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In 2025, NIHR Maudsley BRC delivered research with real-world impact from evaluating new treatments for depression and migraine to developing innovative approaches to monitoring opioid overdose and diagnosing eating disorders.
By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 19 Dec 2025New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, supported by the Population Mental Health Consortium and ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, has found that social exclusion in South London is a potentially contributing factor in premature death in people with severe mental illness, and may be evident in people as young as 15 years old.
By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 15 Dec 2025As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2025, ‘Zine-making workshop: Stories of loneliness and substance use’ was held at Peckham Levels on 4 November 2025.
By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 18 Nov 2025New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has shown striking inequalities between ethnic groups in the rate of involuntary admissions to mental health units during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 14 Nov 2025The recent pandemic revealed a close link between feeling lonely and increased substance use which, in turn, can damage relationships and create a cycle of loneliness. In this blog Jonathan Crabtree, Post Graduate researcher at the IoPPN and the NIHR Maudsley BRC CEDI lead, Dr Mariana Pinto da Costa, a Senior Lecturer at the IoPPN and a Consultant Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, explore the link between loneliness and substance use disorders using real-world clinical data.
By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 19 Aug 2025
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