About us
Research themes
Research is organised into four themes:
- Neuroscience and neurodegeneration
- Suicide, self harm and health in the Criminal Justice System
- Developmental psychopathology
- Mental health sciences research
Achievements
Achievements include:
- 8 major grants (in excess of £1m each) including seven programme or trial grants from the Medical Research Council (MRC)
- 10 'Walport' psychiatry academic clinical fellowships (representing 50% of all psychiatry fellowships awarded in England and Wales)
- 7 major policy initiatives/service roles for professional bodies/NHS/government
- Full-time postgraduate research students have more than doubled to 75 in full-time education in 2007
- 31% increase in peer-reviewed journal articles published in each year
Infrastructure
We have made significant investments (from both external and internal investment) in underpinning core technologies directly relevant to Psychiatry:
- The University is investing in a £600m building programme across the campus, including the formation of the 'biomedical corridor' on the main campus (concentrating clinical, biological and cognitive sciences into the same geographical area). As part of this, Psychiatry (previously distributed across several sites in Manchester) has been brought together in University Place.
- Neuroimaging: £25m investment in core imaging facilities including the Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre
- Systems biology: Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB), a £38m facility (University/Wellcome Trust/Wolfson Foundation funded), opened in 2006. It brings together experts in a broad range of sciences to work alongside biologists and clinicians to tackle important biomedical problems. Includes Genomics Research with £5m DTI/MRC funding genetic epidemiology and DNA banking. MIB is utilised especially by Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences for genetic studies and systems biology approaches to diagnosis.
Research activity
Major grants (more than £1m) led by research group members include:
- National Trends and local delivery in old age mental health services (NIHR programme grant)
- AMP: An Research and Development Programme to increase equity of access to high quality mental healthcare services in Primary Care (NIHR programme grant)
- UK Mental Health Research Network
- The neurobiology of impulse control and empathy in normal, antisocial and anxious individuals
- PsyGrid: E-Science to improve the understanding of first episode psychosis
- Preschool Autism Communication Trial
- Wirral Child Health Development Study
- New molecules in mood disorders: NewMood
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) programme grant in early psychosis
- National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness
- The neural basis of treatment-induced remission in depression: an fMRI and pharmacoMRI study
- Offender Health Research Network
- REmission MEchanisms in Depression (REMEDi) Study
- Centre for Suicide Prevention
- Centre for Women's Mental Health
- Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU)
Jointly with the Institute of Psychiatry, we are funded from Department of Health (DH) as the Coordinating Centre for the UK Mental Health Research Network. Professor Shôn Lewis and Professor Max Marshall are Associate Directors. Professor Bill Deakin is national lead for Experimental Medicine. Professor Alistair Burns leads the dementia group in DENDRON.
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