The Mediterranean Maudsley Forum offers an outstanding educational and networking opportunity. Join us in Palermo for an update on the social, psychological, and biological aspects of mental health conditions.

Wow! New large RCT published in The Lancet Psychiatry finds 'exercise therapy should be implemented in outpatient mental health care as an adjunctive
transdiagnostic treatment'

Huge congrats Sebastian Wolf et al, look forward to reading this!

thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

We place hi hopes in digital wellness & d-health, in Psych & #BehavioralCardiology . Need 2move beyond enthus &marketing. In this superb JAMA Psychiatry Viewpoint, John Torous, MD MBI, Simon Goldberg, PhD, Physical-Mental Health Manchester argue to sharply focus on evidence of benefit & harm.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Royal College of Psychiatrists Rajesh Mohan🌈 British Society of Lifestyle Medicine Vidyamala Burch OBE Dr Hussain Al-Zubaidi This is a GREAT development!

Momentum from big pieces such as our World Psychiatric Association (WPA) wpanet.org guidelines on lifestyle psychiatry onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wp… Physical-Mental Health Manchester 🙌🏼

Huge thanks - delighted to take up this important position with NIHR RDN. Look forward to connecting with all stakeholders to see how we can continue to develop capacity and embed research delivery into the wider Mental Health system.

Our latest piece in JAMA Psychiatry on the Digital Tech Dichotomy of Wellness vs. Health John Torous, MD MBI & Simon Goldberg, PhD
Need for:
-Rigorous trials & usage data
-Clear health vs. wellness distinctions
-Replicable & mechanistic findings
-Equity & enhanced access

doi.org/10.1001/jamaps…

'Although wellness products are not inherently safe and medical ones not inherently efficacious, a common challenge unites them...' Simon Goldberg, PhD, Physical-Mental Health Manchester, and I share in 'Digital Mental Health’s Unstable Dichotomy—Wellness and Health' in JAMA Psychiatry jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

NEW: Very high post-covid pandemic rates of physical inactivity and severe mental health burden in Ugandan adolescents attending a private school: mental health pandemic should be health priority in LMICs tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.298…

Joseph Firth at #EPA2024 on how the ever-evolving online world is transforming mental health & care. Look out for our upcoming paper in June issue of World Psychiatry
Physical-Mental Health Manchester

💡 Join us in Room F1-F2-F3 and online now for an unmissable State of the Art lecture: “The Ever-Evolving Online World: Exploring Pros & Cons for Mental Healthcare” with Speaker Joseph Firth (United Kingdom).

Join us online: tinyurl.com/Virtual-Portal

#MentalHealth #DigitalHealth …

“Lifestyle Interventions in Schizophrenia: Evidence and Novel Methods of Implementation” - Joseph Firth 🇬🇧 2/

This unique cohort study followed adolescents from all across Finland for 45 years!! and showed that adolescent cardiorespiratory fitness is a marker of the future workforce of a population. Just published, free access, have a look at it👇

Are you a mental health researcher interested in early intervention in psychosis or youth mental health in low - and middle income countries? Only few days left to apply for this amazing opportunity. Apply NOW. Please disseminate
👇see below jobs.ac.uk/job/DGK855/res… #jobsacuk

Just now news of a new FDA clearance for an app for depression -> Otsuka’s digital treatment for depression cleared by FDA, as pharma tries to crack tricky market statnews.com/2024/04/01/ots… via STAT Mario Aguilar

Really insightful thread by Nicholas Fabiano, MD, with lots of solid evidence behind each important point.
Great work in bringing more attention to the urgent need for improving physical healthcare in the treatment of mental health conditions

Grant submitted with a powerhouse team to co-develop a system-wide physical activity intervention for MH in
underserved youth #Brum
#team #CoMAPPA Dr Adam Benkwitz Physical-Mental Health Manchester Katarzyna Karolina Machaczek Dr Joht Singh Chandan & Partners Sport Birmingham Aston Villa Foundation BSMHFT NHS Mental Health Bham City Council The Institute for Mental Health (IMH)

Really enjoyed the talks at this morning's UoM Biology, Medicine and Health Digital Health Research Showcase Glen Martin Norina Gasteiger, PhD Dr Lisa Riste Richard Williams Tracey Farragher Translation Manchester Physical-Mental Health Manchester Digital Futures UoM UoM Primary Care

Such an amazing study, and even more so as mindLAMP digital phenotyping data is being collected at over 40 sites across the world in many languages. And you can access the data today: nda.nih.gov/ampscz
Paper: academic.oup.com/schizophreniab…,

11 reasons why we’ve stayed in academia
“Although many postdocs and faculty members are leaving for industry or elsewhere, these researchers tell us why they love the academic life”

nature.com/articles/d4158…

Just published in JMIR Publications 🔥 .

Non-conclusive evidence found regarding the impact of eHealth interventions on physical activity, but the very low certainty of evidence suggests that these interventions may reduce sedentary time in children and adolescents.

Led by Irene Sequi-Dominguez.