WAND-P
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Welsh Advanced Neuroimaging Database in psychosis
IRAS ID
250777
Contact name
James Walters
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Cardiff University
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Not applicable , Not applicable
Duration of Study in the UK
5 years, 0 months, 2 days
Research summary
We are using advanced brain imaging technology to study brain structure and activity in detail in people with experiences of psychosis. Psychosis can occur in people diagnosed with schizophrenia and related disorders (for example schizoaffective disorder or schizophreniform disorder) – it affects 1 in 100 of the population. It usually starts in the late teenager years or the early twenties – symptoms can be extremely distressing and can lead to long-term illness.
The hope through research is to learn what happens in the brain during psychosis which will help us to think about better ways of slowing or stopping the development of psychosis with completely new treatments.
We will use two different brain scanners in the study – a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system and a Magnetoencephalography (MEG) system because each provides a different view of your brain. MRI can tell us the structure of your brain, and which regions of the brain are activated by the tasks we are interested in. MEG can tell us the timing of this activity i.e how information moves around your brain and when activation occurs.
REC name
Wales REC 5
REC reference
18/WA/0396
Date of REC Opinion
26 Nov 2018
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion