26 April 2023

Prof Matthew Hotopf CBE hopes that the campaign will help people gain insight into “the journey of translating scientific discoveries into new treatments and services”.

A campaign to explain the nine mental health and neurosciences research themes for the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (December 2022 – November 2027) has been launched.

The nine themes are: Child Mental Health and Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Digital Therapies; Eating Disorders and Obesity; Experimental Medicine and Therapeutics; Informatics; Neuroimaging; Pain and Addictions; Psychosis and Mood Disorders; and Trials, Genomics and Prediction.

Short videos which explain each of the themes in more detail and introduce the research leads are available here: Our Research Themes Video explainers (nihr.ac.uk)and will be on King’s Health Partner’s social media accounts.

Professor Matthew Hotopf CBE - Director of NIHR Maudsley BRC, Vice-Dean of Research at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London, and Academic Director of the Mind & Body Programme at King’s Health Partners - said: “We hope that through this campaign people can gain insight into the mental health and neuroscience research that we conduct at our NIHR Maudsley BRC, and the journey of translating scientific discoveries into new treatments and services which have a real impact on people's lives.

By working together with our patients, participants, partners and collaborators we will continue to study the many aspects of mental health science and ensure that we share knowledge and learning as widely as possible.

Part of NIHR and hosted by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with King's College London, the NIHR Maudsley BRC aims to speed up the translation of scientific discoveries into clinical treatment and care in mental health and neurological conditions.

The centre brings together scientists and clinicians from different disciplines, so that findings from research can then be evaluated, developed and implemented in the NHS.

Find out more about the nine research themes here.