Archive for September 2024

The team began by mapping networks over time in six people with major depression and 37 healthy controls. They found that the salience network, which includes brain regions in the frontal cortex and striatum, was almost twice as large on average in people with depression. This network is involved in reward processing and determining what to pay attention to. The size of the salience network did not change over time in people with or without depression. Nor did it relate to depression symptoms in people with depression.

Preferra Insurance Company RRG has taken the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) to court, accusing the professional body of failing to fulfill its obligations to the social workers insurer.

Professor Ray Jones reflects on a career that has spanned practice, leadership and academia, the need for less specialisation in social work and his role in responding to the ‘Baby P’ case. Above: Ray in the 1970s as a newly qualified social worker

Loneliness has become a worrying public health matter because it is common and is often associated with people experiencing physical and mental health problems. There is now taxpayers’ money being spent at the local, national and international levels on initiatives to minimise loneliness and the harmful effect it can have on people’s health. But are those investments misjudged?