NIHR Maudsley BRC Blog

Our latest news and events

Professor Matthew Hotopf receives CBE at Buckingham Palace

Professor Matthew Hotopf, Vice Dean of Research at the IoPPN, King's College London, and Director of the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre has been awarded a CBE for services to Psychiatric Research. Professor Hotopf received the CBE from His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace yesterday.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 21 Dec 2018

Blog: The SLG Arts Assassins collaborate with the BRC

The Art Assassins, the South London Gallery’s young people’s forum, work together with contemporary artists, designers, filmmakers and each other to create a programme of events for other young people and a wider audience. Here one of the Art Assassins shares a blog on their recent Peckham Experiment exhibition where they worked with Charles Curtis, Genomics & Biomarker Core Facility Manager to extract their DNA. 

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 19 Dec 2018

Computers can ‘spot the difference’ between healthy brains and the brains of people with Dissociative Identity Disorder

Machine-learning and neuroimaging techniques have been used to accurately distinguish between individuals with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and healthy individuals, on the basis of their brain structure, in new research part funded by the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre and published in The British Journal of Psychiatry.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 7 Dec 2018

Service User Advisory Group for 12-16-year-olds

We are launching a new Patient/Service User Advisory Group for 12-16-year-old CAMHS service users to advise on research studies and to provide us with unique insights and viewpoints.

 

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 6 Dec 2018

New Clinical Disorders and Health Behaviours cluster lead announced

Grainne McAlonan, Professor of Translational Neuroscience, King’s College London, has been appointed Clinical Disorders Lead at the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, a partnership between SLaM and King’s College London.

 

 

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 5 Dec 2018