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Hamilton Morrin

@hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social
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@KingsIoPPN Doctoral Fellow | Video games, BCIs, VR & Neuropsych | Genetics BSc | @MaudsleyNHS ST Doctor | @GamingTheMind Trustee | Ex @RCPsych Psych Star

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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 16/03/2026
In one of the first scientific reviews on the emerging concept of “AI psychosis,” researchers expressed real concern about the possibility that chatbots can exacerbate delusions, while maintaining reservations about the idea it can “cause” psychosis in people who aren’t already predisposed.
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New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking
First major study on ‘AI psychosis’ suggests chatbots can encourage delusions among vulnerable people
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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Pleased to see our @thelancet.com Lancet Psychiatry article on 'AI psychosis' covered in The Guardian this weekend @aldersonday.bsky.social @ricardotwumasi.bsky.social
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/03/2026
New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking
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New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking
First major study on ‘AI psychosis’ suggests chatbots can encourage delusions among vulnerable people A new scientific review raises concerns about how chatbots powered by artificial intelligence may encourage delusional thinking, especially in vulnerable people. A summary of existing evidence on artificial intelligence-induced psychosis was published last week in the Lancet Psychiatry, highlighting how chatbots can encourage delusional thinking – though possibly only in people who are already vulnerable to psychotic symptoms. The authors advocate for clinical testing of AI chatbots in conjunction with trained mental health professionals. Continue reading...
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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I’m delighted to share our paper in The Lancet Psychiatry ‘AI-associated delusions and large language models: risks, mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies’ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Artificial intelligence-associated delusions and large language models: risks, mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies
Large language models (LLMs) are poised to become a ubiquitous feature of everyday life, mediating communication, decision making, and information cur…
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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I’m delighted to share our paper in The Lancet Psychiatry ‘AI-associated delusions and large language models: risks, mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies’ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
sciencedirect.com
Artificial intelligence-associated delusions and large language models: risks, mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies
Large language models (LLMs) are poised to become a ubiquitous feature of everyday life, mediating communication, decision making, and information cur…
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Dr Ricardo Twumasi @ricardotwumasi.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Store sprogmodeller er ved at blive en del af hverdagen. Men hvad sker der, når de validerer vrangforestillinger? Ny artikel i The Lancet Psychiatry med @aldersonday.bsky.social @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/S221... #AIogPsykose #Psykiatri #Chat
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Ben Alderson-Day @aldersonday.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Last year I had the pleasure of joining a new working group on AI & psychosis led by @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social & Tom Pollak. Today our report went into @thelancetpsych.bsky.social with updated recommendations for digital safety. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
sciencedirect.com
Artificial intelligence-associated delusions and large language models: risks, mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies
Large language models (LLMs) are poised to become a ubiquitous feature of everyday life, mediating communication, decision making, and information cur…
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We are at the National Student Psychiatry Conference at University of Kent, showing off extracurricular volunteer activities that psych trainees can engage in through the charity, to support mental health in the gaming community! @rcpsych.bsky.social @kmmsmedschool.bsky.social
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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... Tom's more thoughtful summary: drtompollak.substack.com/p/playing-wi... #AI #MentalHealth #Psychiatry #AIsafety #HCI #DigitalHealth #Governance
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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
New Year, New(ish) Preprint! I'm delighted to share "Playing with the dials of belief: how controllable AI behaviours could modulate human belief and cognition across scales" (with Quinton Deeley and Tom Pollak). osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
New Year, New(ish) Preprint! I'm delighted to share "Playing with the dials of belief: how controllable AI behaviours could modulate human belief and cognition across scales" (with Quinton Deeley and Tom Pollak). osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
0.07% of ChatGPT users showing signs of psychosis or mania may sound low, but that amounts to ~560,000 people each week openai.com/index/streng...
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Strengthening ChatGPT’s responses in sensitive conversations
We worked with more than 170 mental health experts to help ChatGPT more reliably recognize signs of distress, respond with care, and guide people toward real-world support–reducing responses that fall...
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Are you at #MCMComicCon and want to relax? Come to our Reset Room, a calm oasis where you can chill, do lo-fi activities, & re-energise before heading back to the show! We have mental health information too! Staffed by this cool crew. Find us upstairs in the Platinum Suite! 🧠🎮
GTM volunteer crewDim lighting and soothing atmosphere in the Reset Room
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
We're still at #MCMComicCon with our Reset Room! If you need to take a break for any reason, come by. It's quieter in here! We also have mental health information and lo-fi activities. It's run by today's awesome crew right here! 🧠🎮 Find us upstairs in the Platinum Suite!
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Gaming the Mind Conference Prof Paul Fletcher delivers the day's keynote. As a clinical neuroscientist sees the potential of games to measure stress responses from players, and to use biofeedback for training self-regulation - explored through The Insight Project with Ninja Theory
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Gaming the Mind Conference Dr Victoria McCloud chairs a panel featuring @chellaramanan.bsky.social from @3foldgames.bsky.social, Dom Matthews from Ninja Theory, and Dr Andrew Howe
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Gaming the Mind Conference Ninja Theory Studio Head Dom Matthews discusses the development of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. The studio worked with people with lived experience of psychosis, aiming to create a truthful representation of the symptoms in lead character Senua.
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Gaming the Mind Conference @chellaramanan.bsky.social speaks about @3foldgames.bsky.social's Before I Forget, and depicting dementia in a non-cliched, respectful way. She and the team worked with psychiatrists for input, including our own Dr Donald Servant.
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Gaming the Mind Conference Dr Andrew Howe, Consultant Psychiatrist & Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, speaks on Jungian archetypes in The Legend of Zelda, and using the mythology of games in psychological therapy. He guides us through active imagination based on Ocarina of Time 💭
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Gaming the Mind Conference Malachi Gow showed us his game "i love me, i love me not", a relaxing game focusing on teaching mental health habits. He is the recipient of our first Independent Developer Award, and £1,000 for further development. 🏆 malgow.net
Malachi Gow receives the award
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Gaming the Mind Conference at @rcpsych.bsky.social Addictions Psychiatrist Dr Stephen Kaar on research looking at longitudinal research into gaming disorder. Evidence suggests young people with depressive, anxiety, ADHD symptoms are at higher risk of developing gaming disorder symptoms.
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Gaming the Mind Conference at @rcpsych.bsky.social @leonxiao.com on loot boxes and regulations related to odds disclosure, minimum age requirements, and advertising, as well as countries where they are recognised as gambling, and the myriad cases where games don't comply with regulations!
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Gaming the Mind Conference at the @rcpsych.bsky.social Prof Henrietta Bowden-Jones on the establishment of the gaming disorder diagnosis and the range of presentations seen at the The National Centre for Gaming Disorders.
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Gaming the Mind Conference Dr Stone Hsieh on the neurological benefits of exercise. He and Bread Lab's ActiGamer project looks to see if active video games can reduce ADHD symptoms, and the feasibility if introducing this as an intervention.
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Gaming the Mind Conference Elin Festøy delivers a talk about My Child New Beginnings, about raising a Lebensborn child dealing with trauma in a hateful environment. The game aims to build empathy with the child, to create a strong motivator for transformation.
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Preparing for the launch of the first ever Gaming the Mind conference! Hosted at the @rcpsych.bsky.social Ready for a day talking about the exciting growing field of gaming and mental health!
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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Today I'll mostly be talking about videogames at the Royal College of Psychiatrists @gamingthemind.bsky.social conference #BeforeIForget @3foldgames.bsky.social
A light-skinned Black woman (Chella) with a curly fringe and glasses and a black puff-sleeve top on is smiling.
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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I'm glad to share our new retrospective cohort study in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Women's Health on neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in hyperemesis gravidarum www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in hyperemesis gravidarum: a retrospective cohort study
Our study suggests that although hyperemesis gravidarum is associated with higher risk for poorer mental health outcomes compared with pregnancy without the condition, the relationship between hyperem...
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 02/09/2025
New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Dirk Gütlin @gutlin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Brain–computer interface control with artificial intelligence copilots #MLSky #CompNeuro #NeuroAI www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Brain–computer interface control with artificial intelligence copilots - Nature Machine Intelligence
AI copilots are integrated into brain–computer interfaces, enabling a paralysed participant to achieve improved control of computer cursors and robotic arms. This shared autonomy approach offers a pro...
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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
If you'd like to understand more about the recent phenomenon dubbed "AI/chatbot psychosis" by the media, you could do far worse than listen to @theguardian.com's Science Weekly Podcast where I explain what it is, why it happens, and what we can do about it www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I must confess, the reason I rarely use this platform is that almost every time I try to share a link via the app, I receive some sort of error message
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Now is the time! Early bird rates end on 1st September, so don't delay signing up for the Gaming the Mind Conference 2025! Will we see you there? Monday 29th September at the Royal College of Psychiatrists in London. Details below!
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Do you have kids with ADHD traits who'd like to participate in a study on the effects of exercise gaming on self-regulation skills? Join this study by our friends at BREAD Lab and you can advance scientific knowledge, and get £40 for your time! More details below. See thread for links!
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Exergaming Intervention Study for Self-Regulation Skills in Children with Traits of ADHD
Recruiting Children, ages 7 to 14, with traits of ADHD for a research study on the effects of videogame-based exercise on self-regulation skills.
Participation involves:
6 weeks of exergaming sessions at Kingston University (free parking offered)
behavioural assessments
brain activity assessments
fitness assessments
Benefits of participating:
Family will receive £40 as a thank you!
Certificate of completing exergaming programme
Help scientists better understand the effects of lifestyle intervention for ADHD
Co-work with scientists on a fun learning exercise experience to boost attention

For more information, or to enroll, Contact Lauren Dacorro:
https://kingstonpcs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_OSUJTZsJ4gKnYJ8
breadlabkingston@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/view/breadlab/home
For questions, concerns, complaints on participant rights, contact Dr. Stone Hsieh s.hsieh@kingston.ac.uk)
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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
New preprint: "Delusions by design? How everyday AIs might be fuelling psychosis (and what can be done about it)" osf.io/preprints/ps... substack.com/@drtompollak @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social @aldersonday.bsky.social
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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
1/ 🧵 New preprint out now: "Delusions by Design? How Everyday AIs Might Be Fuelling Psychosis (and What Can Be Done About It)" We explore how LLMs may shape thinking in people vulnerable to psychosis, for better or worse. 📄 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Adam Linson @adamlinson.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
novel neurocomputational model illustrates a putative pathogenesis of disorders related to sequelae of traumatic stress inc. PTSD and CPTSD with focus on: *biopsychosocial dynamics relevant to diagnosis & treatment *unimpaired vs. impaired neuromodulation, attention, perception, memory & sleep 🧠📈 🧪
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Neurocomputational impairments in disambiguation of context as a key determinant of post-traumatic psychopathology
We combine theoretical biology and systems neuroscience to relate the mechanisms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) models to biopsychosocial complexity. Moving beyond fear conditioning, extinct...
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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
1/ 🧵 New preprint out now: "Delusions by Design? How Everyday AIs Might Be Fuelling Psychosis (and What Can Be Done About It)" We explore how LLMs may shape thinking in people vulnerable to psychosis, for better or worse. 📄 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
10/ Preprint here (open access): 🔗 ssrn.com/abstract=526... 📂Data: osf.io/85px3 🙏Funded by the NIHR, authored with lived experience voices. Let’s change how we care for people with HG. #HG #PerinatalMentalHealth #Psychiatry #MaternalHealth #OpenScience
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Neuropsychiatric and Mental Health Outcomes in Hyperemesis Gravidarum: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Background; Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is associated with adverse neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes. We aimed to identify relative risks of such outc
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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Glad to have been able to see this excellent and important exhibition on the lived experiences of women with #HyperemesisGravidarum We need more research. We need better care pathways. And more importantly, we need to listen to women with #HG Do check it out! Last day on Sunday ⏳
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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🧠 Study exploring new FND treatment! We’re exploring patient views on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) for #FND rehab. ✅ 18+ ✅ Diagnosed w/ motor FND (e.g. weakness, tremor) 📝 10-min survey and educational video: qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... 📎 Poster below #FNDresearch #BCI
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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
🧵1/ New research alert! Our preprint is out: the largest study to date exploring neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in women with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). What did we find? A lot, and it matters. 📄https://ssrn.com/abstract=5263136 👇
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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
🧵1/ New research alert! Our preprint is out: the largest study to date exploring neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in women with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). What did we find? A lot, and it matters. 📄https://ssrn.com/abstract=5263136 👇
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
We're still at #MCMComicCon with our Reset Room! If you need to take a break for any reason, come by. It's quieter in here! We also have mental health information and lo-fi activities. It's run by today's awesome crew right here! 🧠🎮 Find us upstairs in the Platinum Suite!
Volunteers lined up, they are holding plushies View of the Reset Room, it is softly lit, and there's bean bags and activity tables visible
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Gaming the Mind @gamingthemind.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Are you at #MCMComicCon and want to relax? Come to our Reset Room, a calm oasis where you can chill, do lo-fi activities, & re-energise before heading back to the show! We have mental health information too! Staffed by this cool crew. Find us upstairs in the Platinum Suite! 🧠🎮
Reset Room volunteers sitting in quiet room around plush bonfire
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King's Health Partners @kingshealth.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
🧠 Want to learn more about neurotechnology? Join our global expert speakers at the Maudsley Neurotechnology Conference, Thursday 15 May, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. Register here ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/mauds... @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social
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King's Health Partners @kingshealth.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
What is the full potential of neurotechnology? For our latest KHP #BigHealthQuestions interview, we asked Dr Hamilton Morrin 'why do we need to develop new neurotechnology treatments?' www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvpJ...
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Can neurotechnology treat mental health conditions? | KHP Big Health Questions
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Hamilton Morrin @hamiltonmorrin.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
It was an absolute pleasure to be interviewed by @kingshealth.bsky.social about our BRAVE-FND study exploring the use of BCIs and VR for rehabilitation in FND www.kingshealthpartners.org/latest/explo...
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King's Health Partners @kingshealth.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
KHP News is out now, including: - an invitation to join the Mind & Body Improvement Network; - an AI project looking at interstitial lung disease; plus - the latest KHP events and opportunities! Read it here ▶️ enewsletters.tictocfamily.com/t/r-689A8125...
Member of the Mind & Body Improvement Network pose for a group photo at a Mind & Body Champions event. One member is holding a gift bag full of flowers.
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