Éimear is an Elf Coordinator for The Mental Elf. She is responsible for our blogs on biological psychiatry, molecular psychiatry, and genetics. As a member of the #BeyondTheRoom team, she is also involved in event coordination and the live tweeting, blogging, podcasting, and streaming of international health events.
Éimear is also a Senior Research Associate in Immunopsychiatry at the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit. Her research focuses primarily on the role of inflammation in major psychiatric disorders, particularly depression and schizophrenia, using epidemiological cohort studies, genetic analysis, and experimental medicine approaches. She has a background in the fields of psychology, cognitive and clinical neuroscience, and neuropsychology.
A systematic review of 22 million people finds several mental health conditions, including PTSD, depression and anxiety, are linked to higher acute coronary syndrome risk.
Psychiatric disorders are highly heritable, but are the genes we identify in GWAS the same ones our medications target? This new study digs into the overlap and raises questions about how we develop treatments.
Éimear Foley summarises a recent meta-analysis, which looks at alteration patterns of peripheral concentrations of cytokines and associated inflammatory proteins in acute and chronic stages of schizophrenia.
In her debut blog, Éimear Foley reviews a recent meta-analysis that identifies possible differences between people experiencing depression and healthy controls.
