A re-enactment of one of the most famous artworks of the Italian Renaissance has been launched at Trinity College Dublin. Raphael’s 'The School of Athens' depicts a gathering of 50 male philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists. But the new image has a striking twist.

Are YOU coming to #BAP2024 in Birmingham in July?

Listen to David Baldwin (President of the BAP) and Catherine Harmer (BAP President-Elect & Head of Oxford PERL Lab) preview the Summer Meeting.

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Join us in Birmingham to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the BAP on 21-24 July 2024

🌟 #BAP2024 🌟

The Summer Meeting of the British Association of Psychopharmacology.

bap.org.uk/BAP2024

We'll be taking this event #BeyondTheRoom with live tweeting & videos

Great to see the new paper out led by Éimear M. Foley.

We showed that a novel measure of inflammation (IL-6 activity) was associated with poorer clinical and cognitive outcomes in patients with depression.

Promising approach over individual inflammatory protein levels.

IL-6 is a much researched & important immune protein. In this study, we apply a new measure:

IL-6 bioavailability derived from serum levels of three proteins involved in IL-6 signaling.

Great work from MRC IEU PhD student Éimear M. Foley 👏

#immunopsychiatry University of Bristol

Paper in The BMJ shows ultraprocessed food consumption is associated with every adverse health outcome that poor people have higher risks of than the well healed. Here Marcus Munafò explains why these associations should not be interpreted as causal bmj.com/content/384/bm…

👀 Watch this space 👀

New social media training course by The Mental Elf coming soon!

✨Happy Friday! We have yet ANOTHER fantastic new Immunopsychiatry Meeting for you all!📷

Be sure to join us on Monday 4th March at 4pm (GMT) for a great pair of back-to-back talks by Dr Manish Jha & Dr David Goldsmith on their research Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience ECNPtweets

Come to Birmingham (UK) for the 50th Anniversary Summer Meeting, 21st - 24th July #BAP2024

Register and submit your abstract at bap.org.uk/BAP2024

Brain-body health please: new research supports integrated physical and mental health care
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Athina Aruldass Athina Aruldass finds that management of serious neuropsychiatric disorders should target restoration of both brain and body function.

Prof John H. Krystal, M.D. from Yale Psychiatry will be giving a Guest Lecture at the BAP conference in Birmingham on 24th July.

We spoke to him earlier this week for the conference podcast and you can listen now
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#Ketamine #Depression #BAP2024

Can proteomics improve our prediction of depression remission?
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Today Jonas Hagenberg from Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry summarises a recent study in Biological Psychiatry by Philippe C. Habets et al

Welcome to the woodland Jonas! 🌳🌤️🍄

#Proteomics #Depression #Remission

The Elves are heading home for Christmas. They'll be taking a well-earned break and we'll see them in 2024!

Big thanks to everyone who has worked so hard to make the blogs such a success in 2023: nationalelfservice.net

Special thanks to our community of BLOGGERS!! 👏🏽🙏🏽 xx

Really enjoyed writing my first blog for The Mental Elf discussing new research into the menstrual cycle as an acute risk factor for suicidal ideation.

Massive thanks to Éimear M. Foley for working with me

An excellent new @mental_elf blog on the menstrual cycle as a risk factor for suicidal ideation.

Very interesting read 👇 Nice work Gemma Sawyer!

MRC IEU University of Bristol

OTD in 1913 Mary dressed herself & her baby boy in their best & went for a special photo to mark his 1st birthday.

A big event - infant mortality was high, esp in tenements of Dublin 153.5 per 0000. How far we’ve come.

Happy birthday Dad. Miss you❤️ National Library of Ireland Central Statistics Office Ireland

Early intervention for psychosis: better outcomes in the short term?
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Emanuele Osimo Emanuele Osimo blogs about the 20-year follow-up of the OPUS trial in JAMA Psychiatry

#EIP #EarlyIntervention InPsychosis #EarlyIntervention #Psychosis

Here's André with a quick update on our SAVE THE MENTAL ELF campaign 🌳🌤️🍄

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