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We exist to advance medical research, improve human health and change people’s lives. You can help us do it.
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Mental health
Mental ill health is common and disabling, affecting 16.7 million people in the UK at any one time and accounting for 15 per cent of all the disability due to disease. We provided£2m support for a national PhD training programme led by Prof Stephen Lawrie at the University of Edinburgh to train academic psychiatrists in the modern neuroscience techniques needed by the future leaders of mental health research. The programme will train nine clinicians from across most of the psychiatry specialities and candidates will be drawn from around the UK.
The UK is well placed to be at the forefront of the research efforts that will advance understanding of mental health.
Progress in understanding the factors that contribute to mental illness have accelerated in recent years and the UK is well placed to be at the forefront of the research efforts that will advance understanding of mental health.
We have prioritised research addressing the increasing burden of mental ill health for some time. In 2011 we identified a gap in the research training of psychiatrists and agreed that filling this gap was critical for the future of UK mental health research. We responded by providing with the MRC (90% funding from us, 10% from the MRC), £2m support for a programme led by Prof Stephen Lawrie at the University of Edinburgh to train academic psychiatrists in the modern neuroscience techniques needed by the future leaders of mental health research.
The programme was devised to train nine clinicians from across most of the psychiatry specialities, including child and adolescent psychiatry, with the expectation that these clinical researchers will progress to lead competitive and independent research teams around the UK addressing the many gaps in the understanding of mental ill-health.
16.7m
Mental ill health is common and disabling, affecting 16.7 million people in the UK at any one time.
15%
Mental ill health accounts for 15 per cent of all the disability due to disease.
£2m
We provided £2m support for a programme led by Prof Stephen Lawrie at the University of Edinburgh.
Mental Health
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Why there is a need to fund new research
Mental ill health is common and disabling, affecting 16.7 million people in the UK at any one time and accounting for 15 per cent of all the disability due to disease. Progress in understanding the factors that contribute to mental illness have accelerated in recent years and the UK is well placed to be at the forefront of the research efforts that will advance understanding of mental health. In order to be at the forefront of research efforts in mental health and to improve the futures of patients, the UK needs psychiatrists trained in modern neuroscience research techniques who can then use these skills to address the research questions that will improve the lives of their patients.
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