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Jonah Byrne

@jonah-byrne.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher in child and adolescent mental health @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social

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Jonah Byrne @jonah-byrne.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
For too many young people, CAMHS is not a discrete episode of childhood care – it marks the beginning of a lifelong trajectory of mental ill-health. www.ed.ac.uk/news/almost-...
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Almost half of child mental health patients need adult care | News | The University of Edinburgh
Four in ten children who attend Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in Scotland go on to attend specialist psychiatric services as adults, according to new research.
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Jonah Byrne @jonah-byrne.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
What do clinical outcomes look like for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) patients when followed over time? In a total Scottish birth cohort study, we found figures far higher than previous short-term studies have suggested... 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Adult mental health service outcomes for patients of child and adolescent mental health services: a total Scottish birth cohort study - European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) provide a critical opportunity for early mental health interventions. Evidence is still scare, however, on the long-term mental health outcomes of C...
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Edinburgh University @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
One in five young people in the UK now use mental health services by age 18. @the-independent.com eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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One in five young people now use mental health services by age 18
New research shows a fourfold increase in the numbers of young people using specialist mental health care in the last two decades
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Colm Healy @c-healy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
@iankellehermd.bsky.social chatting with Dr Norman Swan from ABCs the heath report about the Doxycycline and reduced risk of schizophrenia (doi: doi.org/10.1176/appi... ), worth a listen. 🎧👂: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Common acne medication could reduce schizophrenia risk - ABC listen
A drug used to treat acne and to prevent malaria, doxycycline, could reduce the risk adolescents developing schizophrenia. The association was seen in a study looking at more than 50,000 adolescents ...
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Colm Healy @c-healy.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
New research using an emulated target trail approach with all adolescent CAMHs users in Finland suggesting that Doxycycline (an antibiotic) can reduces future risk of schizophrenia. Massive congrats to @iankellehermd.bsky.social @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social doi.org/10.1176/appi... More info ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Doxycycline Use in Adolescent Psychiatric Patients and Risk of Schizophrenia: An Emulated Target Trial | American Journal of Psychiatry
Objective: As many as half of individuals who develop psychosis had attended child and adolescent psychiatric services at some stage in childhood, highlighting substantial opportunities for prevention...
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RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences @rcsi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
PPI representatives from the RCSI PSI-STAR study have collaborated with Brokentalkers on 'The Mirror Stage' - a performance inspired by the lived experience of psychosis. It premieres at Project Arts Centre, Dublin (5–12 Nov) and The Everyman, Cork (18 Nov). ⬇️ brokentalkers.ie/whats-on/the...
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The Mirror Stage | Dublin & Cork | Nov 7 - 12 & 18 - Brokentalkers
Brokentalkers present The Mirror Stage a powerful new theatre work created with and inspired by people who have lived through Psychosis.
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Edinburgh University @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Out now: No evidence that SSRI treatment for adolescent depression reduces future risk of psychosis. This goes against the belief that typical treatments for common mental disorders will reduce the risk of psychosis. 💊🧠 15 min explainer podcast: youtu.be/wP3nuqSpWbo Paper: doi.org/10.1192/j.eu...
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Can treating teenage depression prevent severe mental illness in adulthood?
YouTube video by Ian Kelleher Lab
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Edinburgh University @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Out today in BJPsych: 45% of people with a psychotic or bipolar disorder attended CAMHS in Wales at some point in childhood/adolescence🧒 This replicates similar findings from Finland by @iankellehermd.bsky.social & co - showing this applies to UK CAMHS as well. doi.org/10.1192/bjp....
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Psychosis and bipolar disorder risk in child and adolescent mental health services in the UK: population cohort study | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Psychosis and bipolar disorder risk in child and adolescent mental health services in the UK: population cohort study
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Edinburgh University @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Shared characteristics associated with both psychotic experiences and likelihood of being treated with stimulant medications may instead be driving the relationship.
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Edinburgh University @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Concerns have been raised that stimulant medications could increase risk of psychotic experiences in young people. Our new research shows no evidence for such a causal relationship 💊🧠 Paper 👇 publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...
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Stimulant Medication Use and Risk of Psychotic Experiences
10.1542/6370189324112Video AbstractPEDS-VA_2024-0691426370189324112BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES. The prescription of stimulant medications for young people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder i...
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Edinburgh University @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Adolescents hospitalised for non-psychotic disorders have a high risk of psychosis in adulthood. But do (attenuated) psychotic symptoms predict later psychotic illness? The answer isn’t necessarily what you might expect… Open access in #PsychologicalMedicine
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Do psychotic symptoms predict future psychotic disorders in adolescent psychiatry inpatients? A 17-year cohort study | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Do psychotic symptoms predict future psychotic disorders in adolescent psychiatry inpatients? A 17-year cohort study - Volume 55
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Edinburgh University @edinburghcapsych.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
New research shows >50% of specialist adult mental health service use comes from former #CAMHS patients We need early intervention in childhood to change these poor long-term outcomes That's why we need much more research on mental illness prevention in #CAMHS 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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