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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Edinburgh University @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social · Jul 23

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.

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#EatingBehaviors

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Redirecting

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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Edinburgh University @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social · Jun 27

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?

YouTube video by Ian Kelleher Lab

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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Edinburgh University @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social · May 14

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....

Psychosis and bipolar disorder risk in child and adolescent mental health services in the UK: population cohort study | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core

Psychosis and bipolar disorder risk in child and adolescent mental health services in the UK: population cohort study

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Colm Healy @c-healy.bsky.social · May 14

@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....

Psychosis and bipolar disorder risk in child and adolescent mental health services in the UK: population cohort study | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core

Psychosis and bipolar disorder risk in child and adolescent mental health services in the UK: population cohort study

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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Edinburgh University @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social · May 12

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

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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Edinburgh University @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social · May 12

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 👇
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Stimulant Medication Use and Risk of Psychotic Experiences

10.1542/6370189324112Video AbstractPEDS-VA_2024-0691426370189324112BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES. The prescription of stimulant medications for young people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder i...

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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Edinburgh University @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social · Apr 3

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

Do psychotic symptoms predict future psychotic disorders in adolescent psychiatry inpatients? A 17-year cohort study | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core

Do psychotic symptoms predict future psychotic disorders in adolescent psychiatry inpatients? A 17-year cohort study - Volume 55

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Kapil Sayal @kapilsayal.bsky.social · Feb 27

📣 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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sjogresearch.bsky.social @sjogresearch.bsky.social · Feb 27

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

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Ian Kelleher @iankellehermd.bsky.social · Feb 27

Amazing - well done Louise

Louise Arseneault @larseneault.bsky.social · Feb 27

🗺️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

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Global coverage of the Atlas.
More than one billion participants represented across all datasets
Single-nation and cross-national datasets
datasets from 186 countries across 6 continents
around 25% of datasets include at least one low-and middle-income country
Logos:
Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets
King's College London
MQ Mental Health Research
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Ian Kelleher @iankellehermd.bsky.social · Feb 24

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...

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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Edinburgh University @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social · Feb 24

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...

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Louise Arseneault @larseneault.bsky.social · Feb 20

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

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Meet the team!
We are a team of researchers, charities and lived experience experts from around the world!
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Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets. Wellcome Trust, MQ mental health research, King's College London (KCL), Platforms for Longitudinal Mental Health Data (PALM).

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Ian Kelleher @iankellehermd.bsky.social · Feb 9

Yes, there’s a whole pipeline issue we need to address - from medical students all the way to professorships. This work was co-led by one of our UoE medical students - 2nd author, Aleks Poziemska

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Kapil Sayal @kapilsayal.bsky.social · Feb 8

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

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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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Tamsin Ford @tamsinford.bsky.social · Feb 7

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

Professorships in child and adolescent psychiatry relative to a similarly sized medical specialty in the UK and Ireland: cross-sectional study | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core

Professorships in child and adolescent psychiatry relative to a similarly sized medical specialty in the UK and Ireland: cross-sectional study

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Ian Kelleher @iankellehermd.bsky.social · Feb 7

Treating child mental health like 'firefighting with a blindfold on' due to lack of research.

From @ciananbrennan.bsky.social in @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Treating child mental health in Ireland like 'firefighting with a blindfold on' due to lack of research

Approaches to treating child mental health issues have barely changed in 30 years due to lack of research in the field, child psychiatrist says

www.irishexaminer.com

Ian Kelleher @iankellehermd.bsky.social · Feb 7

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

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Professorships in child and adolescent psychiatry relative to a similarly sized medical specialty in the UK and Ireland: cross-sectional study | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core

Professorships in child and adolescent psychiatry relative to a similarly sized medical specialty in the UK and Ireland: cross-sectional study

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Maria Jalbrzikowski @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social · Feb 6

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

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Job Search Welcome | Boston Childrens Hospital

Search for Internet job openings.

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Tamsin Ford @tamsinford.bsky.social · Jan 15

We’ve been mental elfed!

The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · Jan 15

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

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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · Jan 15

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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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · Jan 13

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

www.psychiatrymargins.com

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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · Jan 8

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...

www.acamh.org

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Kapil Sayal @kapilsayal.bsky.social · Jan 8

📣 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)

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Ian Kelleher @iankellehermd.bsky.social · Jan 11

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

Maria Jalbrzikowski @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social · Jan 8

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

Maria Jalbrzikowski @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social · Dec 31

The Neuroscience of Risk and Development Laboratory loves postdocs!!! Please see the attached ad and email me if you have an interest in developing a T32 project alongside the work going on in the lab. Focus is developmental psychopathology, neuroimaging, and sleep!

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