#TrialsTuesday #10 What temperature is best for a premature baby? This month’s Trials Tuesday answered this question 70 years ago and it continues to be cited by Cochrane Reviews when discussing the benefits of reducing heat loss in preterm babies. 1/8 www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

This is the extraordinary story of a British invention, funded by the taxpayer, that's been widely adopted pretty much everywhere except here. It has huge potential for people whose lives have been blighted by difficult-to-treat #depression. And it will likely save costs in the long term.

The Mental Elf@thementalelf.bsky.social · 4w ago

Join our FREE Mental Elf webinar next Wednesday 15th at 12 noon. Recovery from #Depression: TMS is ready to go and can save the country money 🎤Lived experience 🔬Clinical evidence 💷Economic evaluation 💼Building the business case www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recovery-f...

I've been looking into #TMS for difficult-to-treat #depression, and frankly gobsmacked that this (effective, benign, cost-effective, NICE-recommended, British-invented) treatment isn't more widely available here. Our free webinar on 15th July will explore how to build the business case in the #NHS

Belief, effectiveness and the placebo effect. In the latest James Lind Library article, Racha Kirakosian and colleagues review the role of belief and expectations in the effectiveness of treatments, and trace its roots back to medieval illustration. www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/the...

I’ve got the Mental Elf BlueSky handle today, reporting from #AMHDMshowcase Six years of interdisciplinary funding, 33 projects and loads of innovative methods for putting young people in the driving seat for commissioning, designing and delivering #research Join me 👇

The Mental Elf@thementalelf.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Back in 2019, the MRC, AHRC & ESRC invested £35m to support research into how mental health problems emerge in young people, what makes some more susceptible than others, and how we can intervene early to promote positive mental health & wellbeing. #AMHDMshowcase www.ukri.org/what-we-do/b...

Looking forward to working with you @romasaleh.bsky.social ! #AMHDMshowcase will feature dozens of projects and the fruits of lots of great youth involvement work. I’ll be posting from @thementalelf.bsky.social throughout. Lucky you!

The Mental Elf@thementalelf.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Follow #AMHDMshowcase on 11-12 Feb 2026 for a smorgasbord of youth mental health research findings 👇🏽 @dbadenoch.bsky.social will be reporting live here on Bluesky and @romasaleh.bsky.social will being taking over our Instagram for some youth involvement coverage! Can't wait 🥰

Full body scan stories are like catnip for some journalists. They boast of waiting lines of 100,000, driving up demand. But evidence? Not so much. open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...

Too much glitz, too little evidence, in full body scan stories

How new screening tests get free and glowing publicity

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Let’s reach everyone interested in mental health across our communities with the message that they can build a career in mental health research. It’s #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and the theme this year is COMMUNITY. #MentalHealthResearch #MentalHealthCareers 🧵 THREAD youtu.be/jvnVWTPzlDw?...

Supporting community-based and early-career researchers to work in mental health

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I've been fretting for some time about "what happens when they find out what PubMed does?" It's great to hear that there are concerted efforts underway to create alternatives. They need our support. Many thanks @hildabast.bsky.social for highlighting this.

Hilda Bastian@hildabast.bsky.social · last yr.

This is so exciting! The German National Library of Medicine @zbmed.bsky.social just had its first open meeting on the plan for an open & independent PubMed safety net. Here's my write-up @plos.org on the meeting & how institutions & others can help absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/g... #MedLibs

When do universal school mental health interventions cause harm, and why? Carolina Guzman-Holst discusses these questions in the below podcast - please share with interested parties changingstatesofmind.libsyn.com/first-do-no-... Our scoping review on this topic: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40101758/

Psychology in the Classroom: First do no harm: Universal Mental Health Interventions in Schools

Summary In this episode is a NIHR Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, discusses her recent paper titled   Where the authors ‘examine three areas: the types of potential harms and advers...

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Our new paper!! Led by @drpauldijkstra.bsky.social with @jessrmorley.bsky.social and awesome medical student Yosra Mekki. #digitalhealth #medsky #episky How to Read a Paper Involving AI. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/...

How to read a paper involving artificial intelligence (AI)

This paper guides readers through the critical appraisal of a paper that includes the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical settings for healthcare delivery. A brief introduction to the diff...

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Discussed here sciencebasedmedicine.org/misinformati...

Misinformation Doctors Start a Misinformation Journal to Spread Misinformation

There is no doubt the "studies" in this journal will conclude We Want Them Infected doctors were right about everything the whole time; mitigation measure were an epic catastrophe while COVID was a ha

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Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.

You may have seen that the incoming NIH director and his buddies started a new journal, The Journal of the Academy of Public Health (One clue: There is no recognized Academy of Public Health) www.science.org/content/arti...

🎧 We're getting ready for the 2025 #IoPPNfestival & chatting with the keynote speakers for our podcast. Ep. 1 features Prof Edmund Sonuga-Barke from @kingsioppn.bsky.social talking to @dbadenoch.bsky.social about RE-STAR: Regulating Emotions – Strengthening Adolescent Resilience

Edmund Sonuga-Barke: RE-STAR - multidisciplinary adventure in participatory translational science

Welcome to the 2025 IoPPN Research Festival Podcast! In this first episode, we hear from Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke, a leading expert in developmental psy...

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Next Tuesday, I'm giving a talk at UCL about the downsides of mental health awareness in schools. I'll be sharing the work I've been doing over the last two years, which explores the negative effects that universal mental health interventions can have in schools (thread)

Quetiapine may pip lithium to the augmentation post in 'treatment resistant depression': results from the LQD study buff.ly/Y7jCajZ #LQDstudy #Quetiapine #Lithium #Depression #RCT 🧵 THREAD

Calling all mental health researchers! Do you need some #ElfHelp from The Mental Elf? 🌳🌤️🍄 This year we have been commissioned by many mental health research groups to help them disseminate their new research. We know how difficult it can be for researchers to get their work out there. 🧵 THREAD

Dr. Jen Gunter dissects 2 women’s health issues in which marketing has outraced science - “hair wellness” nutraceutical & “the menopause estrogen face cream epidemic.” garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/marketing-...

Marketing outpacing science on 2 women's health issues

"Hair wellness" nutraceutical & "the menopause face cream epidemic"

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The Parent Carer Research Network, in partnership with Mental Health in Development at the University of Oxford, is here. We welcome any #parents or #carers interested in getting involved in #research to improve children and young people's #MentalHealth. parentcarerresearchnetwork.org.uk

Seems like a good idea. Will probably need public subscription, like how they used to build libraries the last time the robber barons ran the show.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is a great initiative, that we should all support. I've donated. Will you? freeourfeeds.com

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Awais Aftab@awaisaftab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants” British journalists and editors, this is for you www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/dummies-gu...

Call for papers on #AI in #EvidenceSynthesis: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods

<em>Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods</em> is an open access journal aiming to improve how we publish and share evidence synthesis in health and social care.

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Peer support in mental health webinar 2.00-4.30pm GMT, Mon 20 Jan Tickets going fast! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peer-suppo... With @soniajohnson1.bsky.social @acgrundy.bsky.social Steve Gillard, Una Foye, Ruth Cooper, Natasha Lyons & Members of the UCL Co-Production Collective.

Peer Support in Mental Health webinar: Evidence, Experiences & Insights

Explore the role of peer support in mental health & gain fresh insights into the current national landscape, guided by compelling research.

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Not until we've discovered a better method for determining the effects of interventions. The issue is applicability. These findings show we need better critical appraisal and trial design, not fewer RCTs. "Is my patient so different that these results cannot help them?"

The Mental Elf@thementalelf.bsky.social · 2y ago

Will this ADHD medication help my patient? Bridging the gap between efficacy & effectiveness https://buff.ly/4h4Df8Y Is it time to reconsider the value we place on RCTs when they do not include the vast majority of people who need help? #ADHD #Medication #RCTs #ClinicalTrials #RealWorldResearch

Not exactly news, but well-researched evidence is always welcome.

David Rand@dgrand.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨In Nature🚨 Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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CASP UK@caspuk.bsky.social · 2y ago

⏰CASP Train the Trainer is back! We are so looking forward to meeting participants face-to-face again. Taking place in Oxford 19-21 May 2025. To be the first to hear more - register your interest here: form.jotform.com/242912013604344 Limited places available 🎓