Parents and carers of neurodivergent children are open to the use of digital tools in neurodevelopmental assessments, provided they are safe, accessible and designed around families’ needs, according to a new study. …
A ground-breaking new study, led by the University of Oxford and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), suggests that needle phobia can be successfully treated…
A new study is helping to answer an important question in mental health research: how do we make sure digital mental health trials produce results that are genuinely useful for…
A national digital platform that helps clinicians track information related to early psychosis care has launched in Birmingham, Nottinghamshire and Cambridgeshire. The Early Psychosis Informatics into Care (EPICare) study is a patient…
It is well known that poor mental health can cause problems during pregnancy and early parenthood. A study, supported by the NIHR Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration (MH-TRC) Mission, evaluates new methods of assessing and monitoring mental health during…
A new way of supporting primary age children’s mental health via schools has been shown to be highly effective in reducing anxiety problems, according to a new trial. Researchers led…
An AI-driven tool that tailors antidepressant treatment to individual patients was shown to improve outcomes for people with depression, compared to standard treatment, in a major international trial. It is…
A study published recently in The Lancet Psychiatry has unveiled a new approach to identifying individuals at risk of developing psychotic disorders or bipolar disorder. Psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia,…
Researchers in the NIHR Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration (MH-TRC) Mental Health Mission (MHM) have contributed to a new report exploring the barriers to recruitment in mental health clinical trials…
The University of Oxford technologies, Online Support and Intervention for Child Anxiety (OSI) and Online Social anxiety Cognitive therapy for Adolescents (OSCA) were among four digital tools recommended for use…
