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Psychiatry Talks
Talks:
Tuesday 28 October 2025
Compulsive Reward-Seeking: Roles for Dopamine, Synaptic Plasticity, and Stress
Date: 28 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Dr Talia Lerner (Northwestern University)
Venue Details: Virtual (Please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link)
Organisers:
TBA
Host:
Professor Stephanie Cragg (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 4 November 2025
Social Prescribing: a passing phase or a foundational pillar of the new Neighbourhood Health Service?
Date: 4 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Professor Daisy Fancourt (University College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Gelder Room
Organiser:
Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Kamaldeep Bhui (University of Oxford)
From co-creation to implementation: developing and scaling an intervention to promote healthy sleep in adolescents
Date: 4 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker
:
Dr Anneke Vandendriessche (Ghent University)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers:
Gaby Illingworth (Department of Psychiatry),
Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry),
Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Host:
Gaby Illingworth (Department of Psychiatry)
Monday 10 November 2025
Anne Treisman Lecture 2025: A Psycholinguistic Perspective on LLMs: Does the Turing Test Really Test Intelligence?
Date: 10 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 11 November 2025
Beyond the Scale: The Neuropsychiatry Weight of Obesity in SMI
Date: 11 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Professor Tomas Hajek (Dalhousie University)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
How do screens impact adolescents' sleep? A theoretical review and experimental insights into bedtime displacement
Date: 11 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker
:
Dr Serena Bauducco (Örebro University)
Organisers:
Gaby Illingworth (Department of Psychiatry),
Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry),
Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 18 November 2025
Computational specificity in psychotherapeutic interventions
Date: 18 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Professor Quentin Huys (University College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Catherine Harmer (University of Oxford)
Contexts and Confounders in Clinical Practice, in parables, and as a Path to novel drug discovery
Date: 18 November 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker
:
Professor Stephen Friend (University of Oxford / 4YouandMe.org)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Accessibility and effectiveness of early intervention sleep programmes for adolescents
Date: 18 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker
:
Dr Faith Orchard (University of East Anglia)
Organisers:
Gaby Illingworth (Department of Psychiatry),
Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry),
Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Applying Nature Based Interventions to Populations with Complex Mental Health Needs
Date: 25 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
s:
Dr Catriona Mellor (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust),
Dr Kathryn Rowsell (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Ilina Singh (University of Oxford)
Improving access to help with sleep in youth mental health: A system-wide implementation programme
Date: 25 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker
:
Dr Rebecca Rollinson (Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers:
Gaby Illingworth (Department of Psychiatry),
Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry),
Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Host:
Gaby Illingworth (Department of Psychiatry)
Wednesday 26 November 2025
Oxford Psychiatric Genetics and Genomics Symposium
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 26 November 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers:
TBA
Host:
Professor Naomi Wray (Univerity of Oxford)
Oxford Neuropsychiatric Genomics and Multiomics Symposium
Date: 26 November 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers:
TBA
Host:
Prof Naomi Wray (University of Oxford)
Oxford Neuropsychiatric Genomics and Multiomics Symposium
Date: 26 November 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers:
TBA
Host:
Naomi Wray (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Cashing in on Network Psychiatry
Date: 2 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Professor Giovanni Briganit (Université de Mons)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Kate Saunders (University of Oxford)
How adolescents seek and offer support within friendships: insights from lived experiences and hypothetical situations
Date: 2 December 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker
:
Tanya Manchanda (Department of Psychiatry)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room and Online
Organisers:
Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry),
Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Host:
Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Thursday 11 December 2025
Reprogrammed neurons and oligodendrocytes for brain repair after stroke
Date: 11 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor Zaal Kokaia (Lund University, Sweden)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser:
Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Tuesday 16 December 2025
Can we Predict the Future of Psychiatry?
Date: 16 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Professor Benoit Mulsant (University of Toronto)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Karl Marlowe (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)
This list contains talks from the following series:
CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars
Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Oxford Autism Research seminar series
Oxford Dementia and Ageing Research
Oxford Dementia and Ageing Research
Oxford Mindfulness Centre Seminar Series
Psychiatry Seminars
TDI Seminar Series