PSI-STAR Study

A new RCSI study of 4,000 Irish teenagers found that high social media use, body dissatisfaction, and sexting are linked to poorer mental health. Girls reported poorer mental health than boys and higher levels of key risk markers. More ➡️ rcsi.com/dublin/news-an… #RCSIdiscover

Thank you to everyone who attended the Traveller mental health event that we run annually in Tralee with @KTHCDP. We launched a paper that recommends ways we might bridge the gap between the Traveller community and the mental health services they badly need access to.

listen to @MarycannonMary and @Brokentalkers on RTE1 📻 speak about The Mirror Stage - powerful new theatre work created with and inspired by people who have lived through Psychosis 🎭 🔗rte.ie/radio/radio1/a…

PPI representatives from the RCSI @psistar_study have collaborated with Brokentalkers on 'The Mirror Stage' - a work inspired by the lived experience of psychosis. It premieres at Project Arts Centre, Dublin (5–12 Nov) and The Everyman, Cork (18 Nov). ⬇️ brokentalkers.ie/whats-on/the-m…

Come see the performance in a month! @Brokentalkers instagram.com/reel/DPOWVujiC…

Really excited to have received a poster award @IEPAnetwork for our review on cardiometabolic outcomes in First-Episode Psychosis @MichaelJohnNor1 @KarOConnor @BNODonoghue Mary Clarke @psistar_study

FutureNeuro supports The Mirror Stage by @Brokentalkers, developed with our PIs Prof David Cotter & Prof Mary Cannon and the @psistar_study programme, created with people with lived experience of psychosis to challenge stigma and deepen understanding: futureneurocentre.ie/futureneuro-su…

Delighted to receive the oral poster presentation prize at the 10th Mediterranean Maudsley Forum for my paper (under review) on adolescent polysubstance use & psychopathology, using national #PlanetYouth data.

Congrats to @psistar_study PhD @Dearbhla_NiC and her lived experience collaborator Brian for their Highly Commended in the Research Methods category award! @AISWRConf

The first session of our Spring #PsychConf, chaired by Prof David Cotter, covers the benefits of therapeutic communities as places for healing and recovery. John McKeon, Dr Eoin Galavan and Ciara Glynn outline plans for the development of Kyrie Farm.

@psistar_study and @VistaApro spent a gorgeous day exploring @Cillmurry's brainchild Kyrie Mental Health Recovery Farm. Everyone at their own pace, surrounded by blue and green spaces. @RebeccaMurphyIE @kevindoherty81 @LornaStaines @Dearbhla_NiC

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Our guideline for the use of metformin to prevent antipsychotic-induced weight gain has just been published in Schizophrenia Bulletin. Read the full paper here: academic.oup.com/schizophreniab… A 🧵of the key points

HVNI Chairperson Owen O'Thuma and Vice Chair Harry Gijbels attended the Hearing Voices Conference in Athens this weekend, where Owen was one of the keynote speakers. They were Joined by UCC's Lydia Sapouna. There was a great turnout, and Owen's talk was very well received.

The day has finally come. My third book manuscript entitled: Peer Support Work in Mental Health Services: Theory, Research, Policy and Practice has finally been submitted !!!! @MHER_Ire @michriann @routledgemh @GraceMcDEditor @MaryButlerTD @kerrymartha @DCU @atu_ie

Delighted to see the second paper from the @nirestudy #published today in HRB Open. The paper lays out a plan for a #scopingreview on #Neurodiversity in #recoveryeducation in #mentalhealth @ImROC_comms @ZilberbergOlga researchgate.net/publication/38…

Delighted to be at @RCSI_Irl today for their #researchday2025 to present my poster on my early #PhD work which looks at a realist review protocol on the #MentalHealth #recovery model of CHIME #AcademicTwitter @MHER_Ire

We had great posters at RCSI Research day. @RCSI_PPI_Ignite congrats to @hoey_john for PPI in Research prize! @MichaelJohnNor1 poster

Delighted to partner with @zierotin and her supervisory team with @psistar_study on this perspective piece examining #weightgain whilst on #antipsychotics for #psychosis just #published with the @IrishJPsych @BNODonoghue @KarOConnor Mary Clark researchgate.net/publication/38…