My brilliant colleague and friend James Lathe has been speaking about his PhD work on the Researching Happy podcast. Listen one and all! Especially if you’re interested in how economic evaluations value mental health! open.spotify.com/episode/2Uewan…

🏆Our #Researchoftheweek goes to The Health Foundation for their report ‘Health inequalities in 2040: current and projected patterns of illness by deprivation in England’. (1/4) health.org.uk/publications/h…

Really interesting conversation by Michel and Eiko (Eiko Fried) on our latest GWAS of depression. Fantastic primer on why GWAS matters and what it's trying to do, followed by some insightful criticism that we can definitely learn from youtu.be/vHvBzFQWqRg?fe…

Controlling for genetic and environmental confounding, study revealed 21-41% of mental health conditions in Australia are attributable to child maltreatment. Over 1.8 million cases & 184,000 DALYs could be prevented if child maltreatment was eliminated. ja.ma/4brnohT

Is there is a trade-off between social diversity and social cohesion? In our latest blog post, Tak Wing Chan argues that it is material deprivation, not diversity, that undermines social cohesion in Britain. #LSEInequalitiesBlog ⬇️ ow.ly/Jafx50RGMJk

a genny lec during holibobs is absolutely beveragino thinking

Come visit my poster (P18.040.C) today at ESHG, 1-2pm #ESHG2024 I’m happy to discuss all things bullying victimisation, its associations and correlations with psychiatric and associated traits using genetically informed designs 🧬

📢 Our paper (my first PhD study!) on the association between bullying victimisation and adolescent mental health across national contexts is now published in the journal of European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 🧵 [1/5] 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Amazing work Giulia!!!!

UK growth needs regional growth. Regional growth needs funding, and governance reform. Labour's manifesto offers more than meets the eye on English devolution. But it's softer on some of the investments and levers that will make the difference (buses!!) 1/9

A deep and beautiful truth. Our selves comprise our relations to others...

"The solutions for the mental health inequities that we see, and that people experience, are not solely to be found in treatment, but also in the repairing of societies" Rochelle Burgess (Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social): disrupting the status quo in global mental health hubs.li/Q02HM26j0

I wrote about some recent studies identifying widespread gene-environment interactions (GxE) acting on common traits, but through an unexpected mechanism. A few highlights 🧵:

Last week The Atlantic featured an article on the rising popularity of race/IQ science on the right (theatlantic.com/technology/arc…). The obvious point that "intelligence is not like height" sparked an unusual amount of whinging. I wrote about how this is now more true than ever. 🧵

Depression and anxiety aren't single conditions. New research identifies 6 different biotypes that vary in brain circuit activation, symptoms, and reactions. Some respond better to therapy; others to medication. Mental health isn't one-size-fits-all. Neither are treatments.

How does social isolation overlap with mental health problems in young people? Our new paper tested longitudinal genetic and environmental influences that are shared and specific to these experiences in the E-Risk Study #OpenAccess (thrilling 🧵 below!!) doi.org/10.1007/s00787…

The genomics of metabolic syndrome in ~5 million people identifies over 1,300 associated loci, enrichment primarily in brain tissue, a refined polygenic risk score, an and relationship with various clinical conditions nature.com/articles/s4158… Nature Genetics Hong-Hee Won

🤯Direct genetic effect GWASes render the genetic correlation between BMI and cognition to zero, and BMI and education close to 0. This questions a lot of other work linking cognition-BMI that has seemed very robust.

Our new paper using longitudinal data from 8 countries to answer questions about economic circumstances and adolescent mental health in Lancet Psychiatry today. Massive effort led by Tom to carefully curate & analyse data from very different countries. Please do take a look!