Another chance to apply for this exciting funded PhD studentship looking at eating disorders in the BiB Age of Wonder cohort. With me and the most excellent Dr Helen Bould Francesca Solmi
Deadline 20th May
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Proud of my former student Alexander L. Chu 朱景行 who has been selected for internal medicine residency Brigham and Women's Medicine Residents

Alex researched inflammation & depressive symptoms for his Masters thesis Cambridge University, published in BrainBehavImm 👇

Well done, Alex 👏

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Summer School applications are OPEN 🚨

Join us this summer for four days of talks, demonstrations, and interactive sessions on brain disorder research at our world-leading centre🔍🌍

📅 8 - 11 July 2024
📍 Cardiff University
🔗 Apply now: cardiff.ac.uk/centre-neurops…

UK #MentalHealth Facts:

🎯 Poverty and ill health are connected. That includes mental illness.

🎯 NHS mental health services are not overrun by the worried well. NHS is struggling to provide decent care for people with severe, debilitating mental illness.

Facts matter!

We've launched new funding to support researchers of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage in the UK to stay in research and advance their careers.
💰 £200,000 per researcher
🗓️ Up to two years
✅ Apply by 18 June

Find out more ⤵️
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Minoritised communities are underrepresented in UK research – particularly those of Black, Bangladeshi or Pakistani heritage.

We've launched new funding to help address this ⤵️ [1/3]

IL-6 is a much researched & important immune protein. In this study, we apply a new measure:

IL-6 bioavailability derived from serum levels of three proteins involved in IL-6 signaling.

Great work from MRC IEU PhD student Éimear M. Foley 👏

#immunopsychiatry University of Bristol

👀 Watch this space 👀

New social media training course by The Mental Elf coming soon!

Do you work with secondary schools to support student mental health? We want to hear from you!
🌟Focus group in Bristol Bricks on 19 March
🌟£30 voucher + travel expenses paid
🌟Inform a new art and wellbeing programme for schools!
Register/Info👉shorturl.at/qvOU4

📢 Pioneering new Mental Health Platform Hub secures £4.3m to advance understanding, diagnosis & treatment of severe mental illness 🧠💡

The SW² Hub brings together GW4 Alliance & Swansea University researchers, w/ partners Adferiad & Bipolar UK:

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Discriminatory attitudes regarding severe mental illness remain in the UK, distracting us from a disturbing reality—the UK's mental health services are in crisis.

On the cover, our Editorial—Severe mental illness in the UK: a crisis of compassion buff.ly/3UGJB6w

🔥 Do immune pathways causally affect psychiatric conditions? 🔥 Could they be new treatment targets?

Check out our most extensive proteo-genomic study to date of 735 immune related proteins & 7 conditions (SCZ, BPD, MDD, ANX, ADHD, Autism, Alzheimers).

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

🎺We offer two unique clinical scientist positions for German-speaking docs at
LMU Section for Precision Psychiatry. 50% clinical work in the early recognition service, 50% research work using #ArtificialIntelligence to generate diagnostic and prognostic tools for precision psychiatry.

We are building a rehabilitation centre for children with disability in Bangladesh.

To read more and donate 👇

Please re-post 🙏

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📢New project alert!
George Nava is looking at Children of the 90s data to see if a childhood asthma diagnosis can be linked to #anxiety / #depression in adulthood (and vice-versa).
Another collab between our #Respiratory disease + #MentalHealth themes!
Project page tinyurl.com/yck722zf

Our newest paper, out in PLOS ONE today, found that people living with #overweight or #obesity are more vulnerable to weight gain after experiencing increased feelings of #depression . 🔗journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
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🧐Our #MentalHealth and #Respiratory themes are investigating the link between asthma and changes to brain structure and function

🆕project on our website led by George Nava, James Dodd with Golam Khandaker + Christina Dardani

Project info👉tinyurl.com/2anrvnry

Development of a human genetics-guided priority score for 19,365 genes and 399 drug indications nature.com/articles/s4158…