Ian Kelleher

We observed a significant increase in new eating disorder referrals to CAMHS in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. Interestingly, there was no evidence of changes in the patients' clinical, demographic, or deprivation profiles.

Open access in
#EatingBehaviors

doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...

YouTube video by Ian Kelleher Lab Can treating teenage depression prevent severe mental illness in adulthood?

Out now: No evidence that SSRI treatment for adolescent depression reduces future risk of psychosis. This goes against the belief that typical treatments for common mental disorders will reduce the risk of psychosis. 💊🧠
15 min explainer podcast: youtu.be/wP3nuqSpWbo
Paper: doi.org/10.1192/j.eu...

Out today in BJPsych: 45% of people with a psychotic or bipolar disorder attended CAMHS in Wales at some point in childhood/adolescence🧒

This replicates similar findings from Finland by @iankellehermd.bsky.social & co - showing this applies to UK CAMHS as well. doi.org/10.1192/bjp....

@iankellehermd.bsky.social and co previously demonstrated that ~50% of those with psychosis and bipolar disorder had been to CAMHs in Finland.
That was no fluke, as they have now demonstrated that it's 45% in wales. Great work by @kirstieohare.bsky.social 👏 👏
Paper: doi.org/10.1192/bjp....

Shared characteristics associated with both psychotic experiences and likelihood of being treated with stimulant medications may instead be driving the relationship.

Concerns have been raised that stimulant medications could increase risk of psychotic experiences in young people. Our new research shows no evidence for such a causal relationship 💊🧠

Paper 👇
publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

Adolescents hospitalised for non-psychotic disorders have a high risk of psychosis in adulthood. But do (attenuated) psychotic symptoms predict later psychotic illness? The answer isn’t necessarily what you might expect…

Open access in #PsychologicalMedicine

Systematic review and meta-analysis: relative age in attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder - European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Youngest students in their class, with birthdates just before the school entry cut-off date, are overrepresented among children receiving an Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) diagnosis o...

📣 Systematic Review in Feb’s ECAP: Youngest children in school year more commonly diagnosed with, & prescribed medication for, #ADHD, than older classmates

#relativeage effect also associated with receipt of diagnosis of #ASD.

Great work led by Eleni Frisira 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Only 12 days to go before the St John of God DETECT 20 year Early Intervention Psychosis conference. It takes place in the Talbot Hotel Stillorgan on Tues, 11 March 2025. Tickets selling fast. For all details and to book your place, click bit.ly/3ELGMLt

Amazing - well done Louise

1 in 2 adult mental health service outpatient appointments & inpatient bed days are taken up by former #CAMHS patients

Highlights frequently poor mental health trajectories for young ppl who attend CAMHS and need for research on altering these trajectories.

Paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New research shows >50% of specialist adult mental health service use comes from former #CAMHS patients

We need early intervention in childhood to change these poor long-term outcomes

That's why we need much more research on mental illness prevention in #CAMHS

👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Image: A globe surrounded by faces of the team members working on the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets. Text: Meet the team! We are a team of researchers, charities and lived experience experts from around the world! Logos: Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets. Wellcome Trust, MQ mental health research, King's College London (KCL), Platforms for Longitudinal Mental Health Data (PALM).

Meet the team behind the #AtlasLongitudinalDatasets!
We are a team of researchers, charities and lived experience experts from 15 countries around the world!
Check out our Who We Are page to learn more about our team: atlaslongitudinaldatasets.ac.uk/who-we-are

Yes, there’s a whole pipeline issue we need to address - from medical students all the way to professorships. This work was co-led by one of our UoE medical students - 2nd author, Aleks Poziemska

Time to act: hundreds of children sent out of area every day for mental health treatment Our analysis of the latest NHS England data shows a shocking 319 children and adolescents in England were forced to travel out of their area for mental health treatment from December 2023 to November ...

Time to act: hundreds of children sent out of area every day for mental health treatment

@rcpsych.bsky.social, @drladesmith.bsky.social, @elainelockhart.bsky.social

www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...

Parity of esteem in action again www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Treating child mental health in Ireland like 'firefighting with a blindfold on' due to lack of research Approaches to treating child mental health issues have barely changed in 30 years due to lack of research in the field, child psychiatrist says

Treating child mental health like 'firefighting with a blindfold on' due to lack of research.

From @ciananbrennan.bsky.social in @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

In the midst of a crisis in youth mental health, more than half of all medical schools in the UK & Ireland do not even have a single professor in child & adolescent psychiatry

New in #BJPsych

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Please re-post! Two Clinical Research Assistant position openings in the Neuroscience of Risk and Development Laboratory! sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

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We’ve been mental elfed!

Critical lack of evidence about social media use and youth mental health Impact of social media use on internalising symptoms in adolescents from clinical and community samples.

Critical lack of evidence about social media use and youth mental health in clinical populations www.nationalelfservice.net?p=209615

#SocialMedia #YouthMentalHealth #Research

Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants” British journalists and editors, this is for you

Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants”

British journalists and editors, this is for you

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/dummies-gu...

Encouraging the next generation of CAMHS researchers: an event dedicated to ECRs The webinar is tailored specifically for those in the early stages of their career. This session is perfect for medical students, psychology and nursing students seeking their first research experienc...

Early career bods, this is a must attend webinar 👇👍

'Encouraging the next generation of CAMHS researchers'
www.acamh.org/event/camh-e...

Keynote from address @tamsinford.bsky.social 'Whys and wherefores of an academic career'

Only costs 🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑

Stadia RCT publication

📣 New Research! It took 6 years but we got there!

The STADIA trial reports…

What we did: Large multi-centre #RCT with 1225 children and young people with emotional difficulties referred to #CAMHS across England, followed-up for 18 months.

6 Headline findings… see below… (1/7)

Check out the opportunity to work in this pioneering lab @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social

Watch out, I might collect yours next