Megan is an experienced Registered Mental Health Nurse and Non-Medical Prescriber, specialising in mental health urgent care.

New research from Denmark unpacks how adolescent substance use can pave a dangerous path to future mental health crises.

This new commentary explores where psychedelic mental health treatments might be heading and what needs to happen next.

A systematic review shows relationships between staffing and incidents of violence on wards is complex suggesting an urgent ...

Rena Gatzounis blogs about a systematic review and meta-analysis investigating the effectiveness of immersive virtual reality treatments for mental health disorders.

Welcome to the Mental Elf. This website will help you find just what you need to keep up-to-date with all of the important and reliable mental health research and guidance. Our team of mental health ...

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 ...

Paul Salkovskis & Jo Edge explore the Power Threat Meaning Framework published by the British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology.

Gemma is a Specialty Registrar in Special Care Dentistry in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. She was awarded her BDS from the University of Dundee in 2018. Following 2 years in NHS general practice, ...

Xiaolin Guo, a MSc student in Global Mental Health at the University of Glasgow, and Nina Higson-Sweeney summarise a recent narrative review exploring the social determinants of mental health and ...

Methods This overarching project used a mixed-methods approach, however, this paper reports only on the quantitative component. The paper reports on three experimental studies which aim to examine how ...