More than £400m is to be spent on round-the-clock community based care as part of almost £1bn of investment in mental health services. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Schizophrenia researchers ‘find brain region behind social deficits’
Researchers at Columbia University’s Medical Center (CUMC) have made progress in finding out why social memory does not have the expected capacity among people with schizophrenia. Continue reading
Chickens’ genes could hold the answer to anxiety in humans
According to a new study conducted by researchers at Linkoping University in Sweden, the genes of domesticated chickens, which show less anxiety than their wild counterparts (the red junglefowl), could shed light on why humans can suffer from anxiety.
Mental health care is public’s top NHS concern
Mental health has become the area of NHS and social care the public want improved the most, with lengthy waiting times and a lack of understanding from GPs topping the list of changes needed, it has been revealed.