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Illegal weight-loss medicines containing semaglutide and tirzepatide were seized in...

Alzheimer’s Disease: APP Processing...

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India has intensified Ebola surveillance after suspected travel-linked cases were...
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Category: Mental health

from CAMHS to adult mental...

Children and young people with anorexia...

Can positive mental images help...

Worry can feel relentless. For people...

from CAMHS to adult mental health services

Children and young people with anorexia nervosa (AN) are often recommended family-based treatment as the first-line intervention (Gorrell et al., 2019). The child who has struggled to eat – limiting their intake, counting calories, adhering to rigid rules about food – is now re-fed by their parents and has the control over food taken away from them in efforts to restore their physical health. The parents who may have previously transitioned away from being responsible for their child’s intake, are now empowered by the treatment team to take...

Mental health admissions...

Across the UK, more young people than ever before are struggling with their mental health, representing a global public health concern (read more...

“It’s not all...

“Only yes means yes” is more than a slogan, and discussions on what that really entails are more urgent now than ever. In a...

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Imagine a routine primary care appointment. A patient with long-standing schizophrenia comes in to renew a prescription. Their mental health is discussed, medication...

real-world evidence shows...

In the world of work-from-home (WFH), Zoom meetings and FaceTime catch-ups, it is not surprising that therapy sessions are increasingly done online, in...

Trauma and homelessness:...

As people with lived experiences of homelessness, trauma, and mental health issues, we were excited at the opportunity to critically review the research...

Consensus reached on...

Relapse in psychosis is unfortunately a common and distressing experience for people with serious mental health conditions, most notably schizophrenia. Researchers commonly rely on...

Is depression a...

“Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is associated with trait X” we write when reporting results of observational studies. Replace “trait X” with, for instance,...

Mental health impacts...

Sexual violence is prevalent across the world with approximately 30-35% of women and 10-27% of men experiencing sexual violence at least once in...

Headbanging as self-injury...

There has been a significant rise in the number of self-injury incidents reported in the UK’s mental health services over the last decade...