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 ...

Emma is the programme lead for research, evaluation, publications and development at Imroc, a lived experience led charity ...

Researchers pulled together evidence from more than half a million people to test a simple but important idea: if childhood ...

Alison Faulkner is a survivor researcher and trainer in mental health with over 30 years’ experience of working in mental health research and consultancy. She has a particular interest in survivor ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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.