Emily Howes Vallis

MSc in Psychiatry Research | @DalMedSchool 2025 | Dance Teacher | Interested in psychiatry, pediatrics, and neurology | she/ her 🏳️‍🌈

[Emily Howes Vallis @E_HowesVallis]

Did COVID-19 lead to increased depressive symptoms in youth?

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https://t.co/JsuvKcPDAd

[Emily Howes Vallis @E_HowesVallis]

I had the pleasure of talking about borderline personality symptoms and adversity in @ProjectFORBOW today at #APPA2024. This meeting has been inspiring, impactful, and idea generating 💡📖. Looking forward to tomorrow!

[Rudolf Uher @RudolfUher]

There has been a push for virtual mental health care, especially for the digital generation. But what do young people actually want? What about those who are most at risk?

Fresh answers in open access paper by the amazing @RaeganMazurka

https://t.co/D52Q3rJBSk

[Rudolf Uher @RudolfUher]

Transdiagnostic risk of mental disorders in offspring of affected parents: a meta-analysis of family high-risk and registry studies

https://t.co/9FDcOt9TVz

[Rudolf Uher @RudolfUher]

Mental disorders run in families in a way that is part specific and part transdiagnostic. If a parent is affected with a mental disorder, the offspring have triple the risk of the same disorder, but also double the risk of other mental disorders. https://t.co/9FDcOt9TVz

[Emily Howes Vallis @E_HowesVallis]

🧵 (7/7) Instead of increasing symptoms in established risk groups (like familial history of mental illness), the pandemic led to a redistribution of depressive symptoms burden towards segments of the youth population previously considered to be low-risk.

[Emily Howes Vallis @E_HowesVallis]

Did COVID-19 lead to increased depressive symptoms in youth?

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https://t.co/JsuvKcPDAd

[Emily Howes Vallis @E_HowesVallis]

🧵 (6/7) Our results provide reassurance about the wellbeing of children of parents with mental illness during a period of restricted access to resources outside the family.

[Rudolf Uher @RudolfUher]

The much talked about youth mental health crisis post COVID looks much less dramatic in longitudinal data: a small increase, limited to low-risk females. There was no change in depression among youth at high risk or in males. @ProjectFORBOW @CambUP_Psych

https://t.co/d52NyOAMca

[Emily Howes Vallis @E_HowesVallis]

Our paper on youth depressive symptoms before and during COVID-19 is out!

Thank you to @MachGaensslen for funding this work! @DalMedSchool @ProjectFORBOW
https://t.co/fnVo9hJNdO

[FORBOW @ProjectFORBOW]

@RudolfUher sharing recent Forbow results at the Familial High Risk Research Summit in Copenhagen today.

[Emily Howes Vallis @E_HowesVallis]

Shared some early findings about borderline symptoms in @ProjectFORBOW today at the Familial High Risk Summit today in Copenhagen. Learned a lot at this excellent meeting!

[Rudolf Uher @RudolfUher]

Polygenic scores add to family history to better predict which young people are at risk for mental illness #depression #bipolar #psychosis

https://t.co/kVwig3zMaF

[FORBOW @ProjectFORBOW]

New results from our study! You can find a summary at our website https://t.co/A675MzSLBG 📚 #anxiety #mentalhealth #psychiatry

[Rudolf Uher @RudolfUher]

Lancet Commission on Depression is out.

Free download:
https://t.co/kIkNNYRkKT

Curtesy of @TheLancet @WPA_Psychiatry

#UniteAgainstDepression #Depression2022

[Rudolf Uher @RudolfUher]

I am delighted to announce that the TIDE project is now enrolling participants.

✔️ early personalized treatment

✔️ first episode depression

✔️ 12-25 year olds

✔️ in Nova Scotia, Canada

https://t.co/TIPVf8Yc8a

[Emily Howes Vallis @E_HowesVallis]

Congratulations @_brianaross on a wonderful honours thesis presention today! She completed her honours with @ProjectFORBOW examining theory of mind. It has been a pleasure working with you 😌 🎉

[ＢＲＩＡＮＡ ＲＯＳＳ @_brianaross]

After 6 years and 2 schools, I can officially say that I have finally graduated with a BSc with honours in psychology and a minor in critical health studies 🎉 Wouldn’t change it for anything and am extremely grateful for all the people I met along the way 💕