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Tasdik Hasan on co-production of a Bangla mental health sign language bank
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A Health Policy piece in our April issue by Tasdik Hasan and co-authors titled: Co-designing a Bangla Mental Health Sign Language Bank in Bangladesh...
Emily Holmes on an imagery competing task for intrusive trauma memories
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How can you stop traumatic flashbacks in just one session?Intrusive memories are so common after experiencing traumatic events and are one of the hall...
Mike Crawford on a brief intervention for personality disorder
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Can personality disorder treatments be reduced to just a few months?The evidence base for personality disorder treatments, like dialectical behavioura...
Ethelreda Nakimuli and Peter Jones on the COVID-19 pandemic and mental health
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect mental health? Now that some years have passed since the pandemic's height, we can learn more from synthesi...
Ilaria Costantini and Francesca Solmi on young people's body dissatisfaction and mental health
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Body dissatisfaction has been rising among adolescents in recent years, and so have symptoms and diagnoses of mental disorders. To help us know what t...
Melissa DelBello on metformin for youth with bipolar disorder
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Weight gain is a typical side-effect of taking antipsychotics and can have a big impact on people. But for young people with bipolar disorder, metform...
Camilla Rosan on the COS-P perinatal mental health intervention
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Up to 1 in 4 women and birthing parents experience perinatal mental health difficulties, but there isn't enough evidence around interventions tha...
Juan Carlos Bazo Alvarez and Claudia Cooper on antipsychotics and dementia
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
People living with dementia often have behavioural and psychiatric symptoms, such as agitation, and when these are severe, antipsychotics can be presc...
Kasia Machaczek, Scott Teasdale, and Joe Firth on lifestyle interventions
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why is physical health so important for people with mental illness? In this episode, we talk about a new paper on lifestyle interventions for people w...
Louise Glenthøj, Ditte Lammers, and Vibeke Andersen on virtual reality-based therapy for auditory hallucinations
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if you could see the voice inside your head? Auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia are often distressing, as the voices are often malicious a...
Katrina Kennedy and Rose Pollard Kaptchuk on health-care responses for trans and gender diverse people after interpersonal violence
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transgender and gender diverse people experience disproportionately high levels of interpersonal violence, but they also face multiple barriers to rec...
Andrea Iaboni on medications for anxiety in older adults
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Which medications should be the first choice for prescribing for anxiety in older adults? Anxiety is common in older adults, but a lot of research on ...
Philipp Klein on a digital intervention for borderline personality disorder
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sophia Davis, senior editor at The Lancet Psychiatry, discusses research on a new digital therapy for borderline personality disorder with Philipp Kle...
Helene Speyer and Marte Ustrup on dissensus in lived experience research
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Helene Speyer and Marte Ustrup talk with Sophia Davis about embracing dissensus in lived experience research.Read the full article:https://www.thelanc...
Peter Fonagy on mentalisation-based treatment for antisocial personality disorder
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Fonagy talks with Sophia Davis about a trial of mentalization-based treatment for antisocial personality disorder in men on community probation....
Mikkel Højlund on antipsychotics polypharmacy
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sophia Davis talks to Mikkel Højlund about research into the prevalence and outcomes of antipsychotics polypharmacy.Continue this conversation on soc...
Nguyen Tran and David Kinitz on conversion practices and mental health
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nguyen Tran and David Kinitz talk with Sophia Davis about conversion practices for people of sexual and gender minorities and their mental health.Read...
Marco Solmi, Manish Sood, and Nicholas Fabiano on eating disorders and electrolyte abnormalities
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marco Solmi, Manish Sood, and Nicholas Fabiano join Sophia Davis to discuss electrolyte abnormalities in people with eating disorders and their associ...
Frank Padberg and Stephan Goerigk on child maltreatment and psychotherapy
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Padberg and Stephan Goerigk join Sophia Davis to discuss the effects of child maltreatment on psychotherapy for depression.Read the full article...
Ryan Van Patten on cognition in functional seizures
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Van Patten joins Sophia Davis to discuss cognitive performance in functional seizures.Continue this conversation on social!Follow us today at...h...
Sebastian Wolf on exercise and mental health
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastian Wolf joins Sophia Davis to discuss a transdiagnostic exercise intervention for mental health.Read the full article:https://www.thelancet.com...
Jinah Park and Whanhee Lee on heat and emergency admissions
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jinah Park and Whanhee Lee join Sophia Davis to discuss the effects of increasing ambient temperature on hospital admissions for people with mental di...
Vincenzo Oliva on medications for psychotic depression
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vincenzo Oliva joins Sophia Davis to discuss medications for psychotic depression.Read the full systematic review:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...
Maike Richter and Nils Opel on narcissistic traits
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Maike Richter and Nils Opel join Sophia Davis to discuss narcissistic traits and depressive symptoms in psychotherapy.Read the full article:https://ww...
Lucy Stephenson, Astrid Gieselmann, and Matthé Scholten on self-binding directives
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy Stephenson, Astrid Gieselmann, and Matthé Scholten join Sophia Davis to discuss self-binding directives in psychiatric practice.Read the full Re...
Gustavo Medeiros on brain-based correlates of antidepressant response to ketamine
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gustavo Medeiros joins Sophia Davis to discuss a review of brain-based correlates of antidepressant response to ketamine, using neuro-imaging studies....
Felicity Waite on psychological therapy for sleep problems in young people at risk of psychosis
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Felicity Waite joins Sophia Davis to discuss a psychological therapy for sleep problems in young people at ultra-high risk of psychosis.Read the full ...
Joelle Mak and Ligia Kiss on psychosocial interventions for survivors of human trafficking
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Assistant Professor Joelle Mak and Dr Ligia Kiss join Sophia Davis to discuss a new review of psychosocial interventions for survivors of human traffi...
Rory O’Connor on premature mortality in people with mental illness
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Rory O’Connor joins Sophia Davis to discuss a paper on the Gone Too Soon project about premature mortality in people with mental illness o...
Ian Wong on methylphenidate for children and adolescents with ADHD
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Ian Wong joins Sophia Davis to discuss the research on methylphenidate for children and adolescents with ADHD.Read the full article:Long-ter...
Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar on drug use and treatment services in the Eastern Mediterranean
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar joins Sophia Davis to discuss the systematic review of drug use, drug use disorder, and treatment services in the Eas...
Richard Morriss on cranial electrostimulation therapy for depression
29 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Richard Morriss joins Sophia Davis to discuss a trial into cranial electrostimulation therapy with Alpha-Stim AID for people with depression...
Protection or Paternalism?
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Deputy Editor Dustin Graham talks with Sally McManus and co-authors of a Comment piece about ethical review committees and who gets to decide which qu...
Wellcome Global Monitor
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We talk with Professor Miranda Wolpert, Director of Mental Health at Wellcome, about the Wellcome Global Monitor report and its implications for the f...
Cultural Competency
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Senior Editor Dustin Graham speaks with the authors of a newly published paper on the impact of race and ethnicity on patients' perspectives of t...
ECT safety
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chief Editor Niall Boyce talks with Tyler Kaster about his groups' recent study looking at the safety and efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy f...
Debbie Challis on helping children deal with the aftermath of COVID-19
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dustin Graham talks with Dr Debbie Challis about the Fading Rainbows project and helping children deal with the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemicCont...
Erica Crompton on the importance of first-person stories
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dustin Graham talks with Erica Crompton, journalist and mental health advocate, about the importance of publishing first-person stories from service u...
Michael Wright on mental health in Aboriginal communities
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Wright discusses his groups efforts to work with Aboriginal communities in Western Australia to design better mental health services.Continue ...
Kimberly Sue on increasing access to buprenorphine
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Kimberly Sue discusses a new US policy making buprenorphine easier to prescribe for opioid addiction, and the challenges that remain for increasing...
Youth work environments
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dustin Graham talks with Aaron Kandola about his group's recent Commission with the UK Wellcome Trust to understand how work environments can be ...
Off-radar youth
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
COVID-19 related lockdowns can exacerbate problems for children and young people at risk of abuse. Niall Boyce discusses this with Laura Fischer and J...
If a patient dies by suicide
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We talk with Dr Rachel Gibbons about the challenges that clinicians face in the wake of losing a patient to suicide, and the support we should provide...