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Finding new pathways through the immune and metabolic systems to improve health for people with severe mental illness
Our mission
We aim to discover how the immune and metabolic systems in our bodies and brains can cause symptoms of major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other forms of severe mental illness. We want to know how bodily health can cause changes in mental health because that will open up new opportunities for the treatment and prevention of mental ill health.
Instead of always treating the symptoms of mental ill health with a mind-based treatment (like psychotherapy), or a brain-based treatment (like anti-psychotic drugs), we aim to find new body-based treatments - like drugs or lifestyle management changes - that target the immune or metabolic pathways in the body or brain that can lead to symptoms in the mind.
Mission
Our work packages
Metabolic protein targets
Immune cell targets
Inflammatory protein targets
Immunophenotyping of early psychosis
Computational repurposing of immune and metabolic drugs for psychiatry
Brain network biomarkers
Lifestyle management for severe mental illness
Digital gameplay for cognitive testing
Predicting adverse physical health effects of anti-psychotic medication
Contact
Contact us
You can contact us by using the form below or emailing us at: immunomind@psychiatry.cam.ac.uk
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