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depression
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Creative Commons | Computational Literary Studies and Mental Health | A project combining English literature, experimental psychology, and computational linguistics, with a focus on entropy, abstraction, and mental health. | James Carney, Emily Troscianko | 12 Sep 2018 |
| 2 | Creative Commons | That Way Lies Madness: Poets, Power, Health | The Equality and Diversity Unit and TORCH are delighted to announce that Gwyneth Lewis will give the 2018 Disability Lecture. | Gwyneth Lewis, Dan Holloway | 04 Jun 2018 |
| 3 | 'Learning' part 1 - Sleep for success | Sleep is really important. But do we realise how important it is, particularly for helping us think straight? Are teenagers lazy? Are their body clocks different? | Christopher-James Harvey | 05 May 2016 | |
| 4 | 'Relationships' part 2 - New fathers | How do new fathers form relationships with their children? What is the unique role of a father? What do they contribute to the development of their children? What is male post-natal depression? | Anna Machin | 22 Apr 2016 | |
| 5 | Using ketamine in treatment resistant depression | Dr Rupert McShane is interviewed about his current research into the antidepressant effects of ketamine infusion | Rupert McShane | 24 Feb 2015 | |
| 6 | Creative Commons | Psychological medicine | Interview with Professor Sharpe about psychological medicine and his randomised controlled trial investigating the treatment of depression in people with cancer. | Michael Sharpe | 15 Oct 2013 |
| 7 | Creative Commons | Bipolar Disorder | An overview of the aetiology, clinical diagnosis and management of bipolar disorder. | Charlotte Allan, Daniel Maughan | 15 Oct 2013 |
| 8 | Creative Commons | Psychiatric genetics | Professor Jonathan Flint talks about his research on psychiatric genetics. | Jonathan Flint | 21 May 2013 |
| 9 | Creative Commons | Psychiatric Genetics | Every psychiatric disorder has a genetic contribution. Although anxiety and depression are very common diseases, current treatments are not very good. | Jonathan Flint | 21 May 2013 |
| 10 | Creative Commons | Guided Meditation | Professor Mark Williams offers a brief guided meditation in the last of four short videos in this series. | Mark Williams | 06 Dec 2011 |
| 11 | Creative Commons | Supporting Mindfulness | Professor Mark Williams explains how you can support the work of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre in the third of four short videos. | Mark Williams | 06 Dec 2011 |
| 12 | Creative Commons | The Science of Mindfulness | Professor Mark Williams examines the neuroscience of mindfulness in the second of four short videos. | Mark Williams | 06 Dec 2011 |
| 13 | Creative Commons | Introduction to Mindfulness | Professor Mark Williams introduces Mindfulness in the first of four short videos in this series. | Mark Williams | 06 Dec 2011 |
| 14 | Creative Commons | Mindfulness and the brain | In this final episode Professor Mark Williams and Danny Penman discuss how imaging studies show that Mindfulness may have numerous profoundly positive effects on the brain. | Mark Williams, Danny Penman | 05 Dec 2011 |
| 15 | Creative Commons | Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on trial | Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is especially good for people who have suffered the most debilitating forms of depression. The evidence for its effectiveness is overwhelming and continues to grow. | Mark Williams, Danny Penman | 28 Nov 2011 |
| 16 | Creative Commons | Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: A new approach to treating depression | Mindfulness therapy is an extremely effective treatment preventing relapse in depression. But what does it entail and how does it work? | Mark Williams, Danny Penman | 14 Nov 2011 |
| 17 | Creative Commons | Can treatments such as Cognitive Therapy help? | Depression tends to return even if it has been successfully treated. Scientists now understand why this happens and have developed therapies that reduce the risks of relapse and help lift the burden of depression should it return. | Mark Williams, Danny Penman | 07 Nov 2011 |
| 18 | Creative Commons | How is depression treated? | Doctors and psychiatrists once believed that patterns of thinking played little or no role in depression, but this is now known to be wrong. Professor Williams and Dr Danny Penman discuss how the treatment of depression has evolved in recent years. | Mark Williams, Danny Penman | 21 Oct 2011 |
| 19 | Creative Commons | What is depression? | Depression is expected to impose the second biggest health burden globally by 2020; greater even than heart disease, arthritis and many forms of cancer. Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman discuss the driving forces behind this startling trend. | Mark Williams, Danny Penman | 21 Oct 2011 |
| 20 | The crisis of global capitalism: towards a new economic culture? | Manuel Castells draws on arguments from his book Communication Power in discussing the structural causes and implications of the 2008 economic crisis, and in claiming that we are moving, without much understanding, towards a new form of global capitalism. | Manuel Castells | 09 Nov 2009 | |
| 21 | Creative Commons | G20: Solutions to Global Depression? | In this fourth podcast Linda Yueh and Jonathan Michie discuss the G20 debates over co-ordinated fiscal expansion, global regulation, and the role of the IMF. | Linda Yueh, Jonathan Michie | 31 Mar 2009 |
| 22 | Creative Commons | G20: Solutions to Global Depression? | In this fourth podcast Linda Yueh and Jonathan Michie discuss the G20 debates over co-ordinated fiscal expansion, global regulation, and the role of the IMF. | Linda Yueh, Jonathan Michie | 31 Mar 2009 |
| 23 | Creative Commons | G20: Solutions to Global Depression? | In this fourth podcast Linda Yueh and Jonathan Michie discuss the G20 debates over co-ordinated fiscal expansion, global regulation, and the role of the IMF. | Linda Yueh, Jonathan Michie | 31 Mar 2009 |
| 24 | Genetics with Kay Davies | Kay Davies discusses her research of genetic diseases such as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, problems which limit the development of therapy and the need for effective treatment and screening processes. | Kay Davies, Oliver Lewis | 09 Feb 2009 | |
| 25 | Jennifer Lau on Anxiety and Depression in Children | Dr Jennifer Lau discusses her research into the development of anxiety and depression in childhood and adolescence. | Jennifer Lau, Oliver Lewis | 13 Sep 2008 | |
| 26 | Jennifer Lau on Anxiety and Depression in Children | Dr Jennifer Lau discusses her research into the development of anxiety and depression in childhood and adolescence. | Jennifer Lau, Oliver Lewis | 13 Sep 2008 |