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Globally renowned institute for research excellence and education in #MentalHealth and #Neuroscience at @KingsCollegeLon
Denmark Hill, London
Joined November 2012
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We are very sad to announce that Prof Sir Michael Rutter, the 'father of Child Psychiatry', passed away over the weekend. His extraordinary career laid the foundations of Child Psychiatry and Developmental Psychopathology. He will be dearly missed @SGDPCentreKCL @KingsCollegeLon.
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Tribute to Professor Sir Michael Rutter, ‘father of Child Psychiatry’. One of the most influential psychiatric scientists of his generation, he leaves an extraordinary legacy behind @SGDPCentreKCL @KingsCollegeLon.
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Huge congratulations to Ulrike Schmidt, Professor of Eating Disorders @KingsIoPPN @KingsCollegeLon, Consultant Psychiatrist @MaudsleyNHS, theme lead @NIHRMaudsleyBRC, who has been awarded an OBE in the King’s #NewYearHonours. We are very proud 👏 .#NY24Honours
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Congratulations to Professor Ulrike Schmidt, Professor of Eating Disorders at @KingsIoPPN, who has been announced as one of the #NHS70 Women Leaders #Nhs70Women @kingsedresearch @MaudsleyNHS @KingsCollegeLon
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A new @wellcometrust funded @KingsCollegeLon PhD programme has been launched to provide #mentalhealth research training #fellowships to doctors, nurses, psychologists & allied health professionals. Find out more here
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We are delighted to launch our plans for a new centre for children & young people’s mental health with our partners @MaudsleyNHS @maudsleycharity to identify mental health problems early & transform treatment and care for young people
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What an honour to have the Duke of Sussex attend #VMHC2019 today, and for @Tobias_Ellwood to give the opening address. The annual event brings together academics, charities & policymakers to hear the latest research on military #mentalhealth . Read more:
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Today we launch a £2m @WellcomeTrust study on the impact of arts interventions on physical & mental health with @UCL & @KingsHealth to provide the evidence needed to embed arts+culture in #NHS clinical pathways #ArtsHealthWellbeing #KingsCulturalCommunity.
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Maintaining health and #wellbeing during the #COVID19 pandemic. An online public event by @Kingspsychol . 📆 Thursday 2 April 2020.🕞 15:30 - 17:15.🔗
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New @JAMA_current study - @friendshipbench reduces #anxiety & #depression in #Zimbabwe: @LSHTMpress @gchallenges
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Professor Graham Thornicroft has been awarded a Knighthood for services to #mentalhealth - Congratulations, Sir @ThornicroftG!
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Women now make up more than 41% of professors at #KingsIoPPN 🎉👩🔬 . To celebrate, 28 new portraits were added to our ‘Inspiring Women’ exhibition. Full story➡️. @IoPPN_Inclusion @KingsCollegeLon @NIHRMaudsleyBRC @MaudsleyNHS @DavidTett #CEDI #WomenInSTEM
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Today is Maudsley Hospital's 100th anniversary. We are excited to continue supporting our colleagues in pioneering mental health. Happy birthday @MaudsleyNHS! 🎊. Read more ⬇️ .. @KingsMaudsley #KingsIoPPN @NIHRMaudsleyBRC
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We're pleased to share that King's College London is now second in the UK for Psychology on the Guardian University Guide 2021! Huge congratulations to our IoPPN Psychology colleagues 🎉 @GdnUniversities @GuardianEdu @KingsCollegeLon @BPSOfficial
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'All of the successful steps we’ve taken so far have involved collaboration, and I urge all of you to commit to greater openness and coordination so we can make this change together' - Prince Harry at #vmhc2018
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Many congratulations to Prof Francesca Happé @HappeLab @KingsCollegeLon awarded CBE in #NewYearsHonoursList for services to the Study of #Autism. We are very proud! Listen to Prof Happé on @BBCSounds #LifeScientific
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We are proud to announce that #KingsIoPPN Professor @KateTchanturia has been elected as President to the prestigious international Eating Disorders Research Society 👏 . Full story ➡️ . #IoPPNNews #EatingDisorders #EDRS @MaudsleyNHS.
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Professor Sir Michael Rutter is retiring from the IoPPN after 55 years. To celebrate his extraordinary career and legacy, some of Sir Michael's colleagues, collaborators, and friends have come together to create a short video. #IoPPNNews #ChildPsychiatry.
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Prince Harry arriving @KingsCollegeLon for @kcmhr #VMHC2017 w/ @FiMTrust & @heads_together #veterans #mentalhealth
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Congratulations to Professor Sir Graham Thornicroft @ThornicroftG who was invested with a #Knighthood for significant contributions to mental health #policy in England, and reducing #stigma worldwide around #mentalhealth @KingsHSPR @CLAHRC_SL @ClarenceHouse
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“We’ve overlooked #autism in women and girls and I think there’s a real gender equality issue here” - @hannahdev interviews Prof Francesca Happé (@HappeLab), director of @SGDPCentreKCL in today’s @guardian. Read more:
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Congratulations to Profs Janet Treasure, @FGaughran, @Derektracy1, and Dr @tobypill, on their achievements at the @RCPsych Awards 2024. #Psychiatry.
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Our fantastic #ArtsinMind festival will be taking place June 4-10 in #denmarkhill. The festival celebrates innovative collaborations between our researchers & the creative and cultural sector. Find out more about events, workshops and art exhibitions here
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Looking forward to watching the new @louistheroux on @BBCTwo tonight, partly filmed at the @MaudsleyNHS Mother and Baby Unit - so important to understand postpartum psychosis from the perspective of new mums.
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A new open access study examining 28 nations by @Kingspsychol Qazi Rahman, Richard Lippa, Yin Xu & @Vaseylab suggests that sexual orientation is not related to a society’s prevailing gender norms or patriarchal structures #lgbt #sexualorientation.
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We're very excited to announce the new Centre for Society and Mental Health (follow👉@kcsamh), a collaboration between @KingsSSPP and @KingsIoPPN, funded by @ESRC . Read more: #SocietyMentalHealth
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New research from @KingsCollegeLon shows nearly half of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) staff are likely to meet the threshold for #PTSD, severe #anxiety or problem #drinking during the #COVID19 #pandemic @ProfNGreenberg
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We are delighted to announce that Professor @MatthewHotopf CBE has been appointed as Executive Dean of the IoPPN👏 He will start his appointment early September 2023. #KingsIoPPN #IoPPNNews @NIHRMaudsleyBRC @KingsCollegeLon @kingshealth @MaudsleyNHS
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Huge congratulations to our pioneering researchers Prof Louise Howard & Prof Terrie Moffitt who were recognised in the #KingsBirthdayHonours! Louise received an OBE for services to women's mental health & Terrie an MBE for services to social science👏
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Congratulations to Professor Oscar Marín @MarinLab who has been announced winner of the FENS-EJN Award 2024 this morning for his outstanding scientific work in #neuroscience!👏 @FENSorg. 🔗 👇 . #KingsIoPPN #IoPPNews @dev_neuro @MRC_CNDD.
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‘People with the most severe forms of mental illness have the greatest needs and continue to be the most neglected' says Prof Sir Simon Wessely, in an interim report from the review of the #MentalHealth Act, commissioned by @theresa_may . Read more:
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A new report, led by @KingsCollegeLon researchers and commissioned by @wellcometrust, analyses 3,068 #longitudinal datasets across 146 different countries to uncover their potential for #MentalHealth research. 🔗➡️ #KingsIoPPN #IoPPNNews
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Prof Carmine Pariante has been awarded a Distinguished Investigator Grant by @BBRFoundation. Congratulations, @ParianteSPILab!
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Prof. @melanieabas, along with members of a new Global Health Research Group, has received £2.75m in #UKRI funding to learn how best to treat #depression and #anxiety in 15-24 year olds in #Ghana and #Zimbabwe. @UKRI_News . Click the link to learn more.
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We are delighted to welcome Prof @MatthewHotopf CBE as the new Executive Dean of the IoPPN!. Having been with @KingsCollegeLon for over 25 years, he brings outstanding expertise & experience to the role 🧵. 🔗
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New research challenges the idea that a child’s weight reflects the way their parents feed them. Instead, parents appear to adopt feeding styles in response to their children’s natural body weight, which is largely genetically influenced. Read more:
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Avatar therapy may help to reduce auditory hallucinations for people with #schizophrenia - new @KingsIoPPN & @MaudsleyNHS @wellcometrust-funded research published today in @TheLancetPsych:
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We’re proud to announce that Psychology at King’s has been ranked fifth in the UK in the Complete University Guide’s subject league table this year @Kingspsychol @KingsCollegeLon @compuniguide:
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We are pleased to announce the appointment of @WesselyS as our new Interim Executive Dean. Full story here: @KingsCollegeLon @MaudsleyNHS @kingshealth.
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Is it time to move on from "doctor knows best"?. New research from @tompollak and @Cambridge_Uni has found multiple examples of patient reports being under-valued, as experts call for more attention to be given to patients’ lived experiences. #IoPPNNews.
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🏆Winner🏆. @ParianteLab, Professor of Biological Psychiatry and Editor of @inspirethemind_, has been awarded Psychiatric Communicator of the Year. @NIHRMaudsleyBRC @MaudsleyNHS @maudsleycharity. #RCPsychAwards . Watch Carmine's reaction below
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Researchers at IoPPN have received £3.37million from @Wellcome to extend the AVATAR project offering digital avatar #therapy to people experiencing auditory #hallucinations. Read more here: @UCL, @UCL_Business, @OfficialUoM, @UofGlasgow.
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Huge congratulations to Prof Louise Arseneault on her election as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, joining 26 existing Fellows at @KingsIoPPN, 5 from @SGDPCentreKCL . Read more:
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Dr Tatiana Salisbury (@SalisburyMH) and Dr Charlotte Hanlon have been appointed as new Co-Directors of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health (WHOCC) at King’s College London:
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Congratulations to Professors @Lucia_Valmaggia & Patrick Smith who have been elected Fellows of the @BABCP for their significant contributions to the development of #CBT!🔗 👇 . #KingsIoPPN #IoPPNNews @KingsMaudsley @MaudsleyNHS @kingspsychol.
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Wishing Professor Francesca Happé (@HappeLab) the best of luck ahead of her appearance on #UniversityChallenge this evening! . We'll be cheering her on from 20:30 on @BBCTwo.
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Naturally occurring lithium in public drinking water may have an anti-suicidal effect – according to a new collaborative study from Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) and the IoPPN @BSMSMedSchool @Strawbr1 @DrBenCarter @TheBJPsych @BAPsych @RCPsych
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Today in the @HouseofCommons, @theresa_may congratulated Prof Sir Simon Wessely (@WesselyS) on the review of the #MentalHealthAct which he chaired as Regius Prof of Psychiatry at @KingsCollegeLon, and committed to bring forward changes to the Act. Watch:
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Read this @guardian interview with IoPPN's Prof Neil Greenberg @ProfNGreenberg 'Hospitals must give staff better 'psychological PPE'
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New study by @KingsIoPPN & @MaudsleyNHS reveals for first time that talking therapy changes the brain's wiring:
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Researchers from @KingsCollegeLon are lead authors on the first Maudsley Practice Guidelines on diagnosing physical health conditions in people with severe #MentalHealth problems. Read more: @maudsleylearn @tobypill @FGaughran.
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For the first time ever the highest impact factor psychiatry journal World Psychiatry has published a Forum on Perinatal Mental Health, with the lead paper written by IoPPN’s Prof Louise Howard and Dr Hind Khalifeh. Read it here:
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Happy birthday NHS! 🎉. A special thank you to our colleagues across IoPPN, @MaudsleyNHS and @KingsCollegeLon who have worked in the NHS during the coronavirus pandemic, and to everyone who has donated time and supplies in this challenging time. #happybirthdaynhs.
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Prince Harry caused quite a stir @KingsCollegeLon today! Read about his visit to @kcmhr's conference #VMHC2017.
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"Without peer in the history of American behavioural #genetics" - @RobertPlomin receives prestigious @APA award:
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New research led by Prof @AmmarAlChalabi suggests the genetic basis of #ALS is being missed for hundreds of people in the UK as they do not fit the “arbitrary age limits and rules” for #GeneticTesting🧬. #KingsIoPPN #IoPPNNews @NIHRMaudsleyBRC @Brain1878 .
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A big thank you to @wolfsonfdn for generous grant of £1M to help transform the #MentalHealth of children and young people @KingsCollegeLon @MaudsleyNHS @maudsleycharity:
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Over 3000 people joined @Kingspsychol fantastic virtual event 'Maintaining Health and Well-being during #COVID19' last week. For anyone unable to make it, these talks are now available online @KingsCollegeLon.
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£5million has been awarded to @ParianteLab and team for a 5-year research project ‘ASPIRE’, aiming to test if anti-inflammatories can be the right treatment for the right people with depression.
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What's the relationship between #depression and #inflammation?. New research from @ParianteLab and @_Luca_Sforzini has found there could be more patients with depression with activated immune systems than research has previously estimated. #IoPPNNews.
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The largest #neuroimaging study examining psychotic-like experiences in adolescents to date has identified previously undiscovered changes in brain activity occurring between the ages of 14 and 19 years. 🧠. Read more:
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70 to 80 % of people with schizophrenia hear voices. Today on #NSAD2021 find out about how researchers use digital tech to work with auditory hallucinations in the @AvatarLdn 2 trial w/ @UofGlasgow @OfficialUoM @MaudsleyNHS @NIHRMaudsleyBRC @wellcometrust .
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Bringing the latest evidence to the forefront of #mentalhealth policy – new @OfficialNIHR @MentalHealthPRU research unit led by @KingsCollegeLon and @ucl:
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Join us at the IoPPN Inaugural Lecture series featuring @jamesmaccabe as Professor of Epidemiology and Therapeutics in Psychosis at King’s College London on “When the drugs don't work: the challenge of treatment resistant psychosis.” . Register:
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We're pleased to announce that over £8 million @wellcometrust funding has been awarded to #KingsIoPPN #MentalHealth research programmes!. Find out more➡️ [🧵1/4] #IoPPNNews @KingsCollegeLon @kingshealth
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Neuronal cells in the brain are connected by trillions of synapses; how these connections are formed in mammals are not well understood. Prof @L_andreae and Dr Katie Long have been awarded a @UKRI_News BBSRC grant to investigate this further.#Neuroscience.
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The Duchess of Cambridge @KensingtonRoyal meets Rt Hon the Lord Geidt, chairman of @KingsCollegeLon at the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute @KingsIoPPN
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Dr @LCHeathcote and Dr @Gem_K_1 have both been awarded @wellcometrust Mental Health Awards for new research to understand #Anxiety and #Trauma .
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Dr Marta Di Forti awarded @The_MRC Senior Clinical Fellowship to support her programme that seeks both to understand the wider impact of heavy cannabis use on the mental health of young adults beyond clinical psychosis: #fellowship #research.
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Prince Harry kicks off #VMHC2017 speaking with 3 veterans on their #mentalhealth experiences within the armed forces #HeadsTogether
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Link between #autoimmune disorders and #psychosis confirmed in a study with data from over 25 million people. 'Overall, people with any autoimmune disorder are around 40% more likely to develop psychotic disorders' says Dr Alexis Cullen. Read more:
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The largest study of its kind, led by Prof @MondelliValeria #KingsIoPPN @NIHRMaudsleyBRC, has identified certain proteins involved in our #immune response that influence our risk for developing #psychosis. #IoPPNNews @KingsCollegeLon.
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Congratulations Prof Elizabeth Kuipers OBE @Kingspsychol @KingsIoPPN @KingsCollegeLon #NewYearsHonours @cabinetofficeuk 🏆🎓.
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We are pleased to announce that Dr Olakunle Oginni and Dr Yasmin Ahmadzadeh @yaszadeh have been awarded the @SGDPCentreKCL Gottesman-Shields Prize for the best #PhD theses 2020-22!📝. #KingsIoPPN #IoPPNNews @cathrynlewis @ChloeCWong.
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Welcome to tonight’s #IoPPNInaugural lecture ‘Fighting for Health and Social Equity: Lessons from a southernplayalistic ATLien' featuring Professor @HatchStephani, Professor of Sociology and Epidemiology and Vice Dean (CEDI) from IoPPN Wolfson Lecture Theatre
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Prof Declan Murphy from @KingsIoPPN is the academic lead for AIMS-2-Trials - the largest grant ever given for neurodevelopmental conditions, announced today, which will transform #autism research. Read more:
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Dr @ollie_pain & Prof @cathrynlewis have launched GenoPred - a tool that allows researchers to easily calculate #polygenic scores to uncover individuals' genetic risk for certain health-related outcomes 🧬 . 🔗 👉
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Huge congratulations to IoPPN staff nominated for @RCPsych awards 2019, what a stellar lineup!! 🎉🥳. Dr Lade Smith.Dr Bruce Clark.Prof @jamesmaccabe.Prof @andrea_danese.Dr @Derektracy1.Dr Cate Bailey (@_parapraxis_).Plus @kingsmedicine student @haridhap1.
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We're excited to welcome Prof @roland_zahn for his #IoPPNInaugural lecture 'The finger of blame in #depression and the brain'! . The lecture is introduced by Prof Allan Young (right), and we'll hear from Prof Trudie Chalder at the end for a vote of thanks (left). #KingsIoPPN
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2 days to go! V exciting that the Duchess of Cambridge is coming to the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute at @KingsIoPPN on Wednesday to learn about our research on maternal mental health, before visiting the @MaudsleyNHS mother and baby unit. @KensingtonRoyal.
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Big congratulations to our visiting Senior Lecturer in the Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Dr Shubulade Smith who has been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2019. Very inspiring!
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King's College London launches the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets, a free platform with over 1,600 datasets, to support mental health research worldwide. Read more and learn how to access:
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We have a packed lecture theatre for Prof Gerome Breen’s #IoPPNInaugural!. His talk ‘A Geneticist’s Guide to the Galaxy of Mental Health’ will explore his journey to Prof of #PsychiatricGenetics. He’s supported by Prof Thalia Eley (right) & Prof Robert Plomin (left).
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Congratulations to Prof @AmmarAlChalabi, Dr @RueppLab & Dr @AlfredoIacoange who have won MND Accelerator Awards totaling £1.4 million to accelerate #MND treatment development⬇️. @The_MRC @NIHRresearch @UKDRI @UKMNDRI @CorinneHouart #MotorNeuronDisease
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We're delighted that IoPPN will lead 2 of 8 new #MentalHealthNetworks announced today by @UKRI_News. @NicolaByrom will lead @NetworkSmarten on student #mentalhealth while Prof Louise Howard & @sianoram will lead a network on #violence & #abuse. Read more:
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Congratulations to Dr @bannister_lab for receiving the @BritishPainSoc 2023 Patrick D. Wall Award at the Annual Scientific Meeting, where she gave her plenary lecture about the top-down control of pain in health and disease. 🔗 ⬇️.#IoPPNNews @WolfsonCARD.
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“The elephant in the room - is that there is still a need to reduce barriers to accessing care” - Professor Ulrike Schmidt tells the story of FREED, a multi-award winning evidence-based service model for emerging adults @FREEDfromED #IoPPNfestival
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Congratulations Dr Matthew Grubb from @dev_neuro for receiving the 2022 BNA @britishneuro Individual Researcher Credibility Prize for his efforts to ensure his research is robust, reliable, replicable, and reproducible. #IoPPNNews. Read the news story:
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Peter Goadsby @petergoadsby , Professor of Neurology at @KingsCollegeLon has been awarded the world’s top Brain Prize from the Lundbeck Foundation for his pioneering migraine research. @BrainPrize @lundbeckfonden #TheBrainPrize #LundbeckFoundation
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Fantastic interview with Dr @EmmanuellPeters from @Kingspsychol, @MaudsleyNHS in @psychmag - ‘There is nothing I’d rather be doing than fighting the corner for people with #psychosis’.
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Is it normal to be psychotic? Actually, these experience are far more common than we realise - @HelenLFisher shares insights from her research and the #AlteredStatesArt project. #ArtsInMind
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On her visit, The Duchess met with Prof Paola Dazzan, @ParianteSPILab and members of his lab, Dr Chiara Nosarti, Prof Louise Howard and @TrudiSene1
Inside the Institute's laboratory, The Duchess receives a briefing on its work in perinatal research before meeting with academics leading research in perinatal psychiatry.
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Professor @CathrynLewis about to speak live to @Geetagurumurthy on @BBCWorld about the recent major study on #genetics of #depression. Read more:
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'Moving and doing exercise can help reduce stress levels and improve concentration' - @BrendonStubbs talks to @PaigeNealHolder about the #RunAndRevise scheme for the 2019 exam season🏃♀️📝🏃♂️. Read more about Dr Stubbs' work:
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We're delighted that Prince Harry will be speaking at the Veterans’ Mental Health Conference, organised by @kcmhr, for the second year in a row. Looking forward to hearing the Prince's speech! . #VMHC2018 @WesselyS @ntfear @FiMTrust
Prince Harry will deliver a keynote speech at the annual Veterans’ Mental Health Conference held at @KingsCollegeLon on Thursday March 15th, and will discuss work he is pursuing at The Royal Foundation for mental health in the Armed Forces Community.
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Up to 80% of UK children are exposed to trauma by age 18. For #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, Prof @andrea_danese unpacks how #ChildhoodTrauma can lead to #anxiety – and in some of the more serious cases, #PTSD. Read his blog➡️ #KingsIoPPN #MHAW23
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Congratulations to Professor Gráinne McAlonan on her appointment as Director of @NIHRMaudsleyBRC. Full story here ( @kingshealth @MaudsleyNHS @KingsCollegeLon
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First good evidence of a link between #creativity and risk of #mentalhealth problems found in a study by Dr @jamesmaccabe, covered in @theipaper:.
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What is known about the impacts of #socialisolation on the #disadvantaged and vulnerable in the context of #pandemics and #publichealth crises? New @ESRC review by @kcsamh researchers @C_GayerAnderson @rachel_latham @Catherine_E_PhD Read more here
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