Excited to share our new study The Lancet Healthy Longevity showing a mediating role of depressive symptoms, but not inflammation, in associations between social health markers (particularly social support) and subsequent cognition
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MRC LHA @ UCL

New findings from SONNET Study on care home activities and how these can be used to build social connection between care home residents.
Great work from Michal Misiak as part of UCL Mental Health Sciences MScs

This looks like a great opportunity to do a PhD exploring cognitive decline in very late onset psychosis: jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-…

Diagnosing dementia in acute hospitals-could we and should we? Free seminar from Old Age Psychiatry 🌈 & RCPsych Liaison Psychiatry Faculty Great speakers & debate: Andrew Sommerlad-data, Dr Jane Fleming-casefinding & Helen Croft-doing it well. 24/4/2024 @ 1500 register free: bit.ly/3UwvX5I

Great to hear results from the DREAMS-START trial addressing the difficult problem of sleep disturbance in people with dementia Penny Rapaport Gill Livingston UCL Psychiatry

Poster on the limited trial evidence for how to improve social functioning in people with dementia at #OAPsych2024 from Zuyu Wang . Suggests that new interventions and research in this area is needed

Our work on social cognitive impairments in dementia, led by Fern Rodgers Jonathan Huntley, on display at #OAPsych2024 . Theory of mind and emotion recognition is impaired in dementia and is associated with level of cognitive impairment

Exciting to share at #OAPsych2024 our SONNET study preliminary results on what helps people living in care homes to be more socially connected with others. Work led by Hannah Chapman @uclpsych

Why loneliness is bad for your health nature.com/articles/d4158…

Division of Psychiatry are showcasing some of our research, events and division-wide initiatives that focus on women’s health for #UCLWomensHealthWeek

Find out more on our webpage:
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We are recruiting for a Director of the UCL Division of Psychiatry.

The position of Director is available from September 2024 for an initial five-year term. Deadline to apply is 21 March 2024.

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Our new paper, published today in The Lancet Psychiatry, examines the detrimental effects of the Conservatives Government's #HostileEnvironment policy & subsequent #Windrush scandal on #mentalhealth in the UK.

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We are excited to share that the protocol for our systematic review of social connection measures for long-term care home residents has been published online, you can read it here: doi.org/10.1186/s13643…

New systematic review in The Lancet finds that having a psychiatric disorder is associated with a poorer prognosis for Parkinson’s disease in the long term

Ella Burchill Jonathan Rogers Andrew Sommerlad Andrew Lees Michael Zandi Anthony David Glyn Lewis

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Fancy working with us on genetics of vascular dementia, with some pretty cool genotype data from actual real life brain samples? 👀 check out our new post and feel free to DM or email me for a chat! 🧠 link below, please share! Dementia Researcher Brains for Dementia Research DEMON Network

Thrilled to be able to share our huge collaborative effort examining the impact of psychiatric comorbidities in Parkinson's disease (PD).

TL;DR - they're very important prognostically!

🤝 Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, UCL Psychiatry, Oxford Psychiatry, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology & many more.

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🎺Hot off the press! Delighted to share our systematic review and meta-analysis examining the neuropsychiatry of Parkinson’s disease in @lancetRHE
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Cameron Watson Jack Fanshawe Andrew Sommerlad Andrew Lees Michael Zandi Anthony David Glyn Lewis Jonathan Rogers

There are many obstacles that people from minoritised ethnic groups face in academia. See here for data and resources: ucu.org.uk/action-against…. We are glad to see the Wellcome taking initiative to support researchers from underrepresented ethnic groups in academia!