In her first Mental Elf blog, Dr Mary Butler discusses the use of probiotics for the treatment of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

Sweeney summarises a qualitative study exploring the #camhs hashtag on TikTok and how young people experience child and ...

Amanda Sabo reviews reports of stigma, misdiagnosis, care and advocacy by autistic adults, previously diagnosed with ...

Alice Dawson and Emma Cormack evaluate an umbrella review on trauma-informed clinical practice in forensic youth settings.

Alice Dawson and Emma Cormack evaluate an umbrella review on trauma-informed clinical practice in forensic youth settings, which finds that trauma-specific treatments show promise, but they need to be ...

At least 1 in 8 people suffer from a mental disorder worldwide (WHO, 2022). Depression and anxiety disorders are the most common difficulties (Global Health Data, 2022), with the prevalence rates of ...

One in two smokers will die from their addiction unless they quit (Banks et al., 2015; Doll et al., 2004; Siddiqi et al., 2020). People with major depressive disorder (MDD) are up to three times more ...

Research has long established a bidirectional relationship between sleep and mental health, where poor sleep can exacerbate psychiatric symptoms, and conversely, mental illness often disrupts sleep ...