by Kathryn Mills-Webb, University of Manchester Mean HADS total scores and 95% confidence intervals for each trial arm at each assessment point, for complete cases only. HADS, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Credit: PLOS Medicine (2023). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004161 A study led by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) and the University of Manchester (UoM) has...
by University of Oxford Breakthrough success in provision of automated psychological therapy using virtual reality. Credit: University of Oxford In the largest ever clinical trial of VR for mental health, published today in The Lancet Psychiatry, and funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), automated therapy was shown to work well for patients diagnosed...
by University of Exeter Credit: CC0 Public Domain People with severe alcohol disorder were able to stay off alcohol for longer when they were treated with low doses of ketamine combined with psychological therapy in a clinical trial. The Ketamine for reduction of Alcohol Relapse (KARE) trial was led by the University of Exeter and...
For our social life and our profession we must be able to deal with our environment and other people. Executive functions, meaning the basic intellectual abilities that control human thought and action, help us to do this. These include selective attention, otherwise known as the ability to concentrate on one stimulus and suppress others, or...
By Lauren Sharkey Fact checked by Paula Field Post-traumatic stress disorder has proved difficult to treat in the long term. Mixing psychological therapy with a novel drug could help. In June, researchers carried out a review to determine whether medication or psychological therapy was the best treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Due to a...
