According to a report from the charity Beatbullying, 70 per cent of children feel unsafe at school with as many as 17 per cent of under 14 year olds considering carrying a weapon to feel safe. Chief executive of beat bullying, Emma-Jane Cross, said:“For such a large number of our children and young people to read more »

With reforms in the public health strategy soon to be announced, experts from the Royal College of Psychiatrists have warned that glazing over mental health in the new plans could cost the government millions of pounds in the future. President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Professor Dinesh Bhugra has said: ”Historically, government public health read more »

A recent report which has been released by Mind as part of the We Need To Talk coalition has put pressure on the Government to ensure psychological therapies are available across the country to people who need them. The report found that though the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) scheme has had a huge read more »

In a bid to help parents who are struggling to cope with helping their child through an eating disorder, the charity Care for the Family has launched the UK’s first telephone befriending service. The service offers one to one support from ‘befrienders’ who have had a child suffering with an eating disorder themselves and are read more »

A recent study has found that people who have low levels of vitamin B12 could be more prone to developing alzheimer’s later on in life. The vitamin is thought to protect individuals against Alzheimer’s by reducing levels of an amino acid (homocysteine) in the blood that has been linked to the disease. Individuals will all read more »

A US study conducted by the National Institutes of Health has found that consistent viewing of aggressive scenes in films, television shows and video games could result in increased levels of aggression in teenagers, reports BBC News. The effect of violent imagery has long since been the centre of a heated debate so scientists have read more »

Concerns have been raised about the mental health of the Chilean miners as experts fear post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may come into play. Around 30 per cent of people who have experienced a traumatic event suffer from PTSD, a disorder which see’s the sufferer replaying the event to such an extent that it begins read more »

Scientists have discovered a key gene which appears to be twice as active in depressed patients compared to those without the condition. The gene in question MKP-1, was found to be twice as active in brain tissue samples from 21 dead patients who were diagnosed with depression compared to 18 depression free individuals. The gene read more »

Six Healthy Minds projects across Northern Ireland have been awarded grants totalling £51,840. Two of the services in line to receive a grant include a counselling service for men based in Londonderry and a series of workshops for women in the North Down and Ards area. The Men’s Action Network (Man) will use their grant read more »

A recent report has revealed that children who spend longer than two hours each day either on the computer or watching television are more likely to experience psychological difficulties, regardless of how physically active they are. The report involved over 1,000 ten and 11 year old’s from schools in Bristol and measured both physical activity read more »