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Mental Health Platform
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A network of researchers funded by UKRI, with the shared aim of accelerating research into severe mental illness (SMI) & improving the diagnosis and treatment of those affected.

Find out more on our website: mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/
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🎉Thanks for joining us on “Discover the Hubs” Week 🎉

🎬 Now meet our Hub Leaders on YouTube:
youtube.com/@UKRIMentalHealthPlatform/playlists

Thanks to our @uoe-sps.bsky.social Masters interns, Yuchen Zhao & Sarah Carmichael, for creating this content.

#DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Social Health Hub

How where we’re born, live, work & age shape SMI.
🌟 Highlights: new place-based social health indicators, resources for researchers & exploring social prescribing.

🔗www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/blog/social-health-third-pillar-health #DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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@hubmetpsych.bsky.social

Bringing together researchers, clinicians & lived-experience experts to drive innovation in metabolic psychiatry.
🌟 Focus: genomics, data science, biomarkers, metabolic intervention, lived experience.

🔗 metabolicpsychiatryhub.com
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November 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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ImmunoMIND Hub

Uncovering immune & metabolic pathways to develop new therapies for SMI
🌟 Highlights: MHRA-approved cardio-metabolic risk tool (TP2) and peer-reviewed publications.
💬 Co-produced with PWLE

🔗 mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/research-hubs/immunomind

#DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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@datamind.bsky.social

👉Driving better mental health outcomes: ethical, transparent and inclusive data use.
🔍 FAIR access, collaboration & tackling inequalities.
💬 Our SRAG lived-experience group helps shape research

🔗 datamind.org.uk
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November 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🧠 @complexemotionshub.bsky.social

We’re improving care for people with complex emotions, guided by lived-experience experts.

🌟How everyday triggers shape intense emotions, working to reduce stigma, drive new research.
🔗 complexemotions.co.uk

#DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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🧠 @braingenhub.bsky.social

We’re exploring how genes, environment & development shape severe mental illness - combining brain imaging, genomics & lived experience to drive real-world impact.

Find out about B-SPRINT study:
🔗 ncmh.info/bsprint

#DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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This week you'll meet

🔹@braingenhub.bsky.social, Wales
🔹@complexemotionshub.bsky.social, Sheffield
🔹@datamind.bsky.social, Swansea
🔹ImmunoMIND, Cambridge
🔹@hubmetpsych.bsky.social, Edinburgh
🔹Social Health Hub, London

#DiscoverMHPHubs
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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🎉"Discover The Hubs” Week🎉

We’re reintroducing our Hubs and highlighting our mission to advance understanding of severe mental illness.

🧠 5 research programmes + 1 data hub, funded by @ukri.org and coordinated in Edinburgh.

#DiscoverMHPHubs

🔗 mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/who-we-are
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Read reflections from a PhD student from @hubmetpsych.bsky.social on the MHP Research Summit - a day full of enthusiasm, collaboration & inspiring science.

👉 www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/blog/mhp-res...

#MentalHealthResearch #MHPSummit2025 #WorldMentalHealthDay
MHP Research Summit: An Early Career Researcher Perspective | Mental health platform
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October 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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One of our Lived Experience Experts shares reflections from the MHP Research Summit on #WorldMentalHealthDay - a day of optimism, caffeine & connection, where research met real life.

Read their blog 👉 www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/blog/mhp-res...

#MHPSummit2025 #MentalHealthResearch
MHP Research Summit: A Lived Experience Perspective | Mental health platform
Acronyms: MHP: Mental Health Platform | PPI: Patient Public Involvement | SMI: Severe Mental Illness | BPD: Borderline Personality Disorder
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October 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Closing plenary at #MHPSummit2025: Prof Paul Harrison on “From Big Data to Biology: Cognitive Impairment After COVID-19 Infection.”

A powerful end to #WorldMentalHealthDay, connecting data, biology & mental health research.

#MentalHealthResearch
October 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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🔹 Final Core Session: Social Health – The Third Pillar of Health.

Our relationships and connections are vital to wellbeing — discover how the Social Health Hub is redefining mental health research 👇
www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/blog/social-...

#MHPSummit2025 #WorldMentalHealthDay
Social Health: third pillar of health | Mental health platform
One of our Hub leads, Prof Jennifer Lau, co-authored an article this year describing how social health should be considered alongside physical health and mental health, and how this could help to…
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October 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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🔹 Afternoon Core Session: @hubmetpsych.bsky.social on The Metabolism and Mental Health Connection.

Discover how metabolism shapes mind and mood and share your insights to guide future research 👇
www.metabolicpsychiatryhub.com/takepart

#MHPSummit2025 #WorldMentalHealthDay
Take Part — The Hub for Metabolic Psychiatry
We are carrying out a research study to better understand whether changes to metabolism are connected to future changes in clinical outcomes in people with severe mental health conditions.
www.metabolicpsychiatryhub.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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🔹 Afternoon Core Session: ImmunoMIND reveals how immunity, metabolism & mental health connect.

Read their review on immuno-metabolic depression, uncovering the biology behind mood disorders: www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/news/underst...

#MHPSummit2025 #MentalHealthResearch #WorldMentalHealthDay
Understanding immuno-metabolic depression | Mental health platform
Researchers from ImmunoMIND recently published a review of the research about a form of depression called immuno-metabolic depression.
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October 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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⚡ Happening now at #MHPSummit2025!
ECR Lightning Talks: 6 rapid-fire, 3-minute presentations from winners in:
🔬 Molecular Psychiatry
💬 Social & Emotional Health
💻 Data, Digital & AI

A showcase of the next generation of #MentalHealthResearch talent.
#WorldMentalHealthDay
October 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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🔹 Core Session: DATAMIND explores how data science transforms mental health research & policy.

Check out PODMIND — their podcast hosted by Marcos del Pozo Banos, highlighting the people driving progress: datamind.org.uk/learning-hub...

#MHPSummit2025 #MentalHealthResearch
Learning Hub - Datamind
At DATAMIND, we're committed to enhancing knowledge and empowering people in the field of Mental Health Data Science and beyond.
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October 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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🎤 The first Core Session at the #MHPSummit2025 is underway!

We’re hearing from three MHP research Hubs — starting with @braingenhub.bsky.social, uncovering how genetics and brain data can deepen our understanding of mental illness.

🎥 Watch here:
Meet the Brain and Genomics Hub
The Brain and Genomics Hub is one of six new research hubs that make up the Mental Health Platform funded by UK Research and Innovation. The platform was established to accelerate progress towards…
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October 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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The #MHPSummit2025 opens on #WorldMentalHealthDay with Prof Dame Til Wykes (King’s College London) on “From Subjects to Participants to Co-production.”

Lived experience is at the heart of what we do.
👉 www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/blog/lived-e...

#MentalHealthResearch
Lived experience at the heart | Mental health platform
McPin is a specialist mental health research charity – unique in its focus on peer research, coproduction and patient and public involvement & engagement (PPI&E) as a way to improve mental health…
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October 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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It’s #WorldMentalHealthDay 💙
We’re in Edinburgh for the first-ever MHP Research Summit 2025, bringing together researchers, clinicians & people with lived experience to advance understanding of severe mental illness.

Follow along for highlights!
#MHPSummit2025 #MentalHealthResearch
October 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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ECR Workshop Proteomics & Mental Health happening today at the Edinburgh Futures Institute!

ECRs are exploring large-scale proteomics to uncover biomarkers & causal pathways in mental health led by @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social & @datamind.bsky.social

#ECR #MentalHealthResearch #WorldMentalHealthDay
October 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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⏳ Registration closes next week! – only 13 tickets left for the MHP Research Summit (10th Oct | Edinburgh)

Keynotes & partner-led sessions: full programme live: rebrand.ly/mhp-summit-p...

@mqmentalhealth.bsky.social @datamind.bsky.social, @catapultnetwork.bsky.social, @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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⏳ Last chance to register!

MHP Research Summit (10th Oct | Edinburgh) – few tickets left & close to selling out.

👀Detailed programme now live: rebrand.ly/mhp-summit-p...

#MHPSummit2025
September 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🌟Work in Digital, Data & AI in mental health?
Join the MHP Industry Alliance!

Apply👉 rebrand.ly/mhp-industry...

Some members may be invited to datamind.bsky.social’s November London event

Find out more👉https://rebrand.ly/DATAMIND-industry-nov25
September 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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⏳ 1 month left to register!

ECR Workshop hosted by @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social &
@datamind.bsky.social: Proteomics & Mental Health

📅 9th Oct | 📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute

Hands-on training & expert speakers.
More than half of tickets already sold!

👉Secure yours now: rebrand.ly/ecr-workshop
September 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM