How often do people with eating disorders switch diagnoses, recover, or relapse? This large Danish study follows more than 10 ...

Humma Andleeb considers an umbrella review exploring the association between racial and ethnic discrimination and psychosis.

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

If NHS Talking Therapies work so well, why are recovery rates lower for young adults? Saunders and colleagues analysed data ...

Psychiatric hospitalisation can save lives, but it also carries major personal and economic costs. Could early warning scores help predict who’s most at risk, allowing for earlier, more targeted ...

Jess is a recent BSc Psychology graduate from King’s College London. Very passionate about women’s mental health, ...

Yan is a PhD student at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (King’s College London), funded by the Medical ...

In her debut blog, Jessica Davies explores eight key recommendations for trauma-informed care in perinatal mental health ...

Cunliffe reviews a systematic review finding that people with severe mental illness have a higher risk of respiratory ...

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.

In my clinical work some of the most challenging patients to manage are those with ‘treatment resistant depression‘ and unfortunately up to 30% of people with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder ...

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, ...