Ed Bullmore's research while affiliated with University of Cambridge and other places

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The scope of mental health research in the COVID-19 Pandemic and its aftermath - Matthew Hotopf, Ed Bullmore, Rory C O'Connor, Emily A. Holmes
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is having a profound effect on all aspects of society, including mental health and physical health. We explore the psychological, social, and neuroscientific effects of COVID-19 and set out the immediate priorities and longer-term strategies for mental health science research. These priorities were i...

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... The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID- 19) pandemic has imposed great challenges on the world. Restrictions on social interactions, increased economic burden, and uncertainty about the future caused by the pandemic have seriously impacted the mental health of the general population (1)(2)(3)(4). Notably, gender had an effect on the mental health outcomes resulting from COVID-19-males are susceptible to the negative effects of the pandemic to a certain extent. Having to work from home following a COVID-19 outbreak has been linked to worse mental health in men, but not in women (5). ...
... 1 The need for high-quality data across the population to address this concern has been highlighted, particularly for vulnerable groups. [1][2][3] The accumulating global research indicates an increase in mental health problems 4 and a decrease in substance use 5 among adolescents, especially girls and older youth, during the initial waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, few studies have examined mental health outcomes and substance use among adolescents as the pandemic evolved and associated social restrictions eased (appendix p 2). ...
... Previous epidemic/ endemic has been associated with 30% increase of suicide because of economic issues in 2003 and stigmatization to health workers or infected patients in 2014 and 2018 (Torales et al., 2020). The strategy to prevent the same thing happening is by improving the monitoring or reporting rates of mental health problems and finding out the causes of those problem for a long-term strategy (Holmes et al., 2020). Lack of knowledge about COVID-19 prevention in Indonesia population also proves the urgency to understand the long-term effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, including mental health (Adella Halim et al., 2020;Pfefferbaum and North, 2020). ...