Imbalances in mental health research samples are a key area of work in this day and age. This article highlights the need to improve engagement for men, exploring the reasoning behind inter-gender differences in participation and the great need for righting this. Written by Babak Saghari, Neuroscience Graduate. In such…
Rachel Dada discusses the necessary steps that must be taken in order to achieve equity for the mental health of Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities in the UK
Liv and Elizabeth are two of our undergraduate psychology students who have taken a break from studying to undertake a placement year in the EDITlab. Their work spans the Genetic Links to Anxiety and Depression Study (GLAD), the Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative project (EDGI), and COPING, a project recently launched…
Georgina trained as a Clinical Psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. She is currently in her final year of a PhD and Clinical Research Training Fellowship, funded by the Medical Research Council. Here she reflects on her experience of moving from clinical work to research.
This post was reposted from its original version on the Said and Dunn blog. In this week’s post, we focus on recent work by Dr. Karmel Choi, a postdoc collaborator in the Dunn Lab, who studies the protective role of physical activity for depression. As summarized below, Karmel recently published…
There appears to be a general belief that the number of people experiencing anxiety and depression is on the rise. In this blog Clinical Research Training fellow Georgina and Lecturer Katie explore why this is not the case by looking at the prevalence of these disorders over time. …
In this week’s Mythbusters blog, guest contributor Dr Evangelos Vassos discusses the complex and important role of psychiatric drugs in the treatment of mental disorders.
Unfortunately, there is a widespread belief that medications aiming to treat mental illnesses only work because of the placebo effect. It if for this reason that some people are hesitant to seek help through medication. Bruce Clark, Georgina Krebs and Shaheen Zinna discuss why this is NOT the case. …
Jehannine Austin, Ph.D., CGC, is a past president of the National Society of Genetic Counselors and is a professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. In this blog she discusses how people can help protect their mental health when they may…
If you have a family history of a particular mental disorder there is a chance you have some of the genes associated with it. However this doesn’t mean that you will definitely develop that disorder, you just have a genetic predisposition to it. The genetic component to mental disorders is…
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