This twin study of nearly 14,000 UK adolescents found that body dissatisfaction at age 16 was linked to eating disorder ...

The Co-Pact study uses powerful images and narratives from 48 people to reveal how compulsory admission under the Mental ...

PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and a T32 postdoctoral research fellow in Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Eating ...

This network meta-analysis of 76 trials found that slow tapering (over 4 weeks) combined with psychological support was most ...

Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet, where she obtained her PhD in 2024. Her research focuses on inflammation-induced changes in human behavior, with a particular interest in ...

Trainee Clinical Psychologist with eight years of experience working within the NHS. Her journey into psychology began with a ...

Violence against women is a major human rights violation that affects one in three women worldwide and has profound and overlapping impacts on women’s physical and mental health (World Health ...

The past 50 years has seen globalisation of psychiatric diagnostic (categorical) frameworks. Early versions were notoriously unreliable; when categories are unreliable they cannot be valid, meaning ...

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.

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, ...

Tharindi is a researcher whose work focuses on health, community, and everyday life in rural Sri Lanka. With a background in sociology and anthropology, her studies explore how everyday experiences of ...

Psychedelics experts across clinical trials, psychotherapy and regulation have been reflecting on the challenges facing the field since a webinar organised by the International Alliance of Mental ...