Máiréad Healy

PhD candidate 🧠 MRC-DTP @Cambpsych @Cambridge_Uni she/her

[Máiréad Healy @maireadphealy]

Thrilled to share our new paper published in @NatureComms, led by @BiriaMarjan! We uncovered significant chemical imbalances in decision-making & habitual control regions of the brain in people with OCD 🧠

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Paper: https://t.co/9eP5ZsQqhd

[Adaptive Brain Lab @CambridgeABL]

Excited to launch: AI-deas for better lifelong brain and mental health, a cross-disciplinary hub to tackle early prediction of brain and mental health disorders https://t.co/6Q9fnhOid4
#AI_Deas
#CambridgeInnovation
@CamNeuro
@CambridgeC2D3
@CamBrainCNS
@CambPsych

[Máiréad Healy @maireadphealy]

@MlMcNamaraTD Clare constituent here. I don’t understand your positioning since you voted against sanctions on Israel? Can you please clarify. Thanks

[Máiréad Healy @maireadphealy]

https://t.co/8qP714Yws6

[Máiréad Healy @maireadphealy]

Thrilled to share our new paper published in @NatureComms, led by @BiriaMarjan! We uncovered significant chemical imbalances in decision-making & habitual control regions of the brain in people with OCD 🧠

Read below for more 🧵 1/11

Paper: https://t.co/9eP5ZsQqhd

[Máiréad Healy @maireadphealy]

This was a big team effort: @PaulaBanca1 @EnKeser @MarzukiAleya @sjsawiak @cat_rua, Ana Maria, Akeem Sule, Chris Rogers, Karen Ercshe, Trevor Robbins & a special thanks to our radiographers @WBIC and our funders @wellcometrust
@CamNeuro 11/11

[Máiréad Healy @maireadphealy]

@GaaClare It’s working - refresh the link

[Máiréad Healy @maireadphealy]

@GaaClare :( Still not working

[Dr Saloni Krishnan @salonikrishnan]

What's different about the brains of children and adolescents with language disorder? In our new @eLife paper (out today!), we report that striatal and cortical myelin is reduced in children and adolescents with #DevLangDis

Paper: https://t.co/7t0KnfNgBM

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[Leya M 🍉 @MarzukiAleya]

Our baby pre-print is now a fully-fledged published butterfly in @TheJCPP https://t.co/rYWA7eOVXv! We found, for the first time, that teens with #OCD over-update their actions despite very small changes in a task environment, possibly mirroring real-life compulsions.

[Dr Hanna Willis @hannaxwillis]

Still recruiting the last participant for our study! Do get in touch if you or anyone you know had visual loss after stroke or hemianopia🧠 [email protected]. #stroke #blindness #hemianopia

[Leya M 🍉 @MarzukiAleya]

Do you find yourself struggling to make decisions and cope during these uncertain times? Myself and @BJSahakian discuss how uncertainty impacts decision-making in this @ConversationUK article.

@CamNeuro @CambPsych
https://t.co/GcvnpQQS5Y