The MHWB Division of the Warwick Medical School is hosting The first EU-Cost funded Long Stay in Forensic Psychiatric Services Training school at Arden Conference centre 2-4 September 2015. In addition to lectures by leading academics in the field of foresenic psychiatry, videos and discussions, participants will also have the opportunity to visit high, medium and secure forensic psychiatric care facilities in the UK. Download more information about the training school HERE.

Register today at

http://lfpc-cost.eu/training-school-2015-long-stay-in-forensic-psychiatric-services/

or contact Dr Vivek Furtado on v.furtado@warwick.ac.uk for more information.

This year saw two of our students graduate - Luke Brown and Jo Garstang

Professor Franco Cappuccio from MHWB Division has been responding to new research which found an association between long-term exposure to the roar of road traffic and death rate, as well as the risk of stroke.

• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/11694258/Living-near-a-noisy-road-raises-risk-of-early-death-warn-UK-scientists.html
• http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/traffic-noise-could-shorten-life-11363988479373
• http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/24/noisy-roads-linked-to-higher-stroke-risk
• http://www.itv.com/news/2015-06-24/long-term-exposure-to-traffic-noise-increases-risk-of-death-or-strokes-study-finds/
• BBC News
• China Post
• Hindu Times
• Times of Malta

New research from MHWB which first appeared in the British Journal of Psychiatry is featured in Time magazine online.