Children and Young People’s Mental Health
- Czime Litwińczuk, M., Garg, S., Williams, S. R., Green, J., Lea-Carnall, C., & Trujillo-Barreto, N. J. “Non-invasive brain stimulation reorganises effective connectivity during a working memory task in individuals with Neurofibromatosis Type 1.” NeuroImage: Reports, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2025, Article 100258. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynirp.2025.100258.
Early Psychosis
- Sullivan, Sarah A., Morris, R., Kounali, D., Kessler, D., Hamilton, W., Lewis, G., Lilford, P., & Nazareth, I. “External Validation of a Prognostic Model to Improve Prediction of Psychosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study in Primary Care.” British Journal of General Practice, 2024, https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.0017
Listen to Dr Sarah Sullivan talk about the paper in this BJGP – A British Journal of General Practice podcast:
- Listen to Professor Rachel Upthegrove discuss the impact of a gradual reduction of antipsychotics in the National Institute for Health and Care Research podcast:
Mental Health Mission Midlands Translational Centre
- Gill K, Hett D, Carlish M, et al. Examining the needs, outcomes and current treatment pathways of 2461 people with treatment-resistant depression: mixed-methods study. The British Journal of Psychiatry. Published online 2025:1-8. doi:10.1192/bjp.2024.275
- Palmer, E. R., Morales-Muñoz, I., Perry, B. I., et al. (2024). Trajectories of inflammation in youth and risk of mental and cardiometabolic disorders in adulthood. JAMA Psychiatry, 81(11), 1130-1137. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.2193
- Morales-Muñoz I, Marwaha S, Upthegrove R, Cropley V. Role of Inflammation in Short Sleep Duration Across Childhood and Psychosis in Young Adulthood. JAMA Psychiatry. Published online May 08, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.0796
- Griffiths SL, Murray GK, Logeswaran Y, Ainsworth J, Allan SM, Campbell N, Drake RJ, Katshu MZUH, Machin M, Pope MA, Sullivan SA, Waring J, Bogatsu T, Kane J, Weetman T, Johnson S, Kirkbride JB, Upthegrove R. Implementing and Evaluating a National Integrated Digital Registry and Clinical Decision Support System in Early Intervention in Psychosis Services (Early Psychosis Informatics Into Care): Co-Designed Protocol. JMIR Res Protoc 2024;13:e50177 doi: 10.2196/50177
- Durdurak BB, Williams B, Zhigalov A, Moore A, Mallikarjun P, Wong D, Marwaha S, Morales-Muñoz I. Factors associated with chronic depressive symptoms across adolescence and young adulthood: a UK birth cohort study. Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci. 2024 Jun 26;33:e32. doi: 10.1017/S2045796024000350. PMID: 38920396.
Mood Disorders
- Dunn, B., Wright, K., Owens, C., Pione, R., Warbrick, L., Cox, T., Burnham, A., & Parkin, M. (2024). Equity for the ‘missing middle’: closing the gap between primary and secondary care services for patients with complex mental health needs. British Journal of General Practice, 74(744), 292-294. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp24X738513.
- Barnhofer, T., Dunn, B. D., Strauss, C., Ruths, F. A., Barrett, B., Ryan, M., Ladwa, A., Stafford, F., Fichera, R., Baber, H., McGuinness, A., Metcalfe, I., Kan, D. K. Y., Pooley, J., Harding, D., Tassie, E., Carson, J., Rhodes, S., Young, A. H., Connors, J., & Warren, F. C. (2025). Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy versus treatment as usual after non-remission with NHS Talking Therapies high-intensity psychological therapy for depression: a UK-based clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness randomised, controlled, superiority trial. The Lancet Psychiatry, 12(6), 433-446. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(25)00105-1.
PPIEP
These papers, with input from Rebecca Woodcock, PPIE Manager at the Midlands Translation Research Centre, provide insights on PPIEP activity:
- Molinari-Ulate, M., Woodcock, R., Smith, I. et al. Insights on conducting digital patient and public involvement in dementia research during the COVID-19 pandemic: supporting the development of an “E-nabling digital co-production” framework. Res Involv Engagem 8, 33 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-022-00371-9
- Mauricio Molinari-Ulate, Rebecca Woodcock, Isabelle Smith et al. A Journey of Digital Co-Production: Introducing the “E-Nabling Digital Co-Production” Framework and Its Performance in Dementia Research, 28 February 2022, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1363528/v1]
- de Alcântara Mendes JA, Lucassen M, Adams A, Martin L, Aicardi C, Woodcock R, Nielsen E, Townsend E, Jirotka M. Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) approaches in mental health projects involving young people: a scoping review protocol. Res Involv Engagem. 2024 Jun 11;10(1):60. doi: 10.1186/s40900-024-00591-1. PMID: 38863035; PMCID: PMC11167781.
- The Wellcome Trust. Improving recruitment and retention in mental health clinical trials: The role of digital tools [version 1; not peer reviewed]. Wellcome Open Res 2025, 10:155 (https://doi.org/10.21955/wellcomeopenres.1115407.1)
