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Is it Possible To Identify Patients After Their First Hospitalization for a Psychotic Disorder Who Do Not Use Anti-Psychotics and are Not Later Rehospitalized? academic.oup.com/schizophreniab… Not based on this largish registry data

If preregistration is done even reasonably well, then researchers usually examine the data-theory distinction and clarify any issues even if only in their own minds (he said hopefully!)

PhD opportunity with us for candidates with a background in psychology or psychiatry/mental health and preferably a background or strong interest in AI and machine learning

Sad news about David Thomas. One of the best live bands I've witnessed was peak-period Pere Ubu (May 1978 the Marquee, London) supported by Nico. The audience was full of 70s luminaries including members of the Clash, Throbbing Gristle & others theguardian.com/music/2025/apr…

Important new meta-analysis ..."The evidence for CBT for depression in primary care appears poor, with most studies at high risk of bias, and a number of findings, such as the effects versus inactive controls, reflecting known biases in trial methodology"

Virtual Reality for the Treatment of Positive Symptoms of Psychosis: A Meta-Analysis of Trials link.springer.com/article/10.100… No significant effect for combined symptoms or for hallucinations, but a small significant effect for delusions

In the immortal words of the Likely Lads “The only thing to look forward to is the past”… Paranormal psychology as the avant garde

Suicide-focused psychological intervention (SFPI) for psychosis: a multicentre assessor-masked RCT in UK thelancet.com/journals/lanps… "SFPI did not reduce severity of suicidal ideation in people with non-affective psychosis & recent suicidal experiences more than treatment as usual."

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Mental Disorders in Adults: a unified series of Meta-Analyses jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap… "Probably effective in treatment [of] major depression, anxiety disorders, PTSD, OCD & eating disorders & possibly effective in psychotic and bipolar disorders"

Metacognitive training for psychosis (MCT): a systematic meta-review of its effectiveness nature.com/articles/s4139… Umbrella review has effect sizes at least as large or larger than those documented for CBTp in every symptom domain

Spotting false news & doubting true news: systematic review & meta-analysis nature.com/articles/s4156… "people are able to discern mainstream true news from fact-checked false news, but when they err, they tend to do so on the side of skepticism more than on the side of gullibility"

Mental health professionals (Nurses, OTs, Social workers, Psychiatrists, Psychologists). Do you find the concept of Insight in psychosis useful or not? Help us by completing this 5 min survey-part of a Masters' project at UCL qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_cC… Dr Mary Birken UCL Psychiatry

This sculptor finds deep weirdness – not divinity – in the human form psyche.co/videos/this-sc… I really enjoyed this video at Psyche magazine Psyche Magazine – especially hearing from the artist about his own intense feelings of self-consciousness and how they've inspired his work

I have a PhD opportunity working on a project called <Authoritarianism About Anything>. Click below to find out more, including about home student funding. linkedin.com/posts/tom-dick…

Our latest - From lockdown to Liberation: How inflexible thinking, obsessive-compulsive & affective symptoms shape pandemic adjustment sciencedirect.com/science/articl… OC traits & symptoms impacted adjustment via affect Poor adjusters exhibited inflexibility in reversal learning

Exposure Therapy in Mixed Reality for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: a Randomized Clinical Trial jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… MERP did not significantly reduce OCD symptom severity compared with an active control group (self-guided ERP)

Such sad news, but what a legacy & so pleased that I got to see Brian Wilson play the whole of Pet Sounds at the London Palladium. "God Only Knows" is of course a piece of transcendent pop & whenever it appears at the end of 'Boogie Nights', it is guaranteed to make me tearful

Medicinal Cannabis Use Among People with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Changes in Quality of Life After Three Months mdpi.com/2813-1851/4/2/… 3 months post-treatment, improvements in quality of life mood/depression, anxiety and sleep. Didn't assess OCD symptoms

Found myself listening to Rattus Norvegicus this week (first time in years) and then by synchronicity...I was just reminded that this is where I was on this very evening in 1977 (in the strident anti-punk ethos of that time, I also remember being attacked on my way home)