NIHR Maudsley BRC Blog

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New research indicates that early-onset liver disease in childhood adversely affects the developing brain

Research from King’s College London and funded by NIHR Maudsley BRC and Mowatlabs has found that a significant proportion of children with Biliary Atresia (BA), a rare and serious early-onset liver condition, may face significant challenges in communication, motor skills and social interaction.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 31 Jul 2025

Co-development of patient reported-outcome measures

Niamh Molloy, NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre PhD Student in the Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London explores in this blog how people with lived experience are contributing to developing outcome measures in mental health research. 

 

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 4 Feb 2025

Brand strategy to brain science

The IoPPN's new blog series 'My IoPPN PhD' hears from PhD students about how they came about to undertake a project with their supervisors at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London. NIHR Maudsley BRC student Pooja Schmill, whose path to exploring psychological interventions for chronic medical conditions was shaped by her experiences in the corporate world and a profound personal loss.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 19 Sep 2024

Identifying mentions of pain in mental health records text: A natural language processing approach

Jaya Chaturvedi recently won the Best Student Paper Award at MedInfo 2023, the 19th world congress on medical and health conference, in Sydney, Australia. Jaya is a KCL DRIVE-Health CDT PhD Student in the Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London. Jaya writes about the  process and findings from her winning paper.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 10 Aug 2023

Working with students and teachers to evaluate secondary school stress workshops

June Brown is the lead for Brief Evaluation of Stress Workshops in Secondary Schools (BESST) and a reader/associate professor in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London. In this blog she describes how a small pilot with schools in South London has now led to a national clinical trial funded by the NIHR with 900 students across 57 schools. 

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 8 Jun 2023