The award from the Medical Research Council will help scientists understand how genetic mutations in multiple different genes lead to common biological and cognitive changes and identify new therapeutic targets.
At the University of Bristol, we’re invested in collaborative research, to learn and better understand the challenges that autistic students face. A new course for staff is helping educate and raise awareness of the experiences of autistic students so that we can continue to improve help and support.
Anxiety and depression are impairing mental health problems that commonly co-occur and often develop in adolescence. Many young people with anxiety and depression do not receive any treatment and, if they do, treatments are not always effective. It is important to prevent anxiety and depression to improve young people’s lives. In a Prudence Trust/Elizabeth Blackwell Fellowship, Dr Naomi Warne will co-design a novel art-based programme to prevent anxiety and depression in UK secondary schools.
After the emergence of SARS-COV-19 in Wuhan, China in December of 2019, there were reports of a change in social responses towards Chinese people living in the UK and worldwide. Some of these reports were positive – including community support – but some were not. These include xenophobia, avoidance and other responses which could lead to problems for the individual as well as the community, such as economic hardship, or delays in seeking help for medical symptoms.
This Earth Day (22 April) – an international day for environmental protection - we are raising awareness of how our changing climate is affecting our health. Watch our series of films to find out more about the challenges we face and how research is part of the answer.
Bringing together researchers from multiple disciplines to find out the effects of rising heat stress on women’s health.
Friday 7 April 2023 is ‘World Health Day’: an annual event hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO). This year, it marks exactly 75 years since the WHO’s foundation: a chance to take stock of great work done and the challenges that remain ahead. The theme of this year’s World Health Day is ‘Health For All’, which centres health as a human right and the importance of good health for everyone’s fulfilment. Here, Elizabeth Blackwell Institute Director, Rachael Gooberman-Hill, reflects on what health research is, and how it's contributing to achieving health for all.
Antibiotic resistance is an enormous and encroaching threat facing medicine, as growing numbers of infections become harder to treat. The World Health Organization estimates that antibiotic resistant strains of presently treatable bacteria will contribute to up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050. The medical and political establishments are considering new ways to tackle the issue.
Depression in Alzheimer's has different risk factors than depression in older adults without the disease, finds a major new study in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. The University of Bristol-led research looked at over 2,000 people with the disease to explain why current anti-depressants are ineffective for people living with depression in Alzheimer's.
Learning, remembering something, and recalling memories is supported by multiple separate groups of neurons connected inside and across key regions in the brain. If these neural assemblies fail to sync together at the right time, the memories are lost, a new study led by the universities of Bristol and Heidelberg has found.
