Thrilled that I passed my viva yesterday! Thank you SO much to my absolutely incredible supervisors Jane Maddock Prof Praveetha Patalay Prof Laura Vaughan I feel so lucky to have had their wisdom and support!

Our latest article, on anticholinergic medications, suggesting associations with reduced cognition persist even when exposure is reduced in midlife: rdcu.be/dHQWW (Drugs & Aging) Daniel Davis Prof Praveetha Patalay Wallis Lau #anticholinergics #geriatrics #dementia #cognition

Proximity to high streets, #socialisolation and social support in British #adolescents : A longitudinal analysis of #sociospatial influences on social #connectedness using #geospatial data Centre for Longitudinal Studies led by Charlotte Constable Fernandez sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Second paper from my PhD published! We explored proximity to high sts and social isolation & support in adolescents. Link below!

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Excited to share our new study The Lancet Healthy Longevity showing a mediating role of depressive symptoms, but not inflammation, in associations between social health markers (particularly social support) and subsequent cognition
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S26…
MRC LHA @ UCL

Excited to say I passed my PhD viva today with minor corrections!!! Massive thanks to my fantastic examiners Prof Sally McManus and Prof Cath Mercer for a lovely viva

Big thanks to everyone who joined yesterday's screening event! 🎥 Missed out? Catch the full film now Jorge Cuartas Philipp Hessel Tamar Mendelson Anthony Costello Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) Georg Schomerus Child Mind Institute Yadira Díaz Berk Özler Prof Praveetha Patalay youtube.com/watch?v=euwkKN…

Massive congrats to Tom Steare for winning the UCL ECR prize in Children and Young People’s #mentalhealth for one of his PhD papers!
Important illustration of differences across countries & the importance of wider context...

Read the paper here:
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You can read the original study here - #Suicidal thoughts, #suicide attempt and non-suicidal self-harm amongst #LGB adults compared with heterosexual adults link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Wels is a great colleague to work with and has a very important and interesting project lined up.... if you are interested in work and health or the social determinants of health, do check out these posts!!!

Please check out our latest paper!

Essential reading for anyone interested in one of the routes by which #mentalhealth gets undervalued and underresourced in our current systems.

thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

Well done James and team for publishing this important insight on how health economics values mental health. James Lathe MRC LHA @ UCL Prof Praveetha Patalay Richard Silverwood #mentalhealth #healtheconomics

📢 Call for abstracts for the International Symposium on 'Medically Assisted Reproduction: Health, Social, and Demographic Aspects'

📅16-18 September 2024
📌 Villa Vigoni, Lake Como, Italy

Pleased to share our latest @opensafely study on the impact of COVID-19 on mental illness. COVID-19 Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing Prof Praveetha Patalay Jonathan Sterne

Our paper looking at inequalities in adolescents' suicidal thoughts and behaviours according to food insecurity status across countries
Prof Praveetha Patalay Dr Gemma Lewis Alexandra Pitman
Kelly Rose-Clarke Sara Evans-Lacko - now published in
Journal of Adolescent Health

jahonline.org/article/S1054-…

(1/5) Our new paper in The Lancet Psychiatry led by Emma Blundell finds that children with higher BMI at 7 yrs have greater depressive symptoms at 14 yrs, but that >40% of this association is explained by body dissatisfaction at 11 yrs, particularly in girls. thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

🚨New research🚨 The second part of our project on #loneliness & social isolation looks at experiences in later life before & during the pandemic.

Explore key insights & implications from data analysis of 4 British longitudinal studies: whatworkswellbeing.org/blog/social-is…

Prof Praveetha Patalay

Excited to share my new article, Regulating Dark Patterns, forthcoming in NDJICL. Key theses and summary below: 1/8
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Deceptive Patterns, Aston's Research Centre for the Humanities, Aston Law School, AstonCentreForEurope

Really excited to be attending the HowTheLightGetsIn Festival next weekend

and participating in a panel with Simon Wessely and Aaron Bastani on #mentalhealth and society

howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/lond…

would be great to know if anyone else is going so can say hello...

Extraordinary to hear Steve Barclay on BBC Radio 4 Today this morning, arguing that doctors cannot be offered a fair pay deal to make up for the huge depreciation in wages over previous decades - because teachers are paid so little.
We should pay teachers more too!
Why should these