Nicole Tang

🌱 Great energy at today’s Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Group meeting! Huge thanks to our brilliant speakers @sabrinatwilhaar.bsky.social & @adamjowett.bsky.social for their presentations, & to our students who led the discussion. Looking forward to the next one! 💬🧠
#HealthAndWellbeing #Lifespan

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Figure 1 Associations between self-reported frequency of night awakenings at 14 years and the mean predicted probability of reporting an attempted suicide at 17 years at low (lowest 50 per cent of scores) and high (highest 50 per cent of scores) levels of rational decision-making. The blue line represents the 50 per cent of participants with the lowest rational decision-making scores and the red line reflects the remaining 50 per cent of participants with the highest rational decision-making scores. For both rational decision-making groups, an increase in night awakenings corresponds with an increased probability of reporting a suicide attempt. At low levels of night awakenings, those with high levels of rational decision-making have a slightly lower risk of subsequent reported suicide attempt compared to participants with low levels of rational decision-making. As the frequency of night awakenings increases, high and low levels of rational decision-making demonstrate similar risk for reporting a suicide attempt.

🧪Rational decision-making moderated the association between night awakenings & attempted suicide. The buffering effect of rational decision making was only evident when reported frequency of night awakenings was low, highlighting sleep as a preventative target for suicide attempts. #SleepPeeps (2/2)

Graphical abstract

🧪 New analysis led by @michaelapawley.bsky.social @warwickpsych.bsky.social shows suicide attempt history at 17 years was associated with more frequent night awakenings and shorter total time in bed on school days at 14 years. Open Access: doi.org/10.1093/slee... #Sleep #academicsky (1/2)

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"Jane Goodall showed us what a life in science could look like: rigorous discovery paired with fierce advocacy for what you study. She gave the world six decades of groundbreaking research on chimpanzees and their habitats, then turned that knowledge into a global movement for conservation." (1/2)

Use of paracetamol during pregnancy unchanged in the EU | European Medicines Agency (EMA) Paracetamol medicines can be used in pregnancy, in accordance with official recommendations

Paracetamol remains an important option to treat pain or fever in pregnant women.

Following rigorous assessment of the available scientific data, we find no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children.

Read more 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/use-...

“You do not see a link between paracetamol use in pregnancy and autism in children.”

Author of 'Expecting Better' Professor Emily Oster explains the studies on paracetamol use in pregnancy, after President Trump warned pregnant women against using the painkiller.

#Newsnight

On #worldalzheimersday our team
is thrilled with our efforts to understand how amyloid (magenta) interacts with blood vessels (green) and how better 🐁 models and translational approaches will help the fight to #endalz

And 🙏 @alzassociation.bsky.social for the support

Persistent pain awareness is critical; too many healthcare systems and providers are ignorant of the complexity of chronic pain. This leads to patient dismissiveness and treatment abandonment, which leads to increased suffering. We must do better.

#YourPainIsReal #WeBelieveYou

🧪Really pleased to see this collobarative work come together. Congratulations to @michaelapawley.bsky.social on her first PhD publication - a great milestone. Thanks also to Dr Isabel Morales-Munoz and @bagshaap.bsky.social @uob-sop.bsky.social for their valuable contributions. #sleepresearch

Chronic low back pain: What sciences supports vs. what it doesn’t - Massage & Fitness Magazine Key takeaways Chronic low back pain stems from multiple causes, including biological, psychological, societal, and environmental factors.  The current body of research points out that a multidisciplin...

3 chronic #lowbackpain treatments have promising long-term results based on curent body of research:

🤾 Exercise
👩‍⚕️ Psychological treatments (e.g. CBT, ACT)
🤝 Self-management programs

A highlight of myths and what mostly works for cLBP.

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This project was funded by the MRC and Monash Warwick Alliance, and brilliantly led by Talar Moukhtarian and Amber Tout. The programme was co-produced with shift workers and their employers in civil engineering, construction, and manufacturing.
@warwickmed.bsky.social @warwickpsych.bsky.social
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Our paper on SleepShifters, a new co-developed sleep and wellbeing programme for shift workers, is now out in the IJERPH.
🧪 Read the full open access paper, including the intervention development process and resulting protocol at: doi.org/10.3390/ijer...
#sleep #circadian #shiftwork
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Any mid-career STEM researchers interested in relocating to the UK? The Royal Society is providing £4M grants in a fast-track program.
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Well done, Teruni!

📢 Calling all healthcare professionals!

Katie Cunneen - PhD student at Warwick Psychology - is conducting a short 15-minute survey to better understand healthcare workers’ wellbeing and their engagement with workplace mental health support.
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“Self-harm rates have quadrupled since 2000 and risen from 6.4% in 2014 to 10.3% in 2024, with the highest rates among 16- to 24-year-olds at 24.6%, especially young women at 31.7%.”
@michaelapawley.bsky.social

One in four young people in England have mental health condition, NHS survey finds Rates are higher in young women as in young men and mental ill health up across age groups, study shows

Concerning sharp rises in common mental health conditions, particularly in young people.
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Interested in practising inclusive research in Autism? Free webinar offered by members of the Warwick Lifespan Health and Wellbeing group @drjjutley-neilson.bsky.social and Dr. Gitit Kadar-Satat. Sign up before spaces are gone! 🧪

Wow! That’s amazing! 🤩 Congrats @laurenwilkinson.bsky.social !!

Many congratulations, Charlotte! 🎉🎊👏

Wrapping up the European Insomnia Network meeting in Amsterdam! Two days of insightful talks, engaging round tables, beautiful posters and plenty of socialising on the topic of insomnia- forming new collaborations across Europe. What a supportive and engaging community to be part of!

Please share this widely! 🧪
Feedback welcome – we’re building this for the community 💬
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🚨 New Resource Alert! 🚨🧪
We just launched a resource page packed with useful information about the Pain Self Perception Scale for pain researchers and clinicians. Access is free for non-commercial projects/activities. Check it out here 👉 warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psyc...

Had the best time at the British Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting, and the cherry on top is winning the oral abstract prize 🥇🏆 Thank you @drjjutley-neilson.bsky.social @nkytang.bsky.social and @lukehodson.bsky.social on this project! @warwickpsych.bsky.social

🎉Live update!! Just announced:
@laurenwilkinson.bsky.social is the winner of the best poster presentation prize 🏆

Very proud of our PhD student @laurenwilkinson.bsky.social who delivered her Best Abstract Prize presentation at the British Pain Society meeting with confidence, clarity and empathy. Well done! 👏 @warwickpsych.bsky.social #BPS2025AGM