Jacob Vorstman
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Jacob Vorstman
@jacobvorstman.bsky.social
Professor of Psychiatry at The Hospital for Sick Children / University of Toronto.

Editor in Chief of the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Neurodevelopment, (Child) Psychiatry, Genetics, The Music of Life,
Reading a classic, I came across this description of our online experience in 2025, which struck me as pretty accurate... (Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953)

What's lost in the process? Time-wasting thought
February 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
January 24, 2025 at 4:20 AM
My new year's resolution for 2025 is to persevere with my humble contribution to the daily #Toronto downtown gridlock in hopes that this will be the year that our local policy makers will have their eureka moment; bikelanes don't block traffic, they improve it.
@bike.community
January 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Ridiculous! They could learn a lesson or two from HR health check questionnaires, these guys understand the fine art of not wasting time and paper.
December 9, 2024 at 11:45 PM
I love it! I wrote this one:
December 7, 2024 at 4:39 PM
@abesterman.bsky.social, @shafalijeste.bsky.social et al. describe the Research in Neurogenetics (CARING) Clinic

Paper in GiM (tinyurl.com/5byecm8e) & coverage in Neurology Today (tinyurl.com/ycyw7m87)

Another step towards precision health care for children with genetic vulnerability for NDDs
December 6, 2024 at 8:38 PM
note to self: checking the weather forecast may occasionally have its use
December 6, 2024 at 2:49 AM
Emerson Pugh's quote:

“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t”

implies a need for humility:

"If we accept that the human brain is vastly more complex than our models of it, we may be able to start understanding some of its workings"
November 18, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Our paper: A comprehensive overview of neuropsychiatric symptoms in adolescents with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, highlights the importance of looking beyond labels in psychiatry.
The majority of our cohort (n=208) experience mental health symptoms across various domains.

doi.org/10.1111/jir....
November 12, 2024 at 4:01 PM
your daily reminder that there is still a lot of room in Canada
November 12, 2024 at 3:38 AM