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Professor Gary Donohoe - Tackling Cognitive Difficulties in Psychosis

News and Outputs

                           PSYcHE Outputs 2023

Psychosis Art Collective

Art Collective interactive website

MEDIA

Dec-23 Prof Gary Donohoe - IRISH TIMES article by Mark Hilliard, 'Most young people with mental health issues are referred for treatment by themselves or their parents'. 

Nov-23 Conor Gavin - IRISH INDEPENDENT article by Niamh Jiminez, 'The psychosis arts collective: how a group of artists who have experienced the condition are challenging perceptions'. 20th November 2023

June-23 Conor Gavin, NEWSTALK Lunchtime Live, speaking about Living with Psychosis

June-23 Conor Gavin - IRISH INDEPENDENT article, 'Shame, stigma, losing touch with reality but hope and healing too - what it's like to live with Psychosis' Irish Independent article

Apr-23 Emmet Godfrey - IRISH EXAMINER article by Niamh Jiminiz, 'Online news reporting on psychosis and schizophrenia needs to challenge stigma'

Mar-23 Prof Gary Donohoe - IRISH TIMES article by Niamh Jiminez, 'New North-South project aims to identify mental health apps that resonate best with Irish youth'

Mar-23 Emmet Godfrey, Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, ‘An evaluation of journalistic reporting on schizophrenia in the Irish news media’.

AWARDS

Nov-23 Dr Emma Frawley - 'Digital Mental Health Champion', Innovation awards, UL Digital Mental Health Conference 2023 

June-23 Dr Emma Frawley - CR in Psychiatry Rising Star Award, CR in Psychiatry Conference, New York City

PUBLICATIONS

Corpus callosum microstructural organization mediates the effects of physical neglect on social cognition in schizophrenia. Corley E, Gleeson C, Godfrey E, Cowman M, Patlola SR, Cannon DM, McKernan DP, Kelly JP, Hallahan B, McDonald C, Morris DW, Burke T, Donohoe G. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2023 Oct 14

The impact of early adversity and education on genetic and brain morphologicalpredictors of cognitive ability. Corley E, Fahey L, Fitzgerald J, Holleran L, Walton E, Morris DW, Donohoe G. Genes Brain Behav. 2023 Jul 4

Early life stress, low-grade systemic inflammation and weaker suppression of the default mode network (DMN) during face processing in Schizophrenia. King S, Mothersill D, Holleran L, Patlola SR, Burke T, McManus R, Kenyon M, McDonald C, Hallahan B, Corvin A, Morris DW, Kelly JP, McKernan DP, Donohoe G. Transl Psychiatry. 2023 Jun 21

Measures of Social and Occupational Function in Early Psychosis: A Systematic Review andMeta-analysis. Cowman M, Godfrey E, Walsh T, Frawley E, Fowler D, Alvarez-Jimenez M, O'Connor K, Wykes T, Birchwood M, Donohoe G. Schizophr Bull. 2023 May 13 

Participant perspectives on cognitive remediation and social recovery in early psychosis (CReSt-R): An acceptability study. Frawley E, Heary C, Berry C, Cella M, Fowler D, Wykes T, Donohoe G. Early Interv Psychiatry. 2023 Apr 26

An evaluation of journalistic reporting on schizophrenia in the Irish news media. Godfrey E, Gavin C, Haskins E, O'Meara Á, O'Connor K, Donohoe G.Ir J Psychol Med. 2023 Mar 27

Corpus Callosum Microstructural Tract Integrity Relates to Longer Emotion Recognition Reaction Time in People with Schizophrenia. Burke T, Gleeson C, Holleran L, Mothersill D, Holland J, Costello L, Kane R, McKernan DP, Morris DW, Kelly JP, Corvin AP, Hallahan BP, McDonald C, Donohoe G. Brain Sci. 2022 Sep 8

Cognitive Predictors of Social and Occupational Functioning in Early Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Data. Cowman M, Holleran L, Lonergan E, O'Connor K, Birchwood M, Donohoe G. Schizophr Bull. 2021 Aug 21

PRESENTATIONS

Dr Emma Frawley/Megan Cowman, CReSt-R Protocol presentation to CORK EIP MDT, 21st March 2023

                       PSYcHE Outputs 2022

Awards

Ellen Moran - PSI Merit Award for Poster Presentation at PSI Annual Conference November 2022

Emmet Godfrey wins the PSI Early Graduate Group Annual Conference 2022 Award for Best Oral Presentation 2022                      Read more on Twitter

Presentations

Tom Burke - seminar at UCD School of psychology, Behavioural Neuroscience MSc on the PSYcHE project, November 2022 link

Media

Prof Gary Donohoe - The Psychologistarticle - 'How adverse childhood experiences shape our brains' August 2022

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Publications

Evidence supporting the use of a brief cognitive assessment in routine clinical assessment for psychosis. Cowman M, Lonergan E, Burke T, Bowie CR, Corvin A, Morris DW, O'Connor K, Donohoe G.Schizophrenia (Heidelb). 2022 Dec

Frawley E, Cowman M, Cella M, Cohen D, Ryan E, Hallahan B, Bowie C, McDonald C, Fowler D, Wykes T, Donohoe G.   Cognitive Remediation and Social Recovery in Early Psychosis (CReSt-R): protocol for a pilot randomised controlled study. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2022 May 24

Kelly Grealy M, Godfrey E, Brady F, Whyte O'Sullivan E, Carroll GA, Burke T.   Borderline personality disorder traits and mentalising ability: The self-other social cognition paradox. Front Psychiatry. 2022 Oct 20

Godfrey E, Kelly Grealy M, Whyte O'Sullivan E, Sullivan S, Brady F, Carroll G, Burke T.  Emotion Recognition and the Screening Instrument for Borderline Personality Disorder (SI-Bord): Outcomes and Community-Based Validation. Brain Sci. 2022 Nov 8

                                        PSYcHE Outputs 2021

LAUNCH of  'MOST'  social therapy app for young people with psychosis as part of HRB funded collaboration with national EIP services  Gary Donohoe and Emmet Godfrey.

Emmet Godfrey & Talissa Walsh - EIP podcast with IPS specialist Ian Rooney

Publications

Frawley E, Cowman M, Lepage M, Donohoe G. Social and occupational recovery in early psychosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of psychosocial interventions. Psychol Med. 2021 Sep 3

Megan Cowman, Laurena Holleran, Edgar Lonergan, Karen O’Connor, Max Birchwood,Gary Donohoe. March 2021  Cognitive Predictors of Social and Occupational Functioning in Early Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Cross-Sectional and LongitudinalData.  Schizophrenia Bulletin. Schizophr Bull  2021 Mar 24; PMID: 33761534  DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbab033

Talissa Walsh, Emmet Godfrey, Megan Cowman, Edgar Lonergan and Gary Donohoe. Development of Early Intervention services for Psychosis in Ireland; April 2021, The Irish Psychologist, Volume 47, Issue 2.

Tom Burke  April 21, Correlates of Social Cognition and Psychopathic Traits in a Community-Based Sample Of Males   https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.656299/abstract

Awards

Tom Burke, January 2021  Dementia KARE: A Total Well-Being Framework

Media engagement

RTE2 radio – Dave Fanning program. The emotional experience of being part of a large group.  RTE radio 2,  Dec 5^th 2021.

Talk entitled – Trauma, Psychosis & the brain. Presented at the National early intervention for psychosis network, December 3^rd 2021

Irish Times  03/03/21 -  Irish-designed app in trial to help those with schizophrenia - Professor Gary Donohoe

Training

Gary Donohoe/Emmet Godfrey, February 2021, MOST Training

Tom Burke  March 2021 Workshop - Dementia in Disabilites