Psychiatry Talks
Talks:

Monday 2 June 2025

CANCELLED: Anne Treisman Lecture: A Psycholinguistic Perspective on LLMs: Does the Turing Test Really Test Intelligence?
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 2 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd floor seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Targeting the glutamate system to treat schizophrenia
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Katherine Beck (King's College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

The potential of the school setting for supporting adolescents impacted by suicide: from prevention to postvention
Date: 3 June 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Eibhlín Walsh (National Suicide Research Foundation, Ireland)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry), Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry), Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Host: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry)

Network Estimation via Source Separation (NESS): Novel Perspectives on Linear Decomposition for Functional Brain Mapping
Date: 3 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Prof Leonardo Bonetti (Aarhus University and University of Oxford), Dr Mattia Rosso (Aarhus University)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organiser: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford)

Unbiased identification of cell identity in dense mixed neural cultures
Date: 3 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Winnok De Vos (University of Antwerp)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Role of subplate neurons in the development and evolution of the mammalian neocortex
Date: 3 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama (Developmental Neuroscience Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan)
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 10 June 2025

Internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder (iCT-SAD): Evaluation and Dissemination
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Cognitive therapy coaching for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression in healthcare workers: Pilot development and evaluation
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Aimee McKinnon (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Dopamine and Movement: Defining Timescales of Modulation
Date: 10 June 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker : Dr Nicolas Tritsch (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Canada)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Stephanie Cragg (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Parental Self-Harm and Offspring Psychosocial Outcomes: Systematic Literature Review
Date: 10 June 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Irem Yanardoner (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)
Venue Details: Seminar Room and Online
Organisers: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry), Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry), Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Hosts: TBA

Large language models deconstruct the clinical intuition behind diagnosing autism
Date: 10 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Danilo Bzdok (McGill University & Mila Quebec AI Institute, Montreal)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Monday 16 June 2025

Looking for meaning
Date: 16 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Rasha Abdel Rahman (Humoldt-Universitat zu berlin)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd floor seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Harnessing neuroscience to translate genomic discoveries in psychiatry
Date: 17 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Jeremy Hall (Director, Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute & Theme Lead for Mind, Brain & Neuroscience, Cardiff University)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The CaTS-App: A new collaborative assessment tool for adolescent self-harm
Date: 17 June 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Prof. Ellen Townsend (University of Nottingham)
Venue Details: Seminar Room and Online
Organisers: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry), Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry), Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Host: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry)

Advanced meditation and the third wave of meditation research
Date: 17 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Matthew Sacchet (Harvard University)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organiser: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 June 2025

Dissecting the synaptic basis of learning in vivo
Date: 19 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr William (Jake) Wright (University of California, San Diego)
Venue Details: Virtual (Please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Randy Bruno (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 November 2025

Beyond the Scale: The Neuropsychiatry Weight of Obesity in SMI
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
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

Tuesday 16 December 2025

Can we Predict the Future of Psychiatry?
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
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)
Hosts: TBA

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