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Investigating the association between characteristics of local crisis care systems and service use in an English national survey
(2023-11)In England, a range of mental health crisis care models and approaches to organising crisis care systems have been implemented, but characteristics associated with their effectiveness are poorly understood. Aims To (a) ... -
Preliminary Evaluation of a Web-Based International Journal Club for Ketamine in Psychiatric Disorders: Cross-Sectional Survey Study
(2023-11)Background: The use of novel rapid-acting antidepressants for psychiatric disorders is expanding. The web-based Ketamine and Related Compounds International Journal Club (KIJC) was created during the COVID-19 pandemic by ... -
Targeting beliefs and behaviours in misophonia: a case series from a UK specialist psychology service
(2023-10)Background: Misophonia, a disorder of decreased sound tolerance, can cause significant distress and impairment. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) may be helpful for improving symptoms of misophonia, but the key mechanisms ... -
Ultradian hydrocortisone replacement alters neuronal processing, emotional ambiguity, affect and fatigue in adrenal insufficiency: The PULSES trial
(2023-10)Background: Primary adrenal insufficiency (PAI) mortality and morbidity remain unacceptably high, possibly arising as glucocorticoid replacement does not replicate natural physiology. A pulsatile subcutaneous pump can ... -
Psychological framework to understand interpersonal violence by forensic patients with psychosis
(2023-10)Forensic patients with psychosis often engage in violent behaviour. There has been significant progress in understanding risk factors for violence, but identification of causal mechanisms of violence is limited. Aims To ... -
Sleep disruption in adolescent inpatients: prevalence, associations with clinical outcomes, and clinician perspectives
(2023-10)Sleep problems are common for adolescents with psychiatric disorders, and sleep treatment may aid mental health recovery. Inpatient admissions are likely a particularly challenging time for sleep. Despite this little is ... -
Evaluating end of treatment care of young people with cancer
(2023-09)Background: Existing literature implies there may be gaps in post-treatment support for young people with cancer. This service evaluation explored the needs and experiences of young people when ending cancer treatment in ... -
Worry Intervention in an Older Adult With a Persecutory Delusion: A Single Case Experimental Design
(2023-09)Background: This report presents the single case of Jack, a 67-year-old referred to our Older Adult Community Mental Health Team (OA CMHT) for his distressing persecutory delusion and high levels of worry. Jack also reported ... -
Pro-dopaminergic pharmacological interventions for anhedonia in depression: protocol for a living systematic review of human and non-human studies
(2023-10)Anhedonia is a key symptom of depression, and it has been suggested as a potential target for future individualised treatments. However, much is unknown about how interventions enhancing dopaminergic pathways may affect ... -
Treatment Outcomes With Licensed and Unlicensed Stimulant Doses for Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
(2023-10)Importance Stimulants (methylphenidate and amphetamines) are often prescribed at unlicensed doses for adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Whether dose escalation beyond US Food and Drug Administration ... -
From awareness to action: an urgent call to reduce mortality and improve outcomes in eating disorders
(2023-10)High mortality rates and poor outcomes from eating disorders, especially anorexia nervosa, are largely preventable and require urgent action. A national strategy to address this should include prevention; early detection; ... -
Impaired subjective organisation of memory in psychogenic amnesia
(2023-08)Objectives: Psychogenic or dissociative amnesia is a rare condition which involves primarily impairment in episodic autobiographical memory. Why such impairment occurs in such patients has always perplexed researchers and ... -
Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of coordinate-based network mapping of brain structure in bipolar disorder across the lifespan
(2023-10)Background: Studies about brain structure in bipolar disorder have reported conflicting findings. These findings may be explained by the high degree of heterogeneity within bipolar disorder, especially if structural ... -
Infant mental health and the role of the health visitor
(2023-09)The theme for June's infant mental health week this year was ‘Bonding before birth’, with organisations sharing the importance of support for parents and carers to enable them to understand baby brain development and how ... -
GRIN2A (NR2A): a gene contributing to glutamatergic involvement in schizophrenia
(2023-09)Involvement of the glutamate system, particularly N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor hypofunction, has long been postulated to be part of the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. An important development is provided by ... -
Automated virtual reality cognitive therapy versus virtual reality mental relaxation therapy for the treatment of persistent persecutory delusions in patients with psychosis (THRIVE): a parallel-group, single-blind, randomised controlled trial in England with mediation analyses
(2023-09)Persecutory delusions are a major psychiatric problem that often do not respond sufficiently to standard pharmacological or psychological treatments. We developed a new brief automated virtual reality (VR) cognitive treatment ... -
Complex relational needs impede progress in NHS Talking Therapies (IAPT): implications for public mental health
(2023-10)Although influential in “Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies” (IAPT), the IAPT initiative is predicated on at least two assumptions (namely, homogeneity of clinical pathology and level of severity) that have been ... -
Testing the combination of Feeling Safe and peer counselling against formulation-based cognitive behaviour therapy to promote psychological wellbeing in people with persecutory delusions: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (the Feeling Safe-NL Trial)
(2023-10)Persecutory delusions are strong threat beliefs about others’ negative intentions. They can have a major impact on patients’ day-to-day life. The Feeling Safe Programme is a new translational cognitive-behaviour therapy ... -
The bidirectional association between psychiatric disorders and sheltered homelessness
(2023-09)Psychiatric disorders and homelessness are related, but temporal associations are unclear. We aimed to explore the overlap between hospital-based psychiatric disorders and sheltered homelessness. Methods This ... -
Towards precision in the diagnostic profiling of patients: leveraging symptom dynamics in the assessment of major depressive disorder
(2023-08)Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a heterogeneous mental disorder. International guidelines present overall symptom severity as the key dimension for clinical characterisation. However, additional layers of individual ...