Young people with mental health problems who have contact with mental health services are significantly less likely to suffer from clinical depression later in their adolescence than those with equivalent
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A group of Cambridge academics has said Theresa May appears to hold a “historically obsolete view” on welfare spending. Cutting welfare and social care budgets in times of economic hardship,
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More than two-thirds of adolescents who suffer from depression could see long-term benefits from receiving one of three psychological treatments – of which only one is currently recommended on the
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A former boarding school teacher who sexually abused four pupils and had sex with one girl on his wife’s wedding dress to “satisfy his fantasies” has been jailed for 12
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A “catalogue of failures” resulted in the collapse of an £800 million NHS contract to outsource care of older and mentally ill people, the Commons spending watchdog warned. An influential
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An 87-year-old man is being held on suspicion of murder after a woman in her 80s died at a care home. Detectives are investigating what happened at Poppyfields care home
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A single defective gene increases the risk of schizophrenia 35 times and is involved in a range of neurodevelopmental disorders, research has shown. Although the mutation is very rare, affecting
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A brain-training iPad game has been developed to help people with schizophrenia. Researchers at the University of Cambridge said slow progress is being made towards developing a drug treatment and
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A study which saw dementia patients undergo music therapy resulted in improvements to their symptoms and wellbeing as well as a reduction in disruptiveness to staff at their care home.
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Restoring the low levels of the chemical serotonin may help improve brain function and reduce impulsivity in some dementia patients, according to Cambridge researchers. A study published in the July
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