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 a selection of research dedicated to mental health from across disciplines and diverse perspectives curated for World Mental Health Day 2025.
Self-tracking in Mental Health Appsfrom Understanding Mental Health Apps | What Is a Meta-Analysis and Why Should I Run One?from Meta-Analysis for Psychologists | Issues Arising in the Application of the CRPD in Practice - Case Historiesfrom Mental Health and Human Rights |
Hybrid simulation and immersive, lived-experience perspectives to shape medical student attitudes towards patients experiencing emotional distress, suicidality, and self-harmfrom Advances in Simulation | Body dysmorphic disorderfrom Nature Reviews Disease Primers | Implementing a rapid-learning health system in early intervention services for psychosis: qualitative evaluation of its feasibility and acceptabilityfrom Health Research Policy and Systems |
Wake-up call for recovery: a paradigm shift to address the deep crisis in Israel’s public mental health services in the shadow of October 7, 2023from Israel Journal of Health Policy Research | Opening up about cancer and mental healthfrom Nature Reviews Urology | Silence as epistemic agency in maniafrom Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy |
Mood disorders in adolescentsfrom BMC Psychiatry | Precision medicine approaches in psychiatryfrom Translational Psychiatry | Evidence-Informed Practices in Health Policy and Researchfrom Health Research Policy and Systems |
Psychotic Symptoms in People with Intellectual Disabilitiesfrom Psychosis in Adolescents and Adults with Intellectual Disabilities | Social Media and Forms of Connectednessfrom Mental Health in the Digital Age | The Therapeutic Relationship as an Existential Encounterfrom Brief Existential Psychotherapy for Life Stress |
Advances in Mental Health and Addiction |
A cost-effectiveness analysis of two psychological treatments for controlled drinking in individuals with alcohol use disorderfrom Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation | Insights from elite soccer players: understanding the downward spiral and the complex dynamics of crisesfrom German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research | Arts on prescription intervention for primary healthcare patients with poor mental health or social isolation: a mixed-method studyfrom BMC Primary Care |
Association between food intake frequency and psychological distress following the Great East Japan Earthquake: the Fukushima Health Management Survey FY 2012from BMC Nutrition | Neuroimmune, metabolic and oxidative stress pathways in major depressive disorderfrom Nature Reviews Neurology | An investigation into telemedicine utilization for refugee mental health: a systematic reviewfrom Globalization and Health |
Genetics and women's mental healthfrom BMC Women's Health | AI in mental health monitoringfrom BMC Artificial Intelligence | Refining eating disorder-PTSD links: the dissociative subtype of PTSD (DPTSD) and complex PTSD (CPTSD)from Journal of Eating Disorders |
Depression and Culture: A Diagnosis of Our Timefrom Depression as a Cultural Phenomenon in Postmodern Society | Mental Health and Indigenous Peoplefrom Handbook of Social Sciences and Global Public Health | Culturally Adapted CBT for Psychosisfrom Psychological Interventions for Psychosis |
Suicide in the Inỹ Population: Between the Spell and the Disarrangement of “Desire”from Psychology and Rural Contexts | Intergenerational Trauma and Mental Health Disability in the South Asian Contextfrom The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Disability | Unsettling Settler-Colonial Suicidology: Indigenous Theories of Justice in Indigenous Suicide Researchfrom Values and Indigenous Psychology in the Age of the Machine and Market |
Identification and support of autistic individuals within the UK Criminal Justice System: a practical approach based upon professional consensus with input from lived experiencefrom BMC Medicine | Mental health outcomes and quality of life of Ukrainian refugees in Germanyfrom Health and Quality of Life Outcomes | Mind the Gap: scaling-up access to culturally adapted mental health treatments for minority populationsfrom BMC Global and Public Health |
