This study used Mendelian randomisation to test potential causal relationships between depression and 137 traits. Depression ...
Sophie Carlisle covers a qualitative study finding that older adults do not associate their mental health difficulties with ...
Are hair-pulling and skin-picking disorders linked to deeper beliefs formed in childhood? This study found that early ...
Sam Woodnutt and Jasmine Snowden blog a study which uses hospital data to explore rates of headbanging as a form of self-harm ...
This large-scale quality improvement project across 55 mental health wards tested Board Relay, Zonal Observations, and Life ...
Are hair-pulling and skin-picking disorders linked to deeper beliefs formed in childhood? This study found that early ...
Allow me to paint a scene. I’ve invited you to have dinner at my house. As we gather around the dinner table, I serve you a Beef Wellington, fresh from the oven. In this metaphor, the Beef Wellington ...
Phil is a Mental Health Nurse Consultant on a male adult acute psychiatric admission ward in the North East of England. He ...
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.
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, ...