Conditions, Lifestyle Factors & Interventions: Recent submissions
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Measuring Symptom-Specific Panic-Relevant Associations Using Single-Target Implicit Association Tests
(2023-05)According to major cognitive accounts of panic disorder, bodily sensations can lead to automatic activation of an associative fear network, potentially triggering a cascade of cognitive, emotional, and physiological responses ... -
The Effectiveness and Feasibility of Psychological Interventions for Populations Under Ongoing Threat: A Systematic Review
(2023-03)Current views of psychological therapies for trauma typically assume the traumatic event to be in the past. Yet, individuals who live in contexts of ongoing organized violence or experience intimate partner violence (IPV) ... -
Development and initial evaluation of a behavioural intervention to support weight management for people with serious mental illness: an uncontrolled feasibility and acceptability study
(2023-03)The rates of obesity and associated health problems are higher in people with serious mental illness (SMI), such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, than the general population. A primary care referral to a behavioural ... -
Research Review: Viewing self-harm images on the internet and social media platforms: systematic review of the impact and associated psychological mechanisms
(2023-03)iewing self-harm and suicide-related images online can precede these behaviours. We reviewed studies of potential impacts and mechanisms associated with viewing self-harm-related images on the internet and social ... -
Preliminary Evaluation of Translated and Culturally Adapted Internet-Delivered Cognitive Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder: Multicenter, Single-Arm Trial in Japan
(2023-05)Background: Internet-delivered cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder (iCT-SAD), which is a therapist-guided modular web-based treatment, has shown strong efficacy and acceptability in English-language randomized ... -
A Public Health, Whole-of-Government Approach to National Suicide Prevention Strategies
(2023-03)Many countries have national suicide prevention strategies, all of which aim to reduce suicide and many of which also address self-harm more generally (World Health Organization, 2018). In this editorial, we argue that ... -
Profile of people attending emergency departments with thoughts of self-harm and suicide: A descriptive study of a nurse-led programme in Ireland
(2023-03)Increasing research has been conducted on individuals presenting with self-harm at emergency departments (EDs). However, less is known about individuals presenting to EDs with only self-harm ideation. We aimed to describe ... -
Measuring dissociation across adolescence and adulthood: Developing the short-form Cernis Felt Sense of Anomaly scale (CEFSA-14)
(2023-05)Dissociation may be important across many mental health disorders, but has been variously conceptualised and measured. We introduced a conceptualisation of a common type of dissociative experience, ‘felt sense of anomaly’ ... -
Mothers’ accounts of the impact of being in nature on postnatal wellbeing: a focus group study
(2023-06)Background The postnatal period is a vulnerable time for mothers to experience stress and mental health difculties. There is increasing evidence that spending time in nature is benefcial for wellbeing. Nature-based ... -
Neuroimaging glutamatergic mechanisms differentiating antipsychotic treatment-response
(2023-06)Glutamatergic dysfunction is associated with failure to respond to antipsychotic medication in individuals with schizophrenia. Our objective was to combine neurochemical and functional brain imaging methods to investigate ... -
Reduction of aversive learning rates in Pavlovian conditioning by angiotensin II antagonist losartan
(2023-05)The angiotensin receptor blocker losartan has been linked to aspects of aversive learning such as fear acquisition and extinction, inhibition of aversive learning rates and reduced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ... -
Do communication interventions affect the quality-of-life of people with dementia and their families? A systematic review
(2023-04)Speech, language and communication difficulties are prevalent in all dementia subtypes and are likely to considerably impact the quality-of-life of people with dementia and their families. Communication interventions ... -
Untreatable or unable to treat? Creating more effective and accessible treatment for long-standing and severe eating disorders
(2023-02)The evidence base for the treatment of severe eating disorders is limited. In addition to improving access to early intervention, there is a need to develop more effective treatments for complex presentations of eating ... -
How to manage self-harm in primary care
(2023-01)Mental health specialist nurse Karen Lascelles explains how to approach patients who are self-harming and offer appropriate care and support in line with new NICE guidance. -
Mothers’ accounts of the impact of being in nature on postnatal wellbeing: a focus group study
(2023-01)The postnatal period is a vulnerable time for mothers to experience stress and mental health difficulties. There is increasing evidence that spending time in nature is beneficial for wellbeing. Nature-based interventions ... -
Shared and separate patterns in brain morphometry across transdiagnostic dimensions
(2023-01)Determining similarities and differences in brain structure across psychiatric disorders is important to determine if psychiatric taxonomy is reflected in distinct brain structural changes. As previous neuroimaging ... -
The relationship between striatal dopamine and anterior cingulate glutamate in first episode psychosis changes with antipsychotic treatment
(2023-05)The neuromodulator dopamine and excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate have both been implicated in the pathogenesis of psychosis, and dopamine antagonists remain the predominant treatment for psychotic disorders. To date ... -
Explainable artificial intelligence for mental health through transparency and interpretability for understandability
(2023-01)The literature on artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) in mental health and psychiatry lacks consensus on what “explainability” means. In the more general XAI (eXplainable AI) literature, there has been ... -
Identifying individuals at risk of developing psychosis: A systematic review of the literature in primary care services
(2023-01)Psychosis and related disorders are a major public health issue. Early identification and prevention for those at high risk (at-risk-mental-state, ARMS) is important. General practitioners (GPs) are often the first point ... -
Empathy and the work of clinical psychiatrists: narrative review
(2023-01)Clinical research suggests that empathy is associated with better clinical outcomes in various areas of medical care, raising the question of whether a similar effect occurs in psychiatry. The aim of this review is to ...