Being racially or ethnically discriminated against may increase the risk of later developing psychotic symptoms, finds a major review of international evidence led by @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social researchers.
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Colleagues from @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social found consistent evidence from numerous studies that racial and ethnic discrimination appears to contribute to the development of psychosis.

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Great to give the closing state-of-the-art session at the European Psychiatric Association annual conference in Madrid yesterday on social determinants of mental health.

Thanks to President, Prof Andrea Fiorillo, for invite to talk on this important issue.

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Great to see our main baseline paper from ¡Ola! study out, exploring #SDoH correlates of #CMD in young people living in low income parts of 3 cities in South America

Cases report more SLEs, social media & sedative use than controls, less physical activity

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40042842/

Thinking of advancing your knowledge & skills in mental health research? Come to our graduate open evening on 19 March, and find out more about our outstanding MSc courses in mental health research in @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social at @ucl.ac.uk.

www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/e...

The OG.

New 3.5yr PhD opportunity at UCL with @equalise.bsky.social supervised by myself, @yvonne-kelly.bsky.social, @baowenxue.bsky.social & @profkatsmith.bsky.social on inequalities in pathways to employment in young people. Closes 25th Feb
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Population mental health has, until recently, been a rarefied concern in medicine, public health and academia, with genuine dialogue, engagement & co-production in this space with communities & those with lived experience of mental health difficulties rarer still.

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Deadline to come work with us on this national public mental health data science role rapidly approaching! Looking for a strong quant researcher with psychiatric epidemiology skills.

Only 7 days until we launch the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets! The launch will include a presentation, live demonstration, & panel discussion with multi-sector participants, the #PALMteam, lived experience advisors, & more. Sign up here-> www.landscaping-longitudinal-research.com/launch

Rising rates of youth mental health problems are a global concern, but how use of coping mechanisms affects this is less clear, especially in Global South contexts.

We investigated this in a new study of young people in the most deprived parts of Bogota, Lima & Buenos Aires in South America.

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I've been working on the politics of mental health since 2008

This is the first year I've felt there's been serious political pushback against a consensus that growing recognition of mental health problems is a good thing

Here's why I think that's so significant... 🧵

Hello bsky. Good to be here.

I'm hiring!

Can't think of a better inaugural post than to share details of new 2-year research fellow post we're advertising for an outstanding epidemiogist to join my team to work on improving population mental health.

tinyurl.com/28mlykr9

#CausalSky #EpiSky

Other epi disciplines already have their lovely starter packs, so for establishing parity of esteem, here comes the psychiatric epidemiology starter pack 👇

go.bsky.app/ADVqVyp

Please nominate other people to grow our ranks ☺️