Publications
The latest list of publications from the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre with a brief summary.
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View publicationPublication: Nature Genetics
Lotta LA, Gulati P, Day FR, Payne F, Ongen H, van de Bunt M, Gaulton KJ, Eicher JD, Sharp SJ, Luan J, De Lucia Rolfe E, Stewart ID, Wheeler E, Willems SM, Adams C, Yaghootkar H; EPIC-InterAct Consortium; Cambridge FPLD1 Consortium, Forouhi NG, Khaw KT, Johnson AD, Semple RK, Frayling T, Perry JR, Dermitzakis E, McCarthy MI, Barroso I, Wareham NJ, Savage DB, Langenberg C, O’Rahilly S, Scott RA.
14 November 2016
View publicationPublication: Cell
van der Klaauw AA, Croizier S, Mendes de Oliveira E, Stadler LKJ, Park S, Kong Y, Banton MC, Tandon P, Hendricks AE, Keogh JM, Riley SE, Papadia S, Henning E, Bounds R, Bochukova EG, Mistry V, O’Rahilly S, Simerly RB; INTERVAL; UK10K Consortium, Minchin JEN, Barroso I, Jones EY, Bouret SG, Farooqi IS.
17 January 2019
View publicationPublication: Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics
Allcock S, Young EH, Holmes M, Gurdasani D, Dougan G, Sandhu MS, Solomon L, Török ME.
10 May 2017
View publicationPublication: JCI Insight
Cangul H, Liao XH, Schoenmakers E, Kero J, Barone S, Srichomkwun P, Iwayama H,Serra EG, Saglam H, Eren E, Tarim O, Nicholas AK, Zvetkova I, Anderson CA, FranklFEK, Boelaert K, Ojaniemi M, Jääskeläinen J, Patyra K, Löf C, Williams ED; UK10K Consortium, Soleimani M, Barrett T, Maher ER, Chatterjee VK, Refetoff S,Schoenmakers N
18 October 2018
View publicationPublication: Nature
Sun BB, Maranville JC, Peters JE, Stacey D, Staley JR, Blackshaw J, et al.
6 June 2018
View publicationPublication: Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Smith GCS. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol.
May 2018
View publicationPublication: Genome Medicine
Sanchis-Juan A, Stephens J, French CE, Gleadall N, Megy K, Penkett C, et al.
7 December 2018
View publicationPublication: Journal of Alzheimer's Disease,
Moylett S, Price A, Cardinal RN, Aarsland D, Mueller C, Stewart R, O’Brien JT.
28 November 2018
View publicationPublication: Brain
Baker K, Gordon SL, Melland H, Bumbak F, Scott DJ, Jiang TJ, et al.
13 August 2018
View publicationPublication: Nature Communications
Li X, Francies HE, Secrier M, Perner J, Miremadi A, Galeano-Dalmau N, Barendt WJ, Letchford L, Leyden GM, Goffin EK, Barthorpe A, Lightfoot H, Chen E, Gilbert J, Noorani A, Devonshire G, Bower L, Grantham A, MacRae S, Grehan N, Wedge DC, Fitzgerald RC, Garnett MJ.
30 July 2018
View publicationPublication: Frontiers in Psychiatry
Savulich G, Jeanes H, Rossides N, Kaur S, Zacharia A, Robbins TW, et al.
21 November 2018
View publicationPublication: Nature
Baland Jalal, Annette Brühl, Claire O’Callaghan, Thomas Piercy, Rudolf N. Cardinal, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Barbara J. Sahakian
23 October 2018
Summary:
A ‘brain training’ app could help people who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) manage their symptoms, which may typically include excessive handwashing and contamination fears.
One of the most common types of OCD, affecting up to 46% of OCD patients, is characterised by severe contamination fears and excessive washing behaviour. Excessive washing can be harmful as sometimes OCD patients use spirits, surface cleansers or even bleach to clean their hands. The behaviours can have a serious impact on people’s lives, their mental health, their relationships and their ability to hold down jobs.
Cambridge researchers developed a new treatment to help people with contamination fears and excessive washing. The intervention, which can be delivered through a smartphone app, involves patients watching videos of themselves washing their hands or touching fake contaminated surfaces. Read the full story here