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Embedding psychologists in trauma centres improves patient outcomes

Growing up hungry: food insecurity’s lasting impact on eating

Carrying heavy secrets alone: sexual trauma disclosure in boys and men

Shared genetic patterns found across 14 psychiatric disorders

Anorexia recovery looks different for professionals and people with lived experience

Measuring paranoid beliefs: can adaptive testing support routine clinical care?

People in prison face disproportionate mental and physical illness

Waiting for CAMHS: worsening symptoms and strained families

Persistent poverty and adversity drives youth weapon-carrying and police contact

Midlife women: self-harm and suicide are not interchangeable

Mental health service users face higher sexual victimisation risk

Synthetic cannabinoids found in 13% of school vapes tested

Oxytocin and affection: does intimacy help wounds heal faster?

Involuntary psychiatric patients face prolonged suicide risk post-discharge

Vitamin C, gut bacteria, and mental vitality: early findings

South Asian survivors face barriers to childhood sexual abuse support

Only a swipe away: App-based support for reducing distress in university students

Alcohol use disorder and IQ: Does social context matter?

From panic to progress? Focused CBT may help for panic disorder, but bigger trials needed

Black students face compounding racism throughout education

Building trust: British Muslims’ views on therapy

Identity, place and belonging: The new cornerstone of school-based approaches to student wellbeing?

A global perspective on personality disorders: common, deadly and underestimated

The joys of parenting autistic children

Resistance training in psychiatric rehab settings is feasible and safe for psychosis

Positive expressive writing for wellbeing: which techniques work best?

When CBT doesn’t work for OCD: could mindfulness help?

Anti-inflammatories for depression: targeting the right patients matters

Can we reliably measure autistic burnout in adults?

Coercive control and intimidation: stronger links to adult mental health than physical violence

Supporting student mental health after natural disasters: What role can schools play?

Autism and menstruation: scoping review reveals unmet healthcare needs

What do children with a history of trauma think of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy?

Do antipsychotics slow down thinking? New evidence from healthy volunteers

Treating ADHD, preventing harm: can medications help with non-core ADHD symptoms?

Prevention, screening and treatment of peripartum depression for women: new clinical guidelines

Mental health admissions to medical wards: 65% increase in a decade for young people

“It’s not all in your head”: Sexual assault raises risk of functional somatic disorders

Cardiovascular screening for people with severe mental illness: still missing the full picture

Internet-delivered CBT for depression: real-world evidence shows similar benefits to face-to-face therapy

Trauma and homelessness: Can we address the impacts of trauma without ensuring the home?

Consensus reached on the meaning of relapse in schizophrenia, or is it?

Is depression a cause or consequence? Using genetics to untangle causal relationships

Mental health impacts of sexual violence in older adults: a qualitative study

Headbanging as self-injury in secure mental health settings: who is most affected?

What lies beneath hair-pulling and skin-picking behaviours? The role of early maladaptive schemas

ADHD and behavioural addictions: exploring impulsivity, compulsivity and internet use

Who’s got the obs sheets? Can QI methods reduce violence and restrictive practices on inpatient mental health wards?

How much does family history increase your mental health risk? New study provides answers

Fatal drug overdose in healthcare workers: occupational hazards and systemic factors

A new way of looking for mental health risk factors: the PsyRiskMR database

Body dissatisfaction in adolescence: does it cause eating disorders and depression later?

Stopping antidepressants safely: network meta-analysis compares deprescribing strategies

Does the flu shot make you feel sick? What this randomised trial tells us about vaccine-induced inflammation

Racialised experiences of detention under the Mental Health Act: a PhotoVoice study

Inside the urge: Interoception, affective touch, and the emerging science of skin-picking disorder

Healing takes time: Can cognitive therapy for PTSD help young people in CAMHS? Insights from DECRYPT

Rapid weight gain after SMI diagnosis, but why so few referrals for support?

Can preventing childhood maltreatment reduce depression?

Between the farm and the family: Work-family conflict and farmer mental health in Ireland

Acceptance, mindfulness, and Parkinson’s: do third-wave therapies make a difference?

The Challenge of VR for voices in psychosis

How common are eating disorders in adults seeking obesity treatment?

How childhood trauma affects our ability to understand minds: a systematic review of mentalisation in clinical populations

A cancer diagnosis brings a suicide risk: The sooner after diagnosis, and the more aggressive the cancer, the higher the risk

Recovery, relapse, and genetic risk: what 10,000 Danes taught us about eating disorder trajectories

Racism and psychosis: how discrimination shapes mental health risk

Domestic violence and suicide in women: insights from a national UK study

Predicting psychiatric hospitalisation using routinely-collected measures

Mind the age gap: Young adults may benefit less from NHS psychological therapies

Global alcohol consumption: why the world is failing to meet the WHO’s reduction target

How to deliver trauma-informed perinatal mental healthcare

Bundle of joy, bundle of nerves: What do we really know about postpartum anxiety?

Inside the diagnostic grey zone: using machine learning to separate bipolar and major depression

Is it a gut feeling? How the microbiome may shape perinatal mental health in women with higher body weight

Targeting distressing mental imagery in psychosis: a neglected but promising area for intervention

Doubling of respiratory deaths in people with severe mental illness

Do hobbies protect against adolescent substance misuse? Not so fast…

Should you start metformin whenever you start antipsychotics?

Solastalgia and the mental health impacts of environmental loss

The long view on Brief Admission: autonomy and care for people with borderline personality disorder

When love breaks down: relationship breakdowns and suicide risk in men

Is vaping really a gateway to smoking? New review of youth vaping confirms uncertainty

From pills to people: the rise of social prescribing

Is intolerance of uncertainty in preschool children a risk factor for later anxiety?

Unsafe, unsupported, unseen: The hidden mental health costs of poor housing for people seeking asylum

Weighing the risks: new review ranks antidepressants by their physical health side effects

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy proves cost-effective for hard-to-treat depression

Mothers and Daughters: stories of growth, connection, and resistance in the face of domestic violence and abuse

Out at work? A systematic review of LGBTQ+ mental health in the workplace

Genes, brains and self-harm: New study links adolescent risk to biology and disadvantage

One more tool in the toolbox: an umbrella review of single-session interventions for mental health problems

Painting prevention: How the arts promote health and tackle non-communicable diseases

Dirty air, ageing brains: How midlife pollution exposure may accelerate cognitive decline

Silencing the voices? Landmark German study finds rTMS modestly effective for auditory hallucinations

suPAR step forward? Teenage trauma linked to chronic inflammation in new study

Circle of Security under scrutiny: NHS trial finds no added benefit for perinatal mental health

Adolescent versus adult depression: Is risk of recurrence the same?

Treating ADHD in psychosis: What does the evidence say about safety?

Clozapine and infection risk: new evidence from Hong Kong’s 20-year cohort study

Peer support has UPSIDES for global mental health

From menstruation to menopause: how sex-steroids shape women’s mental health across the life course

Spotting the storm before it breaks: mapping the prodrome of severe mental illness

Ketamine, depression and childhood trauma: new evidence from a community study

Widening the lens on delusions: a global meta-analysis shows our scales miss many common themes

The Lancet Commission on self-harm: a global call for compassionate, culturally informed care

Therapy through the lens of autism: what helps autistic adults feel safe and supported?

Prescribing in borderline personality disorder: Evidence, relationships, and the realities of practice

Who gets included in psychedelics research? A systematic review of ethnoracial representation