Nå skal forskere fra Universitetet i Oslo og @Folkehelseinst sammen med kollegaer i Nord-Europa undersøke videre på sammenhengen mellom mentale og fysiske symptomer. forskning.no/covid19-psykis… Norment

It was a true honor to be watch my colleague, mentor, and friend receive the Olav Thon Foundation prize in Oslo. Congratulations, Anders Dale! UC San Diego UC San Diego Health UCSD Imaging UCSD Neurosciences More info and photos in thread. 1/

Anders Dale received the Olav Thon Foundation international award in mathematics/natural sciences and medicine for his decades of innovation in neuroimaging and genetics 2/

New research on depression & cardiac #disease: Torgersen et al find overlap of genetic variants tied to increased risk of #depression w/ BMI & systolic blood pressure Nadine Parker Guy Hindley Olav Smeland John Munkhaugen Ole Andreassen Norment doi.org/10.1371/journa…

🚨Really excited to see this finally out! 🧬Most common genetic variants associated with mental disorders are also associated with others, as well as with cognitive & personality traits. 🧠Conceptual insights on the genetics of mental disorders inbound... ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.11…

Finally huge thank you to all co-authors, especially [email protected], Olav Smeland and Ole Andreassen along w Weiqiu Cheng, Nadine Parker, @dthroelfs, @BenHolen & others, the 100Ks of participants who contributed their time & data, and Journals of The American Psychiatric Association for publishing it!

Happy to share our new paper in molecularpsychiatry🥳! We found: 1) subcortical volumes share substantial SNPs with schizophrenia, 2) shared genes are enriched in neurodevelopmental processes, and 3) two genes are associated with thalamic volume in childhood. nature.com/articles/s4138…

If you haven’t had the chance yet, come check out our poster at #NSHGPM2022 today! Using ConjFDR, We identified 40 genetic risk loci w/ mixed effect directions, jointly associated w/ epilepsies and psych disorders, Nordic Society Human Genetics/Precision Medicine Norment Olav Smeland

Genetic overlap between mental disorders and related traits 🧬 Guy Hindley and Olav Smeland are interviewed by Apollon - UiO about their recent study published in Am J Psychiatry 👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36069018/ apollon.uio.no/artikler/2022/…

Happy to share our recent review in World Psychiatry World Psychiatric Association (WPA) wpanet.org on new insights into psychiatric genetics. A privilege to write with Ole Andreassen, Guy Hindley and oleksandr.frei. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wp…

On March 27, we will run the 4-day online course "Genome-Wide Association Studies: Why, How and then What?" The course primarily targets PhD students at UiO - Det medisinske fakultet (3 ECTS), but is open to everyone interested. Please RT! med.uio.no/norment/forskn…

Many congratulations also to the winners of the Nansen Award for Outstanding Science to Ole Andreassen and Nansen Awards for younger scientists to #KathrineVLøken and #NinaHolden - given out by Einar Lie at the Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi General Assembly meeting.

New paper alert! Multimodal AD biomarker integration of polygenic hazard scores, imaging & memory optimizes prediction of conversion from MCI to AD and may streamline clinical trial screening. Huge collaborative effort, with too many to acknowledge here! alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/al…

Genetic liability for both affective spectrum disorder and major psychiatric disorders was associated w symptoms of premenstrual disorders, indicating that premenstrual disorders have overlapping genetic foundations w major psychiatric disorders. ja.ma/3BcKn0c

🚨 Excited to share my first post-doc paper at Norment co-first authored with Weiqiu Cheng. We investigated the genetic relationship between cannabis use, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.🧬🧠 Link to paper authors.elsevier.com/c/1h5i97tf1d51… in @TheLancetPsych 🧵1/7

Kevin O'Connell, oleksandr.frei, Ole Andreassen, Shahram Bahrami, Weiqiu Cheng, #AlexeyShadrin, @BenHolen, srdjan djurovic and more. We applied advanced statistical methods to the largest available GWAS summary statistics of irritable bowel syndrome, and psychiatric & GI disorders

Important study by Markos Tesfaye and colleagues at NORMENT that sheds new light on the connection between the brain and our gut Piotr Jaholkowski Guy Hindley Nadine Parker Olav Smeland Ole Andreassen partner.sciencenorway.no/irritable-bowe…

Delighted to be awarded #msca postdoc fellowship by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions to study genetics of human development at Norment with Ole Andreassen. Big thanks to Universitetet i Oslo Dennis van der Meer @ParekhPravesh for the support.

11/n For more on this #depression GWAS meta-analysis: - Full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cell… - Sumstats: doi.org/10.6084/m9.fig…

Our new findings from the PGC Bipolar working group published today: great team work!