New research led by @ucddublin.bsky.social and @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, funded by SJOG Research Foundation, finds childhood ADHD treatment did not increase later psychosis risk — and may be protective when started before age 13. Read in full on bit.ly/4lO7Vik @iankellehermd.bsky.social

Is the link btwn Adolescent SSRI use & Bipolar Disorder causal? Our study suggests: 𝐍𝐨. When accounting for unmeasured confounding (e.g., depression severity) via Instrumental Variable analysis, the evidence for a causal link disappears. mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1... #Psychiatry #MedSky

Antidepressant treatment and risk of subsequent bipolar disorder in adolescents with unipolar depression

Background Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are a common treatment for depression and anxiety in adolescents but are associated with an increased incidence of bipolar disorder (BD). Whe...

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One in five young people in the UK now use mental health services by age 18. @the-independent.com eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

One in five young people now use mental health services by age 18

New research shows a fourfold increase in the numbers of young people using specialist mental health care in the last two decades

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What % of all kids in the UK come to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) at some stage in childhood (0 - 18)? 15 years ago, it was 1 in 17 children. Now it’s a pretty staggering 1 in 5 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New research using an emulated target trail approach with all adolescent CAMHs users in Finland suggesting that Doxycycline (an antibiotic) can reduces future risk of schizophrenia. Massive congrats to @iankellehermd.bsky.social @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social doi.org/10.1176/appi... More info ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Doxycycline Use in Adolescent Psychiatric Patients and Risk of Schizophrenia: An Emulated Target Trial | American Journal of Psychiatry

Objective: As many as half of individuals who develop psychosis had attended child and adolescent psychiatric services at some stage in childhood, highlighting substantial opportunities for prevention...

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We observed a significant increase in new eating disorder referrals to CAMHS in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. Interestingly, there was no evidence of changes in the patients' clinical, demographic, or deprivation profiles. Open access in #EatingBehaviors doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...

Out now: No evidence that SSRI treatment for adolescent depression reduces future risk of psychosis. This goes against the belief that typical treatments for common mental disorders will reduce the risk of psychosis. 💊🧠 15 min explainer podcast: youtu.be/wP3nuqSpWbo Paper: doi.org/10.1192/j.eu...

Can treating teenage depression prevent severe mental illness in adulthood?

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Out today in BJPsych: 45% of people with a psychotic or bipolar disorder attended CAMHS in Wales at some point in childhood/adolescence🧒 This replicates similar findings from Finland by @iankellehermd.bsky.social & co - showing this applies to UK CAMHS as well. doi.org/10.1192/bjp....

@iankellehermd.bsky.social and co previously demonstrated that ~50% of those with psychosis and bipolar disorder had been to CAMHs in Finland. That was no fluke, as they have now demonstrated that it's 45% in wales. Great work by @kirstieohare.bsky.social 👏 👏 Paper: doi.org/10.1192/bjp....

Shared characteristics associated with both psychotic experiences and likelihood of being treated with stimulant medications may instead be driving the relationship.

Concerns have been raised that stimulant medications could increase risk of psychotic experiences in young people. Our new research shows no evidence for such a causal relationship 💊🧠 Paper 👇 publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

Adolescents hospitalised for non-psychotic disorders have a high risk of psychosis in adulthood. But do (attenuated) psychotic symptoms predict later psychotic illness? The answer isn’t necessarily what you might expect… Open access in #PsychologicalMedicine

📣 Systematic Review in Feb’s ECAP: Youngest children in school year more commonly diagnosed with, & prescribed medication for, #ADHD, than older classmates #relativeage effect also associated with receipt of diagnosis of #ASD. Great work led by Eleni Frisira 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Systematic review and meta-analysis: relative age in attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder - European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Youngest students in their class, with birthdates just before the school entry cut-off date, are overrepresented among children receiving an Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) diagnosis o...

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Only 12 days to go before the St John of God DETECT 20 year Early Intervention Psychosis conference. It takes place in the Talbot Hotel Stillorgan on Tues, 11 March 2025. Tickets selling fast. For all details and to book your place, click bit.ly/3ELGMLt

Amazing - well done Louise

Louise Arseneault@larseneault.bsky.social · last yr.

🗺️The #AtlasLongitudinalDatasets provides info on datasets from 186 countries across 6 continents! 25% of the datasets include participants from at least one #LMIC. Altogether, datasets on the Atlas represent over a billion participants! Check it out here: atlaslongitudinaldatasets.ac.uk

1 in 2 adult mental health service outpatient appointments & inpatient bed days are taken up by former #CAMHS patients Highlights frequently poor mental health trajectories for young ppl who attend CAMHS and need for research on altering these trajectories. Paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Edinburgh University @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social · last yr.

New research shows >50% of specialist adult mental health service use comes from former #CAMHS patients We need early intervention in childhood to change these poor long-term outcomes That's why we need much more research on mental illness prevention in #CAMHS 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New research shows >50% of specialist adult mental health service use comes from former #CAMHS patients We need early intervention in childhood to change these poor long-term outcomes That's why we need much more research on mental illness prevention in #CAMHS 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Meet the team behind the #AtlasLongitudinalDatasets! We are a team of researchers, charities and lived experience experts from 15 countries around the world! Check out our Who We Are page to learn more about our team: atlaslongitudinaldatasets.ac.uk/who-we-are

Time to act: hundreds of children sent out of area every day for mental health treatment @rcpsych.bsky.social, @drladesmith.bsky.social, @elainelockhart.bsky.social www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...

Time to act: hundreds of children sent out of area every day for mental health treatment

Our analysis of the latest NHS England data shows a shocking 319 children and adolescents in England were forced to travel out of their area for mental health treatment from December 2023 to November ...

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Parity of esteem in action again www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In the midst of a crisis in youth mental health, more than half of all medical schools in the UK & Ireland do not even have a single professor in child & adolescent psychiatry New in #BJPsych www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Please re-post! Two Clinical Research Assistant position openings in the Neuroscience of Risk and Development Laboratory! sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

We’ve been mental elfed!

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

Amanda Sabo and @louiselasala.bsky.social summarise this systematic review and meta-analysis in JAMA Pediatrics, by Luisa Fassi, Kirsten Thomas, Douglas A. Parry, Amelia Leyland-Craggs, @tamsinford.bsky.social, @orbenamy.bsky.social

Critical lack of evidence about social media use and youth mental health in clinical populations www.nationalelfservice.net?p=209615 #SocialMedia #YouthMentalHealth #Research

Critical lack of evidence about social media use and youth mental health

Impact of social media use on internalising symptoms in adolescents from clinical and community samples.

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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...

Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants”

British journalists and editors, this is for you

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Early career bods, this is a must attend webinar 👇👍 'Encouraging the next generation of CAMHS researchers' www.acamh.org/event/camh-e... Keynote from address @tamsinford.bsky.social 'Whys and wherefores of an academic career' Only costs 🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑

Encouraging the next generation of CAMHS researchers: an event dedicated to ECRs

The webinar is tailored specifically for those in the early stages of their career. This session is perfect for medical students, psychology and nursing students seeking their first research experienc...

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📣 New Research! It took 6 years but we got there! The STADIA trial reports… What we did: Large multi-centre #RCT with 1225 children and young people with emotional difficulties referred to #CAMHS across England, followed-up for 18 months. 6 Headline findings… see below… (1/7)

Check out the opportunity to work in this pioneering lab @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social

Maria Jalbrzikowski@mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy New Year! Come join the NeRD lab as a T32 postdoc!