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Luca Sclisizzo
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Psychology student @UniTrieste, currently visiting researcher @WashU

Interested in behavioral genetics and stats 🧬🧠
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The paper you linked is one of my all time faves. It really forced me to consider the fundamental constraints on the research I do for a living. Yes! And also, what *is* stochasticity? is it true randomness, or some emergent chaos-emerging-from-minute-differences-in-environment thing?
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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A new preprint reports the largest genetic study of schizophrenia in people of African ancestry, identifying 3 genetic signals unique to this group using data from the Million Veteran Program (MVP) and the All of Us Research Program: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39252912/
Biological Insights from Schizophrenia-associated Loci in Ancestral Populations - PubMed
Large-scale genome-wide association studies of schizophrenia have uncovered hundreds of associated loci but with extremely limited representation of African diaspora populations. We surveyed electroni...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Are you a clinician and you want to understand how an evolutionary framework can be applied in psychotherapy? 🧬🧠

Here's a good news for you! A new workshop will be held in the beautiful city of Erice, Sicily, in April 2026!

centromajorana.it/evopsychothe...
Evolution in psychotherapy: Current approaches and new directions
'Ettore Majorana' Foundation and International Centre for Scientific Culture Schools
centromajorana.it
August 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM