UKRI Mental Health Platform

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

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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: https://t.co/ojZIAsSlmx

#PPIE #MentalHealthResearch #LivedExperience

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🎉Thanks for joining us on “Discover the Hubs” Week 🎉

🎬 Now meet our Hub Leaders on YouTube:
https://t.co/v64Ci6w1GS

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.

🔗https://t.co/txy9y2T5Do
#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.

🔗 https://t.co/RkASkbsJJ0
#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

🔗 https://t.co/4KfaZsK5jv

#DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch

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@DatamindUK

👉Driving better mental health outcomes: ethical, transparent and inclusive data use.
🔍 FAIR access, collaboration & tackling inequalities.
💬 Our SRAG lived-experience group helps shape research

🔗 https://t.co/VJ5qCECEY9
#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:
🔗 https://t.co/kMhLOLZdWa

#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

🔗https://t.co/y2NkEMR2JU

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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.

👉https://t.co/Lh3dypJPDX

#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 👉 https://t.co/3u6xpiG2HO

#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 👇
https://t.co/AoNT5xwv86

#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 👇
https://t.co/TlpZ98mwAr

#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: https://t.co/sdoLihL3Ic

#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: https://t.co/4CEVeJSt4S

#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: https://t.co/4pLRzqC5aF

#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 https://t.co/ThnWmVRT7C

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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.
👉 https://t.co/L8vztJvnaj

#MentalHealthResearch