This twin study of nearly 14,000 UK adolescents found that body dissatisfaction at age 16 was linked to eating disorder ...

This network meta-analysis of 76 trials found that slow tapering (over 4 weeks) combined with psychological support was most ...

The Co-Pact study uses powerful images and narratives from 48 people to reveal how compulsory admission under the Mental ...

Emma is the programme lead for research, evaluation, publications and development at Imroc, a lived experience led charity ...

Researchers pulled together evidence from more than half a million people to test a simple but important idea: if childhood ...

Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet, where she obtained her PhD in 2024. Her research focuses on inflammation-induced changes in human behavior, with a particular interest in ...

Trainee Clinical Psychologist with eight years of experience working within the NHS. Her journey into psychology began with a ...

Inpatient mental health services are meant to provide safe places for people experiencing mental health difficulties to receive support and recover, but for many, the reality is far from this ideal.

Over the past decade there has been huge interest in the role of the microbiome-gut-brain axis in brain function and mental health (as covered in these previous Mental Elf blogs: Murray, 2024; Clarke, ...

Individuals who experience a traumatic event, such as a car accident or fall injuries, will also experience the process of medical treatment and rehabilitation depending on the level of severity. This ...

Mentalisation is the cognitive ability to interpret behaviours as arising from intentional mental states (Gorgellino et al., 2025), or to put it another way: our ability to make sense of what’s going ...

Microaggressions are simply defined as brief, commonplace daily verbal and/or behavioural slights or indignities that display hostility towards marginalised and minoritised people (Nadal et al, 2018).