Mental Health
Early Intervention and the Lived Experience
One of the key focus areas for Wellcome concerns the millions of people worldwide who are held back by mental health issues. While treatment and support are available, it often isn’t early enough. Barriers to collaboration are preventing progress because research is often undertaken in specialist areas, so knowledge sharing is limited.
The Wellcome approach is to bring researchers together to support better understanding of mental health and to find ways to facilitate early intervention. Lived experience of those suffering with mental health is also important to ensure research focuses on what those affected most need.
Wellcome Open Research
Wellcome Open Research is an Open Research publishing platform that provides all Wellcome-funded researchers with a place to rapidly publish any results they think are worth sharing.
All articles benefit from rapid open access publication, transparent peer review and editorial guidance on making all source data openly available.
Wellcome Open Research is free to publish if you are funded by Wellcome Trust.
5 Key Benefits of Publishing Wellcome Open Research
Research transparency:
All research is published freely and openly, including any data used within research, to ensure maximum transparency, reproducibility, and collaboration.Speed of publication:
Peer review is conducted post-publication to ensure new research findings can be shared without delay.No publication charges:
As recipients of Wellcome funding, there are no costs to authors for publishing on the Platform.Open peer review:
Peer review is conducted openly to ensure full transparency and enable others to build upon expert guidance.All research outputs welcomed:
All research outputs can be published, from traditional Research Articles to Data Notes to Study Protocols. All results are welcomed, including negative or null results and reanalysis of previous studies with new results.
Gateways on Wellcome Open Research
Wellcome Open Research accepts research across the spectrum of mental health. However, there are Gateways that showcase research linked to a specific Wellcome Centre or Wellcome-funded programme.
To explore more about Mental Health and to access research publications, visit these Gateways below:
ALSPAC
Based at the University of Bristol, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as Children of the 90s, is a world-leading birth cohort study.
Association of home and neighbourhood conditions with anxiety and depression symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown: Findings from the ALSPAC cohort.
Medication use for depression and anxiety: data collected from 28/29 year-old offspring in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.
GALENOS
The Global Alliance for Living Evidence on aNxiety, depressiOn and pSychosis (GALENOS) project is supported by the Wellcome Trust and led by Professor Andrea Cipriani from Oxford University. GALENOS is an international collaboration of experts in mental health and evidence synthesis and, importantly, experts by experience.
Towards an ontology of mental health: Protocol for developing an ontology to structure and integrate evidence regarding anxiety, depression and psychosis.
The therapeutic potential of exercise in post-traumatic stress disorder and its underlying mechanisms: A living systematic review of human and non-human studies.
Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance
The WellCome Trust/DBT India Alliance is an £160 million initative funded equally by the WellCome Trust, UK and Department of Biotechnology, India. The broad aim of the India Alliance is to build excellence in the Indian biomedical scientific community by supporting future leaders in the field.
Application of ‘Readiness for Change’ concept within implementation of evidence-based mental health interventions globally: protocol for a scoping review.
Yoga-based lifestyle intervention for antenatal depression (YOGA-D): study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial.
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