Background
Self-harm is a major health issue resulting in high societal costs. Few psychological and psychosocial interventions have shown effectiveness in reducing repeat self-harm.
ObjectiveTo assess the cost-effectiveness of psychological and psychosocial interventions that have shown evidence of effectiveness in adults...
Background
Basic self-disturbance (BSD), also called anomalous self-experiences (ASEs), are core phenotypic markers for schizophrenia spectrum disorders and a prepsychotic vulnerability marker considered to be temporally stable (trait-phenomenon). Studies of BSD in children and adolescents are lacking.
ObjectiveTo be clinically useful,...
Background
Cannabis use during adolescence and young adulthood has been associated with brain harm, yet despite a rapid increase in cannabis use among older adults in the past decade, the impact on brain health in this population remains understudied.
ObjectiveTo explore...
Background
Relapse of depression is common and contributes to the overall associated morbidity and burden. We lack evidence-based tools to estimate an individual's risk of relapse after treatment in primary care, which may help us more effectively target relapse prevention.
ObjectiveThe...
Introduction
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is only moderately heritable1 2, but surprisingly little is known about potential environmental risk factors contributing to its aetiology.3 4
A potential environmental risk factor that has gathered considerable attention is infections, hypothesised to be...
Background
Intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) is a form of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) that can be administered in a fraction of the time of standard rTMS. Applying multiple daily iTBS sessions (ie, accelerated iTBS) may enable patients to...
Background
A self-harm episode is a major risk factor for repeat self-harm. Existing tools to assess and predict repeat self-harm have major methodological limitations, and few are externally validated.
ObjectiveTo develop and validate a risk assessment model of repeat self-harm up...
The inclusion of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD) in the International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision in January 2022 marks a significant advancement in trauma recognition. However, while cPTSD offers a more inclusive framework, it risks perpetuating trauma hierarchies...
Aims
This systematic review aims to identify and synthesise the publicly available research testing treatments for mental health, cognition and psychological well-being in long COVID.
MethodsThe following databases and repositories were searched in October–November 2023: Medline, Embase, APA PsycINFO, Cumulative Index...
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic, while a major stressor, increased flexibility in sleep–wake schedules.
ObjectivesTo investigate the impact of the pandemic on sleep patterns in people with a history of depression and identify sociodemographic, clinical or genetic predictors of those impacts.
Methods6453 adults...