🚨 Veeeery excited that my 1st paper from my PhD has just been published in Schizophrenia Bulletin! 🎉Using electronic health record data from 567 individuals at CHR for psychosis to look at associations between benzodiazepine exposure and clinical outcomes 💊 doi.org/10.1093/schbul…

Check out our new paper on perceived #misdiagnosis of psychiatric conditions in #autistic adults 👇

📢New study on autistic adults' experience of social timing!📢

Are you interested in sharing your experiences of social timing? We would love to hear from you.

Participants can enter a prize draw to win £50: bit.ly/_social_timing

Please share this advert!

New #openaccess paper led by the brilliant Lucy Waldren now out in CORTEX #Neurodiversity Special Issue!

“Unpacking the overlap between Autism and ADHD in adults: A multi-method approach”

doi.org/10.1016/j.cort…

Advance notice: Charlcombe Lane will be closed (except for residents access) between 12 Feb and 25 March for the annual amphibian migration, as hundreds of toads, frogs and newts cross the road to their breeding ground 🐸 #toadpatrols

#AskingAutistics - I’m looking for #autistic people to help shape my PhD #research into compensation in #autism .

Engagement will be financially reimbursed and will consist of ~5 meetings, each 30 mins to 1 hour long.

Interested? 👉bit.ly/compensation_C…

RTs appreciated

Happy New Year and Happy New Preprint! 🎉Excited to share the 2nd paper from my PhD - looking at the effects of the GABA-enhancing drug diazepam 💊 on hippocampal hyperactivity 🧠⬆️ in people at clinical high-risk for psychosis. Some exciting results! medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

It's appalling that waiting lists for an autism assessment in England have risen by 50% in just one year. The number of people potentially struggling without the right help and support in their daily lives could now fill Twickenham Stadium twice – nearly 160,000 people. (1/4)

Happy Chanukah to my Jewish friends and family 🕎 ❤️

Interested in how a #healthpsychology approach can help us better understand #mentalhealth outcomes in #autism ?

Apply to the KCL MRC DTP PhD programme, Oct 2024 start, project supervised by myself & Joe Chilcot KCL Psychology Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

kcl-mrcdtp.com/project/a-biop…

I had a few things to say about the BBC and Hamas on BBC Politics Live.

In every crisis, children’s rights are always an afterthought

'From everything you've seen & heard, do you think that Hamas are or are not a terrorist organisation?'

All British Adults

'They are terrorists' 66%
'They are not terrorists' 6% <-- BBC

YouGov

Counting down now to the fundraising Yorkshire marathon for the #EllieKempleyScholarship MMI London - good luck Ben Kempley and your team of merry runners - can anyone help us meet target - nearly there?
YorkshireMarathon
gofundme.com/f/ellie-kemple…

The endless justifications of atrocity on here would elsewhere be called: victim-blaming. But Jews, because of the deeply embedded association of this one minority with power, cannot be victims. They must always be held in some way responsible for their own misfortune.

Horrific, no words.

Amazing free resource from the wonderful Uta Frith & Chris Frith - their new book on social cognition The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monog…

Are you a parent of a young person (13-17yrs) with Developmental Language Disorder? We are seeking young people to interview about their experiences of camouflaging/masking. More information here! york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6V…

Such a pleasure last week, to attend and present my data from UCL IOE Psychology and Human Development at the #CogDev conference with daughter Dr Lucy Livingston - so lucky to have shared interests BPS Developmental BPSCognitive