Mental health conditions ‘run in families’, a common phrase that we often hear, but how much of this is true? How much is due to genetics and how much is due to the shared ...
The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Physical Health (Firth et al, 2019) has demonstrated the increased physical health risks that people with severe mental illness (SMI) ...
Technology is revolutionising psychological therapies. From mobile apps to virtual reality therapies (VRT), gamifying the therapy experience. It all sounds futuristic and ...
Whilst psychiatric hospitalisation can be lifesaving (Wang & Colucci, 2017), it is also associated with a wide range of adverse clinical outcomes (Walter et al., 2019) ...
Recent headlines have highlighted a troubling surge in racism and discrimination, as divisive behaviours fuel stereotypes and hostility toward ethnic and racial minorities. ...
The relationship between migration and psychosis risk is well established. A meta-analysis by Selten et al., (2020) found that migrants are twice as likely to experience ...
Authored: Jan. 23, 2011 Updated: April 23, 2025 People with a mental illness feel alone. Depression makes you feel alone. Depression makes you feel like you’re the only person ...
In the first part of this series, we reviewed recent research into the role of the CB2 cannabinoid receptor in cancer proliferation. This week we turn our attention to another fascinating ...
Her daughter was struggling, but she gathered the insight and will to tell her mother she wanted to learn about the voices and get help. When they began researching ...
Over the past decade there has been huge interest in the role of the microbiome-gut-brain axis in brain function and mental health (as covered in these previous Mental Elf ...
Research has long established a bidirectional relationship between sleep and mental health, where poor sleep can exacerbate psychiatric symptoms, and conversely, mental ...
