Risk of respiratory disease is greatly heightened for people with bipolar disorder but we are missing opportunities to intervene to improve lung health.

Jasmine completed undergraduate studies in dual-field adult and mental health nursing in 2018. While completing her undergraduate study, Jasmine worked as a healthcare support worker to gain ...

Emily has worked at the University of Sheffield since 2015, where she specialises in researching factors affecting the mental ...

Xiaolin Guo, a MSc student in Global Mental Health at the University of Glasgow, and Nina Higson-Sweeney summarise a recent ...

A systematic review shows relationships between staffing and incidents of violence on wards is complex suggesting an urgent need for better evidence.

KCL MSc student, Geetika Sharma, reviews a study on the contribution of cannabis use to the increased psychosis risk among ...

KCL MSc student Yunyi Chen explores a study on the effectiveness of psychodynamic therapy in an NHS service for service-users ...

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What’s in a name? That which we call a mental illness by any other name would be stigmatised as heavily; or would it? A new systematic review by Cliodhna O’Connor and colleagues explores the impact of ...

Chiara is an aspiring clinical psychologist and current master's student at King’s College London. Currently completing a clinical placement within an eating disorder service, she is gaining ...

In her debut Mental Elf blog, Demelza Smeeth discusses the latest research on the inheritance of trauma across three generations of Syrian refugees; summarising a paper that looks into the epigenetic ...