Our Impact

Effective mental health care needs innovative research that is embedded in the real world. On these pages you can explore the impact of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Maudsley and how we are making a difference to people’s lives, today and tomorrow.

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Impact stories Showing 1-12 of 42 impact stories
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Improving the treatment of depression by adding quetiapine to existing treatment

Psychosis and Mood Disorders
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CogStack - Unlocking data from patient records in real time

Informatics
AVATAR

AVATAR - A novel digital therapy to help patients manage distressing voices

Digital Therapies
Helping millions of migraine sufferers with new drugs

Helping millions of migraine sufferers with new drugs

Pain and Addictions

£50M

NIHR Funding Award (2022 - 2028)

The NIHR awarded the NIHR BRC: Maudsley funding in 2022 to continue our work developing better and more targeted treatments in brain and mental health.

FREED - Early intervention for eating disorders

FREED - Early intervention for eating disorders

Eating Disorders and Obesity
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Moving through the phases of clinical trials in psilocybin research

Experimental Medicine and Novel Therapeutics
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LUCI - Working with clinicians and patients to provide data-driven solutions to unmet needs in mental healthcare

Informatics

500

Research Papers (2022 - present)

Over 500 publications acknowledging NIHR BRC: Maudsley infrastructure support

myHealthE - Digital innovation in child and adolescent mental health

myHealthE - Digital innovation in child and adolescent mental health

Child Mental Health and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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Research Career Development studentships and fellowships (2022-present)

Number of people conducting PhD Studentships, Preparatory Fellowships and Introductory Clinical Research Secondments.

Understanding genetic contributions to mental health

Understanding genetic contributions to mental health

Trials, Genomics and Prediction
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SloMo: Improving paranoia with blended digital therapy

Digital Therapies
Point-of-care testing to enable patients to access clozapine

Point-of-care testing to enable patients to access clozapine

Experimental Medicine and Novel Therapeutics
Using neuroimaging to target treatment in psychosis

Using neuroimaging to target treatment in psychosis

Neuroimaging