Researchers pulled together evidence from more than half a million people to test a simple but important idea: if childhood ...

Trainee Clinical Psychologist with eight years of experience working within the NHS. Her journey into psychology began with a ...

Past research indicated that mentalisation deficits, particularly in people with a diagnosis of borderline personality ...

Tharindi Udalagama analyses a new study, on the challenges Irish farmers face, with the demands of their work, and their ...

Oonagh has recently completed her PhD at the Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London.

New systematic review estimates how common different eating disorders and disordered eating behaviours really are among ...

Technology is revolutionising psychological therapies. From mobile apps to virtual reality therapies (VRT), gamifying the ...

Filip Marzecki presents a national cohort study comparing women who died by suicide with and without a history of domestic violence.

Inpatient mental health services are meant to provide safe places for people experiencing mental health difficulties to receive support and recover, but for many, the reality is far from this ideal.

The past 50 years has seen globalisation of psychiatric diagnostic (categorical) frameworks. Early versions were notoriously unreliable; when categories are unreliable they cannot be valid, meaning ...

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 blogs: Murray, 2024; Clarke, ...