Dr Simon Bradstreet

Loved writing this - thank you to the wonderful @sbradstreet.bsky.social . And I got to squeeze in a mention of The AI Con from @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social The joy of writing after PhDone!

Simon's fundraiser for Bipolar Scotland Help Simon Bradstreet raise money to support Bipolar Scotland

I am raising funds for Bipolar Scotland who make peer support and self management tools available. Peer support can be the difference between struggling alone and finding hope and direction through community. Shares and contributions of any size appreciated.

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Demystifying Research – introducing a new series — Imroc This is a free interactive webinar to introduce Imroc's new Demystifying Research series. Each paper will break down complex concepts—bias, variables, methods—into clear, jargon-free insights, paired ...

Demystifying Research - a free short webinar to introduce a new series from Imroc where we will explore some of the myths around mental health research. We have a research curious community but too many feel excluded

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It was pleasure to support this one from Emily. Yet another example of the paucity of evidence when it comes psychiatric policies and practices. Evidence that is badly needed to prevent and anticipate violence and distress in wards

Feelings of shame are common in people with experiences of psychosis but poorly understood. A new qual study just out explores experiences of people with lived experience of psychosis: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

So interesting and refreshing to read a paper that makes such good use of classical thinking and literature to create new models for understanding depression and its presentations

The body intervenes: How active inference explains depression’s clinical presentation The low mood that characterises depression is accompanied by changes in bodily processes, manifested in symptoms such as insomnia, reduced appetite an…

Here's an article I just published. As a psychiatrist I have been keen to understand the relationship between the somatic aspects of depression (disturbed sleep, appetite, energy levels) and the experience of depressed mood www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #philsky

Anticholinergics are associated with worse cognition: it’s time to take a serious look at our prescribing - National Elf Service Eleanor Dawkins explores a new review and meta-analysis suggesting that cognitive impairment is linked with anticholinergic medication in psychosis, providing grounds for more careful monitoring and r...

Great blog from Eleanor Dawkins for @thementalelf.bsky.social summarising a new study of the association between cognitive decline and anticholinergic drugs (commonly prescribed for side effects of antipsychotics) and cognitive decline.

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Bias has to be one of the most misunderstood research terms but then maybe I'm biased

Today Keir Harding @keirwales.bsky.social looks at an Australian qualitative study that reveals difficult and harmful narratives around people given a diagnosis of ‘borderline personality disorder’.

It's a challenging piece edited by @sbradstreet.bsky.social

Do have a read!

Carers’ Understanding of Recovery‐Oriented Practice in Mental Health Settings: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis Recovery-oriented practice is a contemporary and internationally accepted approach to mental health care. Moving away from privileging ‘clinical recovery’, it recognises and supports ‘personal recove...

New systematic review of carer's views of recovery oriented practices in International Journal of Mental Health Nursing

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#recovery #carers #research #mentalhealth

This cohort study, blogged by Duncan Swiffen @duncanswiffen.bsky.social is yet more evidence for lithium as an excellent treatment for people with bipolar disorder. This time it comes out on top in terms of preventing depression-related hospitalisation.

Great bipolar blog @sbradstreet.bsky.social

Cannabis legalisation: what can we learn about psychosis risk from the great Canadian (quasi) experiment? - National Elf Service What can we learn from population data in Canada, a decriminalisation front runner, about the to the risk of psychosis after policy changes?

Another great blog by Shuichi Suetani for @thementalelf.bsky.social . Having undergone different stages of policy around cannabis Canada offers a useful quasi-experiment to explore links with psychosis
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Clozapine and treatment-resistant schizophrenia: efficacy versus effectiveness A third of people with schizophrenia have symptoms that will not sufficiently respond to two adequate trials of antipsychotic medications.1 For these people with treatment-resistant schizophrenia, clo...

New comment in Lancet Psychiatry - Clozapine and treatment-resistant schizophrenia: efficacy versus effectiveness (in short context matters)

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Continuing antipsychotic medication during pregnancy associated with reduced risk of schizophrenia relapse - National Elf Service Analyses of a national database adds to the case that antipsychotic continuation during pregnancy is associated with a reduced risk of postpartum relapse.

Continuing antipsychotic medication during pregnancy associated with reduced risk of schizophrenia relapse www.nationalelfservice.net?p=214633

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An image of an invitation to a webinar. There are two logos at the top of the page: University of Bristol Centre for Academic Primary Care and Pharmacy Research UK. The text is as follows: Opportunity to contribute to a new research project: Management of Antidepressant Reductions in Primary Care (MARiP) Do you have experience of taking an antidepressant or supporting someone who does? If so, please consider registering to join one of our webinars to hear more about this research project and share your views on how we plan to carry it out: Thursday 3 April 2025 at 7:30pm https://bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/zRQ94T5-T52zqybrZdEYJA or Friday 4 April at 1:30pm https://bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/MBlEi5K3SsmM_5kEn5NbHA Please note that to join a session you will need to click the link above to register in advance. I am a pharmacist who has moved from a clinical role in mental health, to studying for a part-time PhD at the University of Bristol. My research has grown out of my experiences working clinically and listening to patients and other healthcare professionals. This project will recruit patients at the start of their antidepressant reduction. With their permission, I will follow them up over 6-months and ask them to share their experiences over that time using a mixture of questionnaires and interviews. I will also look at the data recorded in the GP records for these patients, to see what information is recorded by the healthcare professional(s) involved in their care. In addition, I will interview healthcare professionals who have experience of prescribing antidepressant reductions to understand their approach to deprescribing. I am very keen to have more patient and carer input into the study design. If a webinar is not the right format for you to contribute, please email me: sarah.c.jones@bristol.ac.uk to arrange an alternative.

An invite for patients and carers to share thoughts on my planned PhD research about antidepressant deprescribing in primary care. Register here:

Thursday 3 April 2025 7:30pm
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or Friday 4 April 1:30pm
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#MentalHealthResearch

"A brief critique of the pseudo-diagnosis ‘complex emotional needs’" New lived experience critique and editorial in BJ Psych

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Mental illness and personal recovery: A narrative identity framework This article presents a metamorphic model to describe the manifold role of narrative identity, a person's internal life story, across the course of me…

Just out: Mental illness and personal #recovery: A narrative identity framework www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#narrative #recovery #identity

Glad to see our work shared on the hub! @patientsafetylearning.org

💭We explored safety incidents and harms as reported in community-based mental health services.

🧵Reflections on our key findings: bsky.app/profile/phoe...

📄Full paper: doi.org/10.1017/S0033291724003532

#patientsafety
#academicsky

The Type, Impacts, and Experiences of Peer Support for People Living With Bipolar Disorder: A Scoping Review Background Internationally, mental health policy has highlighted the exchange of peer support between people with lived experience as a key component of recovery-oriented care. There is some evidenc...

Newly published scoping review: The Type, Impacts, and Experiences of Peer Support for People Living With Bipolar Disorder: A Scoping Review

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Efficacy and effectiveness of therapist-guided internet versus face-to-face cognitive behavioural therapy for depression via counterfactual inference using naturalistic registers and machine learning ... Considered alongside previous RCTs, our findings suggest that short first-line treatments with therapist-guided iCBT are at least as effective and efficacious as fCBT. Our findings eliminate error sou...

Therapist guided online CBT as effective as face to face in Finnish retrospective cohort study
#digitalmentalhealth #icbt
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#PsychSciSky

Thank you very much Steph

Feeling rather chuffed with my first Gestalt Coaching testimonial. Do get in touch of are curious about coaching as a process for change and development or take a look at my website. sbradstreetconsulting.com/coaching

Real-world effectiveness of pharmacological maintenance treatment of bipolar depression: a within-subject analysis in a Swedish nationwide cohort Since medications are typically started when depressive symptoms re-emerge, all treatments might appear less effective than they actually are when the reference is non-use of medication. Lithium was t...

New: Real-world effectiveness of pharmacological maintenance treatment of #bipolar #depression: a within-subject analysis in a Swedish nationwide cohort.

Lithium associate with sig reduced risk of depression related admission.

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Using Technology to Support Measurement-Based Care: Design and Implementation of the Measurement-Assisted Care Program | Psychiatric Services Objective: The authors aimed to increase measurement-based care in an outpatient academic psychiatry service. Methods: The Measurement-Assisted Care program (MAC) was implemented as a clinical quality...

Using Technology to Support Measurement-Based Care: Design and Implementation of the Measurement-Assisted Care Program psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

Promoting Personal Recovery Within Psychiatric Inpatient Care—Nurses' Experiences To meet the aim of synthesising research on nurses' experiences of promoting personal recovery within psychiatric inpatient care, meta ethnography according to Noblit and Hare has been chosen as the ...

Newly published: Promoting Personal Recovery Within Psychiatric Inpatient Care—Nurses' Experiences. Based on meta ethnography, finds nurses ability to promote personal recovery is contingent upon working around systems and other professionals being on board onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Genetic links with bipolar disorder identified In the largest genome-wide study of bipolar disorder to date, an international team involving UCL researchers has identified 298 regions of the genome containing DNA variations that increase risk for ...

Largest genome-wide study of bipolar disorder to date identifies 298 regions of the genome containing DNA variations that appear to increase risk for the bipolar.
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