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2023
31
May
2023
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07:48
Europe/London
A study has thrown crucial new light on the relationship between the mental and physical health of people who suffer from three stigmatising disorders whose symptoms are not medically explained, including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) - also …
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10
January
2023
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23:52
Europe/London
The proportion of children and adolescents prescribed antipsychotics in English general practice doubled from 0.06% to 0.11% between 2000 and 2019, find researchers at The University of Manchester’s Centre for Women’s Mental Health.
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2021
11
November
2021
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17:30
Europe/London
Professor Louis Appleby has won the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, presented at the annual ceremony, held virtually for the second time due to …
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2020
07
December
2020
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10:56
Europe/London
Professor Nav Kapur has been given the 2021 American Association of Suicidology Louis I. Dublin lifetime achievement award for outstanding services and contributions to the field of suicide prevention.
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2019
19
November
2019
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10:07
Europe/London
People with Borderline Personality Disorder are 13 times more likely to report childhood trauma than people without any mental health problems, according to University of Manchester research.
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31
October
2019
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16:04
Europe/London
Teen self-harm: rates have dramatically decreased in Denmark – here’s what other countries can learn
Having better access to mental health support could be one reason for lower self-harm rates among Danish teens. Pressmaster/ Shutterstock
Concern has been growing over rising rates of self-harm in teenagers. In the UK and Ireland, increases …
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11
June
2019
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15:44
Europe/London
One in four UK children between the ages of 0 and 16 have a mother with a mental illness, according to a team of University of Manchester researchers.
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2018
05
November
2018
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10:30
Europe/London
A large clinical trial led by researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Exeter, Keele, Manchester and Hull York Medical School, and published in the British Medical Journal has found that a popular combination of antidepression drugs was …
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16
October
2018
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02:32
Europe/London
People over 65 who harm themselves are more likely to die by suicide than other age groups according to new research published in the Lancet Psychiatry by University of Manchester and Keele University academics.
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10
October
2018
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09:00
Europe/London
The children of families who fall upon hard times are at significantly greater risk of being involved in violent crime and harming themselves as young adults, according to a major new study.
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02
October
2018
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18:20
Europe/London
Mental health patients are at much greater risk of dying from unnatural causes following their first discharge from inpatient care than the rest of the population, according to new research.
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