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We recently showed with Heidi Taipale that adherence to antipsychotics is associated with less sickness absence from work in people with schizophrenia, in the real world ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap…

The economic cost of schizophrenia in the US was an estimated $343.2 billion in 2019, double the cost in 2013. Yes, schizophrenia is expensive, and yet we are still not paying for recovery services like clubhouses and peer support. Investing in recovery will reduce the cost.

Glad to be listed among Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers in Psychiatry and Psychology again this year. Thanks to my family, and all those who supported me in this year when I changed home, job, and continent Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa clarivate.com/highly-cited-r…

🧠New neuroimaging paper just published in Frontiers - Psychiatry comparing resting regional cerebral blood flow of subgroups of people at clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR-P) doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.… 🧵

Read our President Adrian James’ full reaction to the Met police’s plans not to attend 999 calls for mental health incidents from August this year rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-featu…

Dom Oliver about enhancing detection & prediction by using dynamic models IEPA #iepa2023

Today on the last day of IEPA conference, Fred Vendenberghe will talk at the French language satellite meeting and show how CHUV / Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois is leading the way with implementing the PsyMetRiC cardiometabolic risk tool for early psychosis. He’ll be handing out flyers too!

Proud to share that we have won the 2023 Robert W Kerwin Prize awarded to the authors of the best paper in the field of psychopharmacology published in the previous year in a publication of the Royal College of Psychiatrist Royal College of Psychiatrists BJPsych Journals #clozapine rcpsych.ac.uk/about-us/our-p…

Our new publication raises an interesting discussion about the use of psychostimulants in practice. BJPsych Journals Laurent Béchard Vanasse Alain bit.ly/3T9GEL3

New meta-analysis looking at the effectiveness of universal preventive interventions for severe mental disorders doi.org/10.1016/j.neub… Key message: evidence is limited. Universal approaches should be used alongside selective and indicated approaches, not alone. 🧵⬇️

You don’t see this phenomenon mentioned very often. Severe neutropenia unrelated to clozapine in patients receiving clozapine - journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

Our publication has just been published and the results provide a nuanced look at the importance of controlling for immortal bias in this type of study. JAMA Network Open Dom Oliver emmanuel stip Vanasse Alain Jacinthe Leclerc Medication Exposure and Mortality in Patients With

While antipsychotics are effective in people diagnosed with schizophrenia, the extent of their protective association on long-term mortality may be overestimated. ja.ma/3YTMtgY

Can cannabis withdrawal trigger psychosis? I think so, but in our study 2/3 of clinicians missed the diagnosis. - 45% had a clinician/carer confirm the history - 90% had insomnia, sometimes for days - Persistent cannabis use raised relapse odds by x14 🤯 More here:

Women experiencing a first episode of psychosis may have substantially different care needs to men. Early Intervention in Psychosis programmes need to reflect these different profiles: doi.org/10.1192/bjp.20…

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How common is secondary psychosis? Estimates from a systematic review and meta‐analysis - Blackman - 2025 - World Psychiatry - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wp… brilliant paper ! We need to stay cautious about secondary cause for psychosis.