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Uehiro Seminar: Do antidepressants work and if so how?

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Uehiro Oxford Institute
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Antidepressants are commonplace yet there is much debate about their clinical efficacy. Are they merely placebos or do they have a clinical effect on the way our brains work? In this presentation, Professor Cowen investigates the evidence.
Antidepressant drugs are commonly prescribed for clinical depression but have a rather dubious public reception. Professor Ian Reid has commented that, 'antidepressants are regularly caricatured in the media as an addictive emotional anaesthetic, peddled by thoughtless general practitioners as a matter of convenience, and taken by credulous dupes who seek "a pill for every ill".' (BMJ 2013; 346: f190). There is also a perception that antidepressants, in fact, work only through placebo mechanisms and have no specific activity to relieve depression. In this presentation I will look at the evidence for the effectiveness of antidepressants and the kind of clinical situation where their use seems justified. I will also describe a new 'cognitive' theory of antidepressant action which suggests that antidepressants work through a specific effect on how the brain evaluates emotional information.
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Uehiro Oxford Institute
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Phil Cowen
Keywords
neuroethics
antidepressants
efficacy
placebo effect
Department: Uehiro Oxford Institute
Date Added: 04/12/2013
Duration: 00:49:12

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English as an Additional Language: Talking to Learn?

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Department of Education Public Seminars
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Prof. Leung (King's College London) has worked for many years in the field of second/additional language education. His academic and research interests include classroom pedagogy, content and language-integrated curriculum development, language assessment

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Department of Education Public Seminars
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Constant Leung
Keywords
education
languages
linguistics
teaching
learning
schools
Department: Department of Education
Date Added: 03/12/2013
Duration: 00:58:43

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The Assassination of President Kennedy: 50 years on

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Rothermere American Institute
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Godfrey Hodgson and Randall Woods discuss President Kennedy's life in a special event marking the anniversary of his assassination on November 22, 1963.
On Friday 22 November – fifty years to the day since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated – the RAI marks the occasion with a very special event. Godfrey Hodgson, Distinguished Fellow of the RAI and former Washington correspondent of The Sunday Times and The Observer, and Professor Randall Woods, University of Arkansas and John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government, 2013-14, discuss President Kennedy’s life and legacy.

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Rothermere American Institute
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Godfrey Hodgson
Randall Woods
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jfk
kennedy
lbj
lyndon johnson
American Politics
united states
kennedy assassination
Department: Rothermere American Institute
Date Added: 02/12/2013
Duration: 00:42:13

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An energy cost analysis of membranes in water treatment from alternative sources; will improvements to water security be sustainable?

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Water: Perspectives from Science and Industry
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Graeme K Pearce, Director, Membrane Consultancy Associates, gives a talk for the Water Security seminar series

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Water: Perspectives from Science and Industry
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Graeme K Pearce
Keywords
water
water security
science
filmtration
drinking water
ecology
Department: Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Date Added: 02/12/2013
Duration: 00:32:37

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Membrane filtration: from critical to threshold flux

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Water: Perspectives from Science and Industry
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Robert Field, Engineering Science, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Water Security Seminar series

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Water: Perspectives from Science and Industry
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Robert Feild
Keywords
water
water security
filtration
ecology
science
Department: Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Date Added: 02/12/2013
Duration: 00:32:37

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The Political Origins of Global Justice - Cyril Foster Lecture 2013

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Politics and International Relations Podcasts
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Against the background of the broader history of the idea of human rights, this lecture investigates when and why the contemporary field of "global justice" in philosophy and political theory was invented.
Returning to the engagement of American liberals with the decolonisation process in the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Vietnam war and even as more powerful tendencies were about to bring the welfarist ideal of the postwar era low, this lecture presents contemporary "cosmopolitanism" as a response to a forgotten revolt of the global south against the prevailing economic order of our age.
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Politics and International Relations Podcasts
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Andrew Hamilton
Louise Fawcett
samuel moyn
Keywords
justice
global
global politics
Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Date Added: 29/11/2013
Duration: 00:56:30

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Oxford Medical Firsts: Celebrating 800 Years of Oxford Medicine.

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Conrad Keating, Writer-In-Residence, The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, gives a lecture about the remarkable contribution Oxford has made to the art and science of medicine.
For more than 800 years Oxford has made a remarkable contribution to the art and science of medicine. Scientists, philosophers and physicians have made the city an outstanding scientific centre from the medieval period onwards. From Roger Bacon's conception of science as the experimental and inductive study of nature in the 13th century to Dorothy Hodgkin's discovery of the structure of penicillin during World War II, Oxford has been responsible for some of the world's most important medical discoveries. Conrad Keating, Writer-In-Residence, The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, gives a lecture about the remarkable contribution Oxford has made to the art and science of medicine.

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Conrad Keating
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Medicine
bodleian
oxford
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 28/11/2013
Duration: 00:33:01

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Can kindness save the NHS?

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Green Templeton College
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Mr John Ballatt, Director of The Openings Consultancy gives a talk for the HEXI - MiM Speaker Series
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Green Templeton College
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John Ballatt
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Health
HEXI
nhs
public health
green templton college
MIM
Department: Green Templeton College
Date Added: 27/11/2013
Duration: 01:08:40

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Political Extremism in the Interwar Period and its Economic Roots.

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European Studies Centre
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Kevin O'Rourke, Chichele Professor of Economic History, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, gives a seminar for the PEFM programme. The discussant was Othon Anastasa and the chair was Paul Betts, St. Antony's College, Oxford.

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European Studies Centre
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Kevin O’Rourke
Othon Anastasakis
Paul Betts
Keywords
europe
democracy
politics
recession
economy
Extremism
pefm
Department: St Antony's College
Date Added: 27/11/2013
Duration: 00:55:37

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Graduate Open Day at the Ruskin

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Ruskin School of Art
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A short talk from Anthony Gardener, Director of Graduate Studies at the Ruskin School of Art about the Graduate programme at the Ruskin.

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Ruskin School of Art
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Anthony Gardener
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art
fine art
graduate study
Department: Ruskin School of Art
Date Added: 27/11/2013
Duration: 00:19:01

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