Genetics
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Shared genetic risk underlies the co-occurrence of ADHD and other psychiatric symptoms
Data from twin studies suggest that the co-occurrence of ADHD with other psychiatric disorders is due, in part, to shared genetic risks.
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 61, Issue 06, June 2020
“Some roads less travelled—different routes to understanding the causes of child psychopathology” By Arne Lervåg
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‘Anxiety in the family: a genetically informed analysis of transactional associations between mother, father and child anxiety symptoms’
Video abstract from author Yasmin Ahmadzadeh summarising her paper published in the JCPP, ‘Anxiety in the family: a genetically informed analysis of transactional associations between mother, father and child anxiety symptoms’
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 61, Issue 05, May 2020
“Polygenic scores in child and adolescent psychiatry – strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats” by Angelica Ronald
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A polygenic score for age‐at‐first‐birth predicts disinhibition – Leah Richmond‐Rakerd video abstract
Leah Richmond‐Rakerd gives a video abstract of her paper ‘A polygenic score for age‐at‐first‐birth predicts disinhibition’ first published in Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry (JCPP) 27 March 2020.
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Should emotion dysregulation be considered a core component of ADHD?
New data from researchers in the USA suggest that emotion dysregulation should be included as a core component of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) rather than viewed as comorbidity.
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Teacher assessments could replace high-stake testing to improve student well-being
Many students experience anxiety and distress during exams, and these emotions can have a negative effect on achievement. Notably, one of the top-reported concerns voiced by children in the UK is the stress and anxiety associated with school work and exam performance.
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Child anxiety symptoms affect mothers via an environmental mechanism
Intergenerational anxiety associations in families are well reported, but the underlying mechanisms of anxiety transmission are unclear. Now, researchers in the UK and the USA have conducted the first genetically sensitive study to explore the effects of genetic and environmental anxiety transmission in families during middle childhood.
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Neuroscience Edition
Welcome to this Neuroscience themed edition of The Bridge.
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The Royal College of Psychiatrists is currently promoting the neurosciences in its curriculum, for training Psychiatrists of the future. One of the many reasons for this is to develop more “Parity of Esteem” between physical and mental health conditions. -
A mother’s touch: a key player in fine tuning the function of our genome
There is debate as to the importance of genetics in determining our behaviour. This debate has become enshrined perhaps due to the early focus of genetics on searching for DNA variation in our genome (termed a polymorphism) that affected protein structure, the hypothesis being that such a protein variant would not be working optimally in our body throughout our life.
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