New grant funded by UCL UCL Grand Challenges starts today as part of work addressing the cognitive availability of #suicide. Restricting cognitive access to suicide: development & proof-of-concept testing of a cognitive restriction intervention to dissuade suicide attempts by hanging

Many interventions for parents of children with intellectual disability have a large positive impact on parent-child relationship, and also gains on child social skills, communication and language New meta-analysis by Freya Westlake UCL Psychiatry shorturl.at/a4Glp

Excited to be giving the next instalment of the UCL Lunch hour lecture on 10th Oct (online) The lunch hour lectures are a long running UCL tradition (82nd year!!) and I used to love attending them when I was a PhD student. Never thought I'd be asked to give one but here we go!!!

Low levels of contact when referred or waiting and low levels of therapy offered to families and children with a learning disability in LD CAMHS: findings from our NIHR-funded study Angela Hassiotis ([email protected]) Michael Absoud The Challenging Behaviour Foundation | BJPsych Bulletin | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3BJY6Pu

Our group in Gothenburg is looking for a postdoctor. You'd mainly be doing IPD meta analysis and/or working with registry data. I.e., lots of data analysis. Get in touch if you - or someone you know - is interested! web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/…

On #WorldMenopauseDay, we highlight the UK’s first menopause education & support network by UCL researchers. 'InTune' boosts menopause awareness through accessible education & support, led by Joyce Harper, Dr Shema Tariq Legacy Account (on LinkedIn) & NickyKeayFitness. buff.ly/4eO6TP7

Come work with us! Francesca Solmi

New blog written by Ruth Pearce on our new paper investigating microaggressions and trans mental health. Ruth does a brilliant job at highlighting the findings in a meaningful way and with a touch of humour too! ruthpearce.net/2024/10/31/new… Alexandra Pitman Dr Gemma Lewis Talya Greene

A new £9 million UK Research and Innovation Economic and Social Research Council Centre for Life Course Health Equity, which is focused on tackling and reducing health inequalities in the UK, will be led by experts at UCL including Professor Yvonne Kelly and Professor Anne McMunn UCL IEHC ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/nov/…

🚨✍️ New paper alert! And it's a particularly topical one, because it's about the impact of tuition fees on graduates' mental health. emerald.com/insight/conten…

New #PhD opportunity Suicide and Self-Harm Research, Bristol looking at protective factors for #selfharm - 4 years of funding - Great supervisory team & supportive research group - Apply by 4pm on 13th December - more details here: shorturl.at/1NxUO

Antidepressant discontinuation symptoms: what do the data really tell us? nationalelfservice.net/?p=206622 New review says: ‣ 8-14% of patients will experience antidepressant discontinuation symptoms ‣ For around 2% these symptoms will be severe #Antidepressants #Discontinuation

Very useful new blog by Dr Gemma Lewis & Glyn Lewis from UCL Psychiatry, summarising a recent review in The Lancet Psychiatry by Jonathan Henssler, Yannick Schmidt, Urszula Schmidt, Guido Schwarzer, Tom Bschor, Christopher Baethge

Team from UCL Psychiatry #DRISP UK College of Social Work Yanakan Logeswaran #KeltieMcDonald Julie Cerel Dr Gemma Lewis Annette Erlangsen Alexandra Pitman. This UCL Institute of Mental Health blog provides more context to our findings & links to other material on this topic ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/new…

Come and work with us! We are hiring two psychology assistants to work on our adolescent depression prevention trial at the Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health. See Cardiff University vacancy 19395BR. Please RT.

Excited to be recruiting a Senior Peer Research Coordinator (qual) to support our new Wellcome-funded project on gender inequalities in youth mental health! Will be based The McPin Foundation & with me at ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health HSPRD IOPPN. Deadline 21st Mar 9am 👉 tinyurl.com/yc3vc327

Congrats to our DoP colleagues on their 2024–25 promotions (effective 01 October 2025)! 🌟 👏Dr Gemma Lewis Prof of Psychiatric Epidemiology 👏Andrew Sommerlad Prof of Old Age Psychiatry 👏Dr Nicola White Principal Research Fellow Full list: tinyurl.com/y2mx4epc

Important study & big step forward for treatment-resistant #depression. 48wk RCT, #pramipexole showed ~4-point QIDS-SR benefit over placebo. Less hype, but bigger effects than psychedelic trials, for a scalable option that’s available to clinicians now. thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

The last date for booking in for the UCL Men Talking About Suicide study is now 17/7/25. Funded by UCL Grand Challenges, we are recruiting UK-based men aged 40 to 65 years to find out what they think of our 1-min video. Click on this link to read more redcap.idhs.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=7W4…

Our new review on antidepressant withdrawal led by Michael Kalfas Sameer Jauhar Estimates similar to ANTLER trial where ~75% had been on antidepressants for >3 years & were followed for 12 months Variability around this estimate - 3% of people experience severe withdrawal