Rina Dutta

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Professor Rina Dutta studies suicidality, self-harm, premature mortality using clinical informatics with electronic health records and social media data. She is committed to developing a co-ordinated strategy for pan-professional clinical academic training at King's College London. In her role as Academic Career Development Lead for NIHR Maudsley BRC she delivers an innovative strategy for an extensive and enriching portfolio of research training opportunities for both clinicians and non-clinical scientists. She is also Deputy Director of the King’s Clinical Academic Training office. Since 2009 she has worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist for the National Affective Disorders Service at the Maudsley Hospital

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Antidepressants and suicide – it’s complicated…

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Rina Dutta and Alina Cuhraja summarise a network meta-analysis on antidepressants, suicidal ideation and suicidal behaviours, which suggests that SSRIs may reduce suicidal ideation in the short-term, but this is not sustained even to week 8 of treatment.

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Social media to diagnose depression: should this be used to target mental health care?

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In their debut blog, Rina Dutta and Charlotte Cliffe summarise a mixed methods study, which explores public opinion about using social media to diagnose depression.

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SSRIs and suicidality: effects of SSRIs on rating-scale-assessed suicidality in adults with depression

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Rina Dutta and Patrick McLaughlin summarise a new study looking at the effects of SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) on rating-scale-assessed suicidality in adults with depression.

This study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry supports the conclusion that SSRIs remain a safe and effective treatment in depression for those aged 18 and over.

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