Ian Kelleher
@iankellehermd.bsky.social
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Edinburgh University 🏴🇬🇧
Adjunct Prof at University College Dublin 🇮🇪
& University of Oulu 🇫🇮
Academy of Medical Sciences Professor
NHS Consultant
#DataScience #DataDrivenInnovation #CAMHS
Adjunct Prof at University College Dublin 🇮🇪
& University of Oulu 🇫🇮
Academy of Medical Sciences Professor
NHS Consultant
#DataScience #DataDrivenInnovation #CAMHS
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New research using an emulated target trail approach with all adolescent CAMHs users in Finland suggesting that Doxycycline (an antibiotic) can reduces future risk of schizophrenia.
Massive congrats to @iankellehermd.bsky.social @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1176/appi...
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Massive congrats to @iankellehermd.bsky.social @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social
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Doxycycline Use in Adolescent Psychiatric Patients and Risk of Schizophrenia: An Emulated Target Trial | American Journal of Psychiatry
Objective: As many as half of individuals who develop psychosis had attended child and adolescent psychiatric services at some stage in childhood, highlighting substantial opportunities for prevention...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New research using an emulated target trail approach with all adolescent CAMHs users in Finland suggesting that Doxycycline (an antibiotic) can reduces future risk of schizophrenia.
Massive congrats to @iankellehermd.bsky.social @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1176/appi...
More info ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Massive congrats to @iankellehermd.bsky.social @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1176/appi...
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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.
Open access in
#EatingBehaviors
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Open access in
#EatingBehaviors
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Redirecting
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July 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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.
Open access in
#EatingBehaviors
doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...
Open access in
#EatingBehaviors
doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...
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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...
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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....
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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May 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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....
This replicates similar findings from Finland by @iankellehermd.bsky.social & co - showing this applies to UK CAMHS as well. doi.org/10.1192/bjp....
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@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....
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
doi.org
May 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
@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....
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....
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Shared characteristics associated with both psychotic experiences and likelihood of being treated with stimulant medications may instead be driving the relationship.
May 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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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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 👇
publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...
Paper 👇
publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...
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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May 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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 👇
publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...
Paper 👇
publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...
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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
www.cambridge.org
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
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📣 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...
#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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February 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
📣 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...
#relativeage effect also associated with receipt of diagnosis of #ASD.
Great work led by Eleni Frisira 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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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
February 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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
Amazing - well done Louise
🗺️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
February 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Amazing - well done Louise
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...
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...
February 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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...
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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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...
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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
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
February 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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
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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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
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...
@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 ...
www.rcpsych.ac.uk
February 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...
@rcpsych.bsky.social, @drladesmith.bsky.social, @elainelockhart.bsky.social
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...
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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
www.cambridge.org
February 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Parity of esteem in action again www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New in #BJPsych
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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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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February 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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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We’ve been mental elfed!
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
January 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We’ve been mental elfed!
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Critical lack of evidence about social media use and youth mental health in clinical populations www.nationalelfservice.net?p=209615
#SocialMedia #YouthMentalHealth #Research
#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.
www.nationalelfservice.net
January 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Critical lack of evidence about social media use and youth mental health in clinical populations www.nationalelfservice.net?p=209615
#SocialMedia #YouthMentalHealth #Research
#SocialMedia #YouthMentalHealth #Research
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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...
British journalists and editors, this is for you
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Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants”
British journalists and editors, this is for you
www.psychiatrymargins.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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...
British journalists and editors, this is for you
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/dummies-gu...
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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'
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
January 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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'
www.acamh.org/event/camh-e...
Keynote from address @tamsinford.bsky.social 'Whys and wherefores of an academic career'
Only costs 🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑
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📣 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)
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)
January 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Check out the opportunity to work in this pioneering lab @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social
Happy New Year! Come join the NeRD lab as a T32 postdoc!
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!
January 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Check out the opportunity to work in this pioneering lab @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social