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New £4M hub for metabolic psychiatry
2016 Lister Fellow Danny Smith will head up one of five new UKRI research hubs dedicated to severe mental illness (SMI). The Edinburgh hub, opening this month, will explore the correlation between metabolic disorders and severe mental health conditions.
We’ve always known that weight gain for people with SMI like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and severe depression is a big issue, and it’s not entirely explained by medication side effects. We can use machine learning approaches on that data to predict, on an individual patient basis, when they might be becoming unwell because of what’s going on in their metabolic state. We have the LEAP (lived experience advisory panel), which is six people with a history of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, who we’ll meet with regularly to keep them abreast of the activity of the hub and to get their input on what directions we should be going in.
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