great postdoc opportunity!

delighted to be awarded one of these grants to examine mechanisms driving the antidepressant effects of physical activity, w/ Glyn Lewis Mark Hamer, Oliver Howes, Julie Wright & Livia Carvalho. Truly interdisciplinary with big lived experience component. Excited to get started!

Great to have this out in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry with Jon Roiser 🟣 Robert Howard also on BlueSky as @ProfRobHoward @Suzanne__Reeves anette schrag Yumeya Yamamori ! ‘Longitudinal decline in striatal #dopamine transporter binding in #Parkinson’s disease: associations with apathy and anhedonia’ Open access link: jnnp.bmj.com/content/early/…

🚨🚨🚨I'm co-chairing this "Winter School" from 3-9 December in the Austrian Alps - a great opportunity for ECRs to hear from leading researchers in mental health neuroscience, present and network. Price is highly subsidised and bursaries are available for those coming from afar.

I am looking for a postdoc to join my Emotional Cognition lab Dept of Psychology to support a 3-year ESRC project on emotional memory- please share! Cambridge University jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41227/

I agree Prof Marta Garrido - it was a great mix of science and fun!

Physical activity has been found to be an effective treatment for depression – but how does it improve symptoms? Professor Jon Roiser 🟣 will investigate through an eight-week trial involving 250 people with depression.

My first senior-author paper is properly out! (open access: doi.org/10.1002/brb3.3…). This is some work that Ashley Slanina-Davies (not on twitter) led during her MSci project UCL ICN, supervised by me and other co-senior-author Oliver Robinson. 🧵

Session 2 on individual-level predictions kicked off by Jon Roiser 🟣 - emphasising the importance of RCTs in computational psychiatry. Lots of methodological issues coming up today - really in my element 🤓 #cpconf2023

Thanks Nathan Huneke for organising this symposium - lots of fun sharing ideas on placebo effects in psychiatry Royal College of Psychiatrists

Enjoyed filming this piece last week, aired on BBC today, about our work on physical activity and mental health bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…. Massive thanks to Joe Wicks for endless enthusiasm (obligatory post-wrap selfie below!) and to The ISEH 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃‍♀️ and @WCHN_UCL for all your support!

For #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, Prof Jon Roiser 🟣 UCL ICN speaks to Joe Wicks on BBC Morning Live about how exercise helps mental health, as he is conducting a study into how physical activity may alleviate depression (from 52:36) The ISEH 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃‍♀️ @WCHN_UCL bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

We are currently recruiting for the next phase of the LIFE study on the mechanisms underlying the effects of different types of physical activity in depression - if you or anyone you know are interested (based in the London area) please ask them to get in touch!

Exercise has been shown to positively impact mental health – from quick boosts in mood to alleviating long-term depression. But “exercise is very rarely prescribed,” says Prof Jon Roiser 🟣. That’s one thing he hopes his research will help to change ⤵️ wellc.me/3Rf1l7q

The antidepressant effects of exercise. 🧵1/8

The processes in the brain and body through which physical #exercise reduces #depressive symptoms have been explored by Dr Emily Hird Emily Hird UCL ICN 🏃‍♀️💪 To date, this area has been poorly understood... Find out more! ⬇️ bit.ly/3Wx1d41