Recent scientific publications

Congratulations to members of the Department who have recently had their research findings published. Here’s our round-up of the latest publications.

# Authors Title Journal Month Year Link
1 Agnorelli C, Garling HD, Paterson LM, Erritzoe D & Knudsen GM Recent advances in PET measures of brain 5-HT release Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism Mar 2026 Link
2 Agnorelli C, Peill J, Sawicka G, Kurtin D, Shatalina E, Ahmad K, Wall MB, Rua C, Godfrey K, Ertl N, Searle G, Zhou K, Osugo M, Weiss B, Greenway KT, Fagiolini A, Carhart-Harris R, Matthews PM, Rabiner EA, Nutt D & Erritzoe D Detecting neuroplastic effects induced by ketamine in healthy human subjects: A multimodal approach Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism Mar 2026 Link
3 Allen A, Young AH, Jellesma FC, Vorobev A, Ivanova E, Babakov N, Gisnarian A & Kannis-Dymand L An exploratory randomized controlled trial of an AI-enabled mental health intervention for generalized anxiety Journal of Affective Disorders, 401, 121275 2026 Link
4 Caulfield A, Moura R, Brugger S & Young AH et al. Mismatch negativity in patients with bipolar affective disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis Journal of Psychopharmacology 2026 Link
5 Chettuthara Moncy J, Xiao W, Woodham RD, Ghazi-Noori A-R, Rezaei H, Bramon E, Ritter P, Bauer M, Young AH, Fan Y & Fu CHY Deep learning based treatment remission prediction to transcranial direct current stimulation in bipolar depression using EEG power spectral density Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 357, 112115 2026 Link
6 Fan Z, Searle G, Rizzo G, Albani J, Cella P, Comley R, Klein G, Passamonti L, Salinas C, Schwarz AJ, Iaccarino L, Tamagnan G, Eberling J, Marek K, Seibyl J & Gunn RN Toward harmonizing quantification of dopamine neuron imaging biomarkers in Parkinson’s disease: The Centamine Scale Annals of Neurology, 99(4), 949–963 Apr 2026 Link
7 Girn M, Doss MK, Roseman L, Preller KH, Palhano-Fontes F, Pasquini L, Barrett FS, Mallaroni P, Mason NL, Timmermann C, McCulloch DE, Fisher PM, Winston BS, Moujaes F, Muller F, Liechti ME, Vollenweider FX, Ramaekers JG, Kuypers K, Araujo DB, Sporns O, Siegel J, Dosenbach N, Nutt DJ, Carhart-Harris RL, Stamatakis EA & Bzdok D et al. An international mega-analysis of psychedelic drug effects on brain circuit function Nature Medicine, 32(4), 1543–1554 Apr 2026 Link
8 Goodwin GM, Aaronson ST, Alvarez O, Carhart-Harris R, Croal M, Feifel D, Hellerstein DJ, Husain MI, Kelly JR, Kirlic N, Licht RW, Marwood L, Nowakowska A, Páleníček T, Repantis D, Schoevers RA, Simmons H, Soares JC, Somers M, Tsai J, Wahba M, Williams E, Young AH, Young MB, Zisook S & Malievskaia E The role of therapeutic alliance in psilocybin treatment for treatment-resistant depression: A post hoc path analysis Journal of Affective Disorders, 406, 121662 2026 Link
9 Grant B, Kean J, de Silva NL, Aguilera R, Quinton OCB & Hughes A et al. Clinical features of androgen abuse withdrawal in men during the first year of cessation: a community dwelling study Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism Mar 2026 Link
10 Hampsey E, Kalfas M, Carter L, Bloomfield M, Rezaei H, Young AH & Fu CHY A systematic review of transcranial electrical stimulation and meta-analysis of transcranial direct current stimulation RCTs in unipolar and bipolar depression Journal of Affective Disorders, 400, 121009 2026 Link
11 Hieronymus F, Huneke NTM, Månsson D, Rehn EM, Hagsäter M, Woodham RD, Soares JC, Young AH, Machado-Vieira R, Selvaraj S & Fu C Assessing the presence of biasing and non-biasing unblinding in a randomized controlled trial of a home-use tDCS device: An exploratory analysis Journal of Affective Disorders 2026 Link
12 Jelen LA, O’Daly O, Zelaya FO, Stone JM, Young AH & Mehta MA Regional blood flow signatures of opioidergic modulation of ketamine in major depressive disorder: A randomized crossover study American Journal of Psychiatry 2026 Link
13 Li L, Kodosaki E, Xu C et al. Systemic inflammation and its associations in acute moderate-severe Traumatic Brain Injury: a cross-sectional study Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health, 52 Mar 2026 Link
14 Lingford-Hughes A Addiction psychiatry: where we are and challenges in the UK International Review of Psychiatry, 38(1–3), 344–356 2026 Link
15 Lingford-Hughes A, Gronlund T & Gilvarry E Setting priorities for research in addiction The Lancet Psychiatry 2026 Link
16 Matthews PM, Allen NE, Debette S, Doherty A, Douaud G, Duff EP, Elliott P, Fulda ES, Illina A, Le Grand Q, Lewandowski AJ, Mahoney R, Miller K, Rodriguez C, Rutter MK, Sandor C, Sims R, Smith SM & Wang C UK Biobank at 20 — a growing, global resource for dementia research Nature Reviews Neurology Apr 2026 Link
17 Melgosa-Ecenarro L, Radulescu CI, Doostdar N, Airey J, Chaloner FA, Zabouri N, Pedretti G, Osso F, Garrido Perez L, Pilch KS, Wang X, Mallach A, Sadeh S, Jackson J, Matthews PM & Barnes SJ Selective weakening of population-coupled synaptic activity in vivo in a mouse model of amyloid-beta pathology Nature Communications, 17(1), 3646 Mar 2026 Link
18 Mitchell J, McDonald SJ, Law M, Sharp D et al. Characterizing heterogeneity in brain morphology in traumatic brain injury using normative modeling Neurology, 106(8) Apr 2026 Link
19 Morrison PD, Murray RM, Jauhar S & Young AH The unique efficacy of clozapine is attributable to muscarinic receptor agonism Journal of Psychopharmacology 2026 Link
20 Murray RM, Egerton A, Gao Y, Grace AA, Howes O, Jauhar S, Leucht S, Chen EYH, MacCabe JH, McCutcheon RA, Natesan S & Taylor D Why is clozapine uniquely effective in treatment-resistant schizophrenia? A review and proposal Biological Psychiatry, 99(7), 517–526 Apr 2026 Link
21 Nutt D Medicines for anxiety: A hundred years of tranquillity and more to come? Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental, 41(2) Mar 2026 Link
22 Schalkamp A, Peall KJ, Harrison NA & Sandor C Comment on “Delayed Disease Onset Report in UK Biobank: Implications for Prodromal Studies in Parkinson’s Disease” Movement Disorders, 41(4), 1050–1052 Apr 2026 Link
23 Torso M, Tzaferou D, Valotti M, Hardwidge J, Hardingham I, Koychev I, Guo Q & Comley R et al. Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging of cortical microstructure differs in nonmanifest and manifest genetic Parkinson’s disease Movement Disorders Apr 2026 Link
24 Trompeter N, Nadarajah A, Sharpe H, Duffy F, Maloney E, Nicholls D, Serpell L, Schmidt U & Jewell T Views of people with disordered eating on current and alternative out-of-home calorie labelling policies in England: a mixed-methods survey BMJ Public Health, 4(2) Apr 2026 Link
25 Tsapekos D, Kalfas M, Strawbridge R, Swidzinski S, Burdick K & Young A Estimating cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder: should we account for premorbid IQ Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 153(5), 468–476 May 2026 Link
26 Ulrichsen A, Mühlbauer E, Ludwig VM, Severus E, Cleare A, Jauhar S, Bauer M & Ebner-Priemer UW Sleep fluctuations precede self-reported mood changes in bipolar disorder: results from the BipoSense study International Journal of Bipolar Disorders, 14, 13 Mar 2026 Link
27 Wu LY, du Toit T, Georgiades T, Stafford EJ, Levine K, Fang Z-H, Jasaityte S, Martinez A-LG, Cullinane P, De Pablo Fernandez E, Blauwendraat C, Singleton AB, Scholz SW, Traynor BJ, Wood N, Hardy J, Chinnery P, Houlden H, Cain R, Troakes C, Chelban V, Serrano GE, Gveric D, McLean C, Love S, King A, Robinson AC, Roncaroli F, Shepherd C, Halliday G, Parkkinen L, Morris CM, Smith C, Beach TG, Gentleman S, Warner TT, Lashley T, Jaunmuktane Z, Real R & Morris HR Pathology and genetics in a global cohort of Parkinsonian Disorders openRxiv Mar 2026 Link
28 Yaqubi M, Thomas M, Talbot-Martin J et al. Characterising processing conditions that artifactually bias human brain tissue transcriptomes Nature Communications, 17, 2848 Apr 2026 Link