It isn't just general intelligence that's highly heritable (as earlier data, based on smaller samples, seemed to suggest): The genetics of specific cognitive abilities biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Visual summary of the first key note talk by Prof Robert Plomin, created by the amazing Sandra Howgate Sandra Howgate

Congratulations to Robert Plomin, awarded CBE in the UK New Year's Honours List for his services to scientific research. Thrilled to see his brilliant work on behavioural genetics and the TEDS recognised in this way. SGDP Centre KCL Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

Interested in neurodevelopmental disorders and their co-occurrence with disruptive, impulse-control and conduct disorders? Check out our new meta-analysis. Spearheaded by the brilliant @AgaGidziela with stellar collaborators 💫nature.com/articles/s4156… Nature Human Behaviour QM_SBBS

Coming to #BGA2023 and interested in education?🧬🇪🇸 Come to our symposium Fri 1pm on Education & (Non)Cognitive skills, featuring work by Jeffrey Shero, Ph.D. Callie Little Dr. Sara A. Hart Francesca Procopio Dr. Kaili Rimfeld Quan Zhou Dr. Margherita Malanchini @RosaCheesman Netherlands Twin Register. And see 👇

First CoDE Lab talk at #BGA2023 @atoziye shows how spatial ability predicts STEM outcomes, particularly related to choice, beyond other cognitive abilities. 💫 QM_SBBS QMUL Psychology SGDP Centre KCL

A pleasure to co-chair a session on investigating specificity in psychiatric disorders using Genomic SEM. 4 wonderful talks by 4 💫 first year PhD students Sophie Breunig Wangjingyi Liao Engin Keser & Jeremy Laurence. @Andrew_Grotz QM_SBBS IBG #BGA2023

HEALTH INEQUALITIES - themes from conferences last week: 🚨 “The UK is not a good place to be poor” 🚨 “Very different to live in poor vs rich UK neighbourhoods” 🚨 “Inequalities are rising in Norway” 🚨 “Socio-demographic inequalities in mental health - ignored AND neglected”

NEW Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health podcast 💻🎧 @AgaGidziela discusses her Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry paper on explaining the influence of non-shared environment on symptoms of behavior problems from preschool to adulthood. Listen now! ow.ly/AVGV50PzCpF

Prof Robert Plomin, founder of TEDS, was awarded a CBE for his services to scientific research! Congratulations to Prof Plomin, who recently received his award from Princess Anne. Thank you to all of the TEDS families who made so much of this research possible 🤩

New CoDE Lab preprint: “Gene-environment correlation: The role of family environment in academic development”. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Jointly led by Quan Zhou and @AgaGidziela. Below is a short summary of our findings 👇🧬r🌳

New preprint. We isolate genetic effects that are shared across 11 major psychiatric disorders to gain further insight into genetic specificity and comorbidity over and above transdiagnostic effects. Engin Keser Wangjingyi Liao 's first PhD manuscript 💫 researchsquare.com/article/rs-378…

Seminar SGDP Centre KCL Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience with Engin Keser, Lucie Burgess and Francesca Procopio on Thursday 9th May 2024, 10:00-11:00am.

Presenting my work on predicting psychopathology, cognitive, and anthropometric traits in the population and within families at #WCPG2024