Join us for the C2AD November seminar with Andy MacLeod (Royal Holloway). Andy will be discussing: “Future-directed thinking and emotional disorders” How people think about their own personal futures is a key component of their well-being and mental health. This talk will discuss the different kinds of ways that future-directed thinking breaks down in anxiety […]
Dr Caitlin Hitchcock was presenting her work on the Memflex trial at the 47thAnnual Congress of the European Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT’17) in Ljubljana, Slovenia! For more information please click here.
Dr Melissa Black presenting the poster of HARMONIC transdiagnostic feasibility trial protocol at the 2017 BABCP conference in Manchester! And Dr Caitlin Hitchcock presenting her work on the Memflex RCT data.
Mindfulness therapy as effective as anti-depressants The largest meta-analysis so far of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for recurrent depression has found that MBCT is an effective treatment option that can help prevent the recurrence of major depression in those who are currently in remission. The paper was published in the Journal of the American Medical […]
Different domains of basic/clinical cognitive (neuro)science. See poster below:
Dr Tim Dalgleish (of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) was awarded a grant from the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Scheme for “A Randomised Controlled Feasibility Trial of a Novel Transdiagnostic Psychological Intervention for Mood and Anxiety Disorders”. With this, we developed a new psychological treatment for adult depression and anxiety disorders. This […]
Cambridge Clinical Research Centre in Affective Disorders 2017 Seminar Series Date Speaker Topic October 6th Michelle Moulds (University of New South Wales, Australia) Unhelpful Repetitive Thinking and its Role in Postnatal Adjustment November 3rd Andy MacLeod (Royal Holloway) Title TBC December 1st Sarah Halligan (University of Bath) Title TBC 2018 January February 2nd Kim Wright […]
The devil’s in the detail: Accessibility of specific personal memories supports rose-tinted self-generalizations in mental health and toxic self-generalizations in clinical depression. Hitchcock, C., Rees, C., Dalgleish, T. Summary: Models of memory propose that separate systems underpin the storage and recollection of specific events from our past (e.g., the first day at school), and of the […]
Beneficial effects of training in self-distancing and perspective broadening for people with a history of recurrent depression Some of our recent work at C2AD has been on targeting active components of gold-standard therapy for major depression through interventions that are easier to access. We found that Self-Distancing and Perspective Broadening training is a promising clinical […]
Join us for the C2AD June seminar with Dr Georgina Clifford (MRC-CBU and London Trauma Specialists). Georgina will be facilitating a half-day workshop on: The development and facilitation of an Emotion and Memory group programme for the treatment of Complex PTSD. Details: Friday 7th July 9.15 – 12.30 Lecture Theatre MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences […]
