• School of Medicine
• Mental Health and Neurodegeneration
• Our research
  • Neuroscience and neurodegeneration
  • Suicide, self harm and health in the CJS
  • Developmental psychopathology
  • Mental health sciences research

Our research

Our mission

The unifying scientific mission of the Mental Health and Neurodegeneration Research Group is the primary and secondary prevention of common and complex psychiatric disorders.

Research themes

Research programmes are focused on the following main themes:

• Neuroscience and neurodegeneration
  • Neuroscience
    • Psychosis
    • Mood disorders
      includes the New Mood Study and REmission MEchanisms in Depression (REMEDi) Study
    • Impulse control disorders
  • Neurodegeneration
    • Aging, cognition and neurodegenerative disease
      • Genetics of aging and cognition
      • Neurodegeneration
• Suicide, self harm and health in the Criminal Justice System
  • Suicide prevention
    • Centre for Suicide Prevention includes projects/studies/training:
      
      • Manchester self-harm project (MaSH)
      • National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness
      • Skills-based Training on Risk Management (STORM)
      • Research with offenders (RWO)
  • Health in the Criminal Justice System
    • Offender Health Research Network (OHRN)
• Developmental psychopathology
  • Conduct disorders, depression and personality disorders
    includes the Wirral Child and Health Development Study
  • Social development and psychopathology
    • Autism includes the Pre-school Autism Communication Trial (PACT)
• Mental health sciences research
  • Psychiatry in medicine
  • Old age
  • Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU)
  • Women's mental health

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