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Jude Harrison 🧠🧪🥼🧬 @drjudeharrison.bsky.social · 2d

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Jude Harrison 🧠🧪🥼🧬 @drjudeharrison.bsky.social · 4d

Honoured to write about Dr David Enoch for @bmj.com — reformer, teacher, author of Uncommon Psychiatric Syndromes.
Sadness in his passing, pride in his legacy. #MentalHealth
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

www.bmj.com

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Jude Harrison 🧠🧪🥼🧬 @drjudeharrison.bsky.social · 4d

Yes please send me a DM with your email address and I will send you the PDF

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Jude Harrison 🧠🧪🥼🧬 @drjudeharrison.bsky.social · 4d

Honoured to write about Dr David Enoch for @bmj.com — reformer, teacher, author of Uncommon Psychiatric Syndromes.
Sadness in his passing, pride in his legacy. #MentalHealth
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

www.bmj.com

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GW4-CAT HP @gw4cat.bsky.social · 6d

🧪🧠Great to see your research in print, Jude! 🤩

Jude Harrison 🧠🧪🥼🧬 @drjudeharrison.bsky.social · 9d

🧠 New paper out in Journal of Neurology: spatial covariance mapping of α4β2 nicotinic receptors in dementia with Lewy bodies.
Findings show network-level cholinergic changes linked to cognition, distinct from perfusion patterns.
Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Dementia #NeuroSkyence

A spatial covariance 123I-5IA-85380 SPECT study of α4β2 nicotinic receptors in dementia with Lewy bodies

Journal of Neurology - Cholinergic dysfunction, particularly involving nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs), contributes to cognitive and psychiatric symptoms in dementia with Lewy bodies...

link.springer.com

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Jude Harrison 🧠🧪🥼🧬 @drjudeharrison.bsky.social · 9d

Not my usual kind of publication.
I had the honour of writing the Guardian obituary for Dr David Enoch (1926–2025): psychiatrist, reformer, campaigner for humane care.
Sadness in his passing, pride in his legacy.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
@rcpsych.bsky.social

David Enoch obituary

Other lives: Psychiatrist who helped to switch mental health care away from hospitals and into the community

www.theguardian.com

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Jude Harrison 🧠🧪🥼🧬 @drjudeharrison.bsky.social · 9d

Not my usual kind of publication.
I had the honour of writing the Guardian obituary for Dr David Enoch (1926–2025): psychiatrist, reformer, campaigner for humane care.
Sadness in his passing, pride in his legacy.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
@rcpsych.bsky.social

David Enoch obituary

Other lives: Psychiatrist who helped to switch mental health care away from hospitals and into the community

www.theguardian.com

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Jude Harrison 🧠🧪🥼🧬 @drjudeharrison.bsky.social · 9d

🧠 New paper out in Journal of Neurology: spatial covariance mapping of α4β2 nicotinic receptors in dementia with Lewy bodies.
Findings show network-level cholinergic changes linked to cognition, distinct from perfusion patterns.
Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Dementia #NeuroSkyence

A spatial covariance 123I-5IA-85380 SPECT study of α4β2 nicotinic receptors in dementia with Lewy bodies

Journal of Neurology - Cholinergic dysfunction, particularly involving nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs), contributes to cognitive and psychiatric symptoms in dementia with Lewy bodies...

link.springer.com

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Jude Harrison 🧠🧪🥼🧬 @drjudeharrison.bsky.social · 13d

Excited to chair the Online Dementias UK Workshop today

Looking forward to sharing an update on Lewy Body Dementia at the upcoming 2-day conference in London this February.

Join us for valuable insights/discussions: dementiasonlineworkshop.com/live/en/page...

#DementiaAwareness #LewyBodyDementia

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Jude Harrison 🧠🧪🥼🧬 @drjudeharrison.bsky.social · 13d

Many NHS Trusts 🏥 are experimenting with Microsoft Copilot to help stretched staff

We need to establish safe and effective use cases…

A colleague sent this #HealthcareAI #LLM

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 16d

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16d

Fundamentally, the headbanging Right doesn't believe Autism (or ADHD) exists. Or in so far as it does exist, a human conspiracy has created it.

We're back to their core outlook that 'It didn't exist back in the good old days so can't exist now.'

'It must just be some modern woke Marxist nonsense'.

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ANZCA @anzca.bsky.social · 16d

ANZCA and FPM STATEMENT

Paracetamol use in pregnancy

We are aware of recent claims from the US questioning the safety of paracetamol use in pregnancy. These claims are not based on new evidence. Our full statement is here: tinyurl.com/5yye2npu

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Jude Harrison 🧠🧪🥼🧬 @drjudeharrison.bsky.social · 17d

I’m excited to be contributing to the GlobalMinds Exclusive Webinar on Mon 29 Sept (11–12 BST).

GlobalMinds will unite 50,000 people’s lived experience, NHS data & genetics to transform mental health research.

Join us: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/10862b...
#GlobalMinds #MentalHealthResearch

Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams

events.teams.microsoft.com

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Jude Harrison 🧠🧪🥼🧬 @drjudeharrison.bsky.social · 17d

Managing complex symptoms of #dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)?

I'm please to share our new open-access review in Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology

A key message: treatment must be individualised, and more DLB-specific trials are urgently needed.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1751...

Pharmacological strategies for managing dementia with Lewy bodies: an expert review of symptom-targeted care

Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) is the second most common cause of neurodegenerative dementia after Alzheimer’s disease, characterized by a complex combination of cognitive, neuropsychiatric, motor...

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A Clinician's Brief Guide to The Coroner's Court and Inquests @briefguide.bsky.social · 20d

If you found this guide useful, please consider leaving a short review on Amazon - it helps other clinicians find this resource.

A brief guide for all healthcare professionals giving evidence at an inquest or supporting colleagues, going through this process #inquest

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Jude Harrison 🧠🧪🥼🧬 @drjudeharrison.bsky.social · 22d

I’m so sorry Kasia. That must sting

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 22d

In London, hate will never win.

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · Aug 25

Yuto Satake returns to Japan today after a productive year at UCL. My son commissioned his artist friend to produce this to commemorate his visit and secret support for Layla to sit on forbidden sofas.

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Jude Harrison 🧠🧪🥼🧬 @drjudeharrison.bsky.social · Aug 25

It was a pleasure to meet Yuto whilst he was here. What a brilliant picture!

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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · Aug 19

Perfection is overrated. Excellence is enough. 🧠✍️

Dr Lindsey Sinclair shares why chasing perfection in research might be the real Mission Impossible.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-what-do...

Blog – What does it mean to be Perfect - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER

Dr Lindsey Sinclair - Dr Lindsey Sinclair questions whether aiming for perfection in research harms progress and wellbeing, suggesting excellence might be a healthier goal.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk

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Jude Harrison 🧠🧪🥼🧬 @drjudeharrison.bsky.social · Aug 19

Valid questions, indeed. You are what #Skychiatry #PsychSky needs!

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Jude Harrison 🧠🧪🥼🧬 @drjudeharrison.bsky.social · Aug 19

Got to love a @profrobhoward.bsky.social take down!
#AAIC2025

Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · Aug 19

What's not to like about this image, presented at AAIC and touted as showing lasting and expanding (maybe, even clinically important) efficacy of lecanemab treatment through 48 months of treatment - but only if you start treatment early and don't stop?

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · Aug 19

I can see this post throwing those who are anti-mental health diagnoses and treatment into a quandary. They'll hate people getting an ADHD "diagnosis" and worse - receiving a drug treatment. However, since successful treatment led happier people to take fewer antidepressants, they should like that.

PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · Aug 19

Antidepressant use declines in adults after ADHD diagnosis, large-scale study indicates

A nationwide Finnish study suggests that adults often reduce their use of antidepressants after beginning ADHD treatment. The findings highlight how addressing underlying ADHD may decrease reliance on other psychiatric medications, especially in cases previously treated as depression or anxiety.

www.psypost.org

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Jude Harrison 🧠🧪🥼🧬 @drjudeharrison.bsky.social · Aug 14

It would appear so! Tone-deaf because devoid of appropriate context

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Jude Harrison 🧠🧪🥼🧬 @drjudeharrison.bsky.social · Aug 10

I’m pleased to say I didn’t spot any #manels at #AAIC

Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · Aug 10

For those jumping in with any version of #manel bingo- there were other sessions in the same conference that were more diverse.

The decisions about who convenes, who speaks in plenaries, who delivers keynotes, who gets recognition- #manels here are *by design*. 👀
#GenderBias

Mock Bingo card with options such as Women just aren't interested in this field, There aren’t enough qualified female speakers, You can’t kick out a male speaker just to fit a woman in there, Women need to act more like men, Well, there aren't many female attendees either, and All the women were probably busy.

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