We know more about how childhood shapes adulthood than previous generations did. But when we talk about adversity, there could be an endless range of experiences. Losing at Monopoly after landing on Mayfair with a hotel may have felt devastating as a child, but adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) refer to more severe stressors, ranging from abuse and neglect to bullying,...
Around 20% of women during the perinatal period experience peripartum depression (PPD). PPD has been found to have significant impacts on the mental...
Exposure to natural disasters increases the risk of mental health problems in children and adolescents, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety...
Using advanced statistical methods, the team grouped the disorders into five genetically related categories, revealing particularly strong overlap between conditions such as depression,...
Most people know that hormones, such as oestrogen and progesterone, change throughout the menstrual cycle, but fewer realise how much these fluctuations can...
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is a caregiver-child approach designed to address attachment insecurity and developmental trauma (Hughes, 2007; Golding, 2025), particularly in children...
Antipsychotic medication has transformed treatment for patients with schizophrenia and related psychiatric disorders, but what is their effect on the thinking brain? Most...
The second paper, titled 'Policy and public health implications for mental health after the COVID-19 pandemic', took a wider view of population-level mental...