Projects per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The mental health group is a multidisciplinary collection of researchers who consider all aspects of mental health and neurodegeneration.
Particular strengths of the group include neurodegenerative disorders and ageing, and psychosis in young people. All the programmes of research underway in the group are committed to addressing common mental health difficulties that have huge implications in terms of quality of life and costs for individuals, their families and society. These programmes of research typically focus on building more accurate and richer models of disorder that in turn are translated into interventions that can be disseminated for use in real world settings.
Group members use a wide variety of methodologies in their research, including neuroimaging, computational modelling, explanatory and pragmatic randomised controlled trials, cohort studies and tools for evidence synthesis such as systematic reviews and meta-analysis. The group receives funding from NIHR, the MRC and the Wellcome Trust, amongst others.
Our key areas of research are:
- Dementia and aging
- Developmental psychology
- Mental health in older adults
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children and adolescents
- Psychosis in young people.
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Chris Fox
- Norwich Medical School - Honorary Professor
- Institute for Volunteering Research - Member
- Norwich Epidemiology Centre - Member
- Mental Health - Member
Person: Honorary, Research Group Member, Research Centre Member
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Joanne Hodgekins
- Norwich Medical School - Clinical Associate Professor in Psychology
- Lifespan Health - Member
- Mental Health - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Research Centre Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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Michael Hornberger
- Norwich Medical School - Professor of Applied Dementia Research
- Norwich Institute for Healthy Aging - Member
- Lifespan Health - Member
- Mental Health - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Research Centre Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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Investigating the acute benefits of American Ginseng on mood and cognition in healthy young adults
1/11/24 → 31/10/26
Project: Research
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Improving anxiety assessment in Stroke and Acquired Brain injury: the validation of the Anxiety Intensity Scale Circles (AISCs), the Yale-anxiety, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) models
Blake, J., Broomfield, N., Coull, N., Harrison, K., Khondoker, M., Sami, S. & Varley, A.
National Institute for Health and Care Research
1/11/24 → 31/10/26
Project: Research
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NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Extension
Mioshi, E., Cameron, R., Crozier, K., Farquhar, M., Hornberger, M., Mioshi, E., Sanderson, K., Wagner, A., Burrows, S., Franks, L., Gardener, C., Gillings, R., Grotz, J., Miners, L., Beresford, P., Cameron, R., Peryer, G. & Risebro, H.
National Institute for Health and Care Research
1/10/24 → 31/03/26
Project: Research
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Access to best-evidenced mental health support for care-experienced young people: Learnings from the implementation of cognitive therapy for PTSD
McGuire, R., Meiser-Stedman, R., Smith, P., Schmidt, D., Bjornstad, G., Bosworth, R., Clarke, T., Coombes, J., Geijer Simpson, E., Hudson, K., Oliveira, P., Macleod, J., McGovern, R., Stallard, P., Wood, K. & Hiller, R. M., Mar 2025, In: British Journal of Clinical Psychology. 64, 1, p. 63-85 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A comparison of pathways to care in at-risk mental states and first episode psychosis: A mental health electronic clinical records analysis in the East of England, UK
Murden, R., Allan, S. M., Hodgekins, J. & Oduola, S., 1 Mar 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access -
A qualitative study exploring children and young people’s experiences of cognitive therapy for PTSD delivered within the context of a randomised controlled trial
Allen, L., Fox, A., Copello, A., Meiser-Stedman, R. & Morant, N., Mar 2025, In: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. 98, 1, p. 74-89 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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Peripheral reaching in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment
Mitchell, A. G. (Creator), McIntosh, R. D. (Creator), Rossit, S. (Creator), Pal, S. (Creator) & Hornberger, M. (Creator), Open Science Framework, 1 Oct 2020
Dataset
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Understanding help-seeking patterns for mental health difficulties among young people in rural populations
Sheri Oduola (Presenter), Joanne Hodgekins (Contributor), Emma Coombes (Contributor) & Andy Jones (Contributor)
Mar 2022Activity: Other activity types › Other
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INTERDEM prevention task force board (External organisation)
George Fox (Member)
2015 → …Activity: Membership › Network, Working Group or Professional Association
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NIHR Portfolio Development Group (External organisation)
George Fox (Chair)
2015 → …Activity: Membership › Network, Working Group or Professional Association
Press/Media
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People sleep least in their early 30s to early 50s: Research (Jan 23)
Michael Hornberger & Alpar Lazar
1/01/23 → 3/01/23
8 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media Coverage or Contribution
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People sleep least in their early 30s to early 50s: Research (Dec 22)
Michael Hornberger & Alpar Lazar
22/12/22 → 31/12/22
66 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media Coverage or Contribution
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Your Navigation Skills Depend on Where You Grew Up (May 2022)
23/05/22 → 24/05/22
3 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media Coverage or Contribution