John Hoey He/Him co-chaired the Irish Traveller Mental Health session at College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, where Patrick McDonagh and Annemarie Gaynor with Involve talked about reducing stigma surrounding mental health with the No Shame game! youtube.com/watch?v=2dMxiv…

A final Schizophrenia International Research Society symposium on the #protective mechanisms against psychotic exp with Prof Neus Vidal Barrantes on the longitudinal #schizotypy study +Lorna Staines, emphasising #schools (I agree) as a great place for screening PEs -a risk factor assoc. with childhood distress

I will be presenting this paper as a poster today at #SIRS2024

'Examining the association between prenatal and perinatal adversity and psychotic experiences in childhood'

Please come along, would love to have a chat about the paper

UK #MentalHealth Facts:

🎯 Poverty and ill health are connected. That includes mental illness.

🎯 NHS mental health services are not overrun by the worried well. NHS is struggling to provide decent care for people with severe, debilitating mental illness.

Facts matter!

Children exposed to obstetric complications and substance-use (maternal smoking, alcohol, drugs) while in the womb, are more likely to have psychotic-like experiences by age 9/10.

New study led by Lorna Staines using the ABCD cohort in the United States. Read more below ↓

Delighted that our research developing the acute dataset for the Irish National Audit of Stroke to enhance service delivery and quality improvement won Highly Commended at this year’s European #lifeafterstroke forum.

Anne Hickey RCSI Health Psychology RCSI School of Population Health

Congratulations to our colleague, Dr Caroline Kelleher, lecturer in RCSI Health Psychology, who was recipient of the EDI Champion Award in the Vice Chancellor Awards 2023.

RCSI Equality

We are delighted that Dr Caroline Kelleher received the EDI Champion Award. As well as chairing our ESP (Ending sexual violence, Supporting survivors, Promoting consent) Forum, Caroline has done amazing work on embedding Bystander Intervention in RCSI. A very deserving winner! 👏

#jobfairy a great opportunity to work on a fantastic project with our team led by Sean Healy at UL. Please share widely

Really looking forward to reading this!

Paranoia by Daniel Freeman examines research and our evolving understanding of psychotic symptoms in the general population

'My journey began with the severest type of paranoia, I’ve since learned that excessive mistrust... is ubiquitous'

Our new paper on the functional connectome, psychosis risk and oxytocin is out today in molecularpsychiatry! 🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s41380…

Huge thanks to brilliant co-first author Daniel Martins (MD, PhD), Yannis Paloyelis, Fusar-Poli EPIC_IoPPN Lab and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience collaborators ✨

A new report, led by Professor Gary Donohoe, School of Psychology, has found that 78% of young people with mental health issues are referred for initial treatment by themselves or their parents

Gary Donohoe School of Psychology, University of Galway University of Galway Research & Innovation

irishtimes.com/health/2023/12… via The Irish Times

Very pleased to share our new paper, published in Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine highlighting the value of the Mindspace Mayo service for youth mental health in Ireland Gary Donohoe Dr. Caroline Heary Mindspace Mayo

Hopefully Chief Medical Officer and Department of Health are attentively reading this paper.
Very strong evidence that we need to vaccinate far more widely for Covid19.