Chloe Clifford

@CDunleavy97 @VernonLab_KCL @simon_rosenbaum Super Congrats Dr Dunleavy! Very proud of you😊

Delighted to announce that last week I successfully defended my PhD ✅! A very proud and special moment for myself I’d like to thank @VernonLab_KCL and @simon_rosenbaum for such thought provoking discussions about all things psychosis, brains in dishes, and inflammation 🧠 🔥

📣 REMINDER 📣 Our first webinar is happening next week! Join us online to learn more about the basics of new parent sleep 💤 🕓 Monday, 18th November 2024 | 16:00-16:30 📍Online, Zoom Link to register: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regist… @DrAndrewSurtees

A few tips for new PhDs -Academia is part of your life but not your life -If you fail today, tomorrow is a new day to start again -Remember to self care, sleep enough & stay healthy -Maintain human relationships -Relax and enjoy over weekends

😍MEG-UKI 2024 is happening!😍 Here's @AndrewJohnQuinn welcoming everyone to our first session. We're so excited to have all our delegates, speakers and exhibitors all in one place. We hope you enjoy the next two days!

📢 Webinar Series: The Impact of Sleep on New Parents 💤 Are you an expectant parent, parent or professional and want to learn more about the basics of new parent sleep and its impacts. Four public webinars, free to attend online, and led by @DrAndrewSurtees and myself.

📢 Webinar 1 - Basics of New Parent Sleep: What Changes? 🕓 Monday, 18th November 2024 | 16:00-16:30 📍Online, Zoom Link to register: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regist… @DrAndrewSurtees

STOP PRESS! Registration for MEG-UKI is now CLOSED HOWEVER Due to a last-minute venue change, several extra tickets have become available for QMAG (physics of OPMs) and QMEG (neuroscience of OPMs). Apply now! This will close again soon! uobevents.eventsair.com/meguki/registr…

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PhD friendships

Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health. A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion criteria, they end up with a sample size of 20,085 individuals. The paper compares PhD students to those who have masters degrees and don't start a PhD program. Before starting a PhD program, people who stop at a masters and those who go on to seek a PhD have similar rates of psychiatric medication use and hospitalization. A few years into a PhD program, however, 40% more individuals are on psychiatric medications, before the number falls off as people leave or finish their studies. You see the same pattern with psychiatric hospitalizations. PhD students are up to 150-175% more likely to be hospitalized after starting a program! These are incredible numbers, too massive to be the result of chance or a flaw in the methodology. This is comparing the same people over time. If you're considering a PhD program, and the terrible job prospects and waste of time aren't enough, here's yet another reason to stay away.

My paper is finally out. 🥳🥳 We here showed that the lateralized volume of caudate and globus pallidus are correlated with attention-modulated alpha oscillations.

A real pleasure being invited to deliver a keynote @Aston_IHN. Great to hear about the important translational work being carried out by colleagues across the city! @co_stars_imh @IMH_UoB @UoB_SoP. #impact #translation #healthequity #CoProduction

EXERCISE4PSYCHOSIS! Delighted to announce that the main project of my PhD, investigating the effects of regular exercise on inflammatory biomarkers in first-episode psychosis, is PUBLISHED! Find here, in Brain, Behaviour, and Immunity: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

‼️Our latest paper @BiologicalPsyc1‼️ Is anhedonia a potential transdiagnostic phenotype in recent onset disorders? @P_Lalousis @RachelUTG @AanyaMalaviya & @PRONIA_EU ➡️Machine learning classified an anhedonic subgroup ass. immune-related changes. 🧵🪡 biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-…

I would love it if someone studied the physical toll a PhD has on a person. Many of my PhD friends (and me) are dealing with chronic pain conditions or recurrent health issues (UTIs, Infections, Kidney stones) that started after we joined the program. It's very sus. #phdlife

Thank you @SIRSGlobal for another successful conference & great time spent with wonderful colleagues during our immunopsychiatry symposia - that’s 3 in a row 🤩🤩 ! 🧪 🧫 👩🏻‍🔬 #SIRS2024 @meyer_uzh @VernonLab_KCL @BiopsyLab @paola_DZN @AgenciaFAPESP @usprp @AcademicChatter

Excited to announce that the protocol for Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia (AMP® SCZ) study is now online: tinyurl.com/3hymnbys @ScottWoods01 @PatMcGorry @kelly_allott @HarmsWaySTL @JustinBakerMD @JohnTorousMD @PM_Wolff @psychosisrisk @EveLewandowski

Interesting morning @unibirmingham at launch of Wolfson Research Centre for Youth Mental Health brilliantly led by @matthewrbroome Important and fascinating research - with direct practical application ranging from schools to conflict zones.

Super happy to have another chapter of my #thesis published! 🤩🤩 We looked for associations between cytokines & transdiagnostic dimensions of symptoms & experiences (PEs) along the psychosis #continuum bit.ly/3URfFEZ @camlloureiro @usprp @AgenciaFAPESP @CambridgeUP

Huge congratulations to our amazing DTP reps Hadeeqa, @samna_sagadevan @MrRKB and @ChloeeOui for their event organisation and ensuring the whole event ran smoothly #MRCImpact24 🥳🎉👏