Leading scientists are calling for urgent global action to better understand the links between air pollution and mental health.

The impact of social factors such as poverty and abuse on suicide need to be recognised and action taken to address them, according to a major series of papers published in the Lancet Public Health on World Suicide Prevention Day.

Older people are able to remember familiar pieces of music as well as young people – but some parts of their brain are having to work harder to do it, according to a new study.

Increasing serotonin can change how people learn from negative information, as well as improving how they respond to it, according to a new study published in the leading journal Nature Communications.

A study into Alzheimer’s disease, completed by researchers in the BRC’s Dementia Theme, has found that data gathered from online cognition testing correlates to protein blood biomarker levels associated with the disease.

Researchers from the Biomedical Research Centre’s Preventing Multiple Morbidities Theme are looking into whether a ketogenic diet is an effective treatment for treatment-resistant depression (TRD).

The new recombinant shingles vaccine ‘Shingrix’ is associated with a reduced risk of dementia compared to an earlier shingles vaccine, according to a major new study published in Nature Medicine.

A study partnership involving University of Oxford researchers from the OH BRC’s Brain Technologies Theme, Great Ormond Street Hospital, University College London and King’s College Hospital were recently involved in running a trial which led to the successful implementation of the world’s first epilepsy device fitted into the skull of a 12-year-old boy.

New study of more than one million people with depression in England shows that statin use is associated with lower mortality and no increased adverse events.

The Mental Health Mission Midlands Translational Centre (MHMTC)  is one of two demonstrator sites for the NIHR/OLS Mental Health Mission  whose aim is to accelerate regional mental health research capacity and re-engage industry in both Early Psychosis (EP) and difficult to treat depression (DTD) within the context of a young, superdiverse, deprived population.