Judith Harrison

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Judith Harrison is a trainee psychiatrist and research fellow at Cardiff University. She is fascinated by the biology of neuropsychiatric diseases. She is currently undertaking a PhD on genetics and magnetic resonance imaging in Alzheimer’s Disease. Her other interests include improving physical health outcomes for people with mental illness. She is a Trainee Editor for the British Journal of Psychiatry, and tweets in a personal capacity as @drjudeharrison.

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People with severe mental illness die younger and things are getting worse

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Judith Harrison publishes her debut blog on a recent cohort study in the British Journal of Psychiatry, which shows that the “mortality gap” is increasing for people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

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