Full body scan stories are like catnip for some journalists. They boast of waiting lines of 100,000, driving up demand. But evidence? Not so much. open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...

Let’s reach everyone interested in mental health across our communities with the message that they can build a career in mental health research. It’s #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and the theme this year is COMMUNITY. #MentalHealthResearch #MentalHealthCareers 🧵 THREAD youtu.be/jvnVWTPzlDw?...

I've been fretting for some time about "what happens when they find out what PubMed does?" It's great to hear that there are concerted efforts underway to create alternatives. They need our support. Many thanks @hildabast.bsky.social for highlighting this.

When do universal school mental health interventions cause harm, and why? Carolina Guzman-Holst discusses these questions in the below podcast - please share with interested parties changingstatesofmind.libsyn.com/first-do-no-... Our scoping review on this topic: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40101758/

Our new paper!! Led by @drpauldijkstra.bsky.social with @jessrmorley.bsky.social and awesome medical student Yosra Mekki. #digitalhealth #medsky #episky How to Read a Paper Involving AI. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/...

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🎧 We're getting ready for the 2025 #IoPPNfestival & chatting with the keynote speakers for our podcast. Ep. 1 features Prof Edmund Sonuga-Barke from @kingsioppn.bsky.social talking to @dbadenoch.bsky.social about RE-STAR: Regulating Emotions – Strengthening Adolescent Resilience

Next Tuesday, I'm giving a talk at UCL about the downsides of mental health awareness in schools. I'll be sharing the work I've been doing over the last two years, which explores the negative effects that universal mental health interventions can have in schools (thread)

Quetiapine may pip lithium to the augmentation post in 'treatment resistant depression': results from the LQD study buff.ly/Y7jCajZ #LQDstudy #Quetiapine #Lithium #Depression #RCT 🧵 THREAD

Calling all mental health researchers! Do you need some #ElfHelp from The Mental Elf? 🌳🌤️🍄 This year we have been commissioned by many mental health research groups to help them disseminate their new research. We know how difficult it can be for researchers to get their work out there. 🧵 THREAD

Dr. Jen Gunter dissects 2 women’s health issues in which marketing has outraced science - “hair wellness” nutraceutical & “the menopause estrogen face cream epidemic.” garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/marketing-...

The Parent Carer Research Network, in partnership with Mental Health in Development at the University of Oxford, is here. We welcome any #parents or #carers interested in getting involved in #research to improve children and young people's #MentalHealth. parentcarerresearchnetwork.org.uk

Seems like a good idea. Will probably need public subscription, like how they used to build libraries the last time the robber barons ran the show.

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Call for papers on #AI in #EvidenceSynthesis: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Peer support in mental health webinar 2.00-4.30pm GMT, Mon 20 Jan Tickets going fast! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peer-suppo... With @soniajohnson1.bsky.social @acgrundy.bsky.social Steve Gillard, Una Foye, Ruth Cooper, Natasha Lyons & Members of the UCL Co-Production Collective.

Not until we've discovered a better method for determining the effects of interventions. The issue is applicability. These findings show we need better critical appraisal and trial design, not fewer RCTs. "Is my patient so different that these results cannot help them?"

Not exactly news, but well-researched evidence is always welcome.

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