The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) today announced that Dennis Charney, John Krystal, and Husseini Manji are the recipients of the 2023 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health for their discovery of the rapid antidepressant effects of ketamine and the identification of its efficacy for treatment-resistant depression (TRD), which led to the development of the antidepressant esketamine, the first mechanistically novel U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved antidepressant in over 50 years.

Changes to services during industrial action being taken by doctors – 7am on Monday 2 October to 7am on Thursday 5 October 2023

The Health Economics Research Centre (HERC), University of Oxford, will be hosting NIHR Oxford Health BRC & Oxford BRC Symposium – Making the economic case to NICE for new health technologies.

Services, staff and public joined together with stakeholders to reflect on the past year

A study looking at the longer-term impact of COVID-19 has found that nearly a third of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 displayed abnormalities in multiple organs five months after being discharged. Some of these abnormalities have been shown through previous work to be evidence of tissue damage.

Oxford Health’s brand-new mental health facility for young people – the Meadow Unit – is set to open its doors shortly, and colleagues from the Trust and the wider NHS took the opportunity to look round.

Oxfordshire Talking Therapies have recently been involved in a study jointly run with Healthy Minds and University of Oxford. They would like to thank all the service users and staff who have kindly been involved in this project. Here you can find a brief summary of the study and its recent findings.

The NIHR Clinical Research Network (NIHR CRN) supports a range of awards to recognise and reward the inspirational work that is taking place across the NHS, public health and social care to make clinical research a core activity.

The Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum Autumn Science Lecture series invites distinguished academics to deliver lectures on plant sciences and related areas of research. These lectures are online and are free for all to attend.

Staff at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust are recruiting participants for a study into whether a new drug can slow down the rate of cognitive decline in people with Alzheimer’s disease and Down’s syndrome.