Alexis An Yee Low

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Alexis (they/them) is a MB-PhD student who completed a PhD on understanding the mechanisms behind worry and anxiety. Alexis' research interests include depression, anxiety, mathematical approaches in mental health, and diversity issues e.g. neurodivergence and LGBT+ issues. Apart from work, they are an avid gamer, powerlifter and aspiring wordsmith (poetry and stand-up comedy).

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Ketamine, depression and childhood trauma: new evidence from a community study

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Can ketamine help people with treatment-resistant depression, regardless of childhood trauma history? This new study suggests that trauma load and severity may not influence treatment outcomes.

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Can we prevent major depression before it starts? A global review of psychological interventions

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Alexis An Yee Low considers a systematic review published in The Lancet Psychiatry which highlights the effectiveness of preventive psychological interventions for subthreshold depressive symptoms.

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Self Help Plus for refugees: we need effective, low-intensity and scalable interventions

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Asylum seekers and refugees in the UK increasingly face challenges impacting on their experiences of resettlement.

Alexis Low considers a meta-analysis which evaluates Self-Help Plus, a promising WHO intervention that could be scaled up to address the mental health needs of refugees and asylum seekers.

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Deep brain stimulation for severe depression: could ‘brain pacemakers’ be the answer for some?

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Alexandra Pike, Alexis An Yee Low and Jonathan Roiser critically appraise a recent n-of-1 study on ‘brain pacemakers for depression’, which received extensive press coverage earlier this month. The case study looks at deep brain stimulation (closed-loop neuromodulation) in an individual with treatment-resistant depression.

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