Webinar 1 in a series of events on this subject There is currently much concern about high levels of loneliness among young people. In this webinar series, we focus on experiences of loneliness at sch...

Professor David Daley explores key aspects of psychological interventions for ADHD, challenging the myth of parental deficits and equipping parents with the knowledge and strategies they need.

Abstract. Sleep concerns are very common in children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) and are associated with significant impairmen

AbstractStudy Objectives. The cerebral adenosinergic system is involved in sleep–wake regulation and presumably represents a neuro-molecular correlate of h

Address child bed poverty. No child should ever have to sleep on the floor.

Drama therapy is delivered to children in schools; however, little empirical data evaluating the quantitative effect is currently available. This observation study of ten children undergoing drama the...

YouTube video by Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Previous brain-wide association studies (BWAS) have linked specific environmental and behavioral variables to brain variability. In this work, we mapped 649 variables to children’s brains and compared...

Recruitment survey for The University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology

Adolescence is accompanied by profound changes in sleep—shaped by an interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors. Despite increased emp…

Recently there have been initiatives to ban or reduce the use of smartphones in children and young people. While exemptions are typically made for tho…

Neuropsychopharmacology - Examining fronto-limbic brain and sleep mechanisms of antidepressant effects in cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia

To examine the effect of a brief behavioral intervention aimed at optimizing sleep duration in children on their overall health-related quality of lif…

A cross-organ, multi-omics U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and biological ageing clocks highlights the potential of sleep optimization to promote healthy ageing, lower disease risk and ex...

Research exploring sleep, mental health, wellbeing and behaviour change, with opportunities for professionals, researchers, people with lived experience and members of the public to get involved.

This Mental Health Awareness Week we’re asking people to join us in taking action to support good mental health.

Supported by both experimental and human data, this study reveals that poor sleep weakens immune responses to influenza vaccination and increases infection risk, highlighting sleep as a modifiable det...

Archives of Women's Mental Health -

Autistic adults frequently report a multitude of pervasive sleep and related circadian problems. Although these sleep and circadian problems have been identified as a critical and unmet public heal...

Background Sleep disturbances are widely considered to be a transdiagnostic feature of common behavioural and emotional difficulties in childhood, yet most studies treat sleep as a single construct....

Background Sleep disturbances are widely considered to be a transdiagnostic feature of common behavioural and emotional difficulties in childhood, yet most studies treat sleep as a single construct....

We’re obsessing about sleep like never before. But much of the messaging is exaggerated, distorted and unhelpful, asks Royal Holloway Sleep Laboratory co-director Alice Gregory