Lifecourse Epidemiology And Psychiatry (LEAP)
@life_epi_psych
• Research group @EdinburghUni • Examining longitudinal patterns of mental health, their causes & consequences 📈 • Big fans of population data
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15-05-2024 13:50:12
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Study contributes novel evidence highlighting value of leveraging genetic information across multiple psychopathological traits that correlate with major depression. Diverse data essential for future generalizability. ja.ma/4bkGsPj Poppy Grimes @pzg.bsky.social Alex Kwong
Delighted to see this longitudinal work on depressive symptoms in adolescents published - thanks to all of the participants, staff & investigators in the ABCD Study, Children of the 90s and PGC Consortium who made this possible pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38748406/
I am delighted to announce my first first-author paper has just been published in JAMA Psychiatry! 🧬📈‘Genetic Architectures of Adolescent Depression Trajectories in 2 Longitudinal Population Cohorts’. Link to paper: ja.ma/4bkGsPj and a 🧵of our key findings below…
Deadline is 5th June for the Postdoc and 18th June for the RA. Any questions shoot me or Lifecourse Epidemiology And Psychiatry (LEAP) a DM
Few more days left to apply for this RA position and another 2 weeks for the Postdoc - both looking at longitudinal, genetic data Mental Health at the University of Edinburgh
Why are rates of adolescent mental health problems increasing? This is a really helpful list that highlights just how many different factors might be involved -- and why the answer is unlikely to just be 'social media' (list by Youth Futures Foundation, taken from now-closed grant call)
Great to see our work featured here! ⭐️ Lifecourse Epidemiology And Psychiatry (LEAP) Mental Health at the University of Edinburgh PrecisionMed_PhD Edinburgh Neuroscience
Massive congratulations to Sarah Robertson for putting on a youth mental health forum up here in Edinburgh. Completely packed! And absolutely brilliant to bring so many young people, charities, policy folk and researchers together. Hopefully the first of many for Mental Health at the University of Edinburgh
Full house with some great discussions highlighting the importance of lived experience in youth mental health Generation Scotland Mental Health at the University of Edinburgh #Youth4MentalHealth #HealthResearch
New work from the group led by fab PhD student Poppy Grimes @pzg.bsky.social looking at temperature over adolescence 🔥🌡️