Practitioners who support young adults needed to take part in digital technology study

Digital technology can present both opportunities and harms to young people and their mental health. A new research project is asking for practitioners who support young adults with their mental health to take part in a UK-wide online survey to identify the importance of adolescents' digital technology use to consultations about mental health.
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Text messaging: The next gen of therapy in mental health A psychotherapy tool in real-time that enhances care

In the US, approximately 19% of all adults have a diagnosable mental illness. Clinic-based services may fall short of meeting patient needs. In the first randomized controlled trial of its kind, a team investigated the impact of a texting intervention as an add-on to a mental health treatment program versus one without it. A new study finds that a text-messaging-based intervention can be a safe, clinically promising and feasible tool to augment care for people with serious mental illness
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Mindfulness Training Can Benefit Anger Management in Men

New research suggests mindfulness training can help men learn to control their anger and to be less violent towards their partner.
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Improving mental health and reducing antipsychotic use in people with dementia in care homes: the WHELD research programme including two RCTs

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Lithium in drinking water linked with lower suicide rates

Naturally occurring lithium in public drinking water may have an anti-suicidal effect - according to a new study. The study collated research from around the world and found that geographical areas with relatively high levels or concentration of lithium in public drinking water had correspondingly lower suicide rates.
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The Psychology Of Loneliness: Why It Matters And What We Can Do

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Older adults coped with pandemic best, study reveals

Adults aged 60 and up have fared better emotionally compared to younger adults (18-39) and middle-aged adults (40-59) amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research.
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Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal probability sample survey of the UK population, The Lancet Psychiatry

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Supporting Staff To Return To The Workplace

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Mental health and primary care networks: Understanding the opportunities

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Use of talking therapy outdoors

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Intending to Do a Daily Task Can Create False Memories of Completion

There’s a good reason why you can’t remember if you actually took your daily medication today or not. A new study suggests that having an intention to complete a commonly performed task can be misremembered as actually having completed it.
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Public Mental Health and Wellbeing and Covid-19

The Local Government Association (LGA) and the Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) have jointly produced this briefing for Directors of Public Health about the public mental health and wellbeing issues arising from the COVID-19 outbreak.
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How mental health care should change as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Lancet Psychiatry

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Traditional PTSD therapy doesn't trigger drug relapse

Researchers have now demonstrated that behavior therapy that exposes people to memories of their trauma doesn't cause relapses of opioid or other drug use, and that PTSD severity and emotional problems have decreased after the first therapy session.
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Apathy not depression helps to predict dementia

Apathy offers an important early warning sign of dementia in individuals with cerebrovascular disease, but depression does not, new research suggests.
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New Analysis of fMRI Data May Hone Schizophrenia Treatment

In a new study, researchers from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have developed tools to improve the analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, and as a result are now able to identify subgroups of schizophrenia patients.
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Emerging evidence on COVID-19’s impact on mental health and health inequalities

Different groups of people in the UK are experiencing the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the lockdown very differently. One area of concern is the impact of the pandemic on mental health and how this is affecting some groups much more than others.
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Infant sleep problems can signal mental disorders in adolescents

Specific sleep problems among babies and very young children can be linked to mental disorders in adolescents, a new study has found.
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