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Cambridge researchers are advancing understanding of mental illness and wellbeing – and putting this into practice.

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Parents of children with a genetic diagnosis need better support

01 Dec 2025

Research into parental support needs is informing Cambridge Children’s Hospital’s commitment to provide a ‘whole family’ approach to care.

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Autistic adults have an increased risk of suicidal behaviours, irrespective of trauma

25 Nov 2025

Autistic people are more likely to report suicide-related behaviours and psychological distress irrespective of previous traumatic experiences...

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Golden retriever and human behaviours are driven by same genes

24 Nov 2025

Researchers have discovered that genes underlying specific behavioural traits in golden retrievers - from trainability to fear of strangers - also...

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Liliana Galindo

Your guide to Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

29 Oct 2025

The Cambridge Psychedelic Research Group is working to reduce our mental suffering. Here’s your guide to Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, where we meet...

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‘Preventable deaths will continue’ without action to make NHS more accessible for autistic people, say experts

15 Sep 2025

Life-saving opportunities to prevent suicide among autistic people are being missed because systemic barriers make it difficult for them to access...

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Depression linked to presence of immune cells in the brain’s protective layer

01 Sep 2025

Immune cells released from bone marrow in the skull in response to chronic stress and adversity could play a key role in symptoms of depression and...

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Pondering artistic beauty encourages ‘big picture’ thinking

07 May 2025

Psychological experiment suggests actively considering the beauty of art increases abstract thinking and “transformative” emotion – helping us escape...

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Adolescents with mental health conditions use social media differently than their peers, study suggests

05 May 2025

One of the first studies in this area to use clinical-level diagnoses reveals a range of differences between young people with and without mental...

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Harmful effects of digital tech – the science ‘needs fixing’, experts argue

10 Apr 2025

From social media to AI, online technologies are changing too fast for the scientific infrastructure used to gauge their public health harms, say two...

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AI can be good for our health and wellbeing

07 Apr 2025

Cambridge researchers are looking at ways that AI can transform everything from drug discovery to Alzheimer's diagnoses to GP consultations.

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Ayla Selamoglu

Psychedelic medicine could revolutionise how we treat mental illness

02 Apr 2025

Dr. Ayla Selamoglu is an expert on psychedelic medicine. Her work shows how nature’s most mysterious compounds provide new ways to combat mental...

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Researchers celebrated at the Cambridge Awards for Research Impact and Engagement

04 Feb 2025

From helping to inoculate the public against misinformation to tackling air pollution in rapidly urbanising African cities, researchers from across...

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