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IAPT and the internet: The current and future role of therapist-guided internet interventions within routine care settings
(2020-02)Compared to the traditional face-to-face format, therapist-guided internet interventions offer a different approach to supporting clients in learning skills to manage and overcome mental health difficulties. Such interventions ... -
Implementing a digital clinical decision support tool for side effects of antipsychotics: a focus group study
(2019-04-15)In medicine, algorithms can inform treatment decisions by combining the most up-to-date evidence about side effect profiles of medications, which are comparable in efficacy. Their use provides opportunities for improved ... -
Implementing a stepped-care psychological pathway for cardiac patients with comorbid anxiety and depression in the UK: a service development project
(2021-03)Background/aims This was a pilot study that was part of a Department of Health and Social Care initiative to improve access to cognitive behavioural therapies for patients with long-term health conditions. The service ... -
The importance of prototype similarity for physical activity: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations in a large sample of young adolescents
(2022-02)Objectives. Physical activity declines during adolescence. The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) is a useful framework for investigating activity but leaves variance unexplained. We explored the utility of a dual-process ... -
Improving the effectiveness of psychotherapy in two public hospitals in Nairobi
(2017-08)This paper is the first in a planned series of papers studying the effectiveness of psychotherapy and counselling in Nairobi. It describes a method for checking the effectiveness of psychotherapy and improving service ... -
Innovations in Practice: Avatar-based virtual reality in CAMHS talking therapy: two exploratory case studies
(2019-03)Background: Avatar-based virtual reality therapy is an emerging digital technology that can be used to assist the treatment of common mental health problems. This may be particularly appealing to young people who are ... -
Insomnia as a mediating therapeutic target for depressive symptoms: A sub-analysis of participant data from two large randomized controlled trials of a digital sleep intervention
(2020-06)Insomnia predicts the onset of depression, commonly co-presents with depression and often persists following depression remission. However, these conditions can be challenging to treat concurrently using depression-specific ... -
Introducing artificial intelligence in acute psychiatric inpatient care: qualitative study of its use to conduct nursing observations.
(2020-02)Background All patients admitted to an acute inpatient mental health unit must have nursing observations carried out at night either hourly or every 15 minutes, to ascertain that they are safe and breathing. However, while ... -
Introducing the tablet-based Oxford Cognitive Screen-Plus (OCS-Plus) as an assessment tool for subtle cognitive impairments
(2021-04)Here, we present the Oxford Cognitive Screen-Plus, a computerised tablet-based screen designed to briefly assess domain-general cognition and provide more fine-grained measures of memory and executive function. The OCS-Plus ... -
Investigating Different Levels of Bimanual Interaction With a Novel Motor Learning Task: A Behavioural and Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Study
(2021-11)In everyday life, we perform countless movements with our hands. Some, such as writing, drawing, or eating with chopsticks, require one hand alone, whereas others require the skilled interaction of both hands. For bimanual ... -
Is placebo response in antidepressant trials rising or not? A reanalysis of datasets to conclude this long-lasting controversy
(2018-01)It had long been believed that placebo response rates in antidepressant trials have been increasing and that they were responsible for rising numbers of so-called failed antidepressant trials. Two recent systematic reviews ... -
Learning to optimize perceptual decisions through suppressive interactions in the human brain
(2019-01)Translating noisy sensory signals to perceptual decisions is critical for successful interactions in complex environments. Learning is known to improve perceptual judgments by filtering external noise and task-irrelevant ... -
Learning to optimize perceptual decisions through suppressive interactions in the human brain
(2019-01)Translating noisy sensory signals to perceptual decisions is critical for successful interactions in complex environments. Learning is known to improve perceptual judgments by filtering external noise and task-irrelevant ... -
Lighthouse Parenting Programme: Description and pilot evaluation of Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) to address child maltreatment.
(2018)This paper introduces an innovative Mentalization - Based Treatment (MBT) parenting intervention for families where children are at risk of maltreatment. The Lighthouse MBT Parenting Programme aims to prevent child ... -
Long COVID rehabilitation: A collaborative approach to managing a new phenomenon
(2022-02)Purpose: Post COVID Syndrome (Long COVID) is the continuation of symptoms related to a COVID-like-illness after 12 weeks post onset (NICE Guidelines December 2020). Most recent ONS prevalence data (April 2021) predicts ... -
Long‐term benefits of digital cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia: Follow‐up report from a randomized clinical trial
(2020-02)Digital cognitive behavioural therapy (dCBT) is an effective treatment for chronic insomnia and also improves well‐being and quality of life (QoL). We assessed whether these benefits are sustained and if the effects of ... -
Mesolimbic Dopamine Function is Related to Salience Network Connectivity: An Integrative PET and MR Study
(2018-09-29)A wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders from schizophrenia to drug addiction involve abnormalities in both the mesolimbic dopamine system and the cortical salience network. Both systems play a key role in the detection ... -
Modulation of the pupillary response by the content of visual working memory
(2019-09)Studies of selective attention during perception have revealed modulation of the pupillary response according to the brightness of task-relevant (attended) vs. -irrelevant (unattended) stimuli within a visual display. ... -
Musculoskeletal complications following critical illness: A scoping review
(2021-08)Purpose To explore the extent to which musculoskeletal (MSK) complications have been reported following critical illness, identifying evidence gaps and providing recommendations for future research. Materials and methods We ... -
A narrative review of the success of intramuscular gluteal injections and its impact in psychiatry
(2018-07)There are 12 billion injections given worldwide every year. For many injections, the intramuscular route is favoured over the subcutaneous route due to the increased vascularity of muscle tissue and the corresponding ...