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February 2018

#LetsShare

#LetsShare

Posted on 28 February 2018 by Jo Pinder

Jo, Wellbeing Practitioner and Time to Change Champion, talks about Cardiff University’s new Mental Health Campaign: What’s on your mind?#LetsShare, encouraging us all to share more when it comes to […]

Revisiting and expanding the largest genetic study of schizophrenia

Revisiting and expanding the largest genetic study of schizophrenia

Posted on 27 February 2018 by Antonio Pardinas

In his short fiction “Blue Tigers”, the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges tells a story about trying to understand the unexpected. While tracking a fabled tiger in a remote region […]

Guided self-help: a new treatment in PTSD?

Guided self-help: a new treatment in PTSD?

Posted on 26 February 2018 by Natalie Simon

I’m a research assistant and PhD student based at the National Centre for Mental Health at Cardiff University. I’m part of a team that is studying the efficacy of a […]

Exploring the link between football and dementia

Exploring the link between football and dementia

Posted on 12 February 2018 by Jack Beaumont

I work on a project investigating Alzheimer’s disease at Cardiff University’s MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics. Although not directly related to the research project I am involved with, […]

How can we better support people with a mental illness who come into contact with the Criminal Justice System?

How can we better support people with a mental illness who come into contact with the Criminal Justice System?

Posted on 6 February 2018 by Matthew Pearce

A few months ago Hafal held a seminar looking at mental health and the Criminal Justice System. The subject is an important one for our clients: many people with a […]