The course is run jointly with the Departments of Psychiatry and Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience, together with essential contributions from allied departments and institutions in Oxford.
After much deliberation, the Exam Board judged that the following students deserved special recognition:
- The Best Essay prize was awarded to Rachel Lin and Krisya Louie for their essays “The Role of Corneal Confocal Microscopy as a Diagnostic Biomarker for Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy” and “Scaling mental health care: Clinical, technical and ethical considerations for large language models in psychiatry” respectively.
- Krisya Louie also won Best Dissertation for her dissertation titled: “Relapse trajectories and symptom profiles after antipsychotic discontinuation in psychosis”.
- The prize for Best Poster was won by Phoebe Homer for her poster: “Modulation of emotional bias by a single session of fMRI-guided intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS)”.
- Aleeza Dar won Most Improved Student. Her best essay was on “Opportunities and Challenges in Using AI-powered Chatbots for Anxiety and Depression Treatment”.
Professors Philip Burnet (Course Director) and Zam Cader (Deputy Course Director) said:
Congratulations to our MSc in Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience, Class of 2024/25 for successfully completing the course. Overall, the academic performance of the cohort was exceptionally strong, with half the class achieving a distinction grade. Credit is due to those who faced challenges in their projects yet still produced high-quality dissertations, as well as to those who took the initiative to develop their own research projects in collaboration with the Oxford neuroscience community. We wish the whole class the very best of luck with their future endeavours."
All prize winners have received an Amazon gift voucher.