Women’s mental health in Bipolar Disorder has long been underprioritized. On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the BD² Women’s Health Workgroup explores what inclusive research can unlock and how to better support and elevate women in the field 🧠📈
🔗 bit.ly/3M4CvXT
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If you are currently an undergraduate student at a British university do please consider helping with our research!
Short survey to see how #money #finances impact #mentalhealth and how connected you feel to #UniLife h
Thanks you!
#Uni #StudentLife
southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
🖥️ Watch or 🎧 listen to the @acamh.bsky.social podcast where I am speaking about our findings concerning the genetic and environmental overlap between subclinical #hypomania and 14 different psychiatric & neurodevelopmental diagnoses
@qmul-wiph.bsky.social @angelicaronald.bsky.social
Energized, driven, “on a high” – or edging towards something more serious? ⚡
This #MindtheKids episode explores how to tell the difference between healthy teenage intensity & something more problematic.
🎧 Listen: Energized or at risk? with @drhosang.bsky.social & Mark Tebbs. https://bit.ly/4a1Zomq
Come & join my #InternationalBipolarFoundation webinar on hypomania in young people. We've found that these symptoms are common in adolescents & are related to mental illnesses & their symptoms in adulthood. But how can we best support young people experiencing hypomania?
@qmul-wiph.bsky.social
📢 calling colleagues to participate or help with recruitment for study on #depression experienced by #neurodivergent young people
Specifically:
👩👧👦Parents/carers
💼Mental health professionals
See poster
@ehayashibara.bsky.social
@qmul-wiph.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social
🌅 Had a great morning filming the @acamh.bsky.social
podcast on our paper examining the phenotypic & aetiological overlap between subclinical hypomania with psychiatric & neurodevelopmental diagnoses. Podcast will be out in the New Year
@qmul-wiph.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social
*New paper* showing that subclinical #hypomania @ 18:
-sig linked to 14 psychiatric/neurodev diagnoses
-Highest genetic correlations: ADHD, drug & alcohol misuse
-Highest enviro correlations: psychosis, anorexia & bipolar
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@angelicaronald.bsky.social
On Monday we shared our @AttuneProject findings at a parliamentary roundtable focused on #YouthMentalHealth considering the power of the #arts & #gaming as interventions. @ksbhui.bsky.social
#CareerHighlight
@qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social @qmul-wiph.bsky.social
@eglawrence.bsky.social’s talk focused on her qualitative findings surrounding the psychosocial risk factors for physical multimorbidity among people with #psychosis
Proud supervisor moment: congratulations 🎉to @eglawrence.bsky.social for delivering her 1st conference talk before even finishing her PhD! Important findings & opportunities to shape services @rcpsych.bsky.social @ksbhui.bsky.social
@qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social @qmul-wiph.bsky.social
2) Final dissemination event for the @ukri.org funded Attune Project led by @ksbhui.bsky.social. We presented our work on #YouthAdversity & youth #MentalHealth through an #intersectional lens. Great discussions, collaboration & opportunity to impact change @laurahavers.bsky.social
1) Excited to be in Newport for @rcpsych.bsky.social annual congress talking about our work on physical multimorbidity patterns in #bipolar & #depression @pubmentalhealth.bsky.social @eglawrence.bsky.social @ksbhui.bsky.social
What a busy week! 2 conference presentations covering 2 very different but impactful areas of research. Thread🧵..
@qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social @qmul-wiph.bsky.social
So delighted to have presented my PhD work on psychosocial risk factors for physical multimorbidity in psychosis at the @rcpsych.bsky.social conference yesterday! Papers incoming 📝 @drhosang.bsky.social @ksbhui.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social
💡Interesting to read the list of the 10 most cited papers ever 📊 (as reported by @nature.com). Number 9 is the Braun & Clarke paper on using #thematic analysis in #psychology !
@bpsofficial.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A reminder about his event. @qmul-wiph.bsky.social
Enjoyed delivering a session yesterday focused on planning postdoctoral research journey for PhD students & early career researchers. What would your top tips be? @isbd4.bsky.social
🚨 New preprint from our lab explores a potential biological mechanism underlying the heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease 🧠 risk among individuals with bipolar disorder. Check it out here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #bipolardisorder #Alzheimers #aging #amyloid #epigenetics
📢New paper📢 led by Buse Durdurak showing longitudinal patterns of high & increasing #ADHD symptoms (in childhood & adolescence) sig associated with adult hypomanic symptoms shorturl.at/u85Pb
In collaboration with Steven Marwaha & Isabel Morales Muñoz @qmul-wiph.bsky.social
🗓️That time of year to deliver my favourite lecture! Includes moving clip 🎥 from brief documentary presented by @realadamdeacon.bsky.social @federicabiotti.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk
The London Genetics Network has arrived on Bluesky! Follow us here if you'd like @ldngenenet.bsky.social
🌟Excited about contributing to this year's CREST_BD
Ask Me Anything about #BipolarDisorder event on 19th March for World Bipolar Day. Post your questions & have them answered by international research, clinical & lived experience experts. Here's more info📄: shorturl.at/idOUe
The Early & Mid-Career committee at the International Society for #BipolarDisorders works to support colleagues working in the field at this career stage.
Key initiatives for clinicians include: in-person (at @isbd4.bsky.social) & remote training sessions 💻
📄Paper here: shorturl.at/KbWj3
