Very proud of @agnewblais.bsky.social and of her fascinating work on the relationship between menstrual cycle and ADHD symptoms! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....

ADHD and periods: Are my hormones making my symptoms worse?

A first-of-its-kind study by UK researchers is looking at the link between menstrual cycles and ADHD.

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Why might #depression look different in young people with #ADHD? Read this interesting blog to learn more. https://bit.ly/4h6P8yw PLUS why not register for our fantastic upcoming event: “ADHD and Depression”? https://bit.ly/4vugNwW

Why Depression May Look Different in Young People with ADHD

Depression commonly co-occurs with ADHD. When this combination occurs is associated with greater clinical complexity and poorer outcomes.

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✨ New paper from our lab challenging the way we think about neurodevelopmental conditions is out in Molecular Psychiatry! ✨ The study is based on longitudinal data from early childhood to adolescence in more than 10,000 children in the UK from the TEDS study. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1)

The neurodevelopmental spectrum: phenotypic architecture, etiology, predictive utility, and specificity across development - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - The neurodevelopmental spectrum: phenotypic architecture, etiology, predictive utility, and specificity across development

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Did you know the #ACAMHAwards celebrate people/teams at the forefront of advancing #CAMH? Nominations are open now. https://bit.ly/4gm63N2 From Digital Innovation to recognising those at the very start of their careers - celebrate all those that make a difference!

ACAMH Awards: Spotlight on Excellence in Research and Practice

The ACAMH Awards aim to recognise high quality work in evidence-based science, both in publication and practice, in the field of CAMH.

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Congrats to our brilliant President @miriforbes.bsky.social and the whole exec committee for kicking off the #HiTOP2026 conference! @hitop-system.bsky.social

A pleasure to be interviewed by the @acamh.bsky.social team on this topic!

ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health@acamh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In part two of the #ACAMHLearn Learning Series ‘Writing & Publishing: Reflections from JCPP Advances Editors’, @giorgiamichelini.bsky.social @eivindy.bsky.social & @alessiobellato.bsky.social highlight the balance between precision, planning, & creativity in research writing. https://bit.ly/4niZLPV

Reposting for no particular reason... ok, there is a reason.

Candice Odgers@candiceodgers.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thank you @natureportfolio.bsky.social for making my review of the Anxious Generation open access for parents, policy-makers, and the public. The story told in this book runs counter science and is leading to poor policy decisions that will ultimately fail our kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Very happy to say that Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction, written by @suereviews.bsky.social and myself, is out now! It was a lot of fun trying to condense neurodiversity theory, research, practice, and politics into a single, brief book. Available in all the usual places!

Great hack, thanks @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social. Easy to set up in Outlook too

Hannah R Snyder@hannahrsnyder.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Happy start of the semester! Coming back from sabbatical and immediately facing a flood of student emails inspired me to repost this hack (I've used the accommodation letter one 10x already today). #Academicsky

📢 Calling UK mental health professionals working with neurodivergent young adults 📢 Please take part in our research on depression in neurodivergent young adults! It involves 1 individual interview and 2 focus groups (all online, £25/hour). Sign-up link: shorturl.at/r3HlO Reposts appreciated 🙏

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried

If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

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*JOB ALERT* 👀 Our friends at Emerging Minds are recruiting for a NEW Children and Young people’s Involvement and Engagement Facilitator for the Centre based in Oxford. More info here www.psych.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...

Job opportunities

Welcome to the Department of Psychiatry. We are a friendly and committed department with an international reputation for excellence.

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If you're a member of the HiTOP Society, I hope you'll consider voting for me for President 💛 I'd be delighted to lead us in this new chapter Ballots went out today so we can join the current deluge of exciting election results And whether or not you vote for me - please do vote!

📢 Research Opportunity! Are you: ➡️ A parent/carer of a neurodivergent young adult aged 18-25? ➡️ A mental health professional working with neurodivergent young adults? We’re studying depression in neurodivergent young adults from diverse racial backgrounds. 📩 e.hayashibara@qmul.ac.uk 🔽 More info

Born #OnThisDay in 1867 was Marie Skłodowska–Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two disciplines: Physics for her work on radioactivity, and Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium. #WomenInSTEM

Please consider taking part in our research on depression in ND people! 👇

Emma Hayashibara (林原絵真)@ehayashibara.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📢 New Research Opportunity! Are you: ➡️ A neurodivergent (ND) young adult (18-25)? ➡️ A parent/caregiver of a ND young adult? ➡️ A mental health professional working with this group? We’re studying depression in ND young adults from diverse racial backgrounds. 📩 e.hayashibara@qmul.ac.uk 🔽 More info

Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!

Interested in building computational models of anxiety? See below for a potential PhD opportunity with me Feel free to reach out if you'd like to know more! @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social kcl-mrcdtp.com/project/unde...

Well done again Rosie!

Centre for Brain and Behaviour, QMUL@queenmarycbb.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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New case study! Charity @pbe.co.uk used our data to show that the £28 billion annual bill for disability benefits creates £42bn in positive effects

Wellbeing boost from disability benefits outweighs cost - Understanding Society

Wellbeing boost from disability benefits worth £12,300 per person New case study shows wellbeing boost from disability benefits worth £12,300 per person

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Are electronic health records (EHR) more predictive of disease onset than polygenic scores? Can we transfer EHR-based prediction models between countries? Our study on these questions using 3 biobank-based studies with N>845K, is out in @natgenet.nature.com today: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cross-biobank generalizability and accuracy of electronic health record-based predictors compared to polygenic scores - Nature Genetics

Comparison of electronic health record-based phenotype risk scores (PheRS) and polygenic scores (PGS) across 13 common diseases and three biobank-based studies indicates that PheRS and PGS may provide...

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Excellent fellowship program for US based early career researchers working on ADHD or depression! It was such an important step of my academic journey - eternally grateful to @klingensteinorg.bsky.social for the support!

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Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation applications are open! Learn more about the Child and Adolescent ADHD and Depression Fellowship: klingenstein.org/klingenstein... Learn more about the Transformation of Mental Health Care Program: klingenstein.org/klingenstein...

Come and work on our lovely team #job - #Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in #MentalHealth This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading interdisciplinary centre with a growing portfolio of research and teaching across the life span. Closes 11/09/2025 Please share! qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a difficulty with understanding & using words & sentences. That might seem like a small issue to you, but to people with DLD this can be a huge barrier. The biggest barrier of all is NEXT TO NO ONE HAS HEARD OF DLD. Help us change that! #DLDday #DevLangDis

🧩 Sensory processing in ADHD isn’t one-size-fits-all. New meta-analysis reveals a wide range of patterns: some people are hypersensitive, others under-responsive, and many experience both. Think fire alarms, not fidget spinners. #ADHD #SensoryProcessing #Neurodivergent #MentalHealth 🧵 THREAD

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Delighted to be hiring a new Clinical Psychology Lecturer to come and join our vibrant environment at the SGDP Centre @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social please share! my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

How can we better protect young minds? Dr Christina Carlisi (@uclpals.bsky.social) shares insights on supporting children’s mental health online.

Dr Christina Carlisi on how to protect the mental health of children and adolescents

How do we ensure that children and young people have the tools they need to protect their mental health in online and real world spaces? We speak to Dr Christina Carlisi to find out.

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New report on understanding the drivers of declining youth mental health To effectively respond to worsening mental health, we need to understand not just what is happening, but *why* We used an evidence-based approach to unpack common explanations 1/🧵 youthfuturesfoundation.org/publication/...