Consultant Psychiatrist, Royal London Hospital @NHS_ELFT. @rcpsych CASC panel vice-chair, EPSIG exec member and neuromodulator. Views expressed are my own.

Joined December 2013
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TMS machine unpacked at last! Thanks to Sam from ⁦@MagVentureUK⁩ for all the help.
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Check out our module on @rcpsych_eLearn - Introducing Evolutionary Psychiatry. Really enjoyed writing this with @PaulStJohnSmith and @RiadhAbed1
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The eagle has landed! We now have a brand new @MagVentureUK rTMS machine! Onwards and upwards for the Tower Hamlets Neuromodulation team @NHS_ELFT taking referrals as soon as we get it unpacked
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Oh wow! Our module on evolutionary psychiatry is now out there! This was a work of live! Enjoy.
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Queer we go again! 🌈🌈🌈🌈
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24 Apr 2022
Here is a link to our forthcoming edited volume on Evolutionary Psychiatry published jointly by the RCPSYCH and Cambridge University Press & due for release in July. It will include chapters by leading evolutionary psychiatrists/psychologists worldwide cambridge.org/core/books/evo…
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26 Apr 2022
.@HSTalks offers 50 superb talks on #EvolutionaryMedicine with extraordinary production values. A free trial is available if your university does not subscribe already. @isemph @hbes @TriCEM_NC @evmed_ch @evmedasu @Pitt_CEBaM hstalks.com/playlist/20/evol…
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26 Apr 2022
My new talk on #EvolutionaryPsychiatry is open access thanks to @HSTalks. FAR better than anything I could have created on my own and ready for courses or just watching! @APAPsychiatric @rcpsych @erika_saunders1 @DalackMd @RiadhAbed1 @ISEMPH @HumBehEvoSoc hstalks.com/evolutionary
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What an amazing example. Really helps in understanding epigenetics.
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#greatadaptations. Facultative adaptations in this case. Mediated by evolved epigenetic mechanisms. It is often hard to figure out if epigenetic effects are adaptations or epiphenomena, but this one sure seems like an adaptation.
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31 Dec 2021
#greatadaptations. Facultative adaptations in this case. Mediated by evolved epigenetic mechanisms. It is often hard to figure out if epigenetic effects are adaptations or epiphenomena, but this one sure seems like an adaptation.
If Holly (Ilex aquifolium) finds its leaves are being nibbled by deer, it switches genes on to make them spiky when they regrow. So on taller Holly trees, the upper leaves (which are out of reach) have smooth edges, while the lower leaves are prickly 🤙
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Thank you so much for this opportunity. I'm delighted and excited to serve @oxleasnhs, our service users, staff and partners.
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27 Sep 2021
Fragmentation is inevitable because funding, fame, promotions and patients go to those who start a new method, while those who provide effective eclectic psychotherapy get little recognition.
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Please could any 2 of my followers just copy and repost? Depression can isolate any of us. Samaritans 116 123 Just two. Any two. Say done.
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8 Sep 2021
Home visits in the Isle of Dogs. The views never get old. @NHS_ELFT
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I’m uneasy with this. Not because I dont teach students - I do, enthusiastically. But the idea students don’t gain anything if they’re not “taught”. Don’t you learn from hearing patients’ stories? And from observing clinician with patients, whether or not they interact with you?
26 Aug 2021
Feeling brave today - if you have clinic with a medical student in and you’re not feeling up to teaching/talking/letting them participate/having them there… that’s okay… please give them the option to go home though
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May I please get 2 followers to copy and re-post this tweet? I'm trying to demonstrate that someone is always listening. #SuicidePrevention - US 1-800-273-8255 #Samaritans - UK 116 123 Just two. Any two. Copy, not retweet.
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30 Jun 2021
Yes, indeed! Mutation, and selection... and migration, and mismatch and maximizing gene transmission at the expense of health...and my current preoccupation: traits shaped to maximize performance at the cost of robustness. More at #ISEMPH2021 isemph.org/ISEMPH-2021

Replying to @mattwridley
In general, there is not nearly enough thinking along the lines of "Darwinian medicine" within the medical establishment, as @RandyNesse has long argued. Repeat 100 times: Evolution is not mutation. It is mutation and selection.
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25 Jun 2021
Those interested in evolutionary medicine may be interested in the forthcoming annual conference of ISEMPH held 14-16 July in virtual format here is the link isemph.org/ISEMPH-2021-Progr… @gillian_pepper @henrypoconnell @muzafferkaser @Derektracy1 @DrGeoffLS

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