Oxford researchers launch RobustiPy, a new open-source tool designed to ensure research is robust and reliable.

A new approach to care for people experiencing a mental health crisis, emphasising continuity and community, can reduce hospital admissions, finds a study led by a UCL researcher.

Depression commonly co-occurs with ADHD. When this combination occurs is associated with greater clinical complexity and poorer outcomes.

How can youth-led research improve wellbeing after COVID-19? Empower Islington’s team discusses co-produced workshops, inclusive spaces, and lessons for embedding youth voices in research, policy, and community…

How do clinicians best manage anxiety in young people? Professor David Coghill’s guideline details validated screening, high-quality psychological therapies, family involvement, and careful medication use,…

Depression commonly co-occurs with ADHD. When this combination occurs is associated with greater clinical complexity and poorer outcomes.

Depression commonly co-occurs with ADHD. When this combination occurs is associated with greater clinical complexity and poorer outcomes.

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Background Children and young people's mental health is an area of concern worldwide. In the face of barriers such as long waits to access evidence-based treatment, perceived stigma, and a desire to...

Amrit Kaur Purba and colleagues argue that the effects of adolescent social media restrictions are not simple and need to be considered within social, technological, commercial, and political contexts...

Discover how mental health conditions impact school performance in children and adolescents. Explore research on over 837,000 young people, highlighting the effects of anxiety, depression, gender diff...

In this population-based cohort study, Glynn et al. tested the contribution of childhood unpredictability to mental health outcomes in ~30,000 participants, examining the relative and additive roles o...

Mental Health Research Incubator Email Forms

AIM is a new NIHR Oxford Health BRC digital community designed to support innovation in psychological treatments for young people.

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Learn how adolescent brain development drives social sensitivity, peer influence and risk-taking, with practical guidance for mental health professionals.

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Suicide and mental ill-health remain a major global concern, reflected by rising emergency department presentations, however there is growing recognition that these settings often do not meet the need...

This report summarises what young people, unpaid carers, and people with a learning disability told us about the conditions needed for safe, trustworthy and equitable use of AI in healthcare.

Explore how brief mental health interventions, including single-session interventions and one-session treatment, can improve access, support young people, and deliver timely evidence-based care.

Mental Health Awareness Week is a call to take action. Awareness matters — but meaningful change happens when we take action.

Can experiences from childhood shape how we think and remember in later life? in this blog, Catia Nicodemo explores the long-term links between early economic hardship and later-life cognition, and wh...

Trauma is often overlooked in autistic children. Learn why PTSD criteria may miss key signs and how trauma presents differently in autistic youth.

A new study based on MRI data from a large cohort of children diagnosed with ADHD and controls has identified three distinct ADHD “biotypes.” These biotypes indicate various ways in which specific and contrasting patterns of variation in brain structure and function manifest across a large set of ADHD patients.

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