Articles tagged with 'Psychology' | University of Manchester

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2024
24
January
2024
| 11:01 Europe/London
The University of Manchester has been awarded over £23.5m by the government’s Department for Education (DfE) to lead a national consortium of eight Russell Group universities to provide over 400 doctoral programme training places for practitioner
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2023
24
August
2023
| 19:33 Europe/London
A study, sponsored by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH), and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), has found that mental health wellbeing hubs were an important source of support for health
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22
August
2023
| 15:03 Europe/London
Two groundbreaking Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and University of Manchester schemes which provides psychological care to cardiac patients have been shortlisted for the Mental Health Innovation of the Year at the HSJ Awards.
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21
August
2023
| 16:16 Europe/London
Adults in England largely appeared to be psychologically resilient to developing depression or anxiety during the pandemic, a study by University of Manchester researchers has shown.
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21
June
2023
| 17:13 Europe/London
Robin Bailey, University of Bolton and Adrian Wells, University of ManchesterThere’s a long-held belief that people drink alcohol in excess to drown their sorrows. But recent research into mood and drinking has found the opposite is also true.Using
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21
June
2023
| 17:11 Europe/London
Pearl Mok, University of Manchester and Alex Trafford, University of ManchesterEvidence tells us the COVID pandemic and measures put in place to contain the virus negatively affected the mental health of adolescents and young people in the UK and
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08
March
2023
| 04:26 Europe/London
Dr Penny Trayner  has been named as one of 50 women innovators to be awarded the Women in Innovation Award 2023 from Innovate UK, the government’s innovation agency, on International Women’s Day.
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28
February
2023
| 10:00 Europe/London
A talking therapy for adults at risk of self-harm is to be trialled by researchers funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).
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08
February
2023
| 18:23 Europe/London
Researchers at The University of Manchester have released some brief and simple advice for parents and caregivers of children and young people affected by the earthquakes in Syria, Turkey and neighbouring countries.
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06
February
2023
| 14:59 Europe/London
A study led by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) and the University of Manchester (UoM), and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has found that a psychological therapy called Metacognitive
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12
January
2023
| 12:57 Europe/London
The first ever trial of a revolutionary group approach to anxiety and depression has shown it is no less effective than the one on one sessions thousands of people receive on the NHS every day.
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10
January
2023
| 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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2022
03
August
2022
| 09:13 Europe/London
A popular Ukrainian celebrity has joined forces with University of Manchester psychologists to encourage families affected by the war to access the widely shared psychological support leaflets they created.
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21
July
2022
| 15:00 Europe/London
A clinical trial of a pioneering therapy which helps people with psychosis and schizophrenia to control frightening and intrusive images is launching in Manchester.
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21
June
2022
| 15:10 Europe/London
A groundbreaking smartphone app for remote digital data collection which aims to predict if an individual will relapse into psychosis is to be trialled across the UK in a £12.5 million study.
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27
April
2022
| 14:50 Europe/London
Imagine that you are at work, and you witness a colleague repeatedly bullying another colleague. What would you do?
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29
March
2022
| 07:11 Europe/London
Enhanced versions of the most commonly used talking therapy for depression significantly reduces the illness beyond six months, a meta study of over 15,000 people has concluded.
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23
March
2022
| 10:29 Europe/London
A clinical trial has been launched to study a new kind of talking therapy for students who struggle with suicidal thoughts and feelings.
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03
March
2022
| 08:29 Europe/London
The largest ever UK study to examine self-harm risk around pregnancy has shown that most women are generally less likely to self-harm during and after pregnancy.
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10
February
2022
| 16:31 Europe/London
The ability to recognise faces is important in many different real life contexts and fundamental to our social relationships and interactions. It allows us to identify people we care about, and respond appropriately to them.
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18
January
2022
| 14:59 Europe/London
The relationships between young mental health patients and the nurses looking after them is an overlooked treatment in its own right, according to new research.
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2021
07
December
2021
| 15:13 Europe/London
Around 80% of adolescents who died by suicide or who had self-harmed had consulted with their GP or a practice nurse in the preceding year, shows new research.
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07
December
2021
| 04:35 Europe/London
People with psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia, are five times more likely to die from Covid-19 and three times more likely to be hospitalised according to new research by University of Manchester health data scientists.
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16
November
2021
| 16:00 Europe/London
Those who tested positive for COVID-19 (confirmed by a PCR test) had an increased risk of mental illness, fatigue and sleep problems, finds a new study which analysed the electronic primary care health care records* of 226,521 people from across the
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01
November
2021
| 16:52 Europe/London
The number of people seeking help for self-harm in primary care (for example from their GP), dropped sharply during the first UK lockdown in 2020. By May 2021 this deficit had not returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to new research that
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21
September
2021
| 08:55 Europe/London
ShutterstockAndrew Whitehouse, The University of Western Australia; Jonathan Green, University of Manchester, Kristelle Hudry, La Trobe UniversityA therapy for infants showing early signs of autism reduces the chance of the child meeting diagnostic
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21
September
2021
| 02:44 Europe/London
Rates of self-harm could be rising more quickly in children and adolescents from ethnic minority groups than in those from white groups, according to a study led by University of Manchester researchers.
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16
September
2021
| 08:30 Europe/London
A study of over 1.4 million Danes has revealed a link between higher levels of exposure to two common pollutants during childhood and an increased risk of self-harm in later life.
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14
September
2021
| 14:47 Europe/London
A new online tool to help reduce and prevent repeat self-harm has been designed by researchers alongside those with lived experience. The tool was tested by a national sample of 514 people who have self-harmed to find out what they thought of it and
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August
2021
| 08:32 Europe/London
University of Manchester researchers have discovered that hearing loss may act as a cause of depression in older people.
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