Helga Ask
@helga_ask
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Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Child & adolescent mental health, genetics, epidemiology, family studies, MoBa
Oslo, Norway
Joined October 2017
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 🧬🌧️☀️ https://t.co/m5evQYSwrb
@Psykologiskinst @PromentaC @PsychGenNIPH
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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 https://t.co/NmuKIt7NlR
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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
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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
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This cohort study examines the association of mental health and the public health measures and quarantine experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic among Norwegian adolescents.
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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.
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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🏥👱🏻♂️ https://t.co/9f038ipjCr
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Very proud to say our Registered Report supporting a causal relationship between age at menarche and adolescent depression is now published in @BMCMedicine. Link: https://t.co/2WwjicrUQs. This was a big team effort spanning the duration of my PhD! A🧵on the process and findings:
link.springer.com
Background The timing of puberty may have an important impact on adolescent mental health. In particular, earlier age at menarche has been associated with elevated rates of depression in adolescents....
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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
https://t.co/kh8HIApbGl
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🌟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!
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"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. https://t.co/eZuONLTCqc
#COVID19
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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: https://t.co/mSXU1pLo1s
@PromentaC @Psykologiskinst
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We explore the impact of parents' alcohol use, mental health, and education level on teens' ZZZs💤🌛 https://t.co/lqC5xyypIg
@njalandersen @helga_ask @Psykologiskinst @Folkehelseinst
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com
Background Parental drinking, mental health and family socioeconomic status are all associated with offspring sleep problems, but there is a paucity of research that considers the effect of risk...
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📢New paper out! 🥳 The p factor of psychopathology and personality in middle childhood. Published in #PsychologicalMedicine today: https://t.co/pLq63odWKV.
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📢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).
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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
https://t.co/ID1Y1eFJAa
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Cand. Psychol. Mathias Valstad at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Examining schizophrenia and bipolar disorder pathophysiology with an EEG-based assay of cortical...
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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
En ny målestokk for fysisk modning kan forklare deler av karakterforskjellene mellom gutter og jenter, sier seniorforsker Fartein Ask Torvik, som anbefaler fleksibel skolestart og annerledes vekting...
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2) 3-4 yr postdoc linked to EU-funded @HEenvironMENTAL , large international network, big data, cutting-edge methods, work with @helga_ask @DvdM33r @oleaandreassen
https://t.co/XZOeGJaHwd
@EU_Commission
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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)
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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: 🤰 https://t.co/Qv11yjDNoD (🧵, 1/8)
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This cohort study explores whether pregnancy-related predisposing factors for offspring neurodevelopmental conditions are associated with maternal genetic liability for attention-deficit/hyperactiv...
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