Latest Reports from the Mental Elf Website

The Mental Elf website covers important and reliable mental health research and guidance.  Updates are posted daily with short and snappy summaries that highlight evidence-based publications relevant to mental health practice in the UK and further afield.  Research covered recently is listed below:

Atypical antipsychotics can lead to weight gain in children and adolescents, but more evidence needed about metabolic side effects

Measuring treatment effects in dementia studies: towards a consistent approach

Tricyclic antidepressants are associated with higher risk of bone fracture

We ignore the rise of suicide in people with mental illness

Depression and anxiety in long-term cancer survivors compared with spouses and healthy controls: what about the impact of gender?

Can brain imaging help predict who will respond to CBT versus antidepressants?

NICE publish new Quality Standard and Evidence Update on ADHD

Preventing or reducing domestic violence against pregnant women: more studies desperately needed!

More evidence needed on additional interventions to reduce mortality in older people with depression

Systematic review: which anti-psychotic medication is the best?

For more details see the Mental Elf website: http://www.thementalelf.net/

Latest Reports from the Mental Elf

The Mental Elf website covers important and reliable mental health research and guidance.  Updates are posted daily with short and snappy summaries that highlight evidence-based publications relevant to mental health practice in the UK and further afield.  Research covered in the last week is listed below:
Observational study: antidepressant suicidality warnings may be counterproductive

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) enhances response to antidepressants: a rather flawed meta-analysis

Cost effectiveness analysis finds stepped care to be cheaper and more effective than CBT for bulimia nervosa

ADHD in childhood is not linked to later development of bipolar disorder

Treatment of depression after a heart attack does not improve the long-term risk of adverse cardiac events but may increase survival

More frequent psychotherapy may lead to better depression outcomes, says new meta-analysis

Talking therapy for teenagers (MBT-A) reduces self-harm and depression in self harming teens over a 12 month period

For more details see the Mental Elf website: http://www.thementalelf.net/