Yanakan Logeswaran

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Yan is a PhD student at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (King’s College London), funded by the Medical Research Council. He is interested in the prevention of psychosis and other severe mental disorders, particularly through developing and using prediction modelling methods with routinely collected data to better identify at-risk individuals and to predict their clinical outcomes.

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Involuntary psychiatric patients face prolonged suicide risk post-discharge

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Suicide risk following involuntary psychiatric care remains elevated for years, with highest risk in the first month. Personality disorder patients face greatest long-term vulnerability.

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Predicting psychiatric hospitalisation using routinely-collected measures

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Psychiatric hospitalisation can save lives, but it also carries major personal and economic costs. Could early warning scores help predict who’s most at risk, allowing for earlier, more targeted support? This new BMJ Mental Health study by Taquet and colleagues explores the potential.

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