Counselling sessions improve long-term mental health in primary-school-aged children, according to a new study   Professor Tamsin Ford’s research has implications for reversing declining mental health in young people in a Covid-19 era.   A team from the University of Exeter and the University of Cambridge worked in partnership with Place2Be to assess the longer-term […]

UK academics have called for targets for mental health to meet the healthcare challenges of the next decade A group of UK academics are calling for targets for mental health in order to meet the healthcare challenges of the next decade, Professor Peter Jones is one of them.    Published in Journal of Mental Health […]

Atypical sensory perception occurs in up to 90 per cent of autistic people—despite this, the dominant view of autism as primarily a “social” condition. This has led to sensory symptoms being largely overlooked, particularly in neuroimaging research.   As a start, PhD researcher Nazia Jassim and colleagues decided to meta-analyse the non-social sensory perception task […]