We are so proud of our leader Professor Nadia Micali (Nadia Micali) who gave her inaugural lecture this week 💫

Thank you for the work that you do every day and for leading us with such warmth, style, and grace 💗

We spoke to Prof Nadia Micali, head of Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research about her motivation for studying the genetics of #eatingdisorders . Nadia Micali became interested in the genetics of EDs during her PhD which focused on the intergenerational transmission of EDs. (1/4)

!!! Excellent thoughts from an excellent mind 🧡 a must-read for many! ⬇️

Refreshing take on the downsides of the scientific publication culture

Moving forward, the team at EDGI UK want to continue focussing on recruitment of a diverse group of people. This includes those from racially minoritised communities and males. Interested in joining the study? See how here ⬇️ 4/5

✨Highly recommend reading this thread, full of valuable insights from the marvellous Cynthia Bulik ⬇️

We've launched our first internet therapy for BED❗️

As part of our HALO-pilot study, 10 participants will try our guided self-help program with CEDaR’s first online therapists: Signe, Mathilde, and Astrid 📸

✨Led by Nadia Micali & Anne Bryde, w/ collaborators Center for Digital Psykiatri

This is important! Please retweet. Many researchers have asked us to have a control comparison group recruited the same way and with the same measures. If you have never exerienced mental illness or ill-health, please consider that your contribution could help those that do!

Helena Davies Stefana Natasha Berthold Kylie Reed Mariana Valdez-Aguilar Para celebrar el éxito de uno de los estudios internacionales de la Iniciativa Genética de Trastornos de la Alimentación (EDGI)🌏, EDGI México🇲🇽, Mariana Valdez-Aguilar Mariana Valdez-Aguilar ha traducido todas nuestras publicaciones al español. 3/6

✨Welcome to the PGC Eating Disorders Working Group takeover! Over the next two weeks, we'll be filling your twitter/X with all things #eatingdisorder #genetics . You'll be hearing from Helena Davies, Stefana, Natasha Berthold, Kylie Reed and Mariana Valdez-Aguilar. 💜 1/3

To celebrate the success of one of the international Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (EDGI)🌏 sites, EDGI Mexico🇲🇽, Mariana Valdez-Aguilar Mariana Valdez-Aguilar has translated all of our posts into Spanish! We hope this helps to widen our reach. 2/3

Yesterday we had the pleasure of hosting Joeri Meijsen, postdoc from Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Sct. Hans.

We thoroughly enjoyed his talk 'Mapping the familial and genetic basis of eating disorders: a comprehensive national register study of Denmark and Sweden' 🇩🇰🇸🇪🧬

Thank you Joeri! ✨

A few members of our team will be giving talks in NYC this week for #ICED2024 !

Anne Bryde Elena Jansen Nadia Micali 💫

(1/3) 🔬 How can we use #genetics to discover promising anxiety drug targets? Check out the drug repurposing approach Damian Woodward et al took to find potential new anxiety treatments to test and validate in further studies! 💊

At the end of last month, the annual London Eating Disorders Conference (London Eating Disorders Conference) - which is organised by Professor Nadia Micali (head of CEDaR) with Professor Eric van Furth (@EvanFurth) - took place, and included important discussions on #diversity .

#LEDC2024

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It's #InternationalWomensDay 2024 .

We want to highlight some of the wonderful women working at CEDaR

#RepresentationinResearch #IWD2024 #InternationalWomensDay #womeninSTEM #WomenInMedicine

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(5/6)🎙Hear Humberto Nicolini talk about the importance of diversity & underrepresented populations in #psychiatric #genetics research PGC Consortium 🌎 youtu.be/L2SHME04-pA?si…

🌟Tomorrow, we're pausing our Anxiety Genomics updates to celebrate #InternationalWomensDay and highlight #PGC Women Leaders (check out our new banner)! We’ll resume the #PGC ANX Twitter takeover this Saturday; tune in for Day 5 content! #InternationalWomensDay 2024 #IWD2024

New paper out 🧠: Increases in brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) are associated with hippocampal recovery in young people with anorexia, even when accounting for increases in body mass index

bit.ly/49FjFNu

Centre for Research in Eating and Weight Disorders

Another way we marked #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek last week:

Helena Davies and Sarah Washbrook wrote an article for Videnskab.dk all about our research here at CEDaR🧬🧠🗣️

⬇️ Check it out below (in Danish, English version incoming!)
videnskab.dk/krop-sundhed/f…