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Understanding Exercise in Parkinson's
Exercise is crucial for maintaining physical function, mobility, and mental well-being in people with Parkinson's. However, many individuals with Parkinson's do not engage in as much exercise as recommended. This project is funded by the NHS Grampian Charity and will explore the barriers and facilitators to exercise for people with...
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Health Psychology Group On Tour
Four academics from the Aberdeen Health Psychology group travelled to Groningen (pronounced as if you are spitting out some unpleasant food), in the Netherlands, to attend the 39th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) from 26 to 29 August 2025. The central theme of the conference was...
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AMEE Conference '25 - Barcelona
Professor Amudha Poobalan, Personal Chair (IAHS) - attendance at the AMEE conference.
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Childhood trauma linked to mental health problems and chronic pain in later life
New research from the University of Aberdeen challenges the current view that trauma in childhood increases the risk of all health conditions. The study found instead that some conditions are more affected than others and women are more affected than men.
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Population-level data-linkage study exploring unscheduled hospital readmissions after stroke
Dr Melanie Turner and colleagues have published a population-level data-linkage study exploring unscheduled hospital readmissions after stroke. The paper reports that increased unscheduled hospital readmission time was associated with a number of factors including living alone before stroke, having more comorbidities or higher frailty, and more severe stroke.Read the paper published...
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Weir-Russel funding success
Congratulations to Drs Rute Vieira, Andrea Woolner (ACWHR), Amudha Poobalan and Rodolfo Hernandez who have been awarded the Weir-Russel funding to support a post-doctoral research fellow. They will build on their existing research investigating whether non-invasive prenatal testing should replace traditional fetal chromosomal condition screening in the NHS. Congratulations Andrea...
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A Story of Skin Cancer Across Two Generations
The ASICA (Achieving Self-directed Integrated Cancer Aftercare) project, led by APC's group lead, Professor Peter Murchie and sponsored by Cancer Research UK (CRUK), has been featured in The Telegraph ASICA is a smartphone app designed to make the skin checks adfter melanoma easier and more efficient. In the article, two induviduals...
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The Sage Handbook of Health Psychology Publication Contributions by members of Health Psychology
A new edition of the Sage Handbook of Health Psychology has just been published, and colleagues Chantal Den Daas, Marie Johnston and Diane Dixon from our Health Psychology team have contributed to two chapters. This second edition of the handbook is focused on the foundational contexts, theories, and methods that...
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The elective care waiting list: insights from linked data
We're very happy to present The elective care waiting list: insights from linked data, published this morning on The Health Foundation website. The Networked Data Lab team in Grampian Jessica E Butler, Frank Popham, Corri Black, Raul Berrocal-Martin, Sharon Gordon and Irmina Zborowska, the Grampian Data Safe Haven (DaSH) Team, and...
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Grant funding success - Making pregnancy predictable
NHS Grampian Charity have awarded funding for a project titled "Making pregnancy predictable: exploring the use of prediction models to streamline treatment decisions in infertility". Using data from over 7,000 couples from the Aberdeen Fertility Clinic, the study aims to improve how we understand the chances of having a baby...