Joseph Firth
@JosephFirthUoM
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Researching the interface between Physical & Mental Health to enhance healthcare + recovery in #mentalillness (Views are own)
Manchester, England
Joined November 2015
Delighted to share 3 new articles, out today in World Psychiatry: 1 Latest Advances in Digital Mental Health https://t.co/ZUiWXeVNQ7 2 Meta-Review of Physical Activity for MH https://t.co/VY4HVA2wRL 3 Priorities & Opportunities for Lifestyle Psychiatry https://t.co/oL1yD3THqn
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📢 Call for Papers 🧠💤 Special issue: Sleep Science in Sports Exploring sleep, physical activity & mental health in athletes & psychiatric patients. 🗓️ Deadline: 31 Aug 2025 🔗 Submit here: https://t.co/qKmYXhtoky
#SportsPsychiatry #SleepScience #MentalHealth #SEPSIG
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Impressive results for a new app to support people with schizophrenia, given the study features a rigorous digital control group, from @Boehringer. Disclosure - I am a clinical advisor/ excited to see such advances in digital health https://t.co/yGygdQGcp3
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Internet CBT is more readily initiated than f2f CBT, but both appear to produce comparable rates of dropout, engagement and retention. Our new meta-analysis out!
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Internet-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (ICBT) appears to produce comparable clinical benefits to face-to-face CBT. However, whether these two CBT modalities are equally accepted by patients re...
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I wonder if others see a stronger approach to preventing harm from AI in mental health:“There’s no way to guarantee that an AI system is going to be 100% safe...one solution is to educate people on what these tools are, and what they are not” in @latimes
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AI researchers at Northeastern University found it troublingly easy to bypass self-harm and suicide safeguards on ChatGPT, Perplexity and other common large language models.
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💡 Nuevo consenso internacional: 🚶♀️🧘♂️ Realizar ráfagas cortas de ejercicio (≤10 min), varias veces al día 🕒, es una estrategia eficaz para combatir el sedentarismo 🪑 y mejorar más de 20 marcadores de salud 🧬💓 https://t.co/3YQViObv1v
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"That is the difference between why people have lifelong engagement and why they crash in and out of sport." In an in-depth interview, world-leading researcher @BrendonStubbs23 explains the positive relationship between mental and physical health in sport 🧠 Plus how having a
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Where does sport fit within mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS)? When designed & delivered with intention, across the entire system of support. https://t.co/Uxvm8uOBAg
@gulsahkurttt @JosephFirthUoM @BrendonStubbs23 @sportanddev @mhpss @Refugees
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Co-production with our Psychological Therapies Training Centre “…contributes greatly to the ongoing mental wellbeing of group members and gives everyone involved a sense of pride and a real sense of accomplishment…” Read more 👇 #CoProWeek #CoproduceGM #GMMHGetInvolved
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Sleep deprivation increases food desire in the brain.
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Machine-Learning Applications in Eating-Disorder-Outcome Prediction: A Systematic Scoping Review - Zoe McClure, Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Mariel Messer, Jake Linardon, 2025
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Eating disorders (EDs) are complex and debilitating conditions. Prior efforts to predict outcomes (onset, prognosis, treatment response) have yielded inconsiste...
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Proud to say that we have co-designed a highly acceptable novel #digitalhealth intervention to improve metabolic health, tailored to the needs of people living with complex #MentalHealth conditions like #Schizophrenia . https://t.co/aNaobTQqUI
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Thanks @dredbeveridge for the support & questions. Great to hear about your own initiatives in this area, and very much looking forward to seeing the @rcpsych outputs on addressing physical diseases in mental healthcare, later this year
Ending w/ @TheLancet Commission on protecting physical health in people with mental illness. These outputs are a rich resource of evidence based ways to close the #mortalitygap - v excited to see them arrive 💪💪💪 #RCPsychIC25 #RCPsychIC
@tobypill @JosephFirthUoM @KMachaczek
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Do LLMs have a role to play in mental health research? Our new paper explores if, how, and when researchers use LLMs to do research, their broader concerns about LLM adoption in research, and attitudes moving forward. https://t.co/kHMfRrxNNf
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At the @youth_dmh training school on “Digital Mental Health for young people” at @ucddublin today
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Our new study titled "Exercise training and inflammatory adipokines in patients with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression" is online! https://t.co/yMSekQ4jAs
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Background Improvements in adipocytes levels can reduce the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, indicating adipocytes to be a hopeful remedial target in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and...
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Our paper was just published in The Lancet Psychiatry. 🧵1/11
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Children spend >50% of their time not moving. The less you move, the higher your risk of depression. Exercise is an effective treatment which needs to be prescribed more.
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What happens when a country (New Zealand) makes an online/app-based #mentalhealth program accessible to all youth ages 12-19 from 2014-2021? This paper reveals the answer: 2% of the population signs up, but only 2% of those who sign up complete all modules https://t.co/5L6Iaoeb8t
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Great to spend time and do a symposiums at WCPT with Davy Vancampfort We both functioned on a handful of hours sleep with jet lag 😅
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