Huge congratulations to our amazing DTP reps Hadeeqa, Samna Sagadevan Ravinder Bhardwaj and Chloe Clifford for their event organisation and ensuring the whole event ran smoothly #MRCImpact24 🥳🎉👏

🧵Anyone else still on a #AIMImpact24 high🙂Thank you once again to everyone who attended and made the event such a success. It was fantastic to hear about the amazing research our DTP students are involved with, to see and hear from some of our alumni and to network ....

In 2022 at the student symposium, I presented how many delays were occurring in this project and that we had just started recruitment. Yesterday I presented some exciting results. A PhD has high and lows and this talk was definitely a high point.

Super happy to have another chapter of my #thesis published! 🤩🤩 We looked for associations between cytokines & transdiagnostic dimensions of symptoms & experiences (PEs) along the psychosis #continuum bit.ly/3URfFEZ Camila Loureiro USP Ribeirão Preto Agência FAPESP Cambridge University Press

Interesting morning Uni of Birmingham at launch of Wolfson Research Centre for Youth Mental Health brilliantly led by @matthewrbroome Important and fascinating research - with direct practical application ranging from schools to conflict zones.

Excited to announce that the protocol for Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia (AMP® SCZ) study is now online: tinyurl.com/3hymnbys @ScottWoods01 Patrick McGorry Kelly Allott Michael Harms Justin Baker John Torous, MD MBI Phillip Wolff cheryl corcoran @EveLewandowski

Thank you Schizophrenia International Research Society for another successful conference & great time spent with wonderful colleagues during our immunopsychiatry symposia - that’s 3 in a row 🤩🤩 ! 🧪 🧫 👩🏻‍🔬 #SIRS2024 Meyer Lab UZH The Vernon Lab Cattaneo Biopsy Lab Paola Dazzan Agência FAPESP USP Ribeirão Preto Academic Chatter™

I would love it if someone studied the physical toll a PhD has on a person. Many of my PhD friends (and me) are dealing with chronic pain conditions or recurrent health issues (UTIs, Infections, Kidney stones) that started after we joined the program. It's very sus. #phdlife

‼️Our latest paper Biological Psychiatry‼️ Is anhedonia a potential transdiagnostic phenotype in recent onset disorders? Paris Lalousis Rachel Upthegrove MBE Aanya Malaviya & PRONIA Project ➡️Machine learning classified an anhedonic subgroup ass. immune-related changes. 🧵🪡 biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-…

EXERCISE4PSYCHOSIS! Delighted to announce that the main project of my PhD, investigating the effects of regular exercise on inflammatory biomarkers in first-episode psychosis, is PUBLISHED! Find here, in Brain, Behaviour, and Immunity: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A real pleasure being invited to deliver a keynote Aston Institute of Health & Neurodevelopment (IHN). Great to hear about the important translational work being carried out by colleagues across the city! Co-Stars research project The Institute for Mental Health (IMH) School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. #impact #translation #healthequity #CoProduction

My paper is finally out. 🥳🥳 We here showed that the lateralized volume of caudate and globus pallidus are correlated with attention-modulated alpha oscillations.

Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health. A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion

STOP PRESS! Registration for MEG-UKI is now CLOSED HOWEVER Due to a last-minute venue change, several extra tickets have become available for QMAG (physics of OPMs) and QMEG (neuroscience of OPMs). Apply now! This will close again soon! uobevents.eventsair.com/meguki/registr…

📢 Webinar Series: The Impact of Sleep on New Parents 💤 Are you an expectant parent, parent or professional and want to learn more about the basics of new parent sleep and its impacts. Four public webinars, free to attend online, and led by Andrew Surtees and myself.

📢 Webinar 1 - Basics of New Parent Sleep: What Changes? 🕓 Monday, 18th November 2024 | 16:00-16:30 📍Online, Zoom Link to register: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regist… Andrew Surtees

😍MEG-UKI 2024 is happening!😍 Here's Andrew Quinn welcoming everyone to our first session. We're so excited to have all our delegates, speakers and exhibitors all in one place. We hope you enjoy the next two days!

A few tips for new PhDs -Academia is part of your life but not your life -If you fail today, tomorrow is a new day to start again -Remember to self care, sleep enough & stay healthy -Maintain human relationships -Relax and enjoy over weekends

📣 REMINDER 📣 Our first webinar is happening next week! Join us online to learn more about the basics of new parent sleep 💤 🕓 Monday, 18th November 2024 | 16:00-16:30 📍Online, Zoom Link to register: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regist… Andrew Surtees

Delighted to announce that last week I successfully defended my PhD ✅! A very proud and special moment for myself I’d like to thank The Vernon Lab and Simon Rosenbaum for such thought provoking discussions about all things psychosis, brains in dishes, and inflammation 🧠 🔥