Researchers identified a DNA pattern in one dataset and used it to predict antidepressant response in another dataset. Although it is early days, this finding…
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Researchers found that people who switched from an SSRI to another type of antidepressant had similar genetic patterns to those who didn’t get better in…
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Understanding mental health—and the many factors that influence it—requires large amounts of detailed information. To help with this, researchers in Scotland created a new project…
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Depression affects millions of people worldwide, and while medications called antidepressants can help, they don’t work for everyone. In fact, only about one-third of people…
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In this first of three posts, AMBER researchers explain some of the background to the project, including some of the things we already know and…
Leave a CommentIn this video, Professor Sue Fletcher-Watson (University of Edinburgh), introduces the AMBER project and gives an overview of each ‘work-package’ [group of people working together…
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Join the AMBER Research Project’s e-LEAP! Do you have personal experience of depression or work with/care for those who do? We’re looking for people to…
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Recruitment Letter People who expressed an interest in joining our Lived Experience Advisory Panel (LEAP) were sent a letter (document) which described the AMBER project…
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Our lived experience advisory panel (LEAP) has helped us create these ‘ways of working’. These guide how we run our online LEAP meetings. Download our…
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Our lived experience advisory panel (LEAP) has helped us to put together this Safeguarding Protocol. It was interesting to discuss the balance between safeguarding without…
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