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Psycho-spiritual Care in Health Care Practice
(Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017)Meeting the psychological and spiritual needs of patients is vital to supporting their wellbeing in health care settings. To develop an effective, holistic and inclusive approach to care within predominantly medical health ... -
Genetics of self-reported risk-taking behaviour, trans-ethnic consistency and relevance to brain gene expression
(2018)Risk-taking behaviour is an important component of several psychiatric disorders, including attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Previously, two genetic loci have been associated ... -
Improving the quality and content of midwives’ discussions with low-risk women about their options for place of birth: Co-production and evaluation of an intervention package
(2018-01)Objective: Women's planned place of birth is gaining increasing importance in the UK, however evidence suggests that there is variation in the content of community midwives’ discussions with low risk women about their ... -
Task shifting Midwifery Support Workers as the second health worker at a home birth in the UK: A qualitative study
(2018-03)Objective: Traditionally two midwives attend home births in the UK. This paper explores the implementation of a new home birth care model where births to low risk women are attended by one midwife and one Midwifery Support ... -
A Parenting Programme for Muslims
(2018-03)Universal parenting intervention courses often fail to recruit and retain Muslim families. The practice of targeting specific populations in parenting programs is not well established. Parents from minority backgrounds are ... -
Evaluating the impact of the 5 pillars of parenting programme: A novel parenting intervention for Muslim families
(2018-03-13)Objective: To evaluate the impact of the 5 Pillars of Parenting Programme, an eight-week parenting intervention group, which incorporates Islamic values and concepts. The evaluation sought to look at outcomes for families ... -
Allostatic load as a predictor of grey matter volume and white matter integrity in old age: The Whitehall II MRI study
(2018-04-23)The allostatic load index quantifies the cumulative multisystem physiological response to chronic everyday stress, and includes cardiovascular, metabolic and inflammatory measures. Despite its central role in the stress ... -
The effect of the DISC1 Ser704Cys polymorphism on striatal dopamine synthesis capacity: an [18F]-DOPA PET study
(2018-06)Whilst the role of the Disrupted-in-Schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) gene in the aetiology of major mental illnesses is debated, the characterisation of its function lends it credibility as a candidate. A key aspect of this functional ... -
Risk factors for interpersonal violence: an umbrella review of meta-analyses
(2018-07)Background: Interpersonal violence is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The strength and population effect of modifiable risk factors for interpersonal violence, and the quality of the research evidence is not ... -
Absent sleep EEG spindle activity in GluA1 (Gria1) knockout mice: relevance to neuropsychiatric disorders
(2018-08)Sleep EEG spindles have been implicated in attention, sensory processing, synaptic plasticity and memory consolidation. In humans, deficits in sleep spindles have been reported in a wide range of neurological and psychiatric ... -
Psychiatric disorders, substance use, and executive functioning in older probationers
(2018-11)Although the number of older people serving community sentences (probation) after conviction for a criminal offence in England and Wales has increased rapidly since about 2006, this population has received little research ... -
Chronic psychosocial stressors are associated with alterations in salience processing and corticostriatal connectivity.
(2018-12-17)Psychosocial stressors including childhood adversity, migration, and living in an urban environment, have been associated with several psychiatric disorders, including psychotic disorders. The neural and psychological ... -
Social Scaffolding: Applying the Lessons of Contemporary Social Science to Health and Health Care
(2019)Using current societal dilemmas, this book explores how social factors and social identity influence our health and recovery from illness. It includes recent research to present practitioners, researchers, policymakers and ... -
Strengthening Attachment Competencies in Parents with Mental Illness: Adaptation and Pilot Testing of the Mentalization-Based Lighthouse Parenting Program
(2019-01-01)Strengthening Attachment Competencies in Parents with Mental Illness: Adaptation and Pilot Testing of the Mentalization-Based Lighthouse Parenting Program Mentalizing describes the imaginative ability to understand human ... -
Associations between the household environment and stunted child growth in rural India: a cross-sectional analysis
(2019-03)Stunting is a major unresolved and growing health issue for India. Yet there remains scant evidence for the development and application of integrated, multifactorial child health interventions across India’s most rural ... -
Which Dopamine Polymorphisms are Functional? Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of COMT, DAT, DBH, DDC, DRD1-5, MAOA, MAOB, TH, VMAT1 and VMAT2
(2019-05)BACKGROUND: Many polymorphisms in dopamine genes are reported to affect cognitive, imaging or clinical phenotypes. It is often inferred or assumed that such associations are causal, mediated by a direct effect of the ... -
Replacing meat with alternative plant-based products (RE-MAPs): protocol for a randomised controlled trial of a behavioural intervention to reduce meat consumption
(2019-06)Introduction: Reducing meat consumption could contribute towards preventing some chronic conditions and protecting the natural environment. This study will examine the effectiveness of a behavioural intervention to reduce ... -
Dynamic sustained attention markers differentiate atypical development: The case of Williams syndrome and Down's syndrome
(2019-07)Impaired sustained attention is considered an important factor in determining poor functional outcomes across multiple cognitive and behavioural disorders. Sustained attention is compromised for both children with ... -
Associations between modifiable risk factors and white matter of the aging brain: insights from diffusion tensor imaging studies
(2019-08)There is increasing interest in factors that may modulate white matter (WM) breakdown and, consequentially, age-related cognitive and behavioral deficits. Recent diffusion tensor imaging studies have examined the relationship ... -
Reproducibility of dietary intakes of macronutrients, specific food groups, and dietary patterns in 211 050 adults in the UK Biobank study
(2019-09)To detect modest associations of dietary intake with disease risk, observational studies need to be large and control for moderate measurement errors. The reproducibility of dietary intakes of macronutrients, food groups ...
