SPI Lab

Meet the SPI Lab!👩‍🔬 Our team of students, clinicians and researchers work across a range of areas including depression, psychosis, women in the perinatal period + their infants, individuals with past trauma, and patients with inflammation-related disorders #YourPathInResearch

Thanks to our amazing team of scientistis @MaddyKirkp @Gargi_Mandal_ @NicoleMariani_ @Kristi_Prstly @CarminePariante @SPILabKCL @KingsIoPPN Link 👇👇👇 eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Are you living with #obesity & #depression but feel that your antidepressant isn’t helping enough? The CODA Study looks at using minocycline to target high #inflammation, which is commonly seen in people with obesity & depression Take part now🔗: pixielab.org.uk/studies/coda

Amazing to start the #immunopsychiatry @PIXIELabKCL meetings series this academic year with a great lecture by @CarminePariante 🤩 💥”Increased inflammation in depression: a biological and philosophical update” 💥 More info on next meetings 👉 tinyurl.com/yjf3d88t

In today's article, @SPILabKCL Research Assistant Aeron Kim talks about the #MBTI, a popular #PersonalityTest in #SouthKorea, highlighting its origins and prevalence in daily life: inspirethemind.org/post/what-is-y…

Congratulations to Sorcha Alford who won Delegates' Poster Prize at #BAP2024! 👏 Sorcha is a PhD Student at our BRC, working in the Stress, Psychiatry and Immunology Lab @SPILabKCL.

Another amazing blog dedicated to our new MSc @KingsIoPPN discussing the importance of #mind and #body interface, this time from a therapeutic perspective! 💊 @nik_naghmeh @paola_DZN @inspirethemind_ @SPILabKCL @PIXIELabKCL 👇👇👇

It was great to hear from @drjprogers & @CarminePariante at #BAP2024, highlighting the importance of involving people with lived experience in research. @BAPsych @SPILabKCL @inspirethemind_ Watch in full: youtu.be/t9G4JwIZBZI #LivedExperience #Coproduction #Research

Well done @Lombardo_GG for amazing talk at #BAP2024!! She is doing groundbreaking work on the role of sex, gender and sexual hormones in mental health! @PIXIELabKCL @SPILabKCL @KingsIoPPN @BAPsych

🧵PhD student @Becky_Milton_ presented her poster "Immunophenotypic differences in PBMCs of individuals with persistent and remitting depression following bariatric surgery" #BAP2024 @PIXIELabKCL @SpLAB_KCL

@Kristi_Prstly @HappyMums_ @inspirethemind_ @BAPsych @MaddyKirkp @ABorsini @cworrell26 @ProjCelebrate @sorchaalford @Gargi_Mandal_ @NicoleMariani_ @EarlyCause @Lombardo_GG @PIXIELabKCL @_Luca_Sforzini @melisaakose @NIHRMaudsleyBRC 🧵PhD student @caitlinpentland presented her poster "Investigating the potential role of childhood trauma and stressful life event perception in inflammatory gene expression profiles within depression treatment response" #BAP2024 @inspirethemind_ @PIXIELabKCL

🧵 We had an insightful poster session yesterday at #BAP2024, follow this thread for our lab's posters! 🧠✨ @BAPsych @CarminePariante