Children who experienced food insecurity in early childhood had higher odds of binge eating and compensatory behaviours in adolescence, even when food insecurity resolved.

I am a medical doctor and fully funded PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge, where my work focuses on youth mental health and well-being, eating and physical activity behaviours, and the ...

Demetra Christodoulou summarises the latest review of the evidence on barriers to disclosure of sexual trauma in men and boys.

Andy Bell blogs the latest paper from the Millennium Cohort Study finding that childhood adversity is related to police ...

Sophie is a Research Associate based at the Institute for Mental Health at the University of Birmingham. Her main research focus is the interplay between genetic, immune and environmental factors in ...

Qualitative study reveals gap between how lived experience individuals and professionals conceptualise anorexia recovery; particularly around weight restoration and residual symptoms.

You might have heard people talk about ‘the depression gene’ or ‘the schizophrenia gene’ – these comments are misleading. While there is substantial evidence for a genetic component to mental health ...

Qualitative study reveals young people on CAMHS waiting lists feel alone and dismissed, with mental health deteriorating ...

Dr Almudena Trucharte is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Sheffield. Her work focuses on understanding the cognitive and emotional ...

Ross Nedoma covers an umbrella review of the most up-to-date prevalence of mental and physical health in prison worldwide.

Over the past decade there has been huge interest in the role of the microbiome-gut-brain axis in brain function and mental health (as covered in these previous Mental Elf blogs: Murray, 2024; Clarke, ...