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Tackling social determinants will reduce the global mental health burden: mega-blog of current prevention strategies

The Mental Elf

Xiaolin Guo, a MSc student in Global Mental Health at the University of Glasgow, and Nina Higson-Sweeney summarise a recent narrative review exploring the social determinants of mental health and associated prevention strategies.

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Mad in Portugal

Mad in America

One group took a left-wing approach, limiting their efforts to improving existing psychiatric hospitals while viewing alternative solutions as attempts to privatize the mental health sector. The goal, as stated on their website, is to foster critical thinking while welcoming a plurality of perspectives on distress.

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Between Diagnoses and Dialogue: The Silent Conflict Between Psychiatry and Psychology

Mad in America

In many peripheral urban areas and rural regions, the only available contact with mental health support comes through brief psychiatric consultations, where dialogue is replaced by prescriptions. This asymmetry between psychiatry and psychology is further exacerbated by enduring forms of coloniality in global mental health systems.

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New OPM-MEG brain scanner installed at the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA)

Department of Psychiatry News

Manchester, July 2023 PERL at the BRC Open Day 2024 PERL at FloFest on 22 June 2024 Oxford Neuroscience Experience on 5 July 2024 Neurobiology and Experimental Therapeutics Clinical Psychopharmacology Taking Part Announcements Neurobiology of Ageing For Your Diary: Lifebrain Closing Conference - 29th June 2022 - Oxford, Blavatnik School of Governance (..)

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Oxford-developed support for child anxiety to be adapted for families in Chile

Department of Psychiatry News

Manchester, July 2023 PERL at the BRC Open Day 2024 PERL at FloFest on 22 June 2024 Oxford Neuroscience Experience on 5 July 2024 Neurobiology and Experimental Therapeutics Clinical Psychopharmacology Taking Part Announcements Neurobiology of Ageing For Your Diary: Lifebrain Closing Conference - 29th June 2022 - Oxford, Blavatnik School of Governance (..)

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Oxford strengthens global mindfulness research with £1 million gift

Department of Psychiatry News

Our support aims to advance global mental health by promoting evidence-based mindfulness approaches that empower individuals to prioritise wellbeing and live healthier, more resilient lives." Search NIHR OXFORD HEALTH BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE NEWS Please follow the link below to read the news on the NIHR BRC website.

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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

Mad in America

R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health.