Amanda is a graduate student in the Psychosis Studies Department at King’s College London. Her research interests include psychosis and schizophrenia, as well as personality disorders and substance ...

KCL MSc student, Jingyi Zhang, considers a recent meta-analysis on gender non-conformity and common mental health problems, ...

KCL MSc student, Chiara Roux, considers a study on help-seeking behaviours and experiences for mental health symptoms related ...

Schizophrenia affects around 1 in 300 people globally and is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide (Foley EM, 2023, The Mental Elf). This debilitating condition significantly reduces life ...

UCL MSc students reflect on a qualitative review on the experience of loneliness among people with psychosis and make ...

Best wishes to all our bloggers, readers and followers for an enjoyable holiday period and for a happy 2024 As we approach the end of another year, we are taking the opportunity to highlight our most ...

Charnele Nunes is the Social Care Elf Coordinator for the National Elf Service, in the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is ...

For each year between 2010 and 2020, an average of over 6,200 people in the UK took their own lives (The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health, 2023). This loss will ...

Diagnosis is one of the most important and controversial areas in mental health science and care. It’s become a commonplace to say that psychiatry lacks the biomarkers—blood tests, imaging, and so ...

Anabelle is pursuing an MSc by Research in Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. Prior to her graduate studies, she obtained a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in Neuroscience with a ...

Ellen is a second-year Trainee Clinical Psychologist at the Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research. Before training she worked in the Oxford Cognitive Approaches to Psychosis ...