UCL Psychiatry MSc
Bipolar disorder and distress: systematic review of first-person accounts
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A group of UCL Mental Health Masters Students summarise a meta-synthesis of qualitative research, which looks at what people diagnosed with bipolar disorder experience as distressing.
[read the full story...]Long term recovery and resilience in psychosis: the iHOPE-20 study
A group of UCL Mental Health Masters students summarise the iHOPE-20 study, which looks at relationships between and prospective predictors of remission, clinical recovery, personal recovery and resilience 20 years on from a first episode psychosis.
[read the full story...]Referrals to mental health services: understanding ethnic differences
A group of UCL Masters Students summarise a recent paper on ethnic differences in referral routes to child and adolescent mental health services.
[read the full story...]Antidepressant withdrawal: slower and lower tapering of SSRIs
A group of UCL Masters Students summarise a recent personal view by Mark Horowitz and David Taylor about tapering of SSRI treatment to mitigate antidepressant withdrawal symptoms.
[read the full story...]Sleep problems in dementia: a promising treatment?
A group of UCL Masters Students summarise the DREAMS-START trial (Dementia RElAted Manual for Sleep; STrAtegies for RelaTives), which looks at the feasibility and acceptability of a simple 6 session intervention delivered by psychology graduates for people with dementia and their carers affected by sleep disturbances.
[read the full story...]How can we prevent depression in young adults?
Mental Health Masters Students from UCL explore a recent systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions to prevent depression in young adults. The review finds some evidence for the effectiveness of preventative interventions in reducing depressive symptoms in young adults, but the evidence in this area remains weak.
[read the full story...]Decision-making capacity of inpatients with schizophrenia: don’t assume people are incapable
Mental Health Masters Students from UCL summarise a recent cross-sectional study on the association of decision-making capacity for treatment and research in inpatients with schizophrenia and related psychoses.
[read the full story...]Lack of wealth may increase our risk of dementia
A group of UCL Mental Health Masters students summarise a recent cohort study of the individual and area-based socioeconomic factors associated with dementia incidence in England.
[read the full story...]Preventing psychosis: no one intervention is better than the rest
A group of UCL Mental Health Masters students summarise a recent network meta-analysis that highlights a lack of evidence about specific interventions for preventing psychosis.
[read the full story...]Befriending interventions: are they effective?
#UCLJournalClub students appraise a systematic review and meta-analysis on the effectiveness of befriending interventions for people with a variety of health conditions including mental illness.
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