Mental Health Update

Immigration and psychosis

Migration is an accepted risk factor for schizophrenia but the level of risk in second-generation immigrants in unclear. A team of researchers from McGill University in Canada reviewed 21 studies into psychosis among immigrants. They found that while...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2011 1:36 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Psychosis, Immigrants

Psychosis, insight and hearing voices

People with psychosis are said to lack insight when they have a poor awareness that they are mentally ill and don't think they need to get help. Lack of insight is associated with poorer outcomes and worse adherence to treatment while improved insight...

Published Wed, Mar 30 2011 1:49 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Psychosis, Hallucinations, Insight

Violent crime - keeping it in the family

Violent behaviour can be made more likely by sociological, biological and psychological factors. All of these affect families as well as individuals and it is no surprise that violent crime tends to run in families. Researchers from the Karolinska Institutet...

Published Mon, Dec 13 2010 7:57 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Violence

Child sex abuse and schizophrenia risk

Being sexually abused as a child is a risk factor for psychosis and schizophrenia. Researchers from Monash University in Australia studied 7,697 people, 2,759 of whom had - according to police and medical records - been sexuall abused as children. They...

Published Wed, Nov 03 2010 2:40 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Abuse, Psychosis, Schizophrenia

Autism - a question of diagnosis?

In the U.S. the Centre for Disease Control estimates that rates of autism have gone up by 60% for boys since 2002 and by 48% for girls. But do these increases reflect a genuine rise in the number of children with the condition or simply the fact that...

Published Mon, Oct 25 2010 1:52 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Autism

Helping children with autism by teaching them to be copycats

As most children develop they acquire the ability to imitate other people, pay attention to the same things and reflect others' moods - something psychologists call socially-synchronous behaviour. Unfortunately children with autism do not develop...

Published Mon, Dec 06 2010 2:06 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Autism

Why goody two-shoes isn't always top of the class

Better-behaved children don't always get better marks at school and naughtier ones don't always do worse. A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina studied 350 children in seven schools over a five-year period. They looked at...

Published Wed, Mar 30 2011 2:35 AM by Mental Health Update

For the very paranoid everyone is a threat

Previous research has shown that even neutral social contact can trigger paranoid thinking in people with paranoia. Social contact can have a wide variety of different contexts from complete strangers to friends and family and a team of researchers led...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2011 1:52 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Psychosis, Paranoia

Genetic link to suicide risk

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have identified a gene that could be linked to an increased risk of attempting suicide. The researchers studied 2,698 people with bipolar disorder, 1,201 of whom had a history of suicide attempts...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2011 2:32 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Suicide, Bipolar Disorder, Genetics

Neglectful parents and mental-health problems

Emotional neglect can be defined as 'emotional unresponsiveness, unavailability and neglect characterised by a lack of interaction between parent and child.' It has been linked to children developing more mental-health problems but most research...

Published Mon, Mar 28 2011 1:45 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Development, Child Psychology, Parenting

Elder abuse - who suffers most?

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago have been looking into the issue of older abuse. They used data from two trauma units in Chicago to compare people over 60 admitted after suffering from elder abuse to people of the same age admitted...

Published Mon, Mar 28 2011 2:11 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Violence, Older People

Why people do what the voices tell them to do

People who hear voices often report being given commands by them but not everyone obeys such commands. Researchers from the Adult Learning Disability Service in Prescot, Merseyside and the University of Manchester studied 49 people who were hearing voices...

Published Mon, Nov 08 2010 4:01 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Psychosis, Hallucinations

New research shows how violence spreads through society

Being exposed to violence, either watching it on TV, seeing it in the flesh or suffering it oneself is more likely to make children think it is normal and could lead to them behaving violently themselves. A team of researchers, led by Izaskun Orue from...

Published Wed, Mar 30 2011 2:23 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Child Development, Violence

Family support and depression

High levels of support from one's family are associated with a more rapid recovery from depression while low levels are linked to people being ill for longer. However, there have been few long-term studies into this issue. Researchers from Stanford...

Published Fri, Jan 21 2011 3:47 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Depression, Social Support, Service Users' Families

Reducing violence on the wards

Healthcare professionals often suffer from violence and one study of nurses in Minnesota found that 13.2% had been assaulted over the last 12 months. Psychiatric nurses are even more at risk and one study found that 20% were assaulted over the course...

Published Mon, Nov 23 2009 2:05 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Inpatients, Violence

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