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As the dark farce of 2020 nears its end, what better to do than to add to the list of reviews of the year? It's time for the @echrgroup roundup. Father Ted gif, ready! 1/n
We start at Z with one of the #echrpubs - congrats to @Angelika_Za for this belting paper on hallucinations in Parkinsons in @Brain1878 https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/143/11/3435/5942718?login=true 2/n
75% of our cohort are postgrads - congratulations to @OrepicPavo for the successful defence of his thesis on the links between presence and unusual auditory experiences. Here's an example of his work 3/n https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.26.005843v1.abstract
Well done to @imo_bell for securing an @nhmrc grant to co-develop a new digital platform for supporting youth mental health 4/n https://twitter.com/imo_bell/status/1338995846604488704?s=19
Congratulations to @rachelmbrand for not only defending her PhD, but also winning the Dean's prize, *and* securing a clinical psychology lecturer post at the University of the Sunshine Coast! 5/n https://twitter.com/rachelmbrand/status/1337343918682243073?s=19
Thread pause - baby calls 1/break
The baby is asleep! But for how long? Anyway. Well done to Tom "Wardy" Ward @TAWardpsych and the funky bunch that is the AVATAR team for this @SchizBulletin paper on the virtual therapy 6/n https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/46/5/1038/5830851
That team was joined this year by our very own @eolasinntinn, for the mega event that is Avatar 2. No, not that one. Well done Steph! 7/n
And formerly of @AvatarLdn, the marvellous @MRusCalafell was awarded a Sofja Kovalevskaja Award for her work on psychosis in young people. Go Mar! 8/n https://twitter.com/AvHStiftung/status/1326907922400632839?s=19
Studying for a PhD can be hard at the best of times, and particularly this year. Here's our co-chair @DrCMHazell with an essential review of mental health among postgrads 9/n https://twitter.com/DrCMHazell/status/1298908293583245312?s=19
When she's not winning prizes for her engagement work, ECHR blog editor @dr_emmaclaire has been publishing in the @TheLancetPsych on NMDAR antibodies and psychosis.... 9/n https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30432-6/fulltext
In the same journal - not-on -Twitter-but-in-ECHR Clara Humpston & plucky newcomer @matthewrbroome with this tour de force on sxhizophrenia 10/n https://twitter.com/matthewrbroome/status/1232212201848606720?s=19
Back to January last year - a fan paper on social identity and psychosis from @nicolamcguire_ 11/n https://twitter.com/nicolamcguire_/status/1215412840669970432?s=19
My hands are cold sitting on this park bench - but time for one more! Really pleased to be part of this commentary on the dubious notion of "pseudo-hallucinations" led by @themichjam and featuring a stellar team of collaborators - thanks Michelle! 12/n https://twitter.com/themichjam/status/1344252174222700564?s=19
I messed up the numbering somewhere. Anyway! Time to walk this one a bit more and time for another thread break.... 2/break
Right then last bit. It wouldn't be a thread without some prediction error somewhere - so here's @joosthaarsma & @kjmjDiederen on PE, predictions and dopamine in psychosis 13/n https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-020-0803-8
Why listen to derogatory voices? @bryonysheaves has 21 reasons... 14/n https://twitter.com/bryonysheaves/status/1288485130298896384?s=19
On the links between childhood trauma, unusual experiences and unusual beliefs in adulthood - our North America co-lead @DrAbigailW 14/n https://twitter.com/DrAbigailW/status/1275945884199632899?s=19
@JoeBarnby has been doing some collaborating again - this time with Jan Dirk Blom & @FlavieWaters with a contribution to the recent Phil. Transactions special issue on stimulus independent cognition (eds @ProfJoelPearson & @BenceNanay) 15/n https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.0701
COVID put paid to any @echrgroup face to face meeting this year, but there was still not one but two virtual meetings in Nov & Dec - thanks to @CatherineBorto1 (ECHR 2020) @imo_bell @rachelmbrand @COBYolland @soapface_ Wei-Lin Toh & Adrienne Bell (ECHR ANZ) 16/n
And finally.... As of tomorrow, we have two new acting co-chairs - @dr_emmaclaire & @CatherineBorto1! With @DrCMHazell already on leave and me on parental leave til April, they will be picking up the reins. Thanks and good luck to them 17/n
Thanks to all our members and apologies for the inevitable omissions - there is some stellar work out there on the #echrpubs hashtag and on our blog, http://ECHR.group . We are on 195 members and growing all the time - join us for 2021! Over and out Happy New Year! 18/18.
