A network of researchers with the shared aim of accelerating research into severe mental illness (SMI) & improving the diagnosis and treatment of those affected

Joined August 2024
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📢 New blog alert! MHP PPIE Coordinator Susannah Strong shares how the MHP PPIE Steering Group grew from the ground up and what it’s achieved in its first year. Read here: mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/b… #PPIE #MentalHealthResearch #LivedExperience

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🎉Thanks for joining us on “Discover the Hubs” Week 🎉 🎬 Now meet our Hub Leaders on YouTube: youtube.com/@UKRIMentalHealt… Thanks to our @EdinburghUni Masters interns, Yuchen Zhao & Sarah Carmichael, for creating this content. #DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch
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Social Health Hub We study how where we’re born, live, work & age shape SMI. 🌟 Highlights: new place-based social health indicators, resources for researchers & exploring social prescribing for people with SMI. 🔗mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/b… #DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch
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@HubMetPsy Bringing together researchers, clinicians & lived-experience experts to drive innovation in metabolic psychiatry. 🌟 Focus: genomics, data science, biomarkers, metabolic intervention, lived experience. 🔗 metabolicpsychiatryhub.com #DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch
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ImmunoMIND Hub Uncovering immune & metabolic pathways to develop new therapies for SMI 🌟 Highlights: MHRA-approved cardio-metabolic risk tool (TP2) and peer-reviewed publications. 💬 Co-produced with PWLE 🔗 mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/r… #DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch
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🧠 @braingenhub We’re exploring how genes, environment & development shape severe mental illness - combining brain imaging, genomics & lived experience to drive real-world impact. Find out about B-SPRINT study: 🔗 ncmh.info/bsprint #DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch
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This week you'll meet 🔹@braingenhub, Wales 🔹@ComplexEmotions, Sheffield 🔹@DatamindUK, Swansea 🔹ImmunoMIND, Cambridge 🔹@HubMetPsych, Edinburgh 🔹Social Health Hub, London #DiscoverMHPHubs
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🎉"Discover The Hubs” Week🎉 We’re reintroducing our Hubs and highlighting our mission to advance understanding of severe mental illness. 🧠 5 research programmes 1 data hub, funded by @UKRI_News and coordinated in Edinburgh. #DiscoverMHPHubs 🔗mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/w…
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Read reflections from @elchinasgarov_, a PhD student from @HubMetPsych on the MHP Research Summit - a day full of enthusiasm, collaboration & inspiring science. 👉mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/b… #MentalHealthResearch #MHPSummit2025 #WorldMentalHealthDay
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One of our Lived Experience Experts shares reflections from the MHP Research Summit on #WorldMentalHealthDay - a day of optimism, caffeine & connection, where research met real life. Read their blog 👉 mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/b… #MHPSummit2025 #MentalHealthResearch
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Closing plenary at #MHPSummit2025: Prof Paul Harrison on “From Big Data to Biology: Cognitive Impairment After COVID-19 Infection.” A powerful end to #WorldMentalHealthDay, connecting data, biology & mental health research. #MentalHealthResearch
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🔹 Final Core Session: Social Health Our relationships and connections are vital to wellbeing — discover how the Social Health Hub is redefining mental health research 👇 mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/b… #MHPSummit2025 #WorldMentalHealthDay

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🔹 Afternoon Core Session: @HubMetPsych on The Metabolism and Mental Health Connection. Discover how metabolism shapes mind and mood and share your insights to guide future research 👇 metabolicpsychiatryhub.com/t… #MHPSummit2025 #WorldMentalHealthDay
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🔹 Afternoon Core Session: ImmunoMIND reveals how immunity, metabolism & mental health connect. Read their review on immuno-metabolic depression, uncovering the biology behind mood disorders: mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/n… #MHPSummit2025 #MentalHealthResearch #WorldMentalHealthDay

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⚡ Happening now at #MHPSummit2025! ECR Lightning Talks: 6 rapid-fire, 3-minute presentations from winners in: 🔬 Molecular Psychiatry 💬 Social & Emotional Health 💻 Data, Digital & AI A showcase of the next generation of #MentalHealthResearch talent. #WorldMentalHealthDay
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🔹 Core Session: @DATAMINDUK explores how data science transforms mental health research & policy. Check out PODMIND — their podcast hosted by Marcos del Pozo Banos, highlighting the people driving progress: datamind.org.uk/learning-hub… #MHPSummit2025 #MentalHealthResearch
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💬 The Complex Emotions Hub takes the stage at #MHPSummit2025 — exploring how emotion and experience shape mental health. Read a fantastic blog from one of their PPIE members on co-producing research: complexemotionshub.co.uk/new… #MentalHealthResearch #WorldMentalHealthDay

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🎤 The first Core Session at the #MHPSummit2025 is underway! We’re hearing from three MHP research Hubs — starting with the @BrainGenHub, uncovering how genetics and brain data can deepen our understanding of mental illness. 🎥 Watch here youtube.com/embed/TjA9IUuT7P…

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The #MHPSummit2025 opens on #WorldMentalHealthDay with Prof Dame Til Wykes (King’s College London) on “From Subjects to Participants to Co-production.” Lived experience is at the heart of what we do. 👉 mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/b… #MentalHealthResearch

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It’s #WorldMentalHealthDay 💙 We’re in Edinburgh for the first-ever MHP Research Summit 2025, bringing together researchers, clinicians & people with lived experience to advance understanding of severe mental illness. Follow for highlights! #MHPSummit2025 #MentalHealthResearch
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