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Nutritional Psychiatry for Improved Mental Health

Pure Recovery California

Choosing the right food for the brain and gut health is essential to proper brain function, and Nutritional Psychiatry is leading the charge for much of this newfound awareness. What is Nutritional Psychiatry? Nutritional Psychiatry is the scientific study of how nutrition affects mood, behavior, and mental health.

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COVID-19 Inquiry: The Missing Mental Health Impact

MQ Mental Health

Dr Parisa Mansoori, co-author of PHOSP paper and MQ’s Research Programme Lead The PHOSP study , supported by MQ and headed by Dr Maxime Taquet, revealed that months after leaving hospital for COVID-19 treatment, 25% of people experienced considerable symptoms of anxiety and depression , and 12% experienced symptoms of PTSD.

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How do we know when posttraumatic stress disorder is getting better?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) causes a great deal of mental and physical distress, and can significantly reduce a person’s quality of life. Studies that report on the effectiveness of PTSD treatment are difficult to compare, because there are differences in terms of what is considered to be a response to treatment (i.e.

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Positive Autobiographical Memories in the Context of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Society of Clinical Psychology

Trauma exposure takes a toll on societies and individuals, leading to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for a sizable minority of individuals (Magruder et al., As such, intervening on memory-related processes has been a key focus when treating PTSD. depression; Jacobson et al., depression; Jacobson et al.,

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Roadmap toward a neuromodulatory treatment for PTSD and anxiety

Society of Clinical Psychology

While anxiety alone can cause significant distress and dysfunction, anxiety and depression symptoms are highly comorbid, and those suffering from anxious depression are often much sicker and more difficult to treat than individuals with either depression or anxiety alone (Ionescu et al., 2018) and PTSD (Philip et al.,

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Diabetes and Mental Health

MQ Mental Health

Worldwide there are around 9 million individuals with type 1 diabetes, a more volatile condition, of which the cause is unknown. People with both types of diabetes are at a higher risk of developing  depression  and  anxiety and are at a higher risk of early mortality due to the combination of mental health and physical health comorbidities.

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Altering the understanding of Alters: Dissociative Identity Disorder

MQ Mental Health

Unlike The Hulk’s Intermittent Explosive Disorder or Iron Man’s PTSD , Moon Knight brought childhood trauma and a much misunderstood mental illness Dissociative Identity Disorder into the spotlight. According to The British Journal of Psychiatry there is even neurobiological evidence that DID is a severe form of PTSD.