Join us virtually on Sept 26th-27th, 2024 for the 4th Annual Conference on Precision Psychiatry!

You can register today at mghcme.org/precision2024

Students, fellows, interns, & trainees can register for free!

Accreditation information to be announced.

CGM at MGH & PNGU scientists including Karestan Koenen, Jordan Smoller, karmel choi and colleagues identified 95 genetic variants associated with PTSD, improving risk prediction and potential treatments Harvard Medical School more here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

New pre-print from the PGC Consortium #Depression Group: Multi-ancestry GWAS of depression with 685,000 cases identifies 697 independent associations, implicating known & novel drug targets.

🔗 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

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🚨 New from Anna Lewis & colleagues
📰 Managing differential performance of polygenic risk scores across groups: Real-world experience of the eMERGE Network
cell.com/ajhg/abstract/…

Typo? 'In the meantime, the company says it has received a $6 billion grant from the Department of Defense to validate its test in more environments.' That would be equivalent to about 20% of the NIH budget
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Two days until our next meetup!

🧬Genetic Testing 2024: Current Events and Issues Facing Us
📅 May 1, 2024
🕗 8:00pm ET US
👨‍🏫 Todd Lencz, PhD

Join using this link: us02web.zoom.us/j/81434821872

#genetics #PsychiatricGenetics #psychiatry

Managing differential performance of polygenic risk scores across grou... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

'global immunization efforts have saved an estimated 154 million lives – or the equivalent of 6 lives every minute of every year – over the past 50 years.'
who.int/news/item/24-0…

Check out this year’s speakers and sessions and register now.

Come work with us! Please repost or forward to anyone looking for a Research Assistant position in clinical psychology!

Interesting and timely paper on risks with LLMs for automated mental healthcare. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
(But also first time I've seen a trigger warning on a scientific paper.)

Letter to Science 1958 arguing that this trend of having 3 or more authors on a paper is ridiculous

It's not too late to register for our next Members' Up, 'Beyond Academia: Careers in Industry.'

📅 April 11, 2024
🕒 8:00pm ET US

With this lineup of speakers, you won't want to miss out! We will see you then: us02web.zoom.us/j/85139001453

📢Kritika Singh et al. present an integrative genotypic approach using large-scale GWAS data for #depression and coronary #artery disease to identify genes associated with both conditions🩸.
@VUMC_Genetics, Jordan Smoller, Julia Sealock, Tyne Miller-Fleming, Nancy J Cox
nature.com/articles/s4422…

Congratulations to CGM at MGH Director Talkowski Lab and CGM associate member Harrison Brand on their 2024 Martin Prize for Clinical Research! Their awarded paper: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… Mass General Research Institute

Just now news of a new FDA clearance for an app for depression -> Otsuka’s digital treatment for depression cleared by FDA, as pharma tries to crack tricky market statnews.com/2024/04/01/ots… via STAT Mario Aguilar

'From 2013 to 2022, US physicians received $12.1 billion from industry.'
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Exploring the mind, women's health and health equity in the March AllofUsResearch program newsletter. Shout out to Laura Thi Germine
joinallofus.org/newsletters/20…

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The 4th Annual Conference on Precision Psychiatry, 'Innovation to Implementation' will be held virtually on Thursday Sept 26th & Friday Sept 27th, 2024!

Keep an eye on the CPP Conference website for more information! massgeneral.org/psychiatry/res…

ISPG's Stigma Reduction Interest Group is dedicated to combating the stigma surrounding mental illness.

Join us in advocating for awareness and understanding: ispg.net/interest-groups

#ISPG #StigmaReduction #MentalHealthMatters