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WPA Launches 2025 Medical Student Essay Competition: Reducing Inequalities and Promoting Inclusion to Improve Mental Health

World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

This competition provides medical students worldwide with a platform to share their insights and innovative solutions on key mental health challenges. This years competition focuses on the crucial theme of Reducing Inequalities and Promoting Inclusion to Improve Mental Health. Late entries will not be considered.

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40 years on: why our work is more essential than ever in 2025

Centre for Mental Health

Forty years ago, on 1 March 1985, Centre for Mental Health was established as a charity, as the National Unit for Psychiatric Research and Development. What drives us most deeply is a relentless determination to tackle (and reduce) mental health inequality. Mental health inequalities are social and economic inequalities.

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New Study: Cognitive Aerobic Exercise Boosts Working Memory

ADDitude

February 27, 2025 Cognitive-aerobic exercise improves working memory more than aerobic exercise alone in children and adolescents with ADHD, according to a new study 1 published in Frontiers in Psychology. The meta-analysis analyzed data from 17 studies, which collectively had 419 participants with ADHD , ages 3 to 18.

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16 Books for Kids with Anxiety (Updated for 2025)

Now Psych

Picking a kids anxiety book can be a helpful tool in managing anxiety and promoting mental health. Here are some tips on how to choose the right one: Age-appropriate: Make sure the book is appropriate for your child’s age and developmental stage. Positive tone: Choose a book that has a positive and empowering tone.

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Investing in our mental health: Priorities for the NHS ten-year plan

Centre for Mental Health

The nations mental health is getting worse, with an especially significant increase in levels of distress among children and young people over recent years. The health and social costs of maternal depression, anxiety, and psychosis were estimated to carry long-term economic and social costs of approximately 8.1

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WPA & WADD Joint Recognition Awards: Call for Submissions

World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

Dual disorders is the term used in the mental health field to refer to those patients who suffer from an addictive disorder and other mental disorders. In the Footsteps of Pedro Ruiz Award This award recognises younger professionals under the age of 45 who have made notable contributions to the field. Author: Prof.

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Mastery of Language Could Predict Longevity

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Everyone ages, but, sometimes, people outlive all predictions. Ghislettas research used samples from the Berlin Aging Study, which started collecting data shortly before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 (Baltes & Mayer, 1999). Aging Research is showing that aging equals anything but cognitive decline and unhappiness.