For children and young people living in care, a secure and safe living environment plays a crucial role in their social and emotional development (Varnish et al., 2025), particularly given the ...

In my previous blog, Autism and Restrictive Eating Disorders: A Battle of the Senses, I looked at Loomes et al.’s (2025) review of autistic experiences of restrictive eating disorders. That review, ...

Stigma, referring to negative social judgement to a perceived difference, is commonly experienced by those with mental health conditions (read Pattie and Mallory’s Mental Elf blogs to learn more).

Imagine conscious awareness and working memory as a house, and the mediodorsal thalamus (MDT) as the driveway leading to it. When a postman carrying information arrives, they must pass through a gate ...

In the UK 40% of adults with learning disabilities (28% if problem behaviours are excluded) experience mental health problems at any point in time. An estimated 36% of children and young people (24% ...

Mental health challenges are on the rise globally, with no reduction in prevalence over the past 30 years (GBD 2019 Mental Disorders Collaborators, 2022). Existing mental health services are ...

Mental health awareness has increased dramatically (Hahn et al., 2023; Henderson, Potts and Robinson, 2020), particularly over the past two decades; however, mental health outcomes, especially among ...