Tyler Elliot summarises a recent literature review that summarises the philosophical, phenomenological, clinical, and non-clinical correlates of felt presence.
[read the full story...]Early intervention for psychosis: better outcomes in the short term?
Emanuele Osimo blogs about the 20-year follow up of the OPUS trial, which tested early intervention services for people with first-episode schizophrenia spectrum disorder.
[read the full story...]‘Hearing Voices’ and self-help groups: hope and support for people who hear voices
Lorna Collins reflects on a systematic review exploring the benefits of Hearing Voices and other self-help groups for people with auditory hallucinations.
[read the full story...]Neuroimaging abnormalities in first-episode psychosis: clinically-relevant or not?
Joe Pierre considers a systematic review and meta-analysis on the prevalence of neuroimaging abnormalities in first-episode psychosis and the clinical relevance for service users presenting with first-episode psychosis.
[read the full story...]Predicting treatment-resistant psychosis using routine clinical measures
Lorna Staines summarises a recent study on predicting treatment-resistant psychosis, which suggests that future risk prediction efforts should seek to consider routinely collected data.
[read the full story...]Clinical severity and instability as predictors for psychiatric hospitalisation: can one size fit all?
Florian Walter summarises a retrospective cohort study published in The Lancet Psychiatry that investigates whether early trajectories of clinical global impression severity can transdiagnostically predict later psychiatric hospitalisation.
[read the full story...]The healthcare cost of multimorbidity in people with mental health diagnoses in Denmark
Kitty Saunders and Silke Vereeken explore the individual and population level healthcare costs of multimorbidities in people with at least one mental health diagnosis in Denmark.
[read the full story...]What’s the relationship between stressful life events and psychosis?
Kris Deering considers a 2-year prospective observational study published in the Lancet Psychiatry which found strong links between stressful life events and relapse in first-episode psychosis.
[read the full story...]Genetic risk for schizophrenia is associated with changes in heart structure and function
Nadine Parker and Ole Andreassen summarise a recent UK population-based cohort study, which looks at the impact of polygenic risk for schizophrenia on cardiac structure and function in over 32,000 people.
[read the full story...]South Asia’s silent struggle: people with severe mental illness suffer high burden of physical illness
An international group of experts from the University of York CADA Implementation Science Summer School summarise a recent study on the prevalence of physical health conditions and health risk behaviours in people with severe mental illness in South Asia (Bangladesh, India and Pakistan).
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