Danny Whiting reports on a study of mental health problems and long-term national trends in rates and court outcome for people convicted of homicide.
[read the full story...]Do different groups of people with schizophrenia respond differently to different antipsychotics?
Murtada Alsaif considers a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the Lancet Psychiatry exploring the response of different subgroups of patients with schizophrenia to different antipsychotic drugs.
[read the full story...]Oral health interventions for people with severe mental illness: what enables and prevents people from accessing them?
Vishal Aggarwal considers the findings of a recent qualitative study, which looks at the contextual factors, barriers, and facilitators to accessing oral health interventions for people with severe mental illness.
[read the full story...]Early intervention in psychosis: research priorities
In his debut blog, Kris Deering summarises a paper which looks at the evidence gaps and research priorities for early intervention in psychosis.
[read the full story...]Schizophrenia and educational attainment: mind the gap
Ian Kelleher considers a new systematic review of papers from across the world, which looks at the enduring gap in educational attainment for people with schizophrenia.
[read the full story...]To stay on antipsychotics or not to stay on antipsychotics? A longstanding question with an update
Joe Pierre considers a recent network meta-analysis on continuing, reducing, switching, or stopping antipsychotics in individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders who are clinically stable.
[read the full story...]How do prelingually deaf people with schizophrenia experience hallucinations?
Charlotte Huggett and Sophie Paul explore an important review looking at the content and modality of hallucinations in prelingually deaf people with schizophrenia.
[read the full story...]Psychiatric Advance Directives: more effective when facilitated by peer workers, according to French RCT
Rob Allison considers a French randomised controlled trial, which provides support for the use of peer worker–facilitated psychiatric advance directives to prevent compulsory rehospitalisation in people with severe mental illness.
[read the full story...]What’s the link between neurodevelopmental or mental disorders and school absence or exclusion?
Chris Fielding summarises a Welsh cohort study which finds that neurodevelopmental and mental disorders are linked to school absenteeism and exclusion.
[read the full story...]Youth mental health interventions: umbrella review presents efficacy and acceptability data
In his debut blog, Nick Meader tackles a huge umbrella review of youth mental health interventions, which presents the efficacy and acceptability of 72 different approaches to help children and young people.
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