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Positive Behaviour Support and Forensic Mental Health Care
(2021)"This assignment reviews the evidence about Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) in forensic mental health settings. It discusses the benefits and challenges of using PBS in forensic settings, including: why PBS is a good fit, ... -
The use of punishment with autistic children who use behaviour that challenges
(2021)"This essay will focus on the use, effectiveness, and ethics of punishment, a topic that often attracts controversy, but is also well installed within our society (e.g. Bunting, Webb & Healy, 2010; Lacey & Pickard, 2015). ... -
Brain tumour segmentation using a triplanar ensemble of U-Nets on MR images
(2021-05)Gliomas appear with wide variation in their characteristics both in terms of their appearance and location on brain MR images, which makes robust tumour segmentation highly challenging, and leads to high inter-rater ... -
Onset and recurrence of psychiatric disorders associated with anti-hypertensive drug classes
(2021-05)The major anti-hypertensive (AHT) drug classes have been associated with differential risks of psychiatric disorders. However, existing data are limited largely to depression, and confounding variables have not always been ... -
Changes in daily mental health service use and mortality at the commencement and lifting of COVID-19 'lockdown' policy in 10 UK sites: a regression discontinuity in time design
(2021-05)Objectives: To investigate changes in daily mental health (MH) service use and mortality in response to the introduction and the lifting of the COVID-19 'lockdown' policy in Spring 2020. Design: A regression discontinuity ... -
An In-vivo 1H-MRS short-echo time technique at 7T: Quantification of metabolites in Chronic Multiple Sclerosis and Neuromyelitis Optica Brain Lesions and Normal Appearing Brain Tissue
(2021-05)Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) allows for the non-invasive quantification of neurochemicals and has the potential to differentiate between the pathologically distinct diseases, multiple sclerosis (MS) and AQP4Ab-positive ... -
Harnessing the nursing contribution to COVID-19 mass vaccination programmes: Addressing hesitancy and promoting confidence
(2021-04)The need for a mass vaccination programme for COVID-19 is considered a pivotal public health strategy to reduce rates of infection, hospitalizations and deaths which have been so much a feature of the past year of the ... -
Study Protocol: The Heart and Brain Study
(2021-03)Background: It is well-established that what is good for the heart is good for the brain. Vascular factors such as hypertension, diabetes, and high cholesterol, and genetic factors such as the apolipoprotein E4 allele ... -
Update to the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a mindfulness training programme in schools compared with normal school provision (MYRIAD): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
(2021-04)Background MYRIAD (My Resilience in Adolescence) is a superiority, parallel group, cluster randomised controlled trial designed to examine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a mindfulness training (MT) programme, ... -
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 ... -
Clinical prediction tools to identify patients at highest risk of myeloma in primary care: a retrospective open cohort study
(2021-04)Background Patients with myeloma experience substantial delays in their diagnosis, which can adversely affect their prognosis. Aim To generate a clinical prediction rule to identify primary care patients who are at highest ... -
Improving mealtimes for patients and staff within an eating disorder unit: understanding of the problem and first intervention during the pandemic—an initial report
(2021-04)Background Mealtimes occur six times a day on eating disorder (ED) inpatient units and are a mainstay of treatment for EDs. However, these are often distressing and anxiety provoking times for patients and staff. A product ... -
Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United Kingdom
(2021-04)We explore the implications of online social endorsement for the Covid-19 vaccination program in the United Kingdom. Vaccine hesitancy is a long-standing problem, but it has assumed great urgency due to the pandemic. By ... -
Suicidal behavior in individuals accused or convicted of child sex abuse or indecent image offenses: Systematic review of prevalence and risk factors
(2021-04)Objective: An emerging body of research indicates that child sex abuse (CSA) of-fenders are at high risk of suicide when their offenses come to light and that those accused of accessing indecent images of children (IIOC) ... -
Using digital monitoring alongside psychosocial interventions in patients who self-harm
(2021-05)With more than 200,000 presentations to hospital for self-harm each year in England, there is a clear requirement to reduce self-harm and improve well-being in this population. This service evaluation examined the potential ... -
The neural correlates of inhibitory control in 10-month-old infants: a functional nearinfrared spectroscopy study
(2021-04)Inhibitory control, a core executive function, emerges in infancy and develops rapidly across childhood. Methodological limitations have meant that studies investigating the neural correlates underlying inhibitory control ... -
Using the 11-item Version of the RCADS to Identify Anxiety and Depressive Disorders in Adolescents
(2021)The purpose of this study was to identify items from the Revised Children’s Anxiety and Depression Scale – RCADS-C/P that provided a brief, reliable and valid screen for anxiety and/or depressive disorders in adolescents. ... -
Bearing witness to the challenges of breathlessness
(2021-04)The community respiratory nurse specialist (CRNS) supports patients at different stages of lung disease, witnessing the challenge of living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a progressive illness for which ... -
EMD: Empirical Mode Decomposition and Hilbert-Huang Spectral Analyses in Python
(2021-03)The Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) package contains Python (>=3.5) functions for analysis of non-linear and non-stationary oscillatory time series. EMD implements a family of sifting algorithms, instantaneous frequency ... -
Dopaminergic modulation of regional cerebral blood flow: An arterial spin labelling study of genetic and pharmacological manipulation of COMT activity
(2021-07)Dopamine has direct and complex vasoactive effects on cerebral circulation. Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) regulates cortical dopamine, and its activity can be influenced both genetically and pharmacologically. COMT ...