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Adult mental health

The immune system and the brain: complement or casualty?

The immune system and the brain: complement or casualty?

Posted on 12 April 2017 by Laura Westacott

For a long time it has been assumed that the sole purpose of the immune system is to defend the body against infection. However, research is now showing that your […]

Living well with dementia

Living well with dementia

Posted on 30 March 2017 by Dr Alexandra Hillman

Dementia is a term that covers a wide range of different conditions and every person with dementia experiences illness and the challenges it brings in different ways. While prevention and […]

Perceptions of mental illness: Do biological explanations reduce stigma?

Perceptions of mental illness: Do biological explanations reduce stigma?

Posted on 28 March 2017 by Rachel Pass

This article first appeared on the braindomain.org Over the last few years there has been a drive in mental health research to find biological explanations for mental illnesses, both to […]

Mental wellbeing and the experiences of older people in hospital

Mental wellbeing and the experiences of older people in hospital

Posted on 13 February 2017 by Caitlin Young

This post is based on a paper that appears in the first issue of The Student Doctor Journal, an imprint of Cardiff University Press. As the population ages, we will […]

Introducing Hafal’s Gellinudd Recovery Centre: a first for Wales

Introducing Hafal’s Gellinudd Recovery Centre: a first for Wales

Posted on 10 February 2017 by Matthew Pearce

Gellinudd Recovery Centre, Hafal's new in-patient service in Pontardawe for people with a mental illness, was officially launched by Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport Vaughan Gething last month. […]

How Are You?

How Are You?

Posted on 2 February 2017 by Natalie Ellis

In 2015, I went to the Cardiff University Winter School in Psychiatry. As second year medics, we had all just finished a two week psychiatry block and everyone was buzzing […]

Social media and mental health

Social media and mental health

Posted on 27 January 2017 by Paul Allen

Social media has rapidly become part of our everyday lives and, like the rise of any new technology, questions are inevitably being asked about how it might be impacting on […]

A renewed commitment but inequalities persist

A renewed commitment but inequalities persist

Posted on 13 January 2017 by Norman Young

The prime minister Theresa May has restated a commitment made by her predecessor David Cameron to improve mental health care. Her statement was sandwiched between BBC headlines on psychiatric accident […]

Understanding ADHD

Understanding ADHD

Posted on 4 January 2017 by Jemma Cole

Congratulations to Professor Anita Thapar, from the School of Medicine, who received a CBE for services to child and adolescent psychiatry in the New Year’s Honours list. Her research focuses on the […]

Is schizophrenia an autoimmune disease?

Is schizophrenia an autoimmune disease?

Posted on 20 December 2016 by Professor Paul Morgan

The concept that psychiatric diseases such as depression and schizophrenia might have an immune component dates back at least 40 years, with numerous studies providing evidence implicating the immune system […]