Beth Cumber investigates the effectiveness of preventive interventions for children and young people at-risk of developing ...

Sophie is an Evaluation Researcher at Health Innovation East Midlands (formerly the East Midlands Academic Health Sciences Network), primarily conducting service evaluations using mixed methods and ...

Yuri Milaneschi is a researcher in psychiatry and epidemiology at the Department of Psychiatry of Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands. He trained in clinical psychology and psychotherapy in Italy and ...

I am Chinese-Indonesian and have been in the UK since 2018, having moved here for my undergraduate degree. I received my B.A. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford and my MsC in ...

Dr Amy Ferguson is the Network Scientific Coordinator for the Circadian Mental Health Network. She is the central point of contact for anyone involved in the network or those with questions about the ...

Classification systems like the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) identify psychiatric disorders when individuals manifest a certain number of co-occurring symptoms from ...

There is growing interest in the role of the gut microbiome in mental health disorders (Nikolova et al, 2021; Clarke, 2023). Recent evidence suggests that the composition and function of the ...

When the term childhood trauma is mentioned, your mind may first turn to physical or sexual abuse. However, another form of trauma often overlooked is neglect. Unlike abuse, neglect isn’t a visible ...

We are learning more and more about how essential sleep is to both physical and mental health. However, there is still much we don’t understand about this relationship. We don’t fully understand the ...

Conversion practices (CPs) through formal and structured means, attempt to suppress, change or subvert a person’s sense of their sexual orientation identity, gender identity, or both. Not all ...

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