication and a slight, but measureable, decrease in brain volume in patients...

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