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IoPPN Research Festival 2018 'Parade of Stars'

The 2018 Parade of Stars (now IoPPN Research Festival) included five minute talks from researchers at all levels from student to professor, as well as the professional services who support our work, and both IoPPN King's 3 Minute Thesis finalists.

ioppn researchfest 2018

Parade of Stars 2018 celebrates excellence, inclusivity and cooperation that makes the IoPPN such a wonderful institution for working and studying.

Parade of Stars showcases exciting and innovative research, celebrating academic success across the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN).

The full programme for this year's event can be found here.

Watch the recording.

Full line-up of speakers and topics:

Peter Bishai What is The NIHR Wellcome King’s Clinical Research Facility and what do we do?

Professor Richard Emsley 21st century trials

Dr Sarah Mizielinska Protein phase transitioning: the new hot topic in neurodegeneration

Dr Tom Freeman Cannabinoids, mental health and addiction

Dr Helen Fisher Risk and protective factors for childhood psychotic symptoms

Nuria Mackes The effects of early childhood institutional deprivation on adult brain structure

Professor Elizabeth Bradbury Rewiring the injured spinal cord: moving beyond the scar to restore hand function

Professor Craig Morgan The social origins of psychosis

Dr Anthony Vernon Maps to mechanisms: translating clinical neuroimaging data into preclinical models

Dr Lucia Valmaggia Virtual reality for mental health: bringing reality into the lab

Sam Heasman AKC Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience: how IT contributes to it's success

Dr Jonathan Coleman Genetic influences on depression stratified by lifetime traumatic events

Dr Faith Matcham Remote assessment of disease and relapse in major depressive disorder

Dr Ben Gardner Understanding sitting: the psychology of workplace sedentary behaviour

Dr Nickolai Vysokov Recapitulating pain circuitry... in a dish!

Stephanie Hynes Investigating stress related neural circuitry with stem cell derived visceral motor neurons

Dr Sylvane Desrivieres Understanding the genetic basis of normal and disease-related variation in the human brain

Dr Kinga Bercsenyi To be or not to be – neuronal death during development

Dr Alexis Cullen The Stress, Inflammation and Psychosis (SIP) Study

Dr Louise Hull Development of the Implementation Science Research Development (ImpRes) tool

Professor Oliver Howes Treating psychosis: lessons from Groundhog Day

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