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Study links air pollution to mental illness

New research from the University of St Andrews has revealed that cumulative exposure to air pollution is linked to a heightened risk of admission to hospital for mental/behavioural as well as physical illness

Helping Hands award

Student Caitlin Leach wins award for excellence in supporting students.

Suicidal tendencies

Asylum, medical and legal records dating back 500 years could provide the first ever comprehensive insight into suicide in Scotland throughout the ages.

Suicide in Scotland

Suicide rates for young people have increased dramatically in Scotland's most deprived areas, according to research by the University of St Andrews.

Madness in 18th century Scotland

A historian claims that his discoveries into mental illness in eighteenth Century Scotland could have implications for psychologists and psychiatrists throughout the country.

Talk by Professor Jamison

A psychologist, whose survival from suicide marked the beginning of a life's work to investigate mental illness and self-inflicted death, is to give a talk at the University of St Andrews.