Browsing Mental Disorders (General) by Title
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Safety of 80 antidepressants, antipsychotics, anti-attention-deficit/ hyperactivity medications and mood stabilizers in children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders: a large scale systematic meta-review of 78 adverse effects
(2020-06)Mental disorders frequently begin in childhood or adolescence. Psychotropic medications have various indications for the treatment of mental disorders in this age group and are used not infrequently off‐label. However, ... -
Six-month Neurological and Psychiatric Outcomes in 236,379 Survivors of COVID-19
(2021-01)Background. Neurological and psychiatric sequelae of COVID-19 have been reported, but there are limited data on incidence rates and relative risks. Methods. Using retrospective cohort studies and time-to-event analysis, ... -
Supported decision making for people with mental health disorders in clinical practice: a systematic review.
(2019-10)Objectives: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was adopted at the United Nations Assembly in 2006. The main aim of the convention is to ensure equal rights for people with disabilities including ... -
Supporting people in mental health crisis in 21st-century Britain
(2020-02)Recent years have seen a surge in interest in mental healthcare and some reduction in stigma. Partly as a result of this, alongside a growing population and higher levels of societal distress, many more people are ... -
The Systemic Assessment Clinic, a Novel Method for Assessing Patients in General Adult Psychiatry: Presentation and Preliminary Service Evaluation.
(2020-08)The traditional model of psychiatric assessment and diagnosis can be criticised as reductive. We developed an innovative model for psychiatric assessment of adult patients referred to our adult mental health team, the ... -
Time to focus more on promoting mental health than treating mental illness
(2018-03)Mental health problems are a major contributor to overall burden of disease worldwide. In UK, it represents up to 23% of the total burden of disease - the largest single cause of disability. To build a healthier, more ... -
The times they are a-changin’
(2018-07)Editorial: "The first issue of Evidence-Based Mental Health (EBMH) is celebrating the 20th anniversary. Readers were welcomed to EBMH in 1998, which was designed to assist ‘mental health clinicians stay up to date with the ... -
Trauma, mental health and the COVID-19 crisis: are we really all in it together?
(2021-02)As the world adapts to varying levels of social lockdown – and the lifting of restrictions – due to the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence is mounting that quarantine and other social restrictions negatively affect the mental ... -
Understanding agoraphobic avoidance: the development of the Oxford Cognitions and Defences Questionnaire (O-CDQ)
(2022-02)Many patients with mental health disorders become increasingly isolated at home due to anxiety about going outside. A cognitive perspective on this difficulty is that threat cognitions lead to the safety-seeking behavioural ... -
Unraveling Mechanisms of Patient-Specific NRXN1 Mutations in Neuropsychiatric Diseases Using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
(2020-03)Rare heterozygous deletions in the neurexin 1 (NRXN1) gene robustly increase an individual's risk of developing neurological and psychiatric disorders. However, the molecular bases by which different mutations result in ... -
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 ... -
What can siblings and cousins tell us about the role of early life family income in the aetiologies of violent crime, substance misuse and psychiatric morbidity?
(2022-03)In our recent paper,1 we examined associations between family income during childhood and adolescence on subsequent risks of developing psychiatric disorders, having substance misuse problems and being arrested for a violent ... -
What does COVID mean for UK mental health care?
(2020-06)The coronavirus disease (COVID) pandemic is the biggest disaster United Kingdom has seen for many decades. Not since World War II has there been such risk, displacement and change affecting the whole community. This is the ... -
What is Computational Psychiatry Good For?
(2022-09)It is rare in the field of biological psychiatry for hypotheses to be definitively refuted. Rather, topics of investigation drift into and out of fashion, often driven by the initial excitement of technological innovation, ...
