One out of every five young people aged 10-25 is experiencing a mental health problem. What is even more worrying is over half of those have not had effective support.

MQ Mental Health

08.04.2025

Improving Mental Health Clinical Trials: A Comprehensive Approach to Recruitment and Retention

The recent collaboration between MQ and Boston Consulting Group aimed to address the challenge of recruitment for mental health clinical trials.

MQ Mental Health

02.04.2025

Loot Boxes, Gambling, and Mental Health: What the Research Reveals

A new study involving over 1,400 adults who gamble and play online video games has found a strong link between purchasing loot boxes and real-world gambling, gaming addiction, and mental health concerns.

MQ Mental Health

30.03.2025

Research helps explain why teenage girls are more depressed than boys

MQ researchers found the ‘kynurenine pathway’ plays a role in development of depression which helps us to understand why there is a higher incidence amongst girls.

MQ Mental Health

17.03.2025

Genetic links between eating disorder symptoms and suicidal ideation

MQ funded research from Kings College London has found a genetic link that partially explains the overlap between eating disorders and suicidal ideation.

MQ Mental Health

17.03.2025

How swimming and nature supported me through grief

Annie Button shares her story about how swimming, nature and creative photography helped her through grief.

MQ Mental Health

13.03.2025

The Overlooked Role of Mental Health in Pregnancy

Research suggests that mental health screenings and support during and after pregnancy could help prevent complications and improve mothers' long-term health.

MQ Mental Health

13.03.2025

How Art Transforms Mental Health in Later Life

Research has revealed that engaging in group-based creative activities, such as music and painting, can profoundly impact the mental health of older adults.

MQ Mental Health

17.02.2025

Study Links PTSD and Anxiety to Fertility Challenges in Women Firefighters

A new study from the University of Arizona has found that women firefighters with PTSD or anxiety may face challenges with fertility.

MQ Mental Health

16.02.2025

The Children’s and Young People’s Mental Health Crisis Is Holding Back Government’s Growth Plans

New research warns that the mental health crisis facing young people will prevent the Government from boosting economic growth as well as impacting lives.

MQ Mental Health

16.02.2025

Lived Experience and Longitudinal Research – the Perfect Partnership

A study from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has found that people who dwell on feelings of loneliness are much more likely to develop depression.

MQ Mental Health

16.02.2025

Why Rumination on Loneliness Increases Depression Risk

A study from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has found that people who dwell on feelings of loneliness are much more likely to develop depression.

MQ Mental Health

29.01.2025

Why More Young People Are Being Hospitalized for Mental Health

Researchers at UCL have found a sharp rise in the number of children and young people admitted to hospital wards in England with mental health issues

MQ Mental Health

23.01.2025

Introducing 2024’s Transdisciplinary Grant Recipients

MQ & Wellcome created several research grants to support researchers outside mental health to apply new ideas from their discipline to mental health science.

MQ Mental Health

23.01.2025

Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets launches | MQ Mental Health Research

Researchers at King’s College London have launched a new free platform to allow people to discover hundreds of longitudinal mental health datasets.

MQ Mental Health

23.01.2025

The Intersection of Mental Health and Geography

Dr Cheryl McGeachan found that geography significantly influences mental health, highlighting how our environment shapes well-being alongside individual factors

MQ Mental Health

23.01.2025

Lives on the line: Calls for systematic change in eating disorder treatment

New All-Party Parliamentary Group Report Calls for Systemic Change in Eating Disorder Treatment Informed by Research and Lived Experience.

MQ Mental Health

23.01.2025

Understanding the Potential of AI to Help New Mothers

Anaduaka, Oladosu and Katsande found that AI tools to support mothers with perinatal depression and anxiety often lack clear consent and privacy guidelines.

MQ Mental Health

21.01.2025

Exploring the Role of Creative AI in Art Therapy

Dr Alison Pease reviewed efforts to use technology in creative mental health therapies and found AI tools must support respect therapy’s sensitive nature.

MQ Mental Health

21.01.2025

Introducing SYNAPSING | MQ Mental Health Research

MQ is partnering with nine other organisation from across Europe for a new, EU funded research project called SYNAPSING.

MQ Mental Health

21.01.2025

Addressing Mental Health Challenges in Juvenile Diabetes

Dr Archana Nepal found that "pre-depression" in young people with diabetes was often seen as depression, limiting its usefulness.

MQ Mental Health

20.01.2025

How Anxiety and Depression Affect the Way We Move

Dr Aleksandra Birn-Jeffery found that depression significantly impacts movement, causing slower walking, shorter steps, and more frequent pauses

MQ Mental Health

20.01.2025

Exploring the Benefits of Gardening for Mental Health

Dr Carly Wood found that therapy using gardening activities helped significantly reduce depression and anxiety symptoms in participants

MQ Mental Health

17.01.2025

Exploring the Benefits of Gardening for Mental Health

Dr Carly Wood found that therapy using gardening activities helped significantly reduce depression and anxiety symptoms in participants

MQ Mental Health

16.01.2025

Using Digital Tools to Support Mental Health After a Brain Injury

Dr Tom Bashford explored how digital tools like mobile apps could improve mental health care for patients with traumatic brain injuries

MQ Mental Health

15.01.2025

The genetic risk factors for depression | MQ Mental Health Research

A new global study, led by the UK, has pinpointed the genes that increases the risk of developing depression across different ethnicities.

MQ Mental Health

14.01.2025

Developing and Testing the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets

Researchers at KCL, supported by MQ, the Wellcome Trust and lived experience experts have launched a ground-breaking platform that can facilitate research into health and wellbeing.

MQ Mental Health

09.01.2025

What impact will Meta’s changes to fact checking have on mental health?

Yesterday Meta announced that they would be ending third party fact checking on their US platforms. But what impact will this have on mental health?

MQ Mental Health

03.01.2025

MQ trustee James Palmer awarded CBE | MQ Mental Health Research

James Palmer has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in this year's Honours lists for his services to business and to law in the United Kingdom.

MQ Mental Health

20.12.2024

2024: A year of breakthroughs | MQ Mental Health Research

As 2024 draws to a close we reflect on the breakthroughs made in mental health research over the past year.

MQ Mental Health

14.12.2024

Why Loneliness Hurts Sleep More Than Screen Time for Students

A study from Oregon State University have found that loneliness is a bigger obstacle to college students getting a good night's sleep than excessive screen time

MQ Mental Health

13.12.2024

MQ’s response to the 10-Year Health Plan | MQ Mental Health Research

MQ has identified four priorities we would like to see incorporated into the 10-Year Health Plan for England.

MQ Mental Health

12.12.2024

Launch of the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets

Next month, researchers at King’s College London will be launching the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets; A ground-breaking platform that can facilitate research.

MQ Mental Health

10.12.2024

Urgent Letter to Prime Minister on Mental Health

Major organisations working to improve the UK’s mental health express concerns about mental health waiting lists not being prioritised in the Government's Plan for Change.

MQ Mental Health

07.12.2024

How Fitness Trackers Could Revolutionize Bipolar Disorder Management

Research reveals a concerning rise in depression among LGBTQIA+ U.S. higher education students, indicating their disproportionate mental health challenges.

MQ Mental Health

29.11.2024

Announcing Andy Ratcliffe | MQ Mental Health Research

MQ Mental Health Research is delighted to announce that Andy Ratcliffe has been appointed as their new CEO.

MQ Mental Health

22.11.2024

The Alarming Rise of Depression in LGBTQIA+ College Communities

Research reveals a concerning rise in depression among LGBTQIA+ U.S. higher education students, indicating their disproportionate mental health challenges.

MQ Mental Health

14.11.2024

New research finds risk of PTSD 20 times higher for people held in offshore detention

Researchers found refugees in offshore detention face a 20 x greater risk of PTSD and other mental health problems than asylum seekers who were detained onshore

MQ Mental Health

13.11.2024

The Role of Depression in Accelerated Memory Decline (and What to Do About It)

A study has found s a two-way link between depressive symptoms and memory decline in older adults.

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Can a Chatbot Be a Child’s Therapist?

Why prevention is better than cure

Improving Mental Health Clinical Trials: A Comprehensive Approach to Recruitment and Retention

Loot Boxes, Gambling, and Mental Health: What the Research Reveals

Research helps explain why teenage girls are more depressed than boys

Genetic links between eating disorder symptoms and suicidal ideation

How swimming and nature supported me through grief

The Overlooked Role of Mental Health in Pregnancy

How Art Transforms Mental Health in Later Life

Study Links PTSD and Anxiety to Fertility Challenges in Women Firefighters

The Children’s and Young People’s Mental Health Crisis Is Holding Back Government’s Growth Plans

Lived Experience and Longitudinal Research – the Perfect Partnership

Why Rumination on Loneliness Increases Depression Risk

Why More Young People Are Being Hospitalized for Mental Health

Introducing 2024’s Transdisciplinary Grant Recipients

Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets launches | MQ Mental Health Research

The Intersection of Mental Health and Geography

Lives on the line: Calls for systematic change in eating disorder treatment

Understanding the Potential of AI to Help New Mothers

Exploring the Role of Creative AI in Art Therapy

Introducing SYNAPSING | MQ Mental Health Research

Addressing Mental Health Challenges in Juvenile Diabetes

How Anxiety and Depression Affect the Way We Move

Exploring the Benefits of Gardening for Mental Health

Exploring the Benefits of Gardening for Mental Health

Using Digital Tools to Support Mental Health After a Brain Injury

The genetic risk factors for depression | MQ Mental Health Research

Developing and Testing the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets

What impact will Meta’s changes to fact checking have on mental health?

MQ trustee James Palmer awarded CBE | MQ Mental Health Research

2024: A year of breakthroughs | MQ Mental Health Research

Why Loneliness Hurts Sleep More Than Screen Time for Students

MQ’s response to the 10-Year Health Plan | MQ Mental Health Research

Launch of the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets

Urgent Letter to Prime Minister on Mental Health

How Fitness Trackers Could Revolutionize Bipolar Disorder Management

Announcing Andy Ratcliffe | MQ Mental Health Research

The Alarming Rise of Depression in LGBTQIA+ College Communities

New research finds risk of PTSD 20 times higher for people held in offshore detention

The Role of Depression in Accelerated Memory Decline (and What to Do About It)

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