At #COP27 leaders must deliver climate justice for Africa. Over 250 health journals including & call for the promised $100bn-a-year climate finance, and additional resources for loss and damage. #HealthyClimate
The Lancet Psychiatry
@TheLancetPsych
Tweets from the editors of the world's mental health journal. Photo credit: Esther Maxwell-Orumbie and Beth Elliott
thelancet.com/psychiatry-jou…Joined March 2014
The Lancet Psychiatry’s Tweets
"Ukraine is still at war and there is danger everywhere. Yet Pinchuk has chosen to stay and provide support for people who need mental health care."
New free Profile on Irina Pinchuk
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"The Wire could be a useful tool in medical education to begin conversations about challenging topics such as structural racism and its effect on psychiatric outcomes."
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"We found intravenous, intranasal, oral, and possibly intramuscular and subcutaneous maintenance ketamine treatment to be effective in sustaining antidepressant effect in treatment-resistant depression."
New Review
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"self-reported COVID-19 illness combined with negative serology was associated with poorer mental health, whereas no association was found for positive serology without self-reported COVID-19"
New Article
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Joan Marsh, our Editor-in-Chief, will be in an exciting session on "Getting out of the tick-box: moving lived experience from involvement to shared leadership in mental health" at the 35th ECNP Congress, Oct 15-18, in Vienna & online #ECNP2022
More info: ecnp.eu/Congress2022
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New Viewpoint—ethical treatment of youth w/ severe #AnorexiaNervosa
Proposing a harm-reduction approach in alignment with core ethical themes:
🔹capacity & autonomy
🔹best interests of the patient
🔹person-centred care
By & co: bit.ly/3ygW9Wh
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NEW Review: As part of our Digital Mind Series, Nikolaos Koutsouleris and colleagues discuss opportunities and challenges of #ArtificialIntelligence-based precision medicine tools in mental health-care. bit.ly/3espxC6
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NEW Review: As part of our Digital Mind Series, Tobias Hauser and colleagues discuss the potential of computational models in the field of #psychiatry. bit.ly/3fWnwPh
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Our new series is live! ‘The digital mind: new concepts in mental health’ covers the opportunities and challenges of digital tools in tackling the global burden of #mentalhealth conditions. bit.ly/3rIfxYz
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"The question therefore becomes whether clinicians should abandon the idea of precision medicine in schizophrenia? We believe there might still be room for it."
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"Overall, these results suggest that the effectiveness and side-effect patterns of the [antipsychotic] drugs do not differ in the various subgroups of patients with schizophrenia."
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Each of Coates's films is directed by someone with lived experience of psychosis, and all 5 films are freely available online for 7 days starting today: Oct 10-16
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“I wanted to learn about the difficulty of everyday life for people experiencing psychosis...and her patients taught me about their lived experiences of psychosis directly” -- artist Marcus Coates on his series of 5 films, The Directors
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"Anti-stigma programmes are most effective when people with lived experience are involved as co-producers in all aspects of development, and when target groups are consulted on programme content and delivery."
Our Editorial for #WorldMentalHealthDay
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"What I do know is there are a lot of us fighting. We need understanding and empathy to maintain good physical and mental health. We need support, not shame."
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"It is time to end all forms of stigma and discrimination against people with mental health conditions, for whom there is double jeopardy: the impact of the primary condition and the severe consequences of stigma."
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'Worse than the condition itself'—new Lancet Commission calls for radical action to #EndStigmaAndDiscrimination against people with mental health conditions globally.
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5️⃣days to #WorldMentalHealthDay and the online launch of Commission report on Ending Stigma and Discrimination in #MentalHealth, hosted by
🔗Find out more & register: bit.ly/3C4EbIS
#EndStigmaAndDiscrimination
#WMHD2022
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"Given the bidirectional association between HIV and tuberculosis and mental ill health...any strategy to eliminate HIV and tuberculosis must address the mental health and psychosocial needs of those who are infected or at risk of infection"
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New paper with highlighting the impact of sexual violence experiences in mid-adolescence on #mentalhealth
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we need society/policy to do more to prevent teens (or anyone!) from these experiences!
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"It is essential that all health-care professionals and other individuals offering first-line responses and sustaining care have trauma-focused awareness of the potential mental health sequelae of sexual violence."
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"Our study highlights the large effect that experiences of sexual violence in adolescence can have on mental health, especially for girls"
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Our Editor-in-Chief, Joan Marsh, will be part of the 35th ECNP Congress, Oct 15-18. Join the session OS04 "Getting out of the tick-box: moving lived experience from involvement to shared leadership in mental health" in-person in Vienna or online
ecnp.eu/Congress2022
#ECNP2022
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NEW—Study suggests adults with a history of childhood trauma can benefit from recommended depression treatments, contrary to current theory.
Read in : hubs.ly/Q01n19T30
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"Contrary to previous studies, we found evidence that the symptoms of patients with major depressive disorder and childhood trauma significantly improve after pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments"
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"As the number of deaths under provisions in the recently revised medical assistance in dying law increases, its impending expansion is to include individuals with mental illness."
World Report in by Paul Webster
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Attending #IAYMH2022 in Copenhagen next week?
Our Senior Editor, Sophia Davis, is attending and invites you to contact her directly with submission inquiries or general queries about publishing with The Lancet Psychiatry
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We welcome the authors’ engagement with the phenomenological project, but we believe that their proposal is at odds with some of Phenomenology’s most fundamental values.
Read our new letter 📬 👇
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"The MTSP [China's Management and Treatment Services for Psychosis] is an innovative service model to tackle mental health problems in low-resource settings; however, its problems should not be neglected."
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"Misophonia follows my footsteps into the hospital like the shadows tethered to my feet, touching my life in ways that may seem unbelievable."
Essay by Michelle Izmaylov
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"Childhood trauma is common. Establishing diagnoses and mechanisms are one response to trauma, but mental health services should also focus on what happened to someone and how best to support them."
October Editorial
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"Prolonged exposure to low-dose lithium could be one of several routes towards identifying how this environmental, bioavailable mineral could help patients with bipolar disorder or schizoaffective disorder while averting chronic renal problems."
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"Steeper eGFR decline in patients with bipolar disorder or schizoaffective disorder can be attributed to lithium, but the trajectory of kidney function decline varies widely."
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"A personalised approach to care, involving key actors in the life of a young person at risk of suicide, is essential. Holistic action is our best hope for young people at risk of suicide."
Our Editorial for #WorldSuicidePreventionDay
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"but is more likely to be explained by factors shared between family members such as genetic variation or aspects of the shared environment." (2/2)
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