Ioanna Kougianou
@ioannakougianou.bsky.social
PhD student at UoE | Psychiatric Pharmacoepidemiology | 🧠
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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
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...
mentalhealth.bmj.com
January 4, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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
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
Reposted by Ioanna Kougianou
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...
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
youtu.be
June 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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...
15 min explainer podcast: youtu.be/wP3nuqSpWbo
Paper: doi.org/10.1192/j.eu...
Reposted by Ioanna Kougianou
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
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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April 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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
Open access in #PsychologicalMedicine
Reposted by Ioanna Kougianou
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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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
www.cambridge.org
February 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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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New in #BJPsych
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Reposted by Ioanna Kougianou
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...
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...
February 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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...
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...