Helga Ask

We have a new preprint out examining symptom-specific polygenic effects on maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum in up to 59,000 MoBa mothers 🧬🌧️☀️ osf.io/preprints/psya… @Psykologiskinst @PromentaC @PsychGenNIPH

Å involvere folk med egenerfaring i forskningen er avgjørende! Takk til @MHelse for samarbeid om inspirerende seminar, og for flott nyhetssak – vi gleder oss til videre samarbeid! 🤝 #psykiskhelse #ForskningMedMening 📸Joachim Kjennerud/Mental Helse mentalhelse.no/aktuelt/kan-br…

Join the MoBa celebration!🎉 We are celebrating 25 years of groundbreaking health research at Vulkan Arena in Oslo, Oct 30-31! Join us for insightful presentations from our leading researchers, meet our ambassadors and celebrate this milestone with us! #MoBa #HealthResearch

First PhD paper🎉Stringent Covid-19 measures and quarantines were associated with more mental distress among adolescents. Younger adolescents, those with lower educated parents and those with lower MDD PGS were especially vulnerable jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

The 2024 @COVIDMENT & covidmentYOUNG meeting has concluded in Stockholm. The meeting was both productive and enjoyable. The team looks forward to continued collaboration on long-term health sequels of #COVID19 infections and mitigation responses in Nordic populations.

Our preprint shows how the pandemic affected psychiatric healthcare use for children and adolescents with existing mental health conditions. We see a significant drop in primary and specialist healthcare, with boys experiencing greater declines🏥👱🏻‍♂️ researchsquare.com/article/rs-425…

Very proud to say our Registered Report supporting a causal relationship between age at menarche and adolescent depression is now published in @BMCMedicine. Link: shorturl.at/dFKTY. This was a big team effort spanning the duration of my PhD! A🧵on the process and findings:

Our new paper in @LancetRH_Europe examines the mental health burden of having a significant person (e.g. family member) infected, hospitalised, ICU-admitted or die by COVID-19 in 168 783 adults across 4 countries 🧵 Important work by @AoLovik, @COVIDMENT thelancet.com/journals/lanep…

🌟Exciting PhD opportunity at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway 🌟 Are you passionate about making a difference in the field of mental health? Join us at the Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Mental Health!

"COVID-19 illness severity and 2-year prevalence of physical symptoms" has been published in Lancet RH Europe. Important project lead by Qing Shen, Emily Joyce, @OmidVEbrahimi and Maria Didriksen in the @COVIDMENT collaboration. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #COVID19

New preprint! 📜🚨 In this study, we quantify direct and indirect genetic effects (from close family members) on maternal depressive symptoms across early childhood in MoBa: psyarxiv.com/sg6mh @PromentaC @Psykologiskinst

We explore the impact of parents' alcohol use, mental health, and education level on teens' ZZZs💤🌛 #citeas" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… @njalandersen @helga_ask @Psykologiskinst @Folkehelseinst

📢New paper out! 🥳 The p factor of psychopathology and personality in middle childhood. Published in #PsychologicalMedicine today: doi.org/10.1017/S00332….

📢New preprint: We set out to disentangle the mechanisms underlying associations between maternal at-risk drinking and offspring emotional and behavior problems in the context of genotype-environment interplay A 🧵 (1/8). psyarxiv.com/g5p9f

Mathias Valstad will defend hos PhD thesis on Friday Jan 20: "Examining schizophrenia and bipolar disorder pathophysiology with an EEG-based assay of cortical synaptic plasticity". Congratulations! 🎉 @UniOslo_MED @Oslounivsykehus @TElvsashagen med.uio.no/klinmed/englis…

I et rom for bare dem med toppkarakterer, er det 50 jenter med høyt utdannede foreldre for hver eneste gutt med lavt utdannede foreldre morgenbladet.no/aktuelt/2022/1…

2) 3-4 yr postdoc linked to EU-funded @HEenvironMENTAL , large international network, big data, cutting-edge methods, work with @helga_ask @DvdM33r @oleaandreassen tinyurl.com/3z4yvja6 @EU_Commission

We made it! Happy #EAGLE gathering at #WCPG2022

PREPRINT ALERT!📢 In my first PhD paper, we explored the role of symptom differentiation in the emergence of psychopathology in 79k children. Enjoyed working on it with a fantastic team of co-authors: @helga_ask @EivindY @alexhavdahl & @laurie_jh. A🧵(1/8) psyarxiv.com/d8qfb

Our new paper, out now in JAMA Psychiatry, shows the importance of considering genetic confounding when exploring the association between pregnancy variables and neurodevelopmental conditions in offspring: 🤰doi.org/10.1001/jamaps… (🧵, 1/8)