Medication non-serious adverse events (NSAEs) are common yet frequently overlooked in the scientific literature.

Antidepressants and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) are two areas of mental health where there are strong polarised views on the available data.

Mindfulness. We've debated how much is hype on a recent Kaleidoscope Live webinar, so our eyes naturally turned to a very large trial

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is underreported and under documented, but it is the most common form of violence worldwide and makes a significant contribution to subsequent mental health problems.

History teaches us caution about ‘dementia breakthroughs’, but a fascinating paper in Molecular Psychiatry offers a development towards an eventual vaccine against Alzheimer's disease.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has wrought untold suffering on tens of millions of people, and one can anticipate acute and chronic mental health impacts.

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs): the top of the research pyramid, but we need to remain mindful of their limitations.

Multiple sclerosis is an immune-mediated inflammatory demyelinating condition putatively triggered by a viral infection.

The number of foodbanks in the UK has increased dramatically over the past few years. So, it's timely to read the work by Paquin et al on the longer-term impact of childhood food insecurities.

Although awareness of the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on individuals has been growing, quantifying their broader societal costs has perhaps been more challenging.

You’re only as old as you feel – or think. Certainly, brain senescence has a disproportionate impact on individuals’ abilities and degree of independence. In addition to your actual chronological age, recently developed machine learning algorithms can estimate your ‘brain-age’, which indexes biological health.

The majority of people treated with antidepressants receive them in primary care, but there are limited data on medication maintenance or discontinuation in this setting.

There are ongoing concerns about the impact of antipsychotic use during pregnancy, particularly with respect to increased risks of neurodevelopmental complications.

Kindness and compassion are important for all of us, not least when working in healthcare

Covid has made us increasingly familiar with using digital technologies, from work team meetings to social and clinical interactions; where might the novel tech opportunities lie?

Clearly, each patient brings unique issues to therapy, but there has been almost no research on allocating therapists based on complementing these.

There is little in mental health as controversial as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).

In March, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) was placed on leave after a deputy editor's podcast downplayed structural racism in medicine and the journal tweeted ‘No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in healthcare?’

Women are not just small men. Last year, Caroline Criado Perez alerted the public to the very real dangers of male-centred bias in her bestselling book Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) post-mortem will take years. Causes of variations in national mortality rates will be a prime target, and at the time of writing, the UK, unfortunately, has a sad record of the highest death rate per capita in the world