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Universityof Liverpool researcher, Dr Eleanor Longden, attended the Deputy Prime Minister's Mental Health Heroes Awards which recognise individuals who have helped, supported, or inspired those with mental health difficulties.

The UK Government's austerity measures have led to a reduced commitment on the part of public sector workers towards their organisation, new research has found.

The British public's belief in the reality of climate change and its humancauses rose last year following the winter floods, and is now at its highest since 2005, according to a new study.

Former international rugby referee Clive Norling presided over more than 1,000 matches in a career lasting almost 25 years, including 35 test matches and the quarter-final of the first ever Rugby World Cup in 1987.

Watch Richard Davidson discuss this project at the 2015 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

As the United States population has doubled since 1955, the number of inpatient psychiatric beds in the United States has been cut by nearly 95 percent to just 45,000, a wholly inadequate equation wh

Kathryn Ecclestone, Professor of Education at the University of Sheffield, comments on the effects of well-being programmes in schools. by Katherine Ecclestone, 22 January 2015, posted on The Conversation Apocryphal depictions of an unprecedented crisis in young people's mental ill-health and their general vulnerability have been accompanied by increasingly alarmist claims that only schools can address this social "ticking time bomb".

Kenjo-Baptiste OIKAWA/Wikimedia Commons In examining the vocal style of former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy, UCLA voice scholar Rosario Signorello found characteristics that convey dominance and contrast with that of his successor, President Francois Hollande.

Current government-mandated nutrition labeling is ineffective in improving nutrition, but there is a better system available, according to a study by McGill University researchers published in the December issue of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Professor Peter Kinderman is Head of the University of Liverpool's Institute of Psychology, Health and Society "Many things contribute to our well-being, but many things also make us miserable.

Preliminary research into the relationship between pornography and genital satisfaction has found women are generally content and were not considering drastic cosmetic surgery to their genitals. The findings contradict the popular belief about the increasing incidence of labiaplasty, and the theory that pornography is the main driver of surgery.

John Mooney, a Public Health Specialist at the University of Sheffield, comments on how comedy can be used for public health.

By Rose-Marie Stambe and David Fryer With monthly unemployment figures due out this week, the usual attention will be paid to fluctuations up and down.

The mood swings of people with bipolar disorder are influenced by their thoughts according to researchers. A study by Lancaster University showed that how people interpret everyday experience affects their behaviour and hence mood. The research " Response styles, bipolar risk and mood in students: The Behaviours Checklist" published in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice is by Dr Alyson Dodd, Claire Fisk and Dr Alan Collins.

Psychiatry professor Anthony Feinstein of the University of Toronto has studied the effects of violence on journalists for more than a decade, and found that stress may affect their emotional well-being. Recently, he discussed the emotional fallout of the Charlie Hebdo attack on a profession unaccustomed to being the subject of the story.

A growing fear among television advertisers is that distracted viewers - those multitaskers using smartphones, laptops and tablets while watching TV - are becoming less susceptible to advertisers' messages.

Carnegie Mellon's John R. Anderson To Attend White House Workshop on Bridging Neuroscience and Learning-Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 At the inv

Robert Elliott Johnston, professor of psychology, died Dec. 20 at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca after extended treatments for lymphoma.

A UCLA psychologist and her sister explain why Disney struck billion-dollar gold with Elsa, Anna and 'Let It Go' Maryam Kia-Keating and Yalda Uhls Yalda T. Uhls and Maryam Kia-Keating are sisters, psychologists, and, most importantly, moms.

Social attitudes are reinforcing the negative beliefs towards people who self harm, according to research. The first ever study of the life stories of people who self-harm and who were also diagnosed with a personality disorder revealed that several spoke of being refused pain relief while being sutured by hospital staff.

Stress is the physical and emotional response we all experience when faced with demanding situations.

As a foreigner, I find voting in the United States a very intriguing subject. Americans gloat about being the biggest democracy in the world, and yet they do not seem very eager to exert their civic rights.

In the run-up to Christmas, a lot of us consider donating to charities. But what motivates us to actually follow through? Too much focus on encouraging sympathy in potential charity donors can actually have the opposite effect, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden.

Anna Leyland, a PhD student at the University of Sheffield, writes about the benefits of mindfulness during the festive period.

When you open the refrigerator for a late-night snack, are you more likely to grab a slice of chocolate cake or a bag of carrot sticks? Your ability to exercise self-control-i.e.

Report found that research-based programs to enhance mental health help veterans and their families cope Mark Wheeler A new report evaluating the impact of research-based programs designed to enhance

Women who miscarry may feel grief, guilt and anger years after their loss, a University of Queensland researcher has found. UQ's School of Population Health 's Dr Ingrid Rowlands said that emotional distress could continue for some time, but women who had miscarried were not at greater risk of depression than other women.

Seventy five per cent of all mental health disorders have their onset between the years of 12 and 25.

Sussex neuroscientist to edit new OUP journal A University of Sussex neuroscientist is to edit a new academic journal on consciousness from the Oxford University Press (OUP).

A new Director has been appointed to run the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), a partnership between Nottinghamshire Healthcare and The University of Nottingham.

Goetz said that suburban residents seem to be the happiest, compared to those who live in rural areas and inner cities. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. People in the country's unhappiest communities spend about a quarter of the month so far down in the dumps that it can harm their productivity, according to economists.

Five prominent researchers from the University of Liverpool have contributed to a major new report on psychosis and schizophrenia by the British Psychological Society The report, 'Understanding Psych

Females are more anxious than men when someone in their family loses a job, found a University of Melbourne report that used interviews from 13,000 Australians. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, the report found that when a man loses his job, his partner's mental health is likely to take a significant dip.

The issue of race is foremost in the nation's consciousness as events in Ferguson, Mo. unfold. But for Valerie Purdie-Vaughns , there is a more important message.

ANN ARBOR-The medical community may be inadvertently creating a new generation of illegal, recreational drug users by prescribing anti-anxiety or sleep medications to teenagers, say University of Michigan researchers. Teens prescribed anxiety or sleep medications are up to 12 times more likely to abuse those drugs than those who had never had a prescription, either by using someone else's prescription pills or to get high or experiment, according to a study from the U-M School of Nursing.

The King's Centre for Military Health (KCMHR) celebrated its 10th birthday yesterday at a special event in King's College London, attended by over 150 guests.

A psychological intervention that provides stress relief and emotional support for people caring for relatives with dementia can reduce depression and anxiety and improve wellbeing at no extra cost to standard care, finds new UCL research published in Lancet Psychiatry . The study led by Professor Gill Livingston (UCL Psychiatry) found that family caregivers receiving the START (STrAtegies for RelaTives) programme were seven times less likely to develop clinically significant depression than those given usual care, with benefits lasting for at least 2 years.

ANN ARBOR-Some time this century, the era of cheap and abundant energy will end, and Western industrial civilization will likely begin a long, slow descent toward a resource-limited future characterized by "involuntary simplicity.

MQ: Transforming Mental Health , a new United Kingdom-based charitable organization that supports mental health research, announced Wednesday the first major investment of its new flagship research program, PsyIMPACT.

Professor Read's review of the literature on the safety and efficacy of ECT research was cited numerous times during the intense debate of the bill.

By Madeleine Stone @themadstone Irritable bowel syndrome, a condition affecting up to 10 percent of the population, often occurs alongside anxiety and depression.

Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), along with colleagues at the University of Oxford and University of Cardiff, have highlighted the importance of looki

Press release issued: 14 November 2014 The importance of looking after the mental health of parents during pregnancy and after childbirth, in order to promote the physical and mental wellbeing of both parents and child, is highlighted in The Lancet today. If left untreated, a parent's mental disorder can be associated with psychological difficulties in the children, according to researchers at the University of Bristol, King's College London, the University of Oxford and Cardiff University.

Home > News > News releases > Comment: X Factor's Cheryl and how not to talk about mental illness on TV Chloe Simpson-Southward, PhD Student in Clinical Psychology at the University of Sheffield, discusses perceptions of mental illness.

World class mental health facility opens doors at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 13 November 2014 A new 73-bed mental health centre unveiled today at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital provides a unique oppo

An evaluation by academics of Glasgow's flagship parenting programme - the Triple P (Positive Parenting Programme) - has found a low completion rate among families, particularly those from more deprived areas, and minimal impact on the most vulnerable children.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Learning a new language changes your brain network both structurally and functionally, according to Penn State researchers. "Learning and practicing something, for instance a second language, strengthens the brain," said Ping Li , professor of psychology, linguistics and information sciences and technology.

Self-compassion can be learned using avatars in an immersive virtual reality, finds new research led by UCL. This innovative approach reduced self-criticism and increased self-compassion and feelings of contentment in naturally self-critical individuals. The scientists behind the MRC-funded study say it could be applied to treat a range of clinical conditions including depression.

The phrase "tears of joy" never made much sense to Yale psychologist Oriana Aragon. But after conducting a series of studies of such seemingly incongruous expressions, she now understands better why people cry when they are happy. "People may be restoring emotional equilibrium with these expressions," said Aragon, lead author of work to be published in the journal Psychological Science.

Researchers from King's College London Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR) report that prolonged periods of deployment among the UK armed forces have fallen since the introduction of the "Har