Tag: <span>mental health</span>

How a mindful hobby could help you break your after-work ‘doomscrolling’ habit

This World Mental Health Day (10th October, 2025) is mental health in catastrophes and emergencies. The Mental Health Foundation is focusing on the mental health impact of repeated exposure to news coverage of crises and conflicts. Lecturer in Psychology Emma Palmer-Cooper shares her thoughts on how you can break doomscrolling …

Can Early Hearing Difficulties Signal Emerging Psychosis?

Dondé, C., Palmer-Cooper, E., Gauld, C., Polosan, M., & Alderson-Day, B. (2025). Early auditory impairments as a candidate marker of attenuated sensory symptoms of psychosis. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 136, 111214. By Emma Palmer-Cooper Background Experiences of psychosis often involve changes in how people experience sounds. One well-known issue is difficulty in …

How our sleep, body clock and mental health are linked

by Dr Sarah Chellappa Problems with our sleep and internal body clock can trigger or worsen a range of psychiatric disorders, according to a new review of recent research evidence. Our latest review, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), suggests gaining a better understanding of the relationship …