Understanding why antidepressants don't always work 🧠🛡️
New research by @maryellenlynall.bsky.social reveals the key role played by the immune system in symptoms of depression.

📖https://bit.ly/469cXyI

How do neutrophils contribute to mental health? Delighted to share research led by @staceykigar.bsky.social: meningeal neutrophils shape how the brain responds to stress. Out today @natcomms.nature.com. More in the thread⬇️ @psychiatry-ucam.bsky.social @medcambridge.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social

🫀 Want to slash your risk of heart disease without a total lifestyle overhaul? These seven tiny changes can make a huge difference:

🔹 Micro workouts
🔹 Quiet sleep
🔹 Sing daily
🔹 Eat real food
🔹 Avoid long naps
🔹 Stay social
🔹 Guard your heart=protect your brain

Full read 👉 bit.ly/4onWL4Q

Lonely? Skip the chatbot—grab a book, say
Professor Barbara Sahakian and Dr ChristelleLangley.

New research shows reading fiction reduces stress, boosts brain health, and helps fight loneliness more effectively than AI “companions.”

Books connect us more deeply than bots ever could bit.ly/46DQefY

We are delighted to hear that our very own Professor Ed Bullmore has been announced as a new Fellow of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.

www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

New study in collaboration with @nihr.bsky.social highlights the challenges of under-18s admitted to adult mental health wards

▶️ www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/news/new-stu...

‘Brain pacemakers’: implants to be tested to help alcohol and opioid addicts

Read Professor Valerie Voon's latest research➡️ www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/news/brain-p...