Touch Cofund
@touch-cofund.bsky.social
Towards the next generation of excellent young doctoral researchers on mental health by developing an intersectoral & transdisciplinary approach.
It's neither a moral failure nor a permanent condition.
There are DOZENS of effective next-step treatments: tDCS, TMS, ketamine/esketamine, ECT, augmentation strategies, etc. Many of them go into full remission after being labeled “treatment resistant.”👏
#TreatmentResistantDepression #MentalHealth
There are DOZENS of effective next-step treatments: tDCS, TMS, ketamine/esketamine, ECT, augmentation strategies, etc. Many of them go into full remission after being labeled “treatment resistant.”👏
#TreatmentResistantDepression #MentalHealth
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM
It's neither a moral failure nor a permanent condition.
There are DOZENS of effective next-step treatments: tDCS, TMS, ketamine/esketamine, ECT, augmentation strategies, etc. Many of them go into full remission after being labeled “treatment resistant.”👏
#TreatmentResistantDepression #MentalHealth
There are DOZENS of effective next-step treatments: tDCS, TMS, ketamine/esketamine, ECT, augmentation strategies, etc. Many of them go into full remission after being labeled “treatment resistant.”👏
#TreatmentResistantDepression #MentalHealth
🤔 The most common misconception about treatment-resistant depression (TRD) is that it is an untreatable condition.
🧠 TRD is a failure to respond to at least two adequate antidepressant trials regardless of optimal dosing and adherence. This occurs in approximately 20% to 50% of individuals... ⬇️
🧠 TRD is a failure to respond to at least two adequate antidepressant trials regardless of optimal dosing and adherence. This occurs in approximately 20% to 50% of individuals... ⬇️
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM
🤔 The most common misconception about treatment-resistant depression (TRD) is that it is an untreatable condition.
🧠 TRD is a failure to respond to at least two adequate antidepressant trials regardless of optimal dosing and adherence. This occurs in approximately 20% to 50% of individuals... ⬇️
🧠 TRD is a failure to respond to at least two adequate antidepressant trials regardless of optimal dosing and adherence. This occurs in approximately 20% to 50% of individuals... ⬇️
🐍 A core tool in my PhD: #Python. With Python, we can do almost everything. From programming experiments and running statistical analyses to creating beautiful visualisations and implementing AI models.
Learning it in advance was a real game changer for my PhD journey.
Learning it in advance was a real game changer for my PhD journey.
November 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🐍 A core tool in my PhD: #Python. With Python, we can do almost everything. From programming experiments and running statistical analyses to creating beautiful visualisations and implementing AI models.
Learning it in advance was a real game changer for my PhD journey.
Learning it in advance was a real game changer for my PhD journey.
Discovering #MultimodalIntegration: In mental health research, data comes from neural signals, physiological responses, behaviour,... Tomás' goal is to combine them using ML models that capture how these interact. 🤯 It’s like building a map of the mind that connects biology, experience, and emotion.
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Discovering #MultimodalIntegration: In mental health research, data comes from neural signals, physiological responses, behaviour,... Tomás' goal is to combine them using ML models that capture how these interact. 🤯 It’s like building a map of the mind that connects biology, experience, and emotion.
✨Meet Tomás D’Amelio, a PhD candidate in the TOUCH Programme!
He’s building predictive models that integrate multimodal data to understand cognitive & affective dynamics.
His work connects neuroscience, emotions, and AI. He explores how machine learning can reveal patterns behind health & behaviour.
He’s building predictive models that integrate multimodal data to understand cognitive & affective dynamics.
His work connects neuroscience, emotions, and AI. He explores how machine learning can reveal patterns behind health & behaviour.
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
✨Meet Tomás D’Amelio, a PhD candidate in the TOUCH Programme!
He’s building predictive models that integrate multimodal data to understand cognitive & affective dynamics.
His work connects neuroscience, emotions, and AI. He explores how machine learning can reveal patterns behind health & behaviour.
He’s building predictive models that integrate multimodal data to understand cognitive & affective dynamics.
His work connects neuroscience, emotions, and AI. He explores how machine learning can reveal patterns behind health & behaviour.
Today, Agenese asks us something she'd love to know:
I'd love to ask to society is "what would our world look like if #inclusion were not a policy, but a feeling that every person, regardless of origin 🌍, could carry within themselves"? ❤️
webs.uab.cat/touch/
I'd love to ask to society is "what would our world look like if #inclusion were not a policy, but a feeling that every person, regardless of origin 🌍, could carry within themselves"? ❤️
webs.uab.cat/touch/
October 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Today, Agenese asks us something she'd love to know:
I'd love to ask to society is "what would our world look like if #inclusion were not a policy, but a feeling that every person, regardless of origin 🌍, could carry within themselves"? ❤️
webs.uab.cat/touch/
I'd love to ask to society is "what would our world look like if #inclusion were not a policy, but a feeling that every person, regardless of origin 🌍, could carry within themselves"? ❤️
webs.uab.cat/touch/
My biggest surprise in academia? 🤯
How much it changes across countries 🌍.
Moving from one place to another and building many international relationships 🤝, I realised that “academia” can carry very different meanings depending on where you experience it ✨.
How much it changes across countries 🌍.
Moving from one place to another and building many international relationships 🤝, I realised that “academia” can carry very different meanings depending on where you experience it ✨.
October 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
My biggest surprise in academia? 🤯
How much it changes across countries 🌍.
Moving from one place to another and building many international relationships 🤝, I realised that “academia” can carry very different meanings depending on where you experience it ✨.
How much it changes across countries 🌍.
Moving from one place to another and building many international relationships 🤝, I realised that “academia” can carry very different meanings depending on where you experience it ✨.
👩🎓 Meet Agnese Capurri, featured in TOUCH! She’s an Italian sociologist doing her PhD at @uab.cat (GRAFO), exploring migrants’ mental health.
Her research focuses on the wellbeing of Pakistani mothers and daughters in Barcelona. 🌍💬
Her research focuses on the wellbeing of Pakistani mothers and daughters in Barcelona. 🌍💬
October 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
👩🎓 Meet Agnese Capurri, featured in TOUCH! She’s an Italian sociologist doing her PhD at @uab.cat (GRAFO), exploring migrants’ mental health.
Her research focuses on the wellbeing of Pakistani mothers and daughters in Barcelona. 🌍💬
Her research focuses on the wellbeing of Pakistani mothers and daughters in Barcelona. 🌍💬
@florbathory.bsky.social: The best advice I've ever received came from a friend who told me to be as generous with others as I would have liked others to be with me. That's the way to do science. If we care about knowledge, being generous and collaborative with our colleagues is the path to follow 🫂
October 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
@florbathory.bsky.social: The best advice I've ever received came from a friend who told me to be as generous with others as I would have liked others to be with me. That's the way to do science. If we care about knowledge, being generous and collaborative with our colleagues is the path to follow 🫂
@florbathory.bsky.social: Interdisciplinarity is a challenge and an opportunity when approaching mental health among midlife & older population from Demography. I couldn't make proper research without other research from disciplines like Psychiatry, Psychologists, Epidemiology or Sociology. 🤩
October 15, 2025 at 7:30 AM
@florbathory.bsky.social: Interdisciplinarity is a challenge and an opportunity when approaching mental health among midlife & older population from Demography. I couldn't make proper research without other research from disciplines like Psychiatry, Psychologists, Epidemiology or Sociology. 🤩
My research could help policy-makers understand the struggles at older ages with mental health issues and how it affects people around them. This could improve medical attention for the older population and care-policy strategies to avoid the pressure on the "sandwich generations", especially women.
October 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
My research could help policy-makers understand the struggles at older ages with mental health issues and how it affects people around them. This could improve medical attention for the older population and care-policy strategies to avoid the pressure on the "sandwich generations", especially women.
A key concept in my research is the "cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis" in #mentalhealth trajectories. 🤔 Initial advantages or disadvantages accumulate over time, widening gaps. Variables like education, income, social support,... influence coping and health, key to understanding depression.
October 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
A key concept in my research is the "cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis" in #mentalhealth trajectories. 🤔 Initial advantages or disadvantages accumulate over time, widening gaps. Variables like education, income, social support,... influence coping and health, key to understanding depression.
👩🎓 Meet Florencia Bathory — our next PhD student we’re introducing in TOUCH.
She’s an Argentinian sociologist doing her doctorate in Demography at CED-UAB. Her thesis looks at mental health status of older people living with chronic conditions, and the ways this relationship can develop.
She’s an Argentinian sociologist doing her doctorate in Demography at CED-UAB. Her thesis looks at mental health status of older people living with chronic conditions, and the ways this relationship can develop.
October 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
👩🎓 Meet Florencia Bathory — our next PhD student we’re introducing in TOUCH.
She’s an Argentinian sociologist doing her doctorate in Demography at CED-UAB. Her thesis looks at mental health status of older people living with chronic conditions, and the ways this relationship can develop.
She’s an Argentinian sociologist doing her doctorate in Demography at CED-UAB. Her thesis looks at mental health status of older people living with chronic conditions, and the ways this relationship can develop.
📖 Worth reading in EJIR (2025): Cross-national relationships between employment quality and mental well-being. The study shows how collective bargaining can reduce mental health inequalities at work. It helps us rethink labour and wellbeing.
https://shorturl.at/xni5r
#TOUCHProgramme
https://shorturl.at/xni5r
#TOUCHProgramme
October 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📖 Worth reading in EJIR (2025): Cross-national relationships between employment quality and mental well-being. The study shows how collective bargaining can reduce mental health inequalities at work. It helps us rethink labour and wellbeing.
https://shorturl.at/xni5r
#TOUCHProgramme
https://shorturl.at/xni5r
#TOUCHProgramme
❓Did you know that across the OECD, care workers are more exposed to #mentalhealth risks than other employees — often working under time pressure and dealing with difficult situations with patients. This challenge is key to understanding the links between work, care, and mental health. @uab.cat
October 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
❓Did you know that across the OECD, care workers are more exposed to #mentalhealth risks than other employees — often working under time pressure and dealing with difficult situations with patients. This challenge is key to understanding the links between work, care, and mental health. @uab.cat
Why does my research matter? The care sector is at the heart of today’s social care crisis. By studying precarious work and mental health, I aim to shed light on how power relations shape workers’ wellbeing and the future of care.
#CareWork #PhD #MentalHealth #TOUCHProgramme
#CareWork #PhD #MentalHealth #TOUCHProgramme
September 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Why does my research matter? The care sector is at the heart of today’s social care crisis. By studying precarious work and mental health, I aim to shed light on how power relations shape workers’ wellbeing and the future of care.
#CareWork #PhD #MentalHealth #TOUCHProgramme
#CareWork #PhD #MentalHealth #TOUCHProgramme
What is Francisca's motivation to tackle a PhD programme? To understand the internal dynamics of the care sector — central to sustaining life, yet paradoxically undervalued and marked by poor mental health conditions despite its enormous social value.
#CareWork #PhD #MentalHealth #TOUCHProgramme
#CareWork #PhD #MentalHealth #TOUCHProgramme
September 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
What is Francisca's motivation to tackle a PhD programme? To understand the internal dynamics of the care sector — central to sustaining life, yet paradoxically undervalued and marked by poor mental health conditions despite its enormous social value.
#CareWork #PhD #MentalHealth #TOUCHProgramme
#CareWork #PhD #MentalHealth #TOUCHProgramme
❓Did you know: Care workers in Barcelona face high levels of depersonalization — an emotional defense that creates distance from patients and from themselves.
This challenge is key to understanding the links between work, care, and mental health.
#CareWork #TOUCHProgramme #MentalHealth #PhD
This challenge is key to understanding the links between work, care, and mental health.
#CareWork #TOUCHProgramme #MentalHealth #PhD
September 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
❓Did you know: Care workers in Barcelona face high levels of depersonalization — an emotional defense that creates distance from patients and from themselves.
This challenge is key to understanding the links between work, care, and mental health.
#CareWork #TOUCHProgramme #MentalHealth #PhD
This challenge is key to understanding the links between work, care, and mental health.
#CareWork #TOUCHProgramme #MentalHealth #PhD
👩🎓 Meet Francisca Barriga Yumha — the first PhD student we’re introducing. She’s a Chilean economist doing her PhD in Sociology. Her thesis looks at precarious employment and mental health in long-term care, with a focus on gender, labor, and collective resistance. @politiquesuab.bsky.social @uab.cat
September 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
👩🎓 Meet Francisca Barriga Yumha — the first PhD student we’re introducing. She’s a Chilean economist doing her PhD in Sociology. Her thesis looks at precarious employment and mental health in long-term care, with a focus on gender, labor, and collective resistance. @politiquesuab.bsky.social @uab.cat
Welcome to the TOUCH Programme! Led by the @uab.cat and co-funded by the EU, our new doctoral programme trains the next gen of mental health researchers.
Currently, we’re 13 PhD students from 9 countries, studying mental health from neuroscience to sociology and beyond 💙
https://webs.uab.cat/touch
Currently, we’re 13 PhD students from 9 countries, studying mental health from neuroscience to sociology and beyond 💙
https://webs.uab.cat/touch
September 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Welcome to the TOUCH Programme! Led by the @uab.cat and co-funded by the EU, our new doctoral programme trains the next gen of mental health researchers.
Currently, we’re 13 PhD students from 9 countries, studying mental health from neuroscience to sociology and beyond 💙
https://webs.uab.cat/touch
Currently, we’re 13 PhD students from 9 countries, studying mental health from neuroscience to sociology and beyond 💙
https://webs.uab.cat/touch