Tayla McCloud appraises the recent Head Start randomised controlled trial measuring the efficacy of a maternal depression prevention strategy.
[read the full story...]Severe mental illness in offspring may not be linked to smoking during pregnancy
Andrew Jones considers a recent cohort study that looks into the associations between maternal smoking during pregnancy and severe mental illness in offspring.
[read the full story...]Psychotherapies for borderline personality disorder: DBT and psychodynamic approaches do best
Andrew Shepherd summarises a recent meta-analysis on the efficacy of psychotherapies for borderline personality disorder, which finds that dialectical behaviour therapy and psychodynamic approaches were effective versus control, but CBT and other talking treatments were not.
[read the full story...]Antecedents of depression in children and young people
Emily Stapley summarises a recent 4-year longitudinal study of the antecedents of new-onset major depressive disorder in children and adolescents at high familial risk.
[read the full story...]Self-guided iCBT for depression: effective but still not sticky enough
Stefan Rennick-Egglestone highlights a brand new IPD meta-analysis of self-guided Internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy for the treatment of depression.
[read the full story...]Omega-3 fatty acids to prevent psychosis: the importance of replication (NEURAPRO trial)
Raphael Underwood summarises the NEURAPRO trial, which concludes that Omega-3 fatty acids are no better than placebo at preventing transition to psychosis in young people at ultrahigh risk for psychotic disorders.
[read the full story...]In search of the sweet spot: the links between dysglycaemia and first episode psychosis
Ben Perry publishes his debut blog on a recent systematic review of impaired glucose homeostasis in first-episode schizophrenia.
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