Prof James Walters

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Mynnwch gip ar dudalen we newydd CUBRIC a’r Ysgol Seicoleg ar gyfer recriwtio cyfranogwyr a chymerwch ran yn ein hastudiaethau ymchwil ⬇️

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Curious about psychology and the brain? 🧠

Take part in our research studies by visiting our new participant recruitment website for CUBRIC and the School of Psychology ⬇️

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Meet our Brain and Genomics research co-ordinator | Mental health platform Jodie Gill is a registered mental health nurse and worked in clinical practice for almost 10 years. She’s now the research co-ordinator for the Brain and Genomics Hub and works in close collaboration…

🧠 Piece of Mind blog: Meet Jodie Gill, research coordinator for the Brain & Genomics Hub!

Learn about her collaborative work with the professional PPIE group, and the future of SMI research.

Read more: 👉👀https://buff.ly/42FRYn2

#mentalhealthresearch

@braingenhub.bsky.social

🌟 ECRs – Funding Alert! 🌟

Our UKRI MHP ECR Fellowship Awards open 1st March 2025!
💡 <£300K, 1–3 years
🤝 Collaborate with MHP Hubs
📚 Access training, resources & PPIE support

📅 Apply by 30th April 2025
🔗 Learn more: https://buff.ly/42Qn3UZ

#MentalHealth #ECR #Fellowship

🙌 We are excited to share more as our research and new study get underway.

Join our new mailing list to stay up to date with all things #BrainGenHub ⤵️

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Our first study is investigating ways to improve diagnosis and clinical care for people with psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar and schizoaffective disorder.

We are currently recruiting for a diverse group of 600 people aged 16 to 25 with experience of these conditions.

#BrainGenHub brings together research expertise from across universities in south Wales & the South West.

Our partners at @bipolaruk.bsky.social
@adferiad.org & @thencmh.bsky.social are helping us work with people who have experienced psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar & schizoaffective disorder.

@mhplatform.bsky.social Welcome to the Brain and Genomics Hub - such exciting work and research is starting to happen. Please follow us, contribute and keep in touch with our plans

Unsure how recent changes in U.S. policy regarding the NIH will impact the psychiatric genetics world? You're not alone. Join ISPG for a Member’s Meetup for community discussion and support:

📅 Wednesday, January 29
🕗 3 PM EST
📍 Pre-Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Brain & Genomics: a UKRI Mental Health Platform Hub The Brain & Genomics hub is based in Cardiff and led by Professor James Walters as part of the UKRI Mental Health Platform. The research at the hub focuses o...

Professor James Walters leads the Brain & Genomics hub based in Cardiff.

In this video, find out how their researchers will integrate many types of data to find new approaches to help people with SMI.

#mentalhealthresearch @genomics4psychosis.bsky.social

Professor honoured with lifetime achievement award for pioneering work in psychiatric genetics Professor Anita Thapar, a leading child and adolescent psychiatrist at Cardiff University, has received the prestigious Ming Tsuang Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Psychia...

Congratulations to Professor Anita Thapar on receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award for her pioneering work in psychiatric genetics!

A great honor recognising her contributions to mental health research. 👏

www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/28...

#Genetics #MentalHealth #ResearchExcellence

Why foreign correspondents are alarmed and dismayed at plans to sell the Observer | Letter Letter: Current and former contributors to the international pages of the Guardian and Observer respond to an article by Ole Jacob Sunde, chair of the Scott Trust

This letter in today’s Guardian, signed by some of the UK’s finest journalists, warns that The Observer, bought by Tortoise Media, could be stripped of much of its excellent foreign reporting.
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

Major water company uses accounting trick to inflate balance sheet by £1.68bn A substantial Severn Trent Water investment is based on IOU notes - BBC Panorama finds.

Please read this to understand the corruption and profiteering that is inherent in privatising a public asset, driven by greed. Falsely elevated Dividend payments are still actively stripping value from these companies and the public will pay.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’ve squeezed a joke about a pub that doesn’t serve black birds into my set - Crow-barred Inn.

1/ Support today for journalists fighting for the future of The Observer, threatened by The Scott Trust’s plan to sell to Tortoise Media. Tortoise, though respected, is a small, loss-making venture and the sale risks The Observer becoming a stripped-down website behind a paywall. Worse..

Thank you @aiannucci.bsky.social!

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My low point was how tasteless the yellow and pink sweets were at the cloak room. I started to complain to the attendant before realising they were in fact ear plugs. And I was only 2 pints in at that point.

This is a band/ crew(?) that helped me connect with so many patients as a psychiatrist in Gwent. And this was an absolutely blinding night from the lads in their home town. Loved it.

Analysis of exome sequencing data implicates rare coding variants in STAG1 and ZNF136 in schizophrenia Rare coding variants across many genes contribute to schizophrenia liability, but they have only been implicated in 12 genes at exome-wide levels of significance. To increase power for gene discovery,...

New preprint from the group! New exome seq data and novel rare variant associations. Led by the brilliant Sophie Chick www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...