Samei Huda presents the findings of a new meta-analysis, which explores the prognostic significance of competing ways of defining and measuring brief psychotic episodes.
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Charting the evolution of early intervention in psychosis
Raphael Underwood summarises a recent PSSRU report about the growth in use of early intervention in psychosis services, which highlights opportunities to promote recovery amid concerns on health care sustainability.
[read the full story...]Cannabis: what do we know and what do we need to know?
Ian Hamilton considers a recent literature review published in JAMA Psychiatry, which explores the effects of cannabis use on human behaviour, Including cognition, motivation and psychosis.
[read the full story...]Increased vulnerability of migrants: non-affective psychosis in Sweden
Mina Fazel considers the findings of a new Swedish cohort study, which looks at the risk of schizophrenia and other non-affective psychoses in refugee migrants and non-refugee migrants from across three continents.
[read the full story...]Crisis intervention for severe mental illness: Cochrane call for more evidence
John Baker is struck by the lack of evidence for crisis intervention for people with severe mental illness, highlighted by a recently updated Cochrane systematic review.
[read the full story...]Psychotic-like experiences associated with self-harm, according to new systematic review, but further research is needed
Katrina Witt critiques a recent systematic review of psychotic-like experiences and the risk of self-harm and suicide in the general population.
[read the full story...]Microglial activity in psychosis and schizophrenia
Samei Huda summarises a small PET brain imaging study, which looks at two cohorts (Ultra High Risk of Psychosis v Controls and Schizophrenia v Controls) to compare relative levels of microglial activity.
[read the full story...]Childhood bullying and mental illness in young adulthood
Jasmin Wertz appraises a recent Finnish cohort study, which explores how different forms of children’s bullying involvement are associated with mental illness and use of specialised psychiatric services in young adulthood.
[read the full story...]Top mental health blogs in 2015
André Tomlin presents his review of 2015, the year when the Mental Elf came of age. He highlights our top mental health blogs, showcases the #WeCATS and #ElfCampfire activities and explains how the new National Elf Service website can help you engage more with relevant and reliable research.
[read the full story...]Childhood sleep disturbance and risk of psychotic experiences
Joanne Wallace explores the relationship between nightmares/night terrors at age 12 with psychotic experiences at age 18, which has been confirmed by a recent UK birth cohort study.
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