University of Manchester - Archive (psychology)
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2023
12
January
2023
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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
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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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2022
03
August
2022
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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
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15:00
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 analys...
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21
September
2021
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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
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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
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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
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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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20
August
2021
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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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18
June
2021
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14:58
Europe/London
Getting everyone in a country vaccinated is like watching software updates load: it whizzes along for the first 80% or so and then seems to take forever to finish the rest. Around 80% of the UK adult population has received at least one dose of the v...
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25
May
2021
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11:22
Europe/London
For the first time, researchers have looked in detail at the reasons why some people do not receive the care that they need when they attend emergency departments following self-harm. This new research was co-designed and co-authored with people who ...
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25
May
2021
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11:17
Europe/London
Research has found that people who go to A&E following self-harm receive varying quality of care and this has a significant impact on what they experience subsequently.
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02
March
2021
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14:36
Europe/London
Of the 95% of adults who followed the rules during the first UK lockdown, women and adults under 55 found it most challenging
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24
February
2021
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19:10
Europe/London
A study by a University of Manchester psychologist has scientifically defined for the first time what constitutes a good bedtime routine for children between the ages of 2 and 8.
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20
January
2021
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20:32
Europe/London
Dragana Gordic/ Shutterstock Sarah Steeg, University of ManchesterDuring the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK, people were encouraged to help control the virus with the message to “stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives”. While there was no spec...
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11
January
2021
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00:27
Europe/London
A ground breaking therapy trial for auditory hallucinations called AVATAR2 has been extended to sites across the country including University of Manchester and University of Glasgow as well as King’s College London and University College London.
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2020
24
November
2020
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13:12
Europe/London
GroovyPanda/Shutterstock The COVID-19 lockdown upturned the lives of teenagers at a time when they are usually becoming more independent and taking steps toward their future. Instead, they were confined to their homes, exams were cancelled, and the...
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18
November
2020
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01:06
Europe/London
A study published today reveals over a third of those bereaved by suicide considered taking their own life, highlighting their acute need for more support.
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29
October
2020
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10:00
Europe/London
A team of researchers led by King’s College London (KCL) which includes The University of Manchester will be extending the evaluation of the unique AVATAR therapy and assessing the feasibility of making it available in the NHS across the UK, thanks t...
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