Mental Health
2024: A year of breakthroughs
As 2024 comes to a close, it’s a great time to reflect on the breakthroughs made in mental health research over the past...
Omega-3 supplements for the prevention of psychosis
The Irish legend of An Bradán Feasa (the Salmon of Knowledge) tells of a salmon which ate the nuts from a mythical hazel...
Best Mental Health Charities to Donate to This Holiday Season and Beyond
Looking for a last-minute gift? I previously wrote a list of the 10 best mental health-related gifts for one with bipolar disorder. You...
Prevention is where it’s at for children and young people’s mental health
Mental health difficulties are the leading cause of disease globally, with most occurring before the age of 14. The rising cases of mental health...
Women Working In Mental Health Research
Internationally, 33.3% of researchers are women, which is why at MQ we are incredibly proud to say we fund male and female researchers...
Risk factors for depression relapse while on long-term maintenance antidepressant treatment
Within primary care, people with a history of depression often choose to take maintenance antidepressant medication; the National Institute for Health and Care...
Lost to suicide – remembering a beloved son
John and Susan Wilkes, long term supporters of MQ Mental Health Research, remember their son Nick Wilkes who died by suicide ten years...
Opening ward doors doesn’t make staff any more coercive
When I started working on acute mental health wards in the mid-1990s, the ward doors on my unit were never locked, occasionally nursing...
Can Sleep Cure Mental Illness?
This World Sleep Day (15 March 2024), we consider the powerful effects sleep and sleep quality can have on mental health.
World Sleep...
LGBTQ+ wellbeing inequalities in early to middle adolescence
LGBTQ+ adolescents are more likely than their heterosexual and cisgender peers to experience common mental health difficulties (Amos et al., 2020; Rogers &...
