Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscientist, University of Manchester, WLTplay jazz guitar

Joined December 2010
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Bill Deakin retweeted
Choose a positive narrative. Choose looking after people with major mental illness and making a difference. Choose a specialty that integrates neuroscience, sociology, and psychology. I salute those who choose psychiatry.
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11 Aug 2024
Wonderful many congratulations!!
Grateful beyond words;completed this journey in best interdisciplinary way. Thx my❣️supervisor Cristina, examiners @GamaClarissa (psychiatrist),Niels Olsen (immunologist), @dr_gomesfv (pharmacologist), @usprp @AgenciaFAPESP & everyone who made this a success🤩🥂#PhDONE @PhDVoice
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25 Jul 2024
Thanks for the neat summary Amy! Was weird to show again a 25 yr old slide of predictions!. The millennial fireworks introduced the millennial sequencing of the human genome that transformed our molecular understanding of schizophrenia and ushered in the era of ‘omics. #BAP2024
Ending #BAP2024 with reflections on 50 years of BAP and looking forward. First, looking at the predictions @bdeako made 25 years ago for psychosis today, we have: 🌟gained genetic insights via GWAS collaborations 🌟developed our understanding of the role of glutamate.... (cont)
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First, we will hear from Prof Bill Deakin @bdeako "Fifty years of the thrill of the new in schizophrenia psychopharmacology" #BAP2024 🧵 THREAD
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The closest measure of disorganization that we have seen among all automated speech variables to date! Led splendidly by @EggsWouldEat on @discourseinpsy databank
GPT-3 reveals selective insensitivity to global vs. local linguistic context in speech produced by treatment-naive patients with positive thought disorder biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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Congratulations to Professor Rachel Upthegrove who has been made an MBE in the King's Birthday Honours List. We are really excited to have Prof Upthegrove join us as Director-Designate of Oxford Health BRC and Senior Clinical Researcher in August. psych.ox.ac.uk/news/professo…
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11 Jun 2024
CAS warmly welcomes Paris Lalousis @P_Lalousis @KingsIoPPN @KingsCollegeLon as #CASFellow and member of Johannes Levin's and Nikolaos @koutsouleris' #CASResearchGroup "Tools for Transnational Neuropsychiatric Research“. @LMU_Uniklinikum @DZNE_de @SyNergy_Cluster @LMU_SNAP
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30 Apr 2024
Great work Fabi - many congrats - so good to see your progression! Enjoy the viva😄
Feeling incredibly proud and grateful for this moment 🥹A heartfelt thank you to everyone who was part of and supported me along this journey - let the viva come! #PhD(almost)done #thesisubmission✅🍾🎉🎊👩🏻‍🔬🔬📚🎓 @usprp @AgenciaFAPESP @fmrpusp #phdchat #AcademicTwitter #STEM
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Loving this talk
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A comedy duo to start our next presentation! Prof Bill Deakin joins us for a fascinating talk about Neuroimmune Mechanisms and Therapeutics In Psychiatry; Focus on Psychosis @bdeako #NextGenPsychiatry
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Thank you @SIRSGlobal for another successful conference & great time spent with wonderful colleagues during our immunopsychiatry symposia - that’s 3 in a row 🤩🤩 ! 🧪 🧫 👩🏻‍🔬 #SIRS2024 @meyer_uzh @VernonLab_KCL @BiopsyLab @paola_DZN @AgenciaFAPESP @usprp @AcademicChatter
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4 Apr 2024
Fantastic Ivan great achievement!
Very pleased that we can finally announce the Alzheimer's Research UK and Alzheimer's Society funded research programme READ OUT that I co-lead with Dementias Platform UK colleagues Vanessa Raymont and James Rowe.
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Replying to @Rainmaker1973
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We are really looking forward to welcoming @RachelUTG to the Dept of Psychiatry in the summer. Prof Upthegrove is an internationally recognised clinical academic bringing a wealth of skills and experience to this key leadership role in the dept and @OxHealthBRC
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As a violist, my music brain finds this magnificent.
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This marks the 6th publication part of my PhD 🥵 😁 and I am very much looking forward to complete it ! 🙏🏼🎊🎉
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Here is @GabyMohamady showing how medial frontal cells in mice encode a generalisable schema. The answer is very pretty in itself but, excitingly, it also suggests how the schema representation is formed. Also look out for mice doing zero-shot inferences!!
We’ve all heard of place cells: neurons that form a “cognitive map” representing the structure of the outside world. But what about our own structured behaviours? We took a deep mechanistic dive, out now on @biorxivpreprint : biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 🧵below:
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