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Prof Praveetha Patalay

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Scientist and artist. Professor of Population Health at UCL; mental health, inequalities, lifecourse.

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · Aug 26

✨ One week to go! We're looking for a new Director. Find out more about the role and apply on the CLS website: bit.ly/452oe4v

Text saying: Apply now Professor and Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, closing date: Tuesday, 2 September 2025, plus photo of UCL portico

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Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Jun 2

🚨 Paper alert 🚨 There’s a lot of debate at the moment around universal, interventions in schools. A thread 🧵

Our new meta-analysis, published today, shows they can work in reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/chi...

Findings discussed more below…

Frontiers | Universal, school-based, interventions to improve emotional outcomes in children and young people: a systematic review and meta-analysis

IntroductionThere is debate into the impact of universal, school-based interventions to improve emotional outcomes. Previous reviews have only focused on anx...

www.frontiersin.org

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Prof Praveetha Patalay @pravpatalay.bsky.social · Apr 28

I was wondering after, have there been no attempts at replication?

Prof Praveetha Patalay @pravpatalay.bsky.social · Apr 25

Super interesting insights about a famous study!

Suzi Gage @soozaphone.bsky.social · Apr 23

Been seeing people sharing a certain someone's TED talk recently. So I wrote this about what Rat Park actually found, why it's an important study, but it's really important not to sensationalise what it found for that 'truthy' soundbite.

After Rat Park

Or why everything you think you know about addiction might be a little more nuanced than some would give you credit for

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Prof Praveetha Patalay @pravpatalay.bsky.social · Apr 7

Some thoughts on social prescribing in a climate of funding cuts and closing community spaces:
open.substack.com/pub/pravpata...

(and I've finally started a substack and aim to write more about topics in health and prevention!)

The contradictions of social prescribing

Social prescribing is the practice where healthcare services like GP surgeries refer patients to non-clinical activities in their local communities as part of their treatment.

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Prof Praveetha Patalay @pravpatalay.bsky.social · Feb 25

Amazing news, congrats Miri

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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · Dec 19

An *excellent* and damning review of The Body Keeps the Score that is very much worth a read.

“Implying that sexually abused girls have an entirely different developmental pathway […] “is bullshit.””

Emi Nietfeld @eminietfeld.bsky.social · Dec 18

“The Body Keeps the Score stigmatizes survivors, blames victims, and depoliticizes violence. While masquerading as care for survivors, it creates a hierarchy where marginalized victims are even more marginalized.” My latest, for @motherjones.

www.motherjones.com/media/2024/1...

What the most famous book about trauma gets wrong

People kept telling me to read "The Body Keeps the Score." I was shocked at what it actually says.

www.motherjones.com

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Prof Praveetha Patalay @pravpatalay.bsky.social · Dec 4

An essential (and depressing) read for anyone working or interested in what is happening to UK universities.

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Nov 30

Do you want to know why Britain's university system is imploding? Well, if you do... Make yourself a nice coffee, pull up a chair and take a look at what I wrote back in the summer for Prospect magazine. Please repost if you agree! www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

Crash course

The UK’s universities are among the best in the world. So why do many appear close to collapse?

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

Prof Praveetha Patalay @pravpatalay.bsky.social · Nov 27

Thanks for doing this, would be great to be added

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Prof Praveetha Patalay @pravpatalay.bsky.social · Nov 26

Just joined on here. Any starter packs anyone can recommend related to mental health, social epidemiology or casual methods please?

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