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Dr Myrofora (Myrto) Kakoulidou @myrtokakoulidou.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

We'll be hosting a symposium at the 14th Autism-Europe International Congress in Dublin. Symposium: A neurodiversity-informed approach in mental health research and training: if so, how? 📅 Friday, September 12th, 10:00–11:00, Clyde-Hall 6 Come and join us😃 #AECongress2025 #AutismCongress2025

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Dr Myrofora (Myrto) Kakoulidou @myrtokakoulidou.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

🌟 New paper out🌟 🔗 Open-access here lnkd.in/dFj997Ep Our RE-STAR team co-produced the ‘My Emotions in School Inventory (MESI)’ with Autistic and/or ADHD young people and tested this with 746 neurotypical and neurodivergent adolescents aged 11 to 16 years.

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Dr Myrofora (Myrto) Kakoulidou @myrtokakoulidou.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

🎉🎉 Our RE-STAR paper led by Professor Sonuga-Barke has won the Editor’s Choice Award from #BJPsychJournals! We describe a model for deep participatory translational mental health science in Autism+ADHD that places young people at the core. Dream team🌟

Editor's choice award in the British Journal of Psychiatry.

Title of paper: Participatory translational science of neurodivergence: model for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism research

Led by Professor Edmund Sonuga- Barke and a brilliant group of academic and youth researchers.

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Dr Myrofora (Myrto) Kakoulidou @myrtokakoulidou.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I truly enjoyed presenting our RE-STAR research with Prof. Sonuga- Barke at yesterday's Autism & ADHD Show. 4 years of deeply collaborative work with a dream team @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social +neurodivergent YP at the heart. Important discussions with families. practitioners+researchers.

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Dr Myrofora (Myrto) Kakoulidou @myrtokakoulidou.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Paper in prep. 👉We ran photo-elicitation interviews with Autistic+ADHD adolescents with experiences of low mood, depression+burnout. 👉 We asked about the impact of the school environment on their mood. 👉 Interviews co-designed, co-delivered+co-analysed with neurodivergent youth researchers.

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Dr Myrofora (Myrto) Kakoulidou @myrtokakoulidou.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

📖NEW PAPER OUT A photo-elicitation interview study looking at the experiences+ needs of families raising neurodivergent twins. With brilliant @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social @vassilisside.bsky.social+co-authors. 🔗https://frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1571108/full

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Dr Myrofora (Myrto) Kakoulidou @myrtokakoulidou.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🎉What a productive and successful year for our RE-STAR🌟 research programme. 6 work packages, brilliant work with committed young people, parents/carers, school staff, researchers and collaborators, publications, public engagement events + awards. 👀 Check our winter newsletter here t.co/sJfZSXDkzO

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