Humma Andleeb considers an umbrella review exploring the association between racial and ethnic discrimination and psychosis.

Filip Marzecki presents a national cohort study comparing women who died by suicide with and without a history of domestic ...

Psychiatric hospitalisation can save lives, but it also carries major personal and economic costs. Could early warning scores help predict who’s most at risk, allowing for earlier, more targeted ...

If NHS Talking Therapies work so well, why are recovery rates lower for young adults? Saunders and colleagues analysed data ...

Distressing images are common for people with experiences of psychosis but interventions are limited - iMPAS provides grounds for therapeutic optimism.

In her debut blog, Jessica Davies explores eight key recommendations for trauma-informed care in perinatal mental health ...

Cunliffe reviews a systematic review finding that people with severe mental illness have a higher risk of respiratory ...

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.

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).

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, ...

Rumination, also known as repetitive thought, is prolonged and recurrent negative thinking about feelings and upsetting past experiences (Watkins, 2008). In contrast, worry refers to a chain of ...

There is growing interest in the role of the gut microbiome in mental health disorders (Nikolova et al, 2021; Clarke, 2023). Recent evidence suggests that the composition and function of the ...