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Irritability in young people with rare genetic conditions

Irritability in young people with rare genetic conditions

Posted on 4 September 2024 by Jessica Hall

This blog was originally shared on the Springer Nature Research Community: read it here “I worry that they will get labelled as a naughty, difficult, or even an unlikeable child”. […]

Meet the Researcher – Professor Sir Michael Owen

Meet the Researcher – Professor Sir Michael Owen

Posted on 5 July 2019 by Professor Michael Owen

Why did you choose to do research into mental health? Three things happened to me when I was a medical student that influenced my choice of career.  First, I discovered […]

Meet the Researcher – Professor Jeremy Hall

Meet the Researcher – Professor Jeremy Hall

Posted on 10 June 2019 by Professor Jeremy Hall

Why did you choose to do research into mental health? I was influenced by two things. The first was a fascination with the brain. The second was the obvious need […]

Meet the Researcher – Dr Adam Cunningham, ECHO Study Team, MRC CNGG

Meet the Researcher – Dr Adam Cunningham, ECHO Study Team, MRC CNGG

Posted on 27 September 2018 by Adam Cunningham

I have always been interested in the brain and the mind, and how we perceive and understand the world around us. I could have gone into more basic research about […]

Summer school in brain disorders research

Summer school in brain disorders research

Posted on 3 August 2018 by Maria Bolla

I’m a second year PhD student in Neuroscience and Neurotechnologies at Italian Institute of Technology in Genova (Italy). I applied to the summer school because my research work is based […]

My time with the MRC Centre, Cardiff University

My time with the MRC Centre, Cardiff University

Posted on 31 July 2018 by Anna Podlasek

When I saw the announcements of 9th annual Summer School in brain disorders research organised by MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics in Cardiff, I knew I had to […]

Revisiting and expanding the largest genetic study of schizophrenia

Revisiting and expanding the largest genetic study of schizophrenia

Posted on 27 February 2018 by Antonio Pardinas

In his short fiction “Blue Tigers”, the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges tells a story about trying to understand the unexpected. While tracking a fabled tiger in a remote region […]

MINDDS – a pan-European network for Neurodevelopmental Disorder research

MINDDS – a pan-European network for Neurodevelopmental Disorder research

Posted on 9 October 2017 by Professor Adrian Harwood

When we talk about ‘neurodevelopmental disorders’ (NDD), we refer to a wide range of mental health conditions united by an overlapping biology that arises from disrupted brain development.  It is […]

My Cardiff diary

My Cardiff diary

Posted on 24 July 2017 by Dr Niran Okewole

Why was I in Cardiff? Eighteen years ago, while still in medical school, a Cameroonian geneticist took a few of us in our Genetics club (which I had joined out […]

Stress in early life – the impact on mental illness

Stress in early life – the impact on mental illness

Posted on 25 April 2017 by Anna Moon

You’re under threat. Your brain reacts instantly. Like a runner at the start line of a race, it springs into action as if the threat was a gunshot. The hypothalamus […]