Amy McCall

Differential Associations of Anticipatory and Consummatory Anhedonia With Depression and Social Anxiety Symptoms: A Network Analysis of University Students Background Depression and social anxiety are frequently co-occurring conditions that significantly impact young people. Anhedonia may be important to consider in early interventions for these condit...

Excited to share our new publication out in Depression and Anxiety! A network analysis of dimensions of anhedonia, depression symptoms, and social anxiety symptoms in university students 🧵

doi.org/10.1155/da/5...

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thanks for sharing, Lucy!!

Thanks to my coauthors @pollywaite.bsky.social , Felicity Waite, Ray Percy, Laura Turpin, Kate Robinson, and Jennifer McMahon 🌟 @topicgroup.bsky.social @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social @oxexppsy.bsky.social

🔜My ongoing PhD studies aim to improve screening for adolescent PD, measurement of panic-related cognitions in this group, and understanding of how a broader range of factors interact with symptoms (peer factors, perfectionism, dissociative experiences…) (7/7)

‼️We highlight the need for better tools for measuring adolescent PD cognitions and behaviours, and further research into the cognitions, behaviours, and social factors involved in the maintenance of panic in this age group. (6/?)

💡We suggest that catastrophic cognitions and safety behaviours may be specific treatment targets for adolescent PD, and that body sensation fear may be a treatment target for adolescent anxiety disorders more broadly. (5/?)

📈Our PD group reported significantly higher catastrophic cognitions and safety behaviours than both control groups, and significantly higher body sensation fear than the community, but not the clinical, control group. All processes predicted concurrent PD symptom severity across the sample. (4/?)

👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏽We recruited n=101 13-15-year-olds with either PD, another anxiety disorder excluding panic (‘clinical control’), or no anxiety disorder (‘community control’). They completed self-report measures of panic symptoms, thoughts, and behaviours. (3/?)

⁉️This was the first study to investigate the presence and specificity of certain cognitions and behaviours in adolescent PD over and above other adolescent anxiety disorders. In particular, we were interested in catastrophic cognitions, body sensation fear, and certain safety behaviours. (2/?)

Very happy to share the first paper from my PhD, recently published in Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy! 🥳 We investigated cognitive and behavioural processes in adolescent panic disorder. Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S135..., or here's a quick summary of our findings... (1/?) 🧵

Thanks for sharing, Maria!

YouTube video by Medical Research Council Researching panic disorder in young people

A quick intro! 👋🏻 I’m a Y3 PhD student at the Uni of Oxford researching panic in young people from a cognitive behavioural perspective - for a 60s intro to my work, here’s a short video I created!

www.youtube.com/shorts/DK0xg...

The communications minister cited a study in support of a teen social media ban. Its co-author disagrees University of Oxford professor Andrew Przybylski says the government has 'misunderstood the purpose and findings of our research'.

Science misinterpreted again - this time by Australian govt to justify teen social media bans. Our work shows responses to social media vary individually. We never advocated for blanket bans. Happy to engage with MPs on evidence-based policy. Let's get this right!

www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/20/t...

I've said this often: the discourse around smartphones/social media for young people is 99% dictated by 'concerned parents' agreeing with other 'concerned parents' about how their 'concerns' are valid, and thus something must be done!

That's not how anything should work, but hey ho, I guess
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Delighted to have been awarded the 2024 MRC Max Perutz Award! Had a brilliant time attending the ceremony at the Royal Institution this week, thanks to the organisers for the chance to share my work on panic in adolescence with a wider audience 😊🍾

Thanks Lucy 😊

Thanks Polly!

Would love to be added to this too, thanks for creating it!