Schizophrenia
There is increasing evidence that people with severe mental illness (SMI) have considerably worse physical health than the general population. A recent study published in the Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology summarises the published efficacy and tolerability of pharmacotherapeutic interventions in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in severe mental illness (SMI), focusing on glucose lowering therapies. In […]
Today marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Rufus May asks whether we talk enough about race in mental health. This article was originally published on Canterbury Christ Church University website on 21/03/18. I often think about my friend Paul. We met in Hackney hospital in the eighties when we were both psychiatric […]
New King’s College London research, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, indicates a more positive outlook for people diagnosed with first episode psychosis (FEP) and first episode schizophrenia (FES) than has been suggested by previous studies. Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London and the South London […]
I want to start off this article by clarifying that even though I am involved in a documentary with the word “schizophrenia” in the title, that is not how I perceive myself or my experience. I am not nor have I ever been a schizophrenic, I don’t believe anyone is. This article was published on […]
Psychosis is a distressing difficulty in which thoughts and emotions make it hard to determine what is reality and what is not. #StillJustMe is an anti-stigma campaign launched in 2017 by St Patrick’s Mental Health Services. Here mental health ambassador and blogger Nicola describes her journey living with schizophrenia and the effect stigma can have […]
Some addiction experts are now coming to the conclusion that Alcoholics Anonymous is a flawed enterprise. Are they right, asks Alex Meehan in the Sunday Business Post. When a New York stock- broker named Bill Wilson met a surgeon named Dr Bob Smith in 1935, they were both hopeless alcoholics and desperate to find a […]
Professor Mary Cannon recently spoke to Dr Claire O’Connell for the Health Research Board about discovering more about the early risk factors and ‘warning signs’ for developing psychosis and other mental health conditions later in life. This article was published on the Health Research Board’s ezine Newsletter on 30/05/17 How well do we know our own […]
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have shown for the first time a shared genetic link between Motor Neurone Disease (MND) – also known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) – and schizophrenia, indicating that the causes of these diverse conditions are biologically linked. By analysing the genetic profiles of almost 13,000 MND cases and over 30,000 schizophrenia cases, the […]
Leading reformer of Ireland’s mental health services and advocate for the mentally ill. Courtesy of Irish Times, published 25/02/17 Dr Dermot Walsh, who has died aged 86 following a brief illness, was, for over six decades, a leading reformer of Irish mental health services and a tireless advocate for the mentally ill. He contributed substantially […]
People who are on medication for any kind of mental health problem, don’t take meds because they want to, they take them because they have to, writes Nicola Hynds. This article appeared on thejournal.ie on 19th February, 2017 and was written by Nicola Hynds. ‘When I tell people that I have schizophrenia the usual reaction […]