The importance of improving brain and mental health and developing sustainable environments is increasingly recognised. Understanding the syndemic interactions between these processes can help address contemporary societal challenges and foster global innovation. Here, we propose a green brain capital...
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Trichotillomania, or hair-pulling disorder, is one of a family of disorders called body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs), which also include disordered skin-picking (dermotillomania) and nail-biting (onychophagia). The disorders affect 1%–2% of the population, cause high levels of distress and have...
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The COVID-19 pandemic affected how care was delivered to vulnerable patients, such as those with dementia or learning disability.
ObjectiveTo explore whether this affected antipsychotic prescribing in at-risk populations.
MethodsWith the approval of NHS England, we completed a retrospective cohort study,...
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a lifespan neurodevelopmental condition resulting from complex interactions between genetic and environmental risk factors. There is evidence that ADHD is associated with other mental disorders, but it remains unclear whether and in what way a...
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Schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) compromise psychosocial functioning, including daily time use, emotional expression and physical activity (PA).
ObjectiveWe performed a cohort study aimed at investigating: (1) the differences in PA, daily activities and emotions between patients with SSD and healthy...
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Despite the importance of understanding depressive symptom constellations during adolescence and specifically in looked-after children, studies often only apply sum score models to understand depression in these populations, neglecting associations among single symptoms that can be elucidated in network...
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Consistent evidence suggests a strong association between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and subjectively reported sleep problems. However, the prevalence of clinically ascertained sleep disorder diagnoses and sleep medication prescriptions in individuals with ADHD remains unclear.
ObjectiveTo determine the rates of sleep...
Introduction
Childbirth triggers a broad range of diagnoses jointly defined as postpartum mental disorders (PMDs),1 but immediate onset within the first 30 days after delivery has been linked to an increased probability of converting to bipolar disorder (BD) diagnoses...
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This review of reviews synthesises qualitative evidence on the experiences of receiving and providing care and treatment for mental health conditions in non-specialist settings in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), and the factors that influence the provision and uptake...
Background
Current dementia risk scores have had limited success in consistently identifying at-risk individuals across different ages and geographical locations.
ObjectiveWe aimed to develop and validate a novel dementia risk score for a midlife UK population, using two cohorts: the UK...