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This is the definition of gender responsive healthcare reform, we love to see it! Women deserve better care tackling sexism. Research shows men are similarly constrained in healthcare settings by traditional masculinities. Let's bring them into the fold. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Excited to share this paper on cultural differences and cognitive reserve in #FTD. Published today in Journal of Neurology Springer Nature

🗨️“Multilingualism, education, working in a complex profession for a long time, all of these factors add up and make you more resilient to #cognitivedecline – up to a point," said lead author Ms Amira Skeggs. Learn more: bit.ly/3Jl5xgc

Thanks to the The Australian for promoting our new study on the potential benefits of being bilingual for people with frontotemporal dementia. We are continuing to study the impact of culture and language in dementia #endFTD Frontier at Brain & Mind Centre USYD Psychology Brain & Mind Centre

In Boston Globe Ideas: Rethinking our lonely heroes trib.al/gyEjWdT

Despite our fundamental inclination to operate within groups, the notion that healing can be a collective process has barely taken off in the West, Amira Skeggs writes. trib.al/DZfFsu2

Thrilled to announce our new meta-analysis on the "revolving door" of mental illness is out today! Across 27 studies, we found that thr average number of lifetime disorders was nearly 2x that of current disorders. What does that mean? Well... 🧵 bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Very cool results showing less empathy loss in culturally and linguistically diverse bvFTD patients relative to white/English speaking individuals from Amira Skeggs at the #INS2024inNYC Social Cognition in FTD Symposium

Super excited about our new ScienceComms platform Cambridge University. Currently accepting new contributors! Please reach out if interested 😀

🚨New preprint!🚨 in this Review we explore how the computational framework of Reinforcement Learning can help us understand social media use and its wellbeing outcomes, and even inform mental health interventions: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Currently recruiting! Do you know any 16-20 year olds who want to take part in social media research? We are looking for 10 adolescents to join our paid advisory panel in June! MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

🚨New preprint with co-author @OrbenAmy. In this paper, we introduce a framework for social media interventions and explore their potential to improve wellbeing (particularly for adolescent users). osf.io/preprints/psya…

Great review led by Luisa Fassi !

New postdoc position opening 👇 Come join us! It has been an amazing experience for me to work in this team from both an academic and personal perspective, so I highly reccomend it!

Come work with an amazing team MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit :)

More exciting opportunities to work in our (amazing) lab!