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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Lina Hansson is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet, where she obtained her PhD in 2024. Her research focuses on inflammation-induced changes ...

Oonagh has recently completed her PhD at the Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. Her mixed methods research explores pathways of risk and resilience ...

Technology is revolutionising psychological therapies. From mobile apps to virtual reality therapies (VRT), gamifying the therapy experience. It all sounds futuristic and exciting, but beyond the buzz ...

Recent headlines have highlighted a troubling surge in racism and discrimination, as divisive behaviours fuel stereotypes and hostility toward ethnic and racial minorities. This is despite consistent ...