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Global consortium involving centre researchers aims to prevent failures in mental health drug treatments

10 September 2024

Researchers based in the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) at Cardiff University have joined forces with organisations across Europe in a project to develop new approaches to personalising mental health treatments.

Cardiff University researchers uncover link between irritability and rare genetic disorders in young people

19 August 2024

The research investigated irritability in young people with a rare genetic condition.

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Perimenopause linked with increased risk of bipolar and major depression

15 August 2024

Cardiff University study finds that women are over twice as likely to develop bipolar for the first time during the perimenopause, compared to before the menopause.

Looking back on my week at the CNGG Summer School 2024

8 August 2024

Summer School class of 2024 attendee Isabella Parker, who previously studied biomedicine, shares her experience of her week with us.

Global attendees discover cutting-edge research at Fourteenth Annual Summer School in Brain Disorders Research

8 August 2024

The summer school is held every year in the Hadyn Ellis Building at Cardiff University.

Researcher looking into understudied eating disorder awarded prestigious funding

2 August 2024

Dr Chawner's research will look into avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, also known as ARFID.

Second webinar instalment shares initial findings from world first genetic study into premenstrual dysphoric disorder

22 March 2024

The Women’s Winter Webinars series aims to discuss how reproductive events such as pregnancy, the menstrual cycle and reproductive ageing can impact the mental health of women and people assigned female at birth (AFAB).

Applications open for the 14th annual CNGG Summer School in Brain Disorders Research

22 March 2024

Find out more about the summer school and whether you're eligible to join us in July 2024.

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£4.3 million for world-leading research into severe mental illness

27 February 2024

A new Mental Health Platform Research Hub, which will advance the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of severe mental illness

The menopause and mental health: Cardiff University researchers uncover important link

6 February 2024

The findings were presented as part of the Women's Winter Webinars Series which aims to discuss how reproductive events impact the mental health of women and people assigned female at birth (AFAB).