How antidepressants alter your perception of reality?

Join Camilla Nord as she dives into the human brain to explain how dopamine and antidepressants really impact your cognition - and how psychedelics have more than a small role to play in improving mental health.

Yet more proof here to add to the comprehensive review by Trisha Greenhalgh and colleagues below
thelancet.com/journals/ebiom…

It is a much needed message. We have just submitted papers detailing the personal application of the integrated CBTE model for long term and severe eating disorders - building on Prof. Fairburn's at University of Oxford and Riccardo Dalle Grave pioneering work. Implementation can make a difference

Autoimmune conditions underlie some cases of psychosis. Published on Science Magazine last week.

Scientists investigating 'basic neuroscience' are just starting to repair years of mistreatment and misdiagnosis to millions of patients. We won't stop.
science.org/content/articl…

Return to office mandates don't just motivate junior people to jump ship. They lose talent at the top too.

When tech companies started requiring attendance, senior leaders were more likely to leave for competitors.

Flexibility is an investment in retention at all levels.

🧵1) Only a minority of top medical journals have policies banning research with financial ties to the tobacco industry, while those with policies struggle to enforce them, a joint investigation by The BMJ Hristio Boytchev and The Investigative Desk has found
🔗 bmj.com/content/385/bm… …

We're extending our BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS – indefinitely. We've published 5 in depth papers on the founding principles, funding, workforce, sustainability, and social determinants (bmj.com/nhs-commission)

More to follow The BMJ

bmj.com/content/384/bm…

NHS work done by Private Sector

On the face of it a ‘good idea’ but wait….

The money spent is not then invested in the NHS, the private sector do this at a profit & long term capacity is lost form NHS making NHS a more reliant

Dr Amir Khan GP Explains

3. We are expected to represent the entire population - when in fact the population may be diverse, heterogenous, and have nuanced needs. We can't possibly know all the things when we are just one person.

A thread of some challenges those in lived experience roles experience that we need to address and counter. (Not exhaustive)
1. We are viewed through our stigmatised patient identity which means we immediately aren't perceived as knowledgeable or valued in research settings

Back from lunch and the 4th panel at the Global Health conference at #WHA is about innovations in global health tech.

It is clear that some of the biggest challenges is not necessarily the innovation of new technologies but how to make the accessible for everyone.

Excited and proud to see the main work from my PhD and postdoc on the development of 'GLP-1 directed NMDA receptor antagonism for obesity treatment' out in nature today!

nature.com/articles/s4158…

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PhD student Cláudia Gil presents our emerging project on the paradoxical interplay between food insecurity and obesity at #NeuroEndo24 Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR)

We agree with Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 ⬇️

We need to:

1. Apply mandatory warning labels to food high in saturated fat, sugar and salt.

2. End the financial relationships between the food industry and those who influence food policy. #CDOH

Obesity Health Alliance Action on Salt Action On Sugar

Do you know someone with bipolar disorder or schizoaffective disorder 18 - 45 years old?

They may be eligible to participate in a clinical trial of a dietary intervention.

Free food and the potential to earn $2,415.
rally.massgeneralbrigham.org/study/dietsbd

Medical institutions must treat the Cass review as a significant event and act upon it | The BMJ free access bmj.com/content/385/bm…

Prof Ellen Townsend Professor Ellen Townsend #IsAway_Mostly explains why social media may impact young people differently than older people.

Watch/listen to the full episode on YouTube and your favourite podcast providers.

🎧linktr.ee/MQopenmind
📺youtu.be/mn8hAH1fQNY

NEW REPORT
its four years since we started our COVID-19 program of research. Here's the report published for the funders
qresearch.org/media/qarlvbvv…
with thanks to the team incl Prof Kamlesh Khunti Nisha Mehta JVT Ruth Keogh Professor Calum Semple OBE Aziz Sheikh NIHR Research OxPrimaryCareSci

Our 3rd panel at the Global Health conference at #WHA focuses on the patient experience.
#PPIE #NothingAboutMeWithoutMe

“A recent paper in JAMA Psychiatry marshals evidence that mental illness can spread via social contagion among adolescents… [T]he effect was particularly strong for depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.” stevestewartwilliams.com/p/the-social-t…