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Silvia Alemany
@silvialemany.bsky.social
Psychologist, researcher in psychiatric genetics 🧠 🧬 at Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona. Humor, science and horror movies lover.
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👏 Huge congratulations to our partner Kelli Lehto (@klehto.bsky.social, Uni Tartu) on winning an ERC grant for Attention on Inattention: Dissecting the causal mechanisms of adult ADHD features!
The project will aims to advance #adultADHD diagnosis.
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#ERC
Are adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) features truly the same as childhood ADHD?

Kelli Letho, a new ERC Starting Grantee at the University of Tartu will dissect the causal mechanisms of adult ADHD features

More 👉 buff.ly/nci5eve

#ERCStG #FontierResearch @klehto.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Excited about our new preprint: 1st successful genome-wide study of >61,000 panic attack and 29,000 panic disorder cases. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... We find 17 associations & evidence that peripheral neurons in eye, lungs and heart are involved in panic & other psychiatric disorders 1/n
June 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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🚨HUGE SCIENCE WIN ALERT🚨

NIH Grants to be restored en masse!!! Thank you Judge Young for standing up for science!

#StandUpforScience
#SummerFightforScience
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
June 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Que van p'alante.
Que alguien se lo traduzca a la sociópata maleducada. Y que se lo expliquen también en catalá, euskera y galego
June 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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"This work is a first step in using health records to define and predict SSRI drug responses." - Professor Cathryn Lewis @cathrynlewis.bsky.social is Deputy Lead of our Trials, Genomics and Prediction theme, and the research was supported by @nihr.bsky.social and @wellcometrust.bsky.social 👇
May 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Contenta y agradecida por la deferencia del director @manuelrico.bsky.social de permitirme compartir desde "Público", sin periodicidad fija, sin prisa y sin pausa, las pifias de esta estirpe de tradición corrupta desde hace 180 años.

Bienvenidos a Borbolandia, el fantástico reino de la inmunidad.
No le digas a nadie que soy periodista
Estoy convencida de que si los ciudadanos de este país hubieran sido debidamente informados sobre los abusos cometidos y las mentiras que nos han trasladado los miembros de la dinastía de los Borbó...
www.publico.es
May 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Our study from @vallhebron.com in collaboration with @sjdhospitalbarcelona.org shows that air pollution and green spaces influence emotional and behavioural disorders in children. 🚗🌱🧠👦👧

acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Child and Adolescent Mental Health</em> | ACAMH Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Air pollution and greenness are emerging as modifiable risk and protective factors, respectively, in child psychopathology. However, research shows inconsistencies. Here, we examined asso...
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Check out our new OCD GWAS (53,660 cases and 2,044,417 controls) in @natgenet.nature.com 🧬🧠

Genetic risk was associated with excitatory neurons in the cortex and hippocampus. There was much genetic overlap with anxiety, depression, and anorexia.

Open access: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Nou estudi amb evidències dels efectes de la contaminació 🚗 i espais verds 🌱en salut mntal infantil i adolescent 🧠🧒🏻👧🏻 vhir.vallhebron.com/ca/societat/...
La contaminació atmosfèrica i les zones verdes influeixen en els trastorns emocionals i de conducta dels infants
Un treball liderat pel Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca i l’Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu mostra que la contaminació ambiental augmenta el risc de problemes emocionals, mentre que la presència...
vhir.vallhebron.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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1. DNA methylation was more strongly associated with child health outcomes when both were measured concurrently in childhood.
2. However, the number of significantly associated DNA methylation sites was not necessarily larger, sometimes even higher when DNA methylation was measured at birth!
May 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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When do epigenetics matter most for child health? At birth, predicting later development? Or are effects stronger, when measured at the same time as the child health outcome? Our new findings suggest that the answer may depend on how you define relevance.

doi.org/10.1186/s13073-025-01451-7
Epigenetic timing effects on child developmental outcomes: a longitudinal meta-regression of findings from the Pregnancy And Childhood Epigenetics Consortium - Genome Medicine
Background DNA methylation (DNAm) is a developmentally dynamic epigenetic process; yet, most epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) have examined DNAm at only one timepoint or without systematic co...
doi.org
May 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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La gestión de las residencias de mayores de Canarias o Murcia durante la pandemia —con una menor mortalidad— deja en evidencia el modelo de Ayuso

La Comunidad de Madrid dejó a los ancianos sin hospital ni refuerzo sanitario en lo peor de la Covid
En Canarias o Murcia no se iban a morir igual: su gestión de residencias en pandemia deja en evidencia el modelo Ayuso
Las autonomías con menos mortalidad, gobernadas tanto por el PP como por el PSOE, tampoco derivaban a hospitales de manera prioritaria a los mayores, pero sí los atendieron en centros intermedios, coo...
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May 4, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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1/11 Ever wonder why weight patterns seem to run in families? Let’s dive into the data together and find out.The findings may surprise you #ObesityResearch #GeneticScience
March 31, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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📬New job 📬 Postdoc role on the AMBER project, to undertake genetic analyses of antidepressant response. Join us! Important science, rich data, nice people. Please repost. @kingsioppn.bsky.social
#depression #statistics #genetics #pharmacogenetics #antidepressants
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March 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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EXCLUSIVA | Aemet denuncia ante la Fiscalía la manipulación del audio de Emergencias difundido por Mazón
Aemet denuncia ante la Fiscalía la manipulación del audio de Emergencias difundido por Mazón
El escrito, al que ha tenido acceso elDiario.es, considera la conversación filtrada entre la meteoróloga y la técnica del 112 "una información de carácter reservado, con la finalidad estricta de gesti...
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March 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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More good work to appear soon. In the train to Turku for our first SoSe project meeting in Turku.
March 14, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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LA VIÑETA | Una duda

✍️Por Bernardo Vergara
Una duda
Trump amenaza a la UE con aranceles del 200% al vino, champán y bebidas alcohólicas
www.eldiario.es
March 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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La monarquía, reliquia histórica frágil, @nievesconcostrina.es .

Otra genialidad de @elmundotoday.com .
March 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Nice mini-review of the applications of polygenic risk scores in medicine.
Akl Fahed et al.

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January 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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NEW research by IoPPN (@cathrynlewis.bsky.social) and @edinburghuni.bsky.social (Andrew McIntosh) researchers have identified new genetic risk factors for #depression across all global populations for the 1st time, in study in Cell

Read more: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/global-...
Global study pinpoints genes for depression across ethnicities
Researchers at King's College London and University of Edinburgh have identified new genetic risk factors for depression across all major global populations for the first time, allowing scientists to predict risk of depression regardless of ethnicity.
www.kcl.ac.uk
January 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Totally agree, fair distribution of resources should be totally possible!
January 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We are looking for motivated candidates to apply for a PhD grant with us @VHIR_ ! Have a look to our offer and let me know if you have any questions or need more info. We provide a very nice and safe environment to everyone! 🧠🧬
jobs.vhir.org/jobs/5438335...
PHD Student (Psychiatry, mental health and addictions) - VHIR
The Group of Psychiatry, Mental Health and Addictions is seeking a PhD student to apply for the competitive grant “Contratos Predoctorales de Formación en Investigación en Salud (PFIS)” with backgr...
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January 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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🔹El nuevo mapa de la España inundable sitúa dos millones de viviendas en riesgo: el doble de lo que habíamos calculado hasta ahora

🔹La DANA obliga a redibujar el plano de los edificios en peligro de inundación eldiario.es/1_b62c25
January 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Our assessment of a person's epigenetic ("biological") age has been centered on DNA methylation. A new report shows that a set of 7 histone markers has comparable accuracy and also uncovers new pathways of aging biology
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
January 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM