A systematic evidence synthesis of the changes observed in the brain of people diagnosed with a personality disorder in Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities

Preface: The path of this research stemmed from a passion and curiosity for mental health and neuroscience and in addition to this how prevalence, aetiology, diagnosis and treatment differs for people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority groups (BAME), being from this community myself. This study was meant to be an empirical study retrieving data from several mental health units in London, who agreed access, only to withdraw it at the last minute. We then planned for outpatients to come to LSBU to have the EEG scans necessary for data collection, but Covid-19 arrived and all face-to-face contact for research purposes halted before any data could be collected. The team concluded, that in order to keep the MRes ‘on the road’ and with no foreseeable end in sight to the CV-19-related lockdown, that a systematic evidence synthesis was feasible. Hence the work being reported here. This Evidence synthesis has been benchmarked against the PRIMSA statement . The associated PRISMA checklist was used to ensure that all relevant PRISMA items were addressed in the review paper, the student’s assessment of this can be found in appendix.