Browsing Mental Disorders (General) by Title
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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 ... -
A co-produced online cultural experience compared to a typical museum website for mental health in people aged 16-24: A proof-of-principle randomised controlled trial
(2022-09)Objective: We aimed to compare a co-produced online intervention encompassing the diverse human stories behind art and artefacts, named Ways of Being (WoB), with a typical museum website, the Ashmolean (Ash) on negative ... -
Cognitive Performance, Quality and Quantity of Movement Reflect Psychological Symptoms in Adolescents
(2020-05)The presentation of unhealthy psychological symptoms are rising sharply in adolescents. Detrimental lifestyle behaviours are proposed as both possible causes and consequences. This study set out to compare selected ... -
Comparison of Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders Among the Adult Population in Bangladesh, Before and During the COVID-19 Lockdown
(2022-06)The aims were to determine and compare the prevalence of possible psychiatric disorders among Bangladeshi adults before and during lockdown. It was hypothesized that prevalence of possible psychiatric disorders would ... -
Considerations in the assessment of capacity
(2020-10)The right of autonomous patients to make decisions about their care is core to medical practice. However, we are frequently faced with situations where a patient is unable to make those decisions because of their medical ... -
COVID and early intervention: the impact of COVID-19 on referrals to an early intervention service
(2021-06)COVID-19 has a demonstratable impact on the population's mental health and is associated with an increased incidence of psychiatric disorders, including patients experiencing psychotic presentations. The aim of this study ... -
Covid-19 and mental health: a transformational opportunity to apply an evidence-based approach to clinical practice and research
(2020-04)The Oxford Precision Psychiatry Lab (https://oxfordhealthbrc.nihr.ac.uk/our-work/oxppl/, @OxfordPPL) collected from senior clinicians in the local Mental Health Trust a list of specific and focused questions about mental ... -
COVID-19 vaccines, hesitancy and mental health
(2021-04)‘None of us will be safe until everyone is safe. Global access to coronavirus vaccines, tests and treatments for everyone who needs them, anywhere, is the only way out’. This statement by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, ... -
COVID-19, mental health and ethnic minorities
(2020-07)There is little formal guidance for the busy clinician in balancing different risks for individual mental health patients and treating appropriately. To fill this gap, we propose three core actions that may help: 1. ... -
The effect of a youth mental health service model on access to secondary mental healthcare for young people aged 14–25 years
(2018-09)Aims and method The Norfolk Youth Service was created in 2012 in response to calls to redesign mental health services to better meet the needs of young people. The new service model transcends traditional boundaries by ... -
The effects of improving sleep on mental health (OASIS): a randomised controlled trial with mediation analysis
(2017-09-06)Summary: Background Sleep difficulties might be a contributory causal factor in the occurrence of mental health problems. If this is true, improving sleep should benefit psychological health. We aimed to determine whether ... -
Five models for child and adolescent data linkage in the UK: a review of existing and proposed methods
(2020-02)Over the last decade dramatic advances have been made in both the technology and data available to better understand the multifactorial influences on child and adolescent health and development. This paper seeks to ... -
The Functional Consequences of Social Attention for Memory-guided Attention Orienting and Anticipatory Neural Dynamics
(2019-02)Social attention when viewing natural social (compared to non-social) images has functional consequences on contextual memory in healthy human adults. In addition to attention affecting memory performance, strong evidence ... -
The genomic basis of mood instability: identification of 46 loci in 363,705 UK Biobank participants, genetic correlation with psychiatric disorders, and association with gene expression and function
(2019)Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of psychiatric phenotypes have tended to focus on categorical diagnoses, but to understand the biology of mental illness it may be more useful to study traits which cut across traditional ... -
Identifying psychiatric diagnosis from missing mood data through the use of log-signature features
(2022-11)The availability of mobile technologies has enabled the efficient collection of prospective longitudinal, ecologically valid self-reported clinical questionnaires from people with psychiatric diagnoses. These data streams ... -
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Global Delivery of Mental Health Services and Telemental Health: Systematic Review
(2022-08)The COVID-19 pandemic required mental health services around the world to adapt quickly to the new restrictions and regulations put in place to reduce the risk of transmission. As face-to-face contact became difficult, ... -
Induced pluripotent stem cells in psychiatry: a critical review
(2021-01)A key challenge in psychiatry research is the development of high-fidelity model systems that can be experimentally manipulated to explore and test pathophysiological mechanisms of illness. In this respect, the emerging ... -
Magnitude and variability of structural brain abnormalities in neuropsychiatric disease: protocol for a network meta-analysis of MRI studies
(2021-04)Introduction Structural MRI is the most frequently used method to investigate brain volume alterations in neuropsychiatric disease. Previous meta-analyses have typically focused on a single diagnosis, thereby precluding ... -
Mental health responses in countries hosting refugees from Ukraine
(2022-04)The Ukrainian refugee crisis highlights the many issues associated with trauma, distress, mental and physical health, culturally competent assessments, and meaningful support and interventions. This crisis requires ... -
A narrative review of ablative neurosurgery in refractory mental disorders
(2022-07)Neurosurgery for mental disorder (NMD) is currently performed in the UK for cases of severe depressive disorder and obsessive–compulsive disorder refractory to treatment, under stringent regulations as set out under the ...
