In this blog, Placement student Steven Bright writes about the evidence behind different coping behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past year, we’ve all been trying to adapt to our new way of life during the pandemic. Whether it’s exercising at home or video chatting with loved…
Yasmin considers the ways in which we measure and discuss race, ethnicity and ancestry in human research. When scientists use these terms incorrectly, they reinforce and perpetuate inaccurate and often racist narratives. Everyone loses when science is not diverse. But how do we measure diversity? In scientific…
In this blog, PhD student Meg Skelton and Placement student Jade Pusey discuss internet enabled Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
In our next EDIT Lab blog installment, Zain discusses the replication crisis facing the field of psychiatry and how self-reported measures may, in part, be a contributing factor. It is a widely accepted fact that the ‘replication crisis’ exists in psychiatry. The replication crisis refers to a situation…
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed every aspect of life as we know it. But how have these changes impacted us? There is an urgent need for research exploring this.
Genetic prediction of educational attainment: the important role of parental behaviour
Researchers from EDIT lab and the Twins Early Development Study have just published an article about the genetics of the ‘p factor’ across childhood and adolescence. What is the p factor and what did they find?
Yasmin [EDIT Lab PhD student] outlines our latest publication on anxiety symptoms in the family. Anxiety in parents is associated with anxiety in offspring, but it’s not yet clear how this happens. We conducted the first study to use a ‘genetically sensitive’ research design to examine the effects of mother,…
For Mental Health Awareness Week, the BBC is showing a series of films featuring public figures talking about their personal experiences with mental illness. In one of these, Nadiya Hussain (chef, author, and television presenter) talks to me and my twin sister Margie about what twins can tell us about…
In today’s blog post, Professor Angelica Ronald [guess contributor to our blog] outlines the genetic and environmental causes of paranoid thoughts.
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