Mental Elf Monthly: Teens, screens and everything in between June's most read blogs, a free #ElfHelp webinar on TMS for depression, Lucy Foulkes on social media bans, and the Nurture-U student mental health podcast. Welcome to our June newsletter! Young people's digital lives are everywhere in the news right now, from smartphone bans in schools to the proposed social media ban for under-16s. The trouble is that the headlines usually run well ahead of the evidence. This issue pulls together...
30 days ago • 4 min read
The ferns are taking over the woodland floor this month. Welcome to our May newsletter! This month's top blogs share a common thread: the gap between what we hope for and what the evidence actually shows. Joël Zwiep covers an exciting proof-of-concept trial testing whether targeting inflammation can ease depression in the third of patients who show raised C-reactive protein (CRP). A single dose of tocilizumab safely cleared inflammation, with trends favouring the drug for fatigue and...
2 months ago • 5 min read
Welcome to our April newsletter! This month's top 5 blogs don't make for comfortable viewing, but they are important. We've got research on children in persistent poverty being more likely to carry weapons and come into contact with police; on people using mental health services facing dramatically elevated rates of sexual victimisation (and then not being believed when they disclose it); on young people waiting nearly a year for CAMHS while their mental health deteriorates around them; and...
4 months ago • 3 min read
Mental Elf Monthly: Five studies shaping mental health practice Welcome to our Spring newsletter! What’s really shaping mental health outcomes right now? This month’s most-read Mental Elf blogs point to a mix of structural problems, clinical innovation, and uncomfortable blind spots. We look at the lived experience of racism for Black students navigating higher education, the feasibility of resistance training in psychiatric rehab, and the strikingly long-term suicide risk following...
5 months ago • 3 min read
From safer tapering to voices from detention: the latest mental health research that matters This month's evidence spans the clinical and systemic: slow antidepressant withdrawal works, therapeutic activities reduce restrictive practices, and lived experience reveals institutional racism's toll. Five new mental health research papers worth your time. Read the most popular blogs below and don't forget to follow us wherever you get your research updates on social media! 📈 Top 5 blogs this month...
6 months ago • 2 min read
Psychotherapies, psychosis, racism and risk prediction. We're covering all bases this month! Your November dose of mental health research, evidence, and impact. It's been another busy month in the woodland and we elves have published 20 new blogs summarising 20 new mental health research papers that have reliable findings and implications for practice and policy. Read the most popular blogs below and don't forget to follow us wherever you get your research updates on social media! 📈 Top 5...
8 months ago • 2 min read
🌳🔥🍄 As the nights draw in and the elves light the woodland campfire, there's more mental health research than ever to appraise for your delectation. Welcome to the October edition of The Mental Elf Monthly — our newsletter for mental health professionals, researchers, and policy people who care about making mental health evidence more useful and accessible. Each month we bring you: The most popular Mental Elf blogs Research highlights from our community Updates on what we’re working on (and...
9 months ago • 3 min read
🌳🌤️🍄 A very warm woodland welcome to the September edition of The Mental Elf Monthly — our new email newsletter for mental health professionals, researchers, and policy people who care about making mental health evidence more useful and accessible. Each month, in this email update, we bring you: The most popular Mental Elf blogs Research highlights from our community Updates on what we’re working on (and how you can get involved) If you find this useful, please hit Subscribe, and feel free to...
10 months ago • 3 min read
🌳🌤️🍄 A very warm woodland welcome to the August edition of The Mental Elf Monthly — our new LinkedIn newsletter for mental health professionals, researchers, and policy people who care about making mental health evidence more useful and accessible. Each month, in this LinkedIn and email newsletter, we bring you: The most popular Mental Elf blogs Research highlights from our community Updates on what we’re working on (and how you can get involved) If you find this useful, please hit Subscribe,...
11 months ago • 2 min read