Mindfulness improves mental health of students
Mental health amongst university students could be improved by introducing mindfulness training. These are the findings from the first UK study, published in Education Research...
Mental Health
The Mental Health section encompasses a broad range of topics focusing on various aspects of mental health, including conditions like depression, anxiety, and PTSD. It covers diverse subjects such as the lifelong impact of shopping addiction, the nuances of post-traumatic stress disorder, and the societal implications of issues like gambling addiction and discrimination in healthcare. The section also delves into enhancing mental clarity, the challenges faced by unpaid carers, and the social exclusion of people in pain. Additionally, it explores innovative approaches to mental health, like using music therapeutically and addressing seasonal depression, underlining the multifaceted nature of mental health concerns and their impact on individuals and society.
Breaking barriers in eating disorders
Eating disorders are severe mental health issues with a complex array of risk factors specific to each person. We cannot treat people with a ’one...
The strange world of sleep disorders
Dr Neil Stanley is one of the UK’s foremost sleep experts and author of How to Sleep Well. Over the last 37 years, he has...
Wesleyan RSM trainee of the year finalist Dr Egho Ireo
Meet the Finalist | Dr Egho Ireo RSM Digital Health Section Presentation title: The Yo-band and Yo-bot: Wearable technology for managing mental health. Training update...
If I Chance to Talk a Little Wild
Relational psychotherapist Jayne Haynes’s compelling, unpredictable new memoir; ‘If I Chance to Talk a Little Wild’ uses both personal and clinical experiences to explore complex...
How to have a mindful New Year
How to have a mindful New Year: If you are dreading going back to the pressures of work after the Christmas holidays “mindfulness” – paying...
Music on the brain – the RSM Brain Series
Last week Professor Catherine Loveday delivered a lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine’s 2018 Brain Series lecture to a packed auditorium of doctors and...
Psychotherapy with children in Lesbos
Myriam Abdel Basit is an Irish cultural mediator who has spent seven months with MSF in Lesbos in Greece this year. Working alongside a psychologist,...
Surviving and thriving in the digital age
Dr Richard Graham is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director of Good Thinking: The London Digital Mental Well-being Service, who will be talking on the subject...
Mental health disorders among children
One in eight children in England is living with a mental health disorder says new NHS research. One in eighteen pre-school children now has at...
