Mental Health

Bringing awareness to mental health issues that impact individuals and communities globally.

Research into mental health issues advances the understanding, treatment, and prevention of mental health conditions. It is the foundation for policies, services, and systems that support mental health and well-being. Explore below a special selection of research dedicated to mental health from across disciplines and diverse perspectives.

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Reflections on Mental Health

Mental Health Nursing, SDG 3 and Social Impact

Interview with mental health specialists Vickie Howard & Lolita Alfred on the critical role of nurses in improving the quality of life and recovery for individuals with mental disorders

Preventative Health Strategies and the Humanities: SDG3 and Me

Interview with Matthew Smith, Professor of Health History, University of Strathclyde

Doing the Heavy Lifting: Why Strength Sports Could Be Key for Women’s Mental Health

By Katie Masters, author of the book Feminist and Anti-Psychiatry Perspectives on ‘Social Anxiety Disorder’

World Suicide Prevention Day 2024

Explore the curated research & article collections on suicide prevention from multiple BMC journals. Including call for papers.

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Journal Special Issues and Topical Collections

Including Calls for Papers

Diet and mental health

This Collection welcomes original research on diet and mental health, including methods and strategies on how food and diet affects mental health.

Feeling close to others? Social cognitive mechanisms of intimacy in personality disorders

The collection will highlight articles that apply experimental approaches in characterizing alterations of social cognitive processes and link these alterations to dysfunctions in the domain of intimacy.

Loneliness

Articles include differences between loneliness and solitude; the variety of absences and affordances encountered in experiences of loneliness; and how an agent's attunement to the social world is disrupted in loneliness

Moving the Needle on Eating Disorder Treatment: Precision Psychiatry and Personalized Treatment Advances

This collection aims to showcase advances in precision psychiatry and personalized medicine/treatment in the eating disorders. We especially are interested in papers using idiographic methods to characterize eating disorders, new treatment developments, and explorations of how to implement precision psychiatry in practice.

Navigating the Complexity of Psychedelics' Therapeutic Potential in Minors

This collection aims to offer a unique forum to discuss topics ranging from investigating the neurodevelopmental and neurobiological effects of psychedelics in a developing brain.

Understanding Nonbinary and Gender Diverse Youth

The articles published in this special issue highlight the mental health challenges, identity formation, and sociocultural influences affecting nonbinary and gender-diverse youth.

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