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Mental Health

Research to understand mental health problems and support those affected by them.

Postgraduate Research Opportunities

Mental Health Research Groups
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Centre for Forensic and Family Psychology

To investigate the causes and consequences of family violence, child maltreatment and serious crime.

Centre for Organizational Health and Development Expertise lies in occupational health and occupational psychology specialising in the promotion of organizational health and development
Clinically applied adult mental health Focuses on improving outcomes in adults with mental health problems, with particular methodological strengths in clinical trials, cohort studies and service evaluation.
Centre for ADHD and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Across the Lifespan To bring together clinicians, service users and academics with an interest in neurodevelopmental disorders, including attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and Tourette syndrome (TS).
Centre for Dementia To improve the lives of people with dementia and their carers, through high quality, useful research looking at how people with dementia spend their time and what helps them to get quality from life.
Digital Mental Health and Wellbeing To identify unmet clinical needs in mental health and dementia, collaborate with academic and industry partnerships in developing and testing new technologies and provide expertise and advise in helping increase the adaptation of digital technologies in healthcare.
Forensic Mental Health Research To increase our understanding of the causes of offending behaviour and to provide evidence for the effectiveness of treatment in forensic mental health services, including prison, hospital and community settings.
Institute of Mental Health To help transform our understanding and treatment of mental illness. 
Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre We are developing the next generation of technologies with the potential to transform the lives of people with mental health difficulties, improve healthcare delivery and stimulate the UK economy.
Rehabilitation in Long Term Conditions To promote wellbeing and enable people with long term conditions to maximise participation in meaningful social lives.
Centre for Translational Neuroimaging in Mental Health To translate the wealth of information about the function of the human mind and brain derived from neuroscience and neuroimaging into clinically relevant applications.

School of Medicine

University of Nottingham
Medical School
Nottingham, NG7 2UH

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