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PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION ON NHS
RESEARCH COMES TO DIDCOT

Thursday 10th September 2020

Didcot Mayor Eleanor Hards Research studies are an Didcot residents are
at the opening of the integral part of improving welcome to go to Didcot
photography exhibition. treatments in the NHS, Civic Hall and view the
public health, and social exhibition but for those
A PHOTOGRAPHY She said: “I’m delighted care for conditions such that cannot see it in
exhibition showcasing to open this exhibition as cancer, diabetes, and person we will be posting
ground-breaking NHS along with the opening of psychosis. two exhibition pieces per
research taking place the civic hall in these week until the end of
across the Thames Valley difficult times.” More than 2,800 October.
has opened at Didcot participants have already
Civic Hall. The studies highlighted in been involved in COVID- The photograph can be
the exhibition are taking 19 research at Oxford seen on the next page and
‘The Body Unlocked: place in Berkshire, University Hospitals NHS the description below.
How Research is Buckinghamshire, Milton Foundation Trust
Changing Lives’ features Keynes, and Oxfordshire including studies into To learn more about the
life-sized photographs of with support from the drug treatment and DNA exhibition visit
people who have taken National Institute for analysis of those with the thebodyunlocked.info.
part in studies, Health Research (NIHR). infection. Learn more at
researchers at work and bepartofresearch.uk.
microscopic images of Images include surgeons
cells and bacteria. preparing a pioneering Virtual Reality - Virtual reality (VR) therapy for
gene therapy injection for people with severe mental health difficulties could
The exhibition was vision loss, dogs smelling transform the way psychological therapy is
opened at the newly urine to detect cancer, a provided, making it available to many more. Guided
reopened Didcot Civic close-up of cells by a computer-generated therapist, participants enter
Hall on Friday 28 August responsible for a virtual world in which they are gradually exposed
by Mayor of Didcot controlling blood sugar to situations that would normally trigger symptoms.
Councillor Eleanor Hards. and a virtual reality For example, someone with anxiety can get on a
headset to treat mental virtual bus or walk down a busy virtual street. The
(PICTURED ABOVE) illnesses. computer-generated situation allows them to
experiment with different approaches to the
environment because they know it is not real.
Evidence suggests that what people learn in VR is
transferred to the real world. The technology has
been shown to be effective in treating phobias and
research is underway at the University of Oxford
into its use for other conditions.

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