Ian Hamilton considers an Australian cohort study exploring the risk of self-harm and suicide associated with the use of ...

Two large cohorts (one UK, one Chinese) found shifting from optimal to non-optimal sleep or stopping napping linked to higher ...

I am a medical doctor and fully funded PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge, where my work focuses on youth mental ...

Sofiia Kornatska considers a service evaluation study on compassion-focused therapy groups delivered in community mental ...

Demetra Christodoulou summarises the latest review of the evidence on barriers to disclosure of sexual trauma in men and boys ...

Children who experienced food insecurity in early childhood had higher odds of binge eating and compensatory behaviours in adolescence, even when food insecurity resolved.

Psychiatric disorders share genetic variants that cluster into five main factors. Understanding shared biology could improve ...

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.

Brexit in 2016 hit the UK with crucial implications on people’s mental health, especially those who belong to ethnic minority backgrounds. But was there an earlier event in the UK that could have ...

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, ...

Dr Almudena Trucharte is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Sheffield. Her work focuses on understanding the cognitive and emotional ...

Microaggressions are simply defined as brief, commonplace daily verbal and/or behavioural slights or indignities that display hostility towards marginalised and minoritised people (Nadal et al, 2018).