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Validation of the UK English Oxford Cognitive Screen-Plus in Sub-Acute and Chronic Stroke Survivors.
(2022-06)Stroke survivors are routinely screened for cognitive impairment with tools that often fail to detect subtle impairments. The Oxford Cognitive Screen-Plus (OCS-Plus) is a brief tablet-based screen designed to detect subtle ... -
Validation of UK Biobank data for mental health outcomes: A pilot study using secondary care electronic health records
(2022-02)UK Biobank (UKB) is widely employed to investigate mental health disorders and related exposures; however, its applicability and relevance in a clinical setting and the assumptions required have not been sufficiently and ... -
A validation study to trigger nicotine craving in virtual reality
(2022-04)We built a virtual beer garden that contained various smoking cues (both verbal and non-verbal) using a motion capture system to record the realistic smoking behaviour related animations. Our 3-min long VR experience was ... -
Valproate in dementia: time to move on? Commentary on…Cochrane Corner
(2019-02)Baillon et al ’s Cochrane review included 430 participants with agitation in dementia from five randomised controlled trials. Overall, the reviewers found that valproate was no better than placebo for the treatment of ... -
Value of monitoring negative emotional bias in primary care in England for personalised antidepressant treatment: a modelling study
(2019-11)Depressed patients often focus on negative life events. Effective antidepressant therapy reverses this negative emotional bias (NEB) within 1 week. Clinical therapeutic effect usually requires 4–6 weeks. The value of ... -
The value of nurse mentoring relationships: Lessons learnt from a work‐based resilience enhancement programme for nurses working in the forensic setting
(2020-06)This study aimed to evaluate a mento ring programme embedded in a work-based personal resilience enhancement intervention for forensic nurses. This qualitative study formed part of a wider mixed-methods study that aimed ... -
‘Van Gogh’ syndrome: a term to approach with caution
(2020-06)If Van Gogh syndrome is indeed synonymous with NSSI, then authors would be advised to keep to the latter term and the clear criteria provided by DSM-V. If the literature continues to suggest that there is a specific ... -
Variation in recognition of happy and sad facial expressions and self-reported depressive symptom severity: A prospective cohort study
(2019-06)Objective:Cognitive theories suggest people with depression interpret self-referential social information negatively. However, it is unclear whether these biases precede or follow depression. We investigated whether facial ... -
Variation in spend on young mental health across Clinical Commissioning Groups in England: a cross-sectional observational study
(2019-08)Objectives To investigate whether the rate of spend on child and adolescent mental health is influenced by demand for other competing services in local commissioning decisions. Design Analysis of spend data by Clinical ... -
Vascular Dementia
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Vascular disease and multiple sclerosis: a post-mortem study exploring their relationships
(2020-09)Vascular comorbidities have a deleterious impact on multiple sclerosis clinical outcomes but it is unclear whether this is mediated by an excess of extracranial vascular disease (i.e. atherosclerosis) and/or of cerebral ... -
Viewpoint: digital paediatrics—so close yet so far away
(2021-09)Technology is driving a revolution in healthcare, but paediatric services have not fully harnessed the potential. Digital health solutions yet to achieve their promise in paediatrics include electronic health records, ... -
Violent outcomes in first-episode psychosis: A clinical cohort study
(2019-11)Aim Violence risk is an important part of a comprehensive clinical assessment in first‐episode psychosis. This study addresses limitations of previous violent outcome research in first‐episode psychosis, which has typically ... -
Virtual reality clinical-experimental tests of compassion treatment techniques to reduce paranoia
(2020-05)Paranoia may build on negative beliefs held both about the self and others. Compassionate imagery may be one way of reducing such negative beliefs, and hence paranoia. Two studies tested this idea, one targeting compassion ... -
Visual fixation patterns during economic choice reflect covert valuation processes that emerge with learning
(2019-10)Visual fixations play a vital role in decision making. Recent studies have demonstrated that the longer subjects fixate an option, the more likely they are to choose it. However, the role of evaluating stimuli covertly ... -
Vitamin D, bone mineral density and risk of fracture in people with intellectual disabilities
(2018-12)Background: People with intellectual disabilities (IDs) have very high rates of osteoporosis and fractures, to which their widespread vitamin D deficiency and other factors could contribute. We aimed to assess in people ... -
Vitruvian plot: a visualisation tool for multiple outcomes in network meta-analysis
(2022-05)Objective A network meta-analysis (NMA) usually assesses multiple outcomes across several treatment comparisons. The Vitruvian plot aims to facilitate communication of multiple outcomes from NMAs to patients and ... -
Voltage-gated calcium channel blockers for psychiatric disorders: genomic reappraisal
(2019-06)We reappraise the psychiatric potential of calcium channel blockers (CCBs). First, voltage-gated calcium channels are risk genes for several disorders. Second, use of CCBs is associated with altered psychiatric risks and ... -
Vortioxetine for depression: the evidence for its current use in the UK: COMMENTARY ON… COCHRANE CORNER
(2018-12-17)The pharmacological treatment of depression is often hampered by side-effects and unsatisfactory response to treatment. Vortioxetine is one of the newest antidepressants on the market, purportedly with a different mechanism ... -
Waiting list eradication in secondary care psychology: Addressing a National Health Service blind spot
(2021)Objectives: Waiting times for secondary care psychological therapy remain a 'blind spot' in serious mental illness (SMI) provision, and their reduction is a priority within the National Health Service (NHS) Five Year Forward ...