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Diabulimia

Diabulimia

Posted on 19 October 2017 by Alison Seymour

The sad circumstances of the suicide of Megan Davison recently highlighted the little-known eating disorder diabulimia. The term diabulimia refers to the deliberate and frequent reduction in insulin administration in […]

Improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people

Improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people

Posted on 17 October 2017 by Dr Rhiannon Evans

Dr Rhiannon Evans, Senior Lecturer, DECIPHer, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University Michelle Hughes, Specialist CAMHS Nurse, Cwm Taf University Health B The mental health and wellbeing of children and […]

Mental Health research – the future beckons

Mental Health research – the future beckons

Posted on 16 October 2017 by Professor Jeremy Hall

Mental ill health – a national emergency Mental ill health is a national crisis. Every year one in four people in the UK suffer from a mental health problem, with […]

World Mental Health Day: Mental health in the workplace

World Mental Health Day: Mental health in the workplace

Posted on 10 October 2017 by Amy Sykes

World Mental Health Day is October 10 2017, and this year the focus set by the World Federation for Mental Health is mental health in the workplace. At Cardiff University […]

Breaking down barriers in the workplace

Breaking down barriers in the workplace

Posted on 10 October 2017 by Alison Tobin

The theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day is mental health in the workplace. A recent report by MIND found that 32% of men attributed work as the cause […]

Emancipating ourselves from emotional repression at work

Emancipating ourselves from emotional repression at work

Posted on 9 October 2017 by Professor Dirk Lindebaum

How to use reappraisals, and express anger (constructively) instead of 'managing' it - by Dirk Lindebaum. This article first appeared on the LSE Business Review Are your emotions always yours? […]

MINDDS – a pan-European network for Neurodevelopmental Disorder research

MINDDS – a pan-European network for Neurodevelopmental Disorder research

Posted on 9 October 2017 by Professor Adrian Harwood

When we talk about ‘neurodevelopmental disorders’ (NDD), we refer to a wide range of mental health conditions united by an overlapping biology that arises from disrupted brain development.  It is […]

#MHNR2017

#MHNR2017

Posted on 27 September 2017 by Ben Hannigan

Cardiff welcomed delegates to the 23rd International Mental Health Nursing Research Conference (#MHNR2017), which took place at City Hall on September 14th and 15th 2017. This was the conference’s first […]

Shedding light on epilepsy in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome

Shedding light on epilepsy in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome

Posted on 30 August 2017 by Christopher Eaton

Imagine being the parent of a child with a rare genetic disorder that affects heart, mind and brain. Then imagine that this ‘rare’ disorder in fact effects up to fifteen […]

Increase understanding of autism and stop wrongly blaming parents

Increase understanding of autism and stop wrongly blaming parents

Posted on 11 August 2017 by Professor Susan Leekam

Sue Leekam and Catherine R.G. Jones As many as 1.1% of the population of the UK has autism spectrum disorder (ASD), making it a relatively common condition. Yet ASD can […]