Amelia Talbot reviews a recent study that explores factors contributing to fatal overdose in healthcare professionals, both ...

Mostaured Khan is a public health and epidemiology researcher undertaking his PhD at the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, ...

The Co-Pact study uses powerful images and narratives from 48 people to reveal how compulsory admission under the Mental ...

This twin study of nearly 14,000 UK adolescents found that body dissatisfaction at age 16 was linked to eating disorder ...

This network meta-analysis of 76 trials found that slow tapering (over 4 weeks) combined with psychological support was most ...

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.

Dental pain is a sadly a common event and has been managed by both opioid and non-opioid analgesics. It is recognised that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) drugs perform better in relation to ...

In the UK, young people (YP) who are struggling with moderate-to-severe mental health symptoms are often referred to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), which are specialist services ...

The woodland has several blogs in relation to ‘treatment resistant depression’ looking at a range of topics from the patient experience to the cost effectiveness of interventions such as long term ...

Exercise-based interventions, potentially serving as either alternative treatments for depression or alongside medication and/or therapy, are recommended by the UK National Institute for Health and ...

There is growing interest in the role of the gut microbiome in mental health disorders (Nikolova et al, 2021; Clarke, 2023). Recent evidence suggests that the composition and function of the ...

Stigma towards individuals with mental health conditions such as depression is well documented (Wood et al., 2014) and highly common (see Pattie’s Mental Elf blog on the prevalence of self-stigma in ...