NIHR Maudsley BRC Blog

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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

New service in south London reduces hospital readmissions for people with bipolar disorder

A new specialist programme at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) has been shown to significantly reduce the rate of hospital readmissions for people with bipolar disorder, in an early-stage audit funded by the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 27 Nov 2018