Researching neighborhoods, stress & mental health| she/her| 🇻🇪
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So grateful the Bay State Banner highlighted our work in the context of Boston’s youth mental health policy efforts. @RandiMSchuster @JAACAP
More school support=more power to prevent, not just respond
We need sustainable, community-centered solutions
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In a new @JAACAP study, researchers from @MassGeneralNews and colleagues found that more staff addressing mental health in schools buffers toll of growing up in disadvantaged communities.
Read more: massgeneralbrigham.org/en/ab… doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2025.… @RandiMSchuster @tersvar @MeghanACostello @MGHPsychiatry
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New @JAACAP paper — school #MentalHealth staff buffer negative effect of neighborhood deprivation on student #MentalHealth.
Delighted to support this critical work by @tersvar, @MeghanACostello, Henning Tiemeier, & crew! @MGHPsychiatry @HarvardChanSPH
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In this advanced review, @tersvar explores how early development, stress, and systemic environmental features play critical roles in the course of psychosis and inform a neurodevelopmental and multifaceted diathesis-stress model annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10…
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In a @chicagotribune op-ed, @AVPapachristos, @jamiekalven, & @jeeves write about their new study that develops tools to detect possible crews of criminal cops. They argue that early detection of corrupt police may stop the next Ronald Watts crew.
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In our recent EEG study, we find motor deficits in activating & preparing behavioral responses in youth at CHR for psychosis. Blunted LRP amplitude predicted negative sx at 12mth.@APA_Journals @kjuston_osborne @wendyzhangwen @RobinNusslock @EmilyKappenman
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Checking out Kates beautiful poster on connectivity and positive affect in youth at risk for psychosis @DammeSf @SIRSglobal #SIRS2022 🇮🇹
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how do we know a risk marker is specific to psychosis, rather than indicative of Transdiagnostic vulnerability? check out new meta led by Zach Millman exploring these questions with neurocognition and CHR @SchizBulletin @jamesmgold @tersvar
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Early life psychosocial adversities are broad and have unique impacts on development of cognition and clinical symptoms, though they are often reduced to simplistic socio-legal definitions of adversity (e.g. adoption, disrupted caregiving) Our latest 1/n cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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#OpenAccess '#Psychotic-like experiences associated with #sleep disturbance and #brain volumes in youth: Findings from the adolescent brain cognitive development study' by @LunsfordAvery @DammeSf @tersvar Maggie M. Sweitzer @vijayamittal1 bit.ly/37LEdc9
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Excited to have contributed to this cool study led by @Ivanka031 with @AdaptProg showing links between stress responding/sensitivity and sleep in individuals at high risk for psychosis! Check it out 🙂sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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It’s that time of year again! Northwestern’s psych department is hosting its annual Sneak Peek program for students from underrepresented backgrounds who are interested in pursuing a PhD in psychology. To find out more and apply: sites.northwestern.edu/psych…. Please RT & share!!
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Do you know someone who is unvaccinated, had COVID, and thinks they are immune to re-infection and now don't need to get vaccinated? Our new report says they should think again:
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To better understand systemic health disparities it is key to identify influencing factors. We explored neural correlates of structural disadvantage, & find distinct & converging neural correlates of different types of environments.@OHBM @tersvar @DammeSf
doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25783
Thank you so much! We 💚 RDoC
Another very timely article from the #RDoC special issue. @adaptprog examines the risk of developing #psychopathology by assessing the relationship between discrimination, depressive symptoms, & implicit emotion regulation through RDoC conceptualizations; doi.org/10.1017/S09545794210…
