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Allows users to monitor their moods on six pre-loaded scales (anxiety, stress, depression, brain injury, post-traumatic stress, general well-being).

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Designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety. Teaches users to relax, develop more helpful ways of thinking, and identify active steps that will help the user take charge of anxiety.

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Making Sense of Your Moods. Learn how to manage feelings like anxiety and depression. The app will teach you how to look at problems in a different way, turn negative thoughts into positive ones, and improve your mental well-being. For anyone who struggles with feelings like anxiety, depression, anger and confusion.

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Learn to relax, manage your worries and improve your wellbeing. The app measures your heart rate and suggests tasks to suit your state of mind. Tasks include simple breathing techniques and light exercises to help manage worries. Chill Panda is for children and adults who want to learn how to manage stress and feel better.

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Early clinical intervention in psychosis is now a major objective of mental health services and the development of specialist intervention services has greatly facilitated research on the early phases of this disorder.

In this book, contributors provide a review of the neurobiological research in people at high risk of psychosis, focusing on the transition from being at a high risk state to their first episode. Contributors consider unaffected family members and twin studies as well as the individual’s data before and after the onset of the illness. The environmental factors that contribute to a psychotic episode are also examined.

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The field of phenomenological psychopathology (PP) is concerned with exploring and describing the individual experience of those suffering from mental disorders.

Whilst there is often an understandable emphasis within psychiatry on diagnosis and treatment, the subjective experience of the individual is frequently overlooked. Yet a patient's own account of how their illness affects their thoughts, values, consciousness, and sense of self, can provide important insights into their condition - insights that can complement the more empirical findings from studies of brain function or behaviour.

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This study provides the first bottom-up review of the lived experience of depression, co-written by experts by experience and academics.

First-person accounts within and outside the medical field were screened and discussed in collaborative workshops involving numerous individuals with lived experience of depression, family members and carers, representing a global network of organizations.

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Psychosis is the most ineffable experience of mental disorder. We provide here the first co-written bottom-up review of the lived experience of psychosis, whereby experts by experience primarily selected the subjective themes, that were subsequently enriched by phenomenologically-informed perspectives.

First-person accounts within and outside the medical field were screened and discussed in collaborative workshops involving numerous individuals with lived experience of psychosis as well as family members and carers, representing a global network of organizations.

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Informal caregivers of individuals affected by psychotic disorder can play a key role in the recovery process. However, little research has been conducted on the lived experiences of carers and family members.

We conducted a bottom-up, from lived experience to theory review of first-person accounts, co-written between academics and experts by experience, to identify key experiential themes. First-person accounts of carers, relatives, and individuals with psychosis were screened and discussed in collaborative workshops involving individuals with lived experiences of psychosis, family members, and carers, representing various organizations.

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Preventive approaches have latterly gained traction for improving mental health in young people.

In this paper, we first appraise the conceptual foundations of preventive psychiatry. We then review the evidence supporting primary prevention of psychotic, bipolar and common mental disorders and promotion of good mental health as potential transformative strategies to reduce the incidence of these disorders in young people.

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Decades of research have revealed numerous risk factors for mental disorders beyond genetics, but their consistency and magnitude remain uncertain.

We conducted a “meta-umbrella” synthesis of umbrella reviews, which, in turn, are summaries of meta-analyses of individual studies. This method provides a bird’s eye view on the global evidence and informs promotion of mental wellbeing in young people.

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Promotion of good mental health, prevention, and early intervention before/at the onset of mental disorders improve outcomes.

However, the range and peak ages at onset for mental disorders are not fully established. This study provides robust, global epidemiological estimates of age at onset for mental disorders for any ICD/DSM- mental disorders, identified in the current literature.

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Precision psychiatry is an emerging field with transformative opportunities for mental health.

However, the use of these methods such as biomarkers and specific tests carries unprecedented ethical challenges, which must be addressed before accessing the potential benefits of precision psychiatry. This study covers multidisciplinary areas, including psychiatry, ethics, statistics and machine-learning, healthcare and academia, as well as input from people with lived experience of mental disorders, their family, and carers.

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Early identifcation and intervention of individuals with risk factors for or subtle prodromal symptoms of bipolar disorders (BD) may improve the illness course and prevent adverse long-term consequences.

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This study summarises systematically the consistency and the magnitude of the risk of developing bipolar disorder I-II (BD-I/II) in young people at clinical high risk, and the best assessment methods to forecast their outcomes and support their lives.

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This study provides a comprehensive, evidence-based systematic appraisal of the advancements and limitations of detection, prognosis, and interventions for young people at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis (CHR-) and to formulate updated recommendations.

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This study, produced by the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Thematic Working Group on the Prevention of Mental Disorders and Mental Health Promotion, review the definition of good mental health in young people.

Good mental health can be defined as a state of well-being that allows individuals to cope with the normal stresses of life and function productively.

Core domains that define good mental health encompass: (i) mental health literacy, (ii) attitude towards mental disorders, (iii) self-perceptions and values, (iv) cognitive skills, (v) academic/ occupational performance, (vi) emotions, (vii) behaviours, (viii) self-management strategies, (ix) social skills, (x) family and significant relationships (xi) physical health, (xii) sexual health, (xiii) meaning of life, (xiv) and quality of life.

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The consequences of developing a psychotic disorder may be worse in cases of early onset of the disorder.

Thus, detection of cognitive alterations in those at clinical high risk, during childhood and adolescence represent a critical developmental window, where opportunities to restore social and adaptive abilities are the highest.

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“One can then assume that the widespread access to mobiles and social media would only have elevated Truman-like anxieties further.

That is certainly the belief of Dr Paolo Fusar-Poli, Professor and Chair of Preventive Psychiatry in the Department of Psychosis Studies at King's College London, and co-author of research on the Truman Show Syndrome phenomenon published in the 2008 British Journal of Psychiatry.”

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“We present here a response to the Health & Social Care Committee’s call for evidence as part of the Prevention Inquiry.

We argue that prevention of severe mental disorders in young people should be prioritized by refining best-case, evidence-based successful examples that have demonstrated to improve both mental and physical health in the UK.”

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“In 2008, Paolo Fusar-Poli from the British Journal of Psychiatry conducted a study that displayed individuals having signs of delusion.

Mark D. Griffiths, a charted psychologist, analyzed this study and concluded that most of the individuals that had this delusion often had underlying illnesses or other medical problems that could have caused this delusion.”

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The European Brain Research Area (EBRA) promotes cooperation and exchange between brain research projects and networks through the formation of researchers’ clusters.

This video features Prof. Paolo Fusar-Poli of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (London), in discussion with France Nivelle of EBRAINS.

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“Many people, to date, believe Truman Syndrome to be just a made-up concept for the movie.

It is important to spread awareness about it. It is of utmost importance to tell people that Truman Syndrom is actually a psychological condition that has the potential to turn into psychosis.

An Italian psychiatrist, Dr. Paolo Fusar-Poli, is playing a major role in the spreading of awareness of this concept.”

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