The influences of hormonal contraceptives on mental health have been a longstanding concern for women of reproductive age.

Ella Tuominen considers a study on childhood trauma and response to long-term psychoanalytic vs CBT therapy for chronic depression in adults.

Depression is a common condition that has a significant disease burden on those affected. While medication and psychotherapy are very effective for many patients, they do not work for everyone and can ...

Clare Gerada and Ruby Wiltshire summarise a new scoping review of UK-based research on treatment of harmful gambling.

Hári Sewell writes about exploring Afro Carribean men's experiences of psychosis and mental health services in North America ...

Director of HS Consultancy and is a former executive director of health and social care in the National Health Service in the ...

In his first Mental Elf blog, Tim van der Es discusses a Biological Psychiatry paper on the genetic relationship between ADHD ...

Dhea Bengardi summarises a Delphi study that involved lived experience and researcher stakeholders in developing a ...

Mental and cardiometabolic disorders rank among the leading causes of burden of disease worldwide (Global Burden of Disease Collaborative Network, 2024). These disorders are highly multimorbid (i.e., ...

People with bipolar disorder (BD) experience trauma at significantly higher rates than the general population, with estimates ranging from 50% to 80% having experienced a traumatic event at some point ...

Healthcare workers are at a high risk of mental health issues, including stress, burnout, and symptoms of anxiety and depression. These challenges, exacerbated by high workloads, critical incidents, ...