Sam Woodnutt and Jasmine Snowden blog a study which uses hospital data to explore rates of headbanging as a form of self-harm ...

Are hair-pulling and skin-picking disorders linked to deeper beliefs formed in childhood? This study found that early ...

This large-scale quality improvement project across 55 mental health wards tested Board Relay, Zonal Observations, and Life ...

Are hair-pulling and skin-picking disorders linked to deeper beliefs formed in childhood? This study found that early ...

Phil is a Mental Health Nurse Consultant on a male adult acute psychiatric admission ward in the North East of England. He ...

Prescriptions for antidepressant medication continue to rise in the UK and globally, partly driven by increasing long-term treatment (Mars et al., 2017). Recent data suggest that, in England, around 1 ...

Alexandra Allam, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and a T32 postdoctoral research fellow in Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Eating Disorders at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Her ...

Sarah is an Associate Professor at Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol. Her research interests are primarily around early prediction of mental problems such as psychosis, bipolar disorder, ...

Mostaured Khan is a public health and epidemiology researcher undertaking his PhD at the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Bristol Medical School. His research explores how psychosocial stressors, ...

This network meta-analysis of 76 trials found that slow tapering (over 4 weeks) combined with psychological support was most effective for preventing relapse when stopping antidepressants. Abrupt ...

More than half of teenagers today are unhappy with their bodies (Hock et al., 2025). This widespread body dissatisfaction – the gap between how we look and how we wish we looked – isn’t just about ...