Focus on Research – Mental Health

This category covers research into depression, schizophrenia, psychosis and personality disorders, addiction, suicide, anxiety, eating disorders, learning disabilities, autistic spectrum disorders and studies of normal psychology, cognitive function and behaviour.

The following summaries in this clinical area have been accepted since the start of 2013. Click on the reference number to view the summary.

    • Prof Kate Davidson et al – Monitoring and Measuring Patient Informed Clinical Outcomes in Psychological Therapy Supervision (MeMOS) (CZH/4/804)
    • Prof Andrew Gumley et al – A Parallel group Randomised Open Blinded Evaluation of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Depression After Psychosis: A Pilot Trial (ADAPT) (CZH/4/743)
    • Prof Rory O’Connor et al – A volitional help sheet (VHS) to reduce hospital-treated self-harm (SH): A randomised trial (CZH/4/704)
    • Prof SA Cooper et al – Towards Onset Prevention of COGnition decline in adults with Down syndrome (the TOP-COG study)(CZH/4/626)
    • Dr Karen Lorimer et al – Men, Masculinities, Deprivation and Sexual Health: A Qualitative Study (CZH/4/925)
    • Prof J Evans et al – Brief positive psychotherapy after acquired brain injury: A pilot randomised controlled trial (the PoPsTAR study) (CZH/4 /778
    • Prof M Maxwell et al – A feasibility study for a trial of Recovery versus Mindfulness models for depression (ReMoDe) (CZH/4/831)
    • Dr David Brewster et al – Risk of Oesophageal Cancer in Patients Previously Hospitalised with Eating Disorder: Retrospective Cohort Study in Scotland(CZH/4/980)
    • Dr C. Matheson et al – Community Pharmacy Services for Drug Misusers: Measuring National Service Delivery and the Development of Attitudes and Practice over Two Decades (CZH/4/998)
    • Michael Green – Socioeconomic Status as a Common Cause for Smoking Drinking and Anxiety and Depresion over the Lifecourse (DTF/11/16) 
    • Professor I Deary et al – A hundred at ninety: the common cause hypothesis of ageing tested in four waves of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 (ETM/55)
    • Dr C Melville et al – Developing valid models of psychopathology experienced by adults with learning disabilities (CZG/2/556)
    • Professor C Williams et al – A randomised controlled trial of a community-based group guided self-help intervention for low mood and stress (CZH/4/738)
    • Doctor Graham Fairfoul et al – Development of disease-specific diagnostic test for Lewy body dementia based on RT-QuIC analysis of cerebrospinal fluid. (ETM/315 FOR)