Our latest paper in Journal of Neurology a case control study highlights 2 times higher mortality in repeat ED atendees with seizures with co-morbid substance misuse than not! other risks-being younger, male, deprived, not compliant & service disengaged link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Dr. Russell Barkley, researcher on ADHD: ‘Your child is not a blank slate on which you get to write’ Great speech for current and future parents👏

Our team are celebrating a successful randomisation to one of our commercial drug trials this week! We love being able to offer patients new treatment options in Cornwall Richard Laugharne Joanna ledger Dannii Bilkey

📣Bookings now open for the SW Division Annual Dinner on 16 November. We look forward to welcoming CTs, Members and Fellows to the Village Hotel Bristol! Join us for what promises to be an enjoyable evening ➡️ bit.ly/3OBWlbl #RCPsychSWAutumn Richard Laugharne Professor Rohit Shankar

Samuel Tromans Regi Alexander Bhathika Perera Brain in Hand Richard Laugharne Ashok Roy

Our new paper in Journal of Neurology doi.org/10.1007/s00415… is a case-control study on rapid switching from levetiracetam to brivaracetam in pharmaco-resistant epilepsy in people with & without intellectual disabilities. It opens up new possibilities to improve epilepsy in ID

📣⏰Calling all trainees, SAS and specialty doctors in the south west: don't forget £100 awaits the winning entry of our Divisional Poster Prize. Entries close 25 September, 9am. For further details and how to enter submission➡️bit.ly/3JXQsCE #RCPyschSWAutumn

The SW Division of the RCPsych is having its Biannual Meeting on November 17th in Bristol: trainees, please apply for the poster prizes!!

"There is no clinical case for providing palliative care to patients with eating disorders, if the only problem is the eating disorder", Agnes Ayton 💙, Vice Chair of the RCPsych Eating Disorders Faculty tells The Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/0…

CIDER Research CFT Research Richard Laugharne Professor Dan Goodley Speak Up! NIHR CRN South West Peninsula ESRC Humanising Healthcare Project Peninsula Medical School excellent work done by Ms Ruth Bishop 😀 Sarah Ben Hyams 〓〓

Delighted that gameChange has been recommended by NICE for use in the NHS as we gather more data. The first VR therapy recommended for mental health treatment in the NHS. Oxford Health NHS FT Oxford Health NHS FT Oxford Psychiatry oxfordhealthbrc.nihr.ac.uk/virtual-realit…

Our latest publication in the Journal of Psychiatric Research is of the 1st RCT in the community mental health team setting for EMDR for psychosis. It suggests this is a potential treatment. Richard Laugharne Joanna ledger CFT Research FREE ACCESS & DOWNLOAD sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations Professor Rohit Shankar, Richard Laugharne, Christopher James and colleagues, great to see this as an output from discussions at the N-CODE Study Group 2023.

Our new research paper looks at clinical characteristics & high risk factors of people with intellectual disability admitted to hospital with constipation: epilepsy 37%, 41% antiseizure medication & 45% laxatives - ?Iatrogenic harm Richard Laugharne CIDER Research onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Our new paper BJPsych Journals finds 42% of 181 people with intellectual disabilities (ID) r/w had chronic constipation.Risk factors include severe ID/dysphagia/CP/mobility/polypharmacy(antipsychotics & antiseizure med).FREE ACCESS & DOWNLOAD CIDER Research University of Plymouth bit.ly/3P46sVZ

Our constipation questionnaire for people with intellectual disabilities is now published with our paper on a community survey of constipation in 182 people with ID cambridge.org/core/journals/…

There is a Spring Biannual Meeting of the SW Division of the RCPsych on May 17th in Exeter. It is on psychiatric research in the south west and there will be excellent speakers from Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth….and Cornwall!! Please come along, it is always friendly and sociable!

Delighted to see our new paper on Recovery College effectiveness in improving mental illness published BJPsych Journals. One of the largest study done till date. Excellent work by Jon Allard Richard Laugharne & team👏 CFT Research CIDER Research doi.org/10.1192/bjo.20… FREE ACCESS/DOWNLOAD

Another paper BJPsych Journals! 2 same day!😀 1/3rd PwID have chronic constipation in their lifetime & a major factor for mortality. Laxatives lack evidence, over prescribed & under r/w in PwID. Our paper gives an evidence based approach FREE ACCESS/DOWNLOAD doi.org/10.1192/bjo.20…