Annie Walsh
@awalsh9890
Senior Public Involvement in Research Manager @McPinFoundation #MentalHealth #Neuroscience Views expressed are not those of McPin.
“PPI&E is relational work – it takes time, trust, and commitment.” 📢 New blog from MHP featuring Vanessa Pinfold of @McPinFoundation on putting lived experience at the heart of research. 👉 Read here: mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/blog/lived-exp… #LivedExperience #MentalHealthResearch
#FathersDay We don’t all have the same blissful memories of childhood! You aren’t alone if you find the signalling around today quite upsetting. We’ve just dropped this jaw dropping new podcast with @GeorgeBillinge. Subscribe here: hello9a.podbean.com
New blog! Lisa Couperthwaite (@McPinFoundation) reflects on the recent @MHPlatform Industry Forum, a partnership between DATAMIND & Medicines Discovery Catapult, bringing together lived experience, research & industry. 🔗 Read more: mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/blog/industry-… #PPIE #SMI…
I wholly concur Annie it’s been amazing to work with you and @McPinFoundation the past several years on this project. The award is a team effort and culmination of lots of collaboration, support, guidance and fun! Looking forward to hopefully many more years of collaboration to…
birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/univ… Congratulations @benjmnperry on your @unibirmingham Early Career Researcher Impact Award! 🎉 It was an honor for @McPinFoundation to be invited & welcomed on to the stage with you as a collaborator, & fantastic to finally meet & celebrate in-person!
There is no overall evidence that SSRIs are unsafe during pregnancy, and in fact SSRIs can be lifesaving for pregnant women with mood & anxiety disorders. That's a key point of a letter APA sent today to U.S. FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary, expressing its alarm over some of…
If you are aged 18 or over and have lived with type 1 diabetes for at least a year, you can share your mental health experiences with researchers who are investigating emotional wellbeing and type 1💙 #Type1Diabetes #T1D #research #TrialTuesday
Academic journals may say they welcome the expertise of people with lived experience, but if their default expectation is for them to have institutional affiliations and the ability to pay article processing charges, this is not welcoming. It is exclusion.
Seeing as we are in the business of prophecy, I predict that the authors have made conclusions about the evidence they have included, and that they have said what that evidence is.
We've now seen a preview of the forthcoming antidepressant withdrawal paper. It's shocking. On the basis of a few short-term company trials (mostly 8 weeks) the authors conclude that antidepressant withdrawal hardly exists! God help us if the media report this junk uncritically😳
Literally everywhere, staff and businesses are dealing with the impact of parental addiction. Researcher Zara shows that this isn't just practical... The experience shapes the way we view ourselves and the places in which we exist. nacoa.org.uk/acoa-and-the-w… #AlcoholAwarenessWeek
We really need a more nuanced view of these drugs. I believe part of the reason the results are sometimes underwhelming is that people expect weight loss in the absence of robust lifestyle change. The best perspective is one in which a person expects that the drug (albeit at…
🧠 Tirzepatide doesn’t just reduce appetite—it rewires the brain. - - - A new Nature Medicine Phase 1 RCT (n=114) explored how tirzepatide changes eating behavior—and the brain’s response to food—in people with overweight or obesity. 📉 Key Findings at 3–6 Weeks 🔹-524 kcal/day…
@HubMetPsych researchers at UoE have published the first ever research using the Our Future Health UK cohort! 👇👇
@HubMetPsych researchers at UoE have published the first ever research using the Our Future Health UK cohort! Involving an analysis of over 1.5 million participants, it was found autoimmune disease may almost double the risk of mental ill health 👇 mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1/e…
New research is expanding our understanding of insulin: it’s not only produced in the pancreas, but also in the brain🧠 Read more from Dr Craig Beall's article (originally published in @ConversationUK) 🔗type1diabetesgrandchallenge.org.uk/news/views/des… @Craig_Beall #Type1DiabetesGrandChallenge
🚨 New on the Hub Blog! 🚨 Last week (9th-15th) June was Diabetes Awareness Week. In our latest blog, Workstream 2 share more about their research into the link between severe mental illness and type 2 diabetes 👇 metabolicpsychiatryhub.com/blog/the-diabe…
Prof Edmund Sonuga-Barke spoke with the @BBCOne Show [segment 11:42-16:14] on how many parents struggle to support their children with #ADHD, especially if they also have the condition. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…
Researchers at Coventry University are seeking a PPIE lead for an 18-month project aiming to find better ways to measure costs and benefits of treatments for conditions like #diabetes by considering how differences between individuals may affect how treatments work.👇
Do LLMs have a role to play in mental health research? Our new paper explores if, how, and when researchers use LLMs to do research, their broader concerns about LLM adoption in research, and attitudes moving forward. mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1/e…
Why I drank as an autistic person... why I stopped... and why I'll never drink again
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📢Another opportunity to join our research #community 👇 🎓Fully funded #PhD @KingsIoPPN with Workstream 4 of @HubMetPsych, co-producing metabolic interventions for people with severe mental illness. 📅 Apply by 10 June 2025 🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/2jobhub #MHAW2025