In the news...
for June 2024 |
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from the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham
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Hello,
Welcome to our new format IMH newsletter.
You’ll find the usual mix of news, events and interesting reads from the Institute of Mental Health all in a new and easy to read email. You’ll now receive a shorter newsletter each month, so we can keep our subscribers up to date with our mental health research news.
This month’s edition includes the publication of the first of its kind large scale review of the risks and impact ADHD can have on individual’s mental health and physical health, as well as the wider societal implications. The review highlights a need for a shift in the current approach to treating just symptoms, to providing a holistic approach instead.
Scroll down to read more, plus a round up of this years winners at the IMH Research Day, all our latest events news and research announcements.
Professor Martin Orrell
Director, Institute of Mental Health
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‘The impacts associated with having ADHD: an umbrella review’ published to the Frontiers in Psychiatry
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New research has revealed the extensive impact of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) highlighting mental health vulnerabilities, physical health risks, and societal implications, emphasising the need for a holistic approach to properly manage this condition. Dr Blandine French said, ‘By adopting a holistic approach, stakeholders such as clinicians, teachers or parents can better address the diverse challenges posed by ADHD and enhance the overall well-being of individuals affected by the condition.
Read the full review in Frontiers in Psychiatry here
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"The holistic perspective presented in the review underscores the necessity of a paradigm shift in the approach to ADHD. Moving beyond a narrow focus on symptom management, there is a growing recognition of the need for comprehensive care models that encompass mental health, physical health, and societal factors. Integration of this comprehensive understanding into ADHD discourse is deemed crucial for developing targeted interventions and providing care. By adopting a holistic approach, stakeholders such as clinicians, teachers or parents can better address the diverse challenges posed by ADHD and enhance the overall well-being of individuals affected by the condition."
- Dr Blandine French, University of Nottingham School of Psychology and Institute for Mental Health CANDAL member
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Professor Peter Bartlett stepping down from role as Director of Centre for Mental Health and Human Rights
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After many years of leading our Centre for Mental Health and Human Rights, Professor Peter Bartlett is stepping down. Peter has done wonderful work setting up the Centre and developing it as a centre of excellence in the field. In particular, Peter led the process to successfully establish the WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Disability and Human Rights which officially launched in 2020 and has now been renewed for a further four years from April this year.
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New podcast episode from the Association for Child & Adolescent
Mental Health: Discussing the SATURN Project
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In this In Conversation podcast, Dr. Seonaid Anderson is joined by Professor Chris Hollis, who is leading a research team working on a research project about ADHD medication and Tics. The focus of this podcast is on this research project, called The SATURN Trial. ‘Stimulant Medication for ADHD and Tics – Understanding Response versus Non-stimulants (SATURN): a randomised trial of the clinical and cost-effectiveness of methylphenidate versus Guanfacine for ADHD in children and young people with a co-existing tic disorder’.Discussion points include:
- Definition of Tics and ADHD.
- Potential challenges of differentiating between tics from a Tic Disorder, such as Tourette Syndrome, from other movements from conditions such as chorea dystonia myoclonus.
- Differentiating between stimming movements and tics.
- The reason behind The SATURN Trial and how it is funded.
- The effectiveness of non-stimulant medication in treating the symptoms of ADHD.
- Co-morbidity and Tic Disorders.
- Impact of the ongoing shortage of ADHD medication on patients.
- Why people should be encouraged to get involved in this research and the clinical implications from this research.
Listen to the podcast episode on the ACAMH website or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts - just search for ‘ACAMH’. |
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New podcast episode from the Association for Child & Adolescent
Mental Health: Understanding Tic Disorders: A Round Table on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Research
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In this In Conversation podcast, Dr. Seonaid Anderson is joined by members of the Institute Dr. Charlotte Hall and Joe Kilgariff for a round table discussion on Tics and Tic Disorders, such as Tourette Syndrome. This episode is part of The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health’s series on Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorders. The series explores the evidence-based research on Tourette Syndrome, and other Tic Disorders, as well as the education, treatments, and research in this area. Discussion points include:
- The prevalence of Tics and Tic Disorders and to what extent are Tics and Tic Disorders still a misunderstood condition.
- Diagnosis as a gateway to getting support and the difficulty of receiving a diagnosis.
- The importance of increasing a general understanding of what Tics are.
- Importance of collaboration between patient community, the associations and health professionals and how to get more patients involved in research.
- Overview of some current research projects, including the INTEND project and the ORBIT-UK study.
- The need for NICE guidelines on Tic Disorders to improve diagnosis, treatment, and management, and the impact of the lack of NICE guidelines on equity of services.
Listen to the podcast episode on the ACAMH website or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts - just search for ‘ACAMH’. |
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Paper from the NIHR funded study Far Away from Home, undertaken by members of the Institute, including Dr James Roe, Professor Kapil Sayal, Professor Richard Morriss, Dr Jo Holland and Public Involvement Lead, Kate Horton, has been published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ)
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The research from the Far Away from Home study focused on the impact being placed in a bed over 50-miles from their home location had on young people aged 13-17 who required admission to hospital for psychiatric care. The considerable challenges of at-distance care meant there could be difficulties with maintaining contact with families, financial barriers for visiting and distress and uncertainty compromising continuity of care. Although national policies aim to avoid these types of admissions there are limited spaces available, and some families reported feeling under pressure to accept a bed that was offered to them. Despite this, there is a small minority of young people perceived this type of at-distance admission to be beneficial to their treatment, as it allowed them space from ‘toxic’ or unsupportive relationships and unhealthy environments. Read the full news story on the IMH website and read the study findings in full on the British Medical Journal website. |
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KLIFAD study team present Royal College of Psychiatry symposium
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IMH colleagues Dr Katy Jones and Dr Stefan Rennick-Egglestone contributed to a symposium at the Royal College of Psychiatry, as part of the Faculty of Addictions Psychiatry Conference 2024. The other symposium contributors were Dr Mohsen Subhani and Prof Steve Ryder. The symposium drew on the work of the KLIFAD study, which developed a novel intervention for alcohol misuse that integrated a rapid liver scan with access to a collection of alcohol misuse recovery narratives. KLIFAD study findings have recently been published in Lancet eClinical Medicine. |
NEON project showcased at Hay Festival
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This week Prof Mike Slade, joined BBC Radio 4 presenter Horatio Clare, live on stage at the Hay festival to take part in a special recording for the “Is psychiatry working” radio series. Prof Slade was invited to the discussion to speak about the evaluation in the NEON programme of the impact of recorded recovery narratives on people living with mental health problems. This included the approach to maximise the benefits through a machine learning approach and minimise any harms to the narrator and recipient. The event was full (standing room only!) and there were lots of questions from the interested audience. |
Dr Sam Malins, Consultant Clinical Psychologist for Notts Healthcare’s Physical Health Psychology team has been appointed a University of Nottingham Honorary Associate Professor
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In recognition of his clinical-academic contribution to Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in his clinical role, and his university-based research work within our Centre for Mood Disorders, the new appointment highlights the unique opportunities that Trust staff can have when they get involved in, and conduct research.
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On Wednesday 8th May, we hosted an IMH Showcase at Highbury Hospital, where members from each centre of the Institute showcased their research to over 80 staff from across the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, including the Executive Team, clinicians, health professionals and medical students. The event was an opportunity for Trust staff to find out more about the different research themes hosted within the Institute and how we work alongside different clinical teams. We also welcomed clinical academic staff to share their experiences of becoming research active and developing research careers while continuing their clinical work. The event was very well received by all attendees and a big thank you to all Institute colleagues who contributed presentations.
Chief Executive of Nottinghamshire Healthcare, Ifti Majid included a mention in his Colleague Update email about the IMH Showcase. He wrote “it was absolutely inspiring to hear about research associated with our organisation that is improving people’s lives, new treatments and interventions and the use of technology”. Before repeating IMH’s call to encourage anyone to get involved in research, as “we don’t talk about research very much, certainly not as much as we should. Regardless of where you work in our organisation if you want to get involved in research, particularly that helps us with our improvement journey, please get in touch”.
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On Friday 7th June, we hosted the 11th IMH Research Day at the Institute of Mental Health. We welcomed a range of early career researchers, Institute doctoral candidates and Managed Innovation Networks (MINs), to present their research through oral and poster presentations. The talks and posters spanned a variety of topics, including:
- 'TaRGeTS’: Examining glutathione levels in schizophrenia spectrum disorders' - Gamze Gizem Tekeli, PhD Cadidate
- 'Characteristics and 12-month outcomes of clinically-referred children and adolescents at risk of Body Dysmorphic Disorder' - Eleni Frisira, Academic Clinical Fellow
- 'MIN Project: Co-production of a teacher's ADHD training program' - Dr Blandine French, Senior Research Fellow
- 'A comprehensive review of national dementia plans: are human rights considered?' - Briony Harden, PhD Candidate
We would like to thank everyone who attended the event and we really appreciate your continued support of the Institute of Mental Health and our researchers. Congratulations the winners of the awards which were presented at the end of the event:
- The Craig Dixon memorial prize for Best Oral Presentation – Dhritiman Ray
- Runner-up for Best Oral Presentation – Briony Harden
- The Peter Bartlett prize for Best Poster, voted for by the event delegates - Estefania Guerreo
- Advisory Group Commendation Award, Patient and Public Involvement & Engagement in Research - Dr Blandine French
Highly commended - Sachiyo Ito-Jaeger
- IMH STAR Award 2024, Best Contribution to Research Facilitation and Development - Rhianne Bostock
Highly commended - Sally Butler and Maeve Cannon
If you would like to view the full programme from the day, or learn more about the IMH Research Day, visit the Institute website. |
Winners of the 2023 Publication Awards
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We you like to congratulate the winners of the IMH 2023 Publication Awards:
A: Best overall publication.
John Tully, Oxytocin normalizes the implicit processing of fearful faces in psychopathy: a randomized crossover study using fMRI
B: Best publication when the author has published no more than six previous publications.
Olamide Todowede, Best practice guidelines for citizen science in mental health research: systematic review and evidence synthesis
C: Best publication flowing from work during doctoral studies or as part of a doctoral dissertation.
Daniel Whiting, Assessing violence risk in first-episode psychosis: external validation, updating and net benefit of a prediction tool
D: Best publication by an employee of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust who does not have a substantive contract with a university.
Christian Sales, Delays in transferring patients from prisons to secure psychiatric hospitals: An international systematic review
E: Best publication co-authored with a person with lived experience of mental distress or a current or former user of mental health services.
Priya Patel, A qualitative exploration of participant experiences of using Alpha-Stim AID for the treatment of moderate severity depressive symptoms in primary care
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What’s Up With Everyone? Exhibition open until the end of June
View the exhibition at the Institute of Mental Health, Monday-Friday 08:30-16:30
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From the successful mental health literacy research and animation project ‘What’s Up With Everyone?’ - led by Professor Paul Crawford, Director of the Centre for Social Futures in collaboration with Aardman Animations (Shaun the Sheep, Wallace & Gromit) - comes a new exhibition curated by the Institute of Mental Health.
The exhibition showcases the project development of the five characters which symbolised the five key threads of the project; loneliness and isolation, perfectionism, independence, social media and competitiveness. The drawings, sketches and creative idea process includes the valuable input and research provided by the young people involved in the project's involvement and focus groups, which ultimately helped to shape the final outcome.
The What's Up With Everyone? project launched in 2021 and the animated stories reached over 17 million people within the first four months alone, won various awards and attracted the support of many celebrities and influencers. The exhibition will be open on weekdays at the Institute until the end of June.
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Centre for Dementia online lunchtime seminar:
Priority Setting for Research about Dementia and Hearing Conditions in Partnership with Stakeholders
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📍 Online via MS Teams
📅 Wednesday 12th June 2024 11:30 - 12:30
📂 Find out how to register for the event on the Institute website.
Free online lunchtime seminar, with speakers Dr Eithne Heffernan & Dr Emma Broome.
Hearing loss is one of the largest modifiable risk factors for the development of dementia and is common amongst people living with dementia. This seminar outlines two approaches to engaging with people living with dementia and/or hearing conditions, their supporters (e.g., relatives, carers), and health and social care professionals (e.g., audiologists, physicians, care home staff) to identify priorities for future research in this field.
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Reserve your space for this years' Skellern Lecture
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📍 Jubilee Campus, Lecture theatre 1, Exchange Building
📅 Thursday 13th June 2024 17:00 - 21:00
📂 Further event details can be found here
The Skellern Lecture is a prestigious annual event which celebrates advances in the field of mental health and mental health nursing. This years theme is ‘Breaking the cycles of injustice and servitude’ and will be delivered by Dr Ada Hui (University of Nottingham, Institute of Mental Health). The Institute of Mental Health has been a long-standing supporter of this event, which celebrates the very best practice in mental health nursing. This year’s event will be held in Nottingham on Jubilee Campus.
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CANDAL Annual Summer Seminar: Neurodiversity and Creativity
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📍 A floor, Institute of Mental Health
📅 Thursday 4th July, 10:00 - 12:00 followed by an art exhibition
📂 Reserve your space for the event on the Institute website
This seminar celebrates the strengths and less discussed creative expressions of neurodivergent people. We will focus on understanding how creativity allows neurodivergent people to share their unique experiences of the world around them. And how creativity – and masks! – can provide a safe space for neurodivergent people to communicate without barriers.
There will be talks from:
Pat Brundell, Joe Killgariff, Stephan Jon Cooper, and Christine Thomas
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TheRapeutic Interactions in Psychological therapy Of anxiety and Depressive disorders (TRIPOD) End of Project Event
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📍 A floor, Institute of Mental Health
📅 Wednesday 12th July 2024, 09:30 - 12:00
📂 Reserve your space for the event on the Institute website
The TRIPOD Team are hosting an end of project event on Wednesday 17th July 9.30am to 12.30pm at the Institute of Mental Health followed by a networking lunch.
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The TRIPOD (TheRapeutic Interactions in Psychological therapy Of anxiety and Depressive disorders) project aimed to develop an automated feedback tool to help monitor and enhance the effectiveness of psychological therapies.
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At this event the team will share:
- What we have learned about the process and outcomes of psychological therapies.
- The ways we have used computer science to help improve our understanding.
- How we have turned this learning into a tool to help therapists improve.
- What clinicians think about this kind of automated feedback tool.
- How patient and public involvement has shaped the project.
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The event is open to clinical staff, researchers, representatives from healthcare industry and members of the public to hear how the project progressed and contribute to discussions of where developments may go next.
This event is free, but places are limited.
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Book your ticket to attend this years Forensic Research Nottingham Summer Symposium 2024: Ethical and Philosophical Issues in Forensic Mental Health
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📍 A floor, Institute of Mental Health
📅 Friday 19th July 2024, 13:00 - 17:00
📂 Find out how to purchase a ticket on the Institute website
In this symposium, we will take a deep dive into some of the big questions that inform, or should inform, our everyday practice. How ethical are many of our restrictive practices? To what extent do concerns for the greater good justify all, or any, of these? What is the nature of criminal responsibility and how much should practitioners be involved in this? How might neuroscience and other research help clarify these issues and guide our work?
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Attend this year's annual summer symposium hosted by the Forensic Research Nottingham network of researchers, clinicians and healthcare professionals based in forensic services.
Full Price: £50.00
FRN Group members and NottsHC staff: £30.00
Students: £20.00
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Lunchtime Seminar: Clinical implementation of neuropsychological interventions
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📍 A floor, Institute of Mental Health
📅 Tuesday 23rd July 2024, 12:30 - 13:30
📂 Reserve your space for the event on the Institute website
Dr Eirini Kontou is hosting a lunchtime seminar at the Institute, with speaker Dana Wong, Associate Professor and Clinical Neuropsychologist in the School of Psychology and Public Health at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
This event is free, but does require you to register.
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