Monday 13 October 2025

• 13:00 - Competition in brain development and a novel approach to neural coding
  Professor Michael Stryker (University of California)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 14 October 2025

• 10:00 - Multi-regional neocortical dynamics underlying learning and prediction
  Dr Shuting Han (Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 12:15 - Sleep disruption and early psychosis: A new treatment target
  Dr Felicity Waite (University of Oxford)
  Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2025
• 15:00 - Harry Pack & The Purple UFO, Art as a Portal into Deeper Self Awareness and Connectivity
  TBA
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Wednesday 15 October 2025

• 11:00 - Immune alterations in first-episode psychosis and the effects of natalizumab: A neuroimaging study with concurrent CSF measures
  Dr Yuya Mizuno (King's College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series

Monday 20 October 2025

• 10:00 - Managing Cardiometabolic Comorbidity Among People With Severe Mental Illness
  Professor Dan Siskind (The University of Queensland)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 October 2025

• 09:30 - Not all inflammation is the same: Observations from studying Inflammation Across Tissues
  Professor Christopher Buckley (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - A Developmental Lens on Youth Suicide: Insights from Quebec Birth Cohorts and a Systematic Review
  Dr Marie Claude Geoffroy (McGill University)
  Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2025

Tuesday 28 October 2025

• 16:00 - Compulsive Reward-Seeking: Roles for Dopamine, Synaptic Plasticity, and Stress
  This is a virtual event; please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link
  Dr Talia Lerner (Northwestern University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 4 November 2025

• 09:30 - Social Prescribing: a passing phase or a foundational pillar of the new Neighbourhood Health Service?
  Professor Daisy Fancourt (University College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - From co-creation to implementation: developing and scaling an intervention to promote healthy sleep in adolescents
  Dr Anneke Vandendriessche (Ghent University)
  Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2025

Monday 10 November 2025

• 16:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture 2025: A Psycholinguistic Perspective on LLMs: Does the Turing Test Really Test Intelligence?
  Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 11 November 2025

• 09:30 - Beyond the Scale: The Neuropsychiatry Weight of Obesity in SMI
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Tomas Hajek (Dalhousie University)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - How do screens impact adolescents' sleep? A theoretical review and experimental insights into bedtime displacement
  Dr Serena Bauducco (Örebro University)
  Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2025

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 09:30 - Computational specificity in psychotherapeutic interventions
  Professor Quentin Huys (University College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - Accessibility and effectiveness of early intervention sleep programmes for adolescents
  Dr Faith Orchard (University of East Anglia)
  Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2025

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 09:30 - Applying Nature Based Interventions to Populations with Complex Mental Health Needs
  Dr Catriona Mellor (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Kathryn Rowsell (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - Improving access to help with sleep in youth mental health: A system-wide implementation programme
  Dr Rebecca Rollinson (Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust)
  Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2025

Wednesday 26 November 2025

• 09:00 - Oxford Psychiatric Genetics and Genomics Symposium
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 09:00 - Oxford Neuropsychiatric Genomics and Multiomics Symposium
  TBA
• 09:00 - Oxford Neuropsychiatric Genomics and Multiomics Symposium
  TBA

Tuesday 2 December 2025

• 09:30 - Cashing in on Network Psychiatry
  Professor Giovanni Briganit (Université de Mons)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - How adolescents seek and offer support within friendships: insights from lived experiences and hypothetical situations
  Tanya Manchanda (Department of Psychiatry)
  Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2025

Tuesday 16 December 2025

• 09:30 - Can we Predict the Future of Psychiatry?
  Professor Benoit Mulsant (University of Toronto)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series