This is an excellent, in-depth paper about adolescent mental health and social media, with the kind of detail we need to move the field forward. To understand the impact of social media use (good and bad), we need to understand adolescent psychosocial development

Enjoyed this funny and accurate piece on the “shoppy shop” grubstreet.com/2023/01/why-ev…

.. now where can I buy some more gourmet tinned fish?🐟 🫒

🚨New 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗧 🚨
Depression in #Parkinson 's disease (PD) is common, disabling & hard to treat.

We (Jon Roiser 🟣 Robert Howard anette schrag Yumeya Yamamori) report a key cognitive mechanism associated with PD #depression & novel treatment target:
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Evening traffic on the south west coastal path! #Cornwall

It's been a great morning of talks at our #ParkinsonsMentalHealth Hub Re-launch.

We heard from people with Parkinson's, as well as experts in Mental Health and neurology about the impact of Mental Health issues for patients and education opportunities available for professionals

The COMMEND trial shows that Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a psychological therapy that can be delivered remotely, improves quality of life in people with #ALS #MND

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Led by the wonderful Becky Gould, we show Acceptance and Commitment Therapy improves quality of life in people with MND. Open access in Lancet today. Wonderful to be part of a trial with a positive result for once! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

There’s little point in training more doctors if they’re all fighting to get on a Windows XP that is ceaselessly restarting to install important updates.

My piece in today's The Guardian
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Some enjoyable nuggets this week

- reading Caledonian Road (Andrew O’Hagan)
- A&E department camaraderie
- new cycle route to work.. Waterloo Bridge never fails to make me smile nor “gets old”

Beautifully written and thought provoking. IMO auditory-verbal hallucinations require the belief that it is possible to have AVHs! The phenomenal quality of AVHs evolves from initially, external and voice-like to something different (a thought? eves-dropping a conversation?)

If we do not look after healthcare staff they cannot look after their patients. We’ve learned that lesson the hard way. The ending of NHS Practitioner Health is a backwards step and a false economy. Really hard to make sense of this move. Read this 🧵 from Clare Gerada

Withdrawing this key mental health service for doctors (who need to be well enough to provide same to our patients) - is an inexplicable decision.

Plainly put: I manage mental health services and need well doctors.

I've signed - thank you Dr Rachel Clarke for publicising.

This is disastrous, hideous news. NHS England are hacking back the mental health support for hospital staff. One doctor takes their life every three weeks. One nurse takes their life every single week. These numbers will now INCREASE. Victoria Atkins - please do the right thing.

an incredible person and inspiration, 'speak the truth, come together, we can overcome impossible odds'. RIP Jenny

Interesting article on loneliness, featuring research by Livia Tomova on how loneliness affects the brain and mind

nature.com/articles/d4158…

What's the temporal relationship between depression and Parkinson's disease?

There's a lot of good stuff in this fantastic paper from Jamie Badenoch et al. in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, but this figure is extremely interesting.

jnnp.bmj.com/content/early/…

Fantastic work by Jamie Badenoch and the team Centre for Preventive Neurology

Neuroanatomical and prognostic associations of depression in Parkinson’s disease jnnp.bmj.com/content/early/…

Zadie Smith on what ‘freedom’ means .. great train listening with Annie Mac

“Having people who mean something to you, who you have duties towards is not unfreedom. It is freedom. It's actual existence.. To be free of meaning is not freedom.”