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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
7 Virtual reality (VR) for the treatment of mental health disorders
(2020-07)
Mental health disorders are very common, but far too few people receive the best treatments. Much greater access to the best psychological treatments may be achieved using automated delivery in virtual reality (VR). With ...
Bidirectional associations between COVID-19 and psychiatric disorder: retrospective cohort studies of 62 354 COVID-19 cases in the USA
(2020)
Background
Adverse mental health consequences of COVID-19, including anxiety and depression, have been widely predicted but not yet accurately measured. There are a range of physical health risk factors for COVID-19, but ...