Mental health

Young people with mental health problems who have contact with mental health services are significantly less likely to suffer from clinical depression...

Modafinil, a drug used to treat narcolepsy – excessive daytime sleepiness – can improve memory in patients recovering from depression, according to...

More than two-thirds of adolescents who suffer from depression could see long-term benefits from receiving one of three psychological treatments – of...

Our Facebook status updates, ‘likes’ and even photos could help researchers better understand mental health disorders with the right ethical...

Anti-inflammatory drugs similar to those used to treat conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis could in future be used to treat some...

Mental health has long been the Cinderella of healthcare: left to scrape an existence while the bulk of funding and attention goes elsewhere. As we...

In understanding war-related post-traumatic stress disorder, a person’s cultural and professional context is just as important as how they cope with...

Scientists have mapped the structural changes that occur in teenagers’ brains as they develop, showing how these changes may help explain why the...

Women are almost twice as likely to experience anxiety as men, according to a review of existing scientific literature, led by the University of...

Michael Gaultois (Department of Chemistry), Joshua Conrad Jackson (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), Ian Mahar (Boston University), and...

Hip-hop artists Tupac and Eminem are among the most iconic music artists of the past two decades, and as Dr Akeem Sule and Dr Becky Inkster, co...

Immigrant groups experience a high incidence of mental illness. Hannah Jongsma (Department of Psychiatry) is looking at data from an international...