For International Women's Day Zeynep Yilmaz, co-chair of the Eating Disorders Working Group, told us about what she thinks genomics can achieve for psychiatry.
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Proud to be part of such an incredible consortium, with so many amazing female role models doing ground breaking research!
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So important to remember gender differences exist for many psychiatric disorders - these can be differences in symptoms, differences in rates and differences in underlying biology and genetic factors #psychiatricgenetics #research #PGC

Did you know that women are more likely to suffer with major depression, anxiety and eating disorders whilst ADHD, autism and schizophrenia are more common in men? But the exact cause of these sex differences is unknown. #InternationalWomensDay

“Last week, the University of Edinburgh added its name to the long list of higher education institutions announcing staffing cuts, as universities respond to huge pressures on their bottom lines.”

🔒 ‘Most of us won’t find jobs in academia’
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Excited to be joining the BlueSky universe and talking about some of the really cool research being done in the fields of genetics, psychiatry and genomic medicine!