Alyson Zwicker

Learning medicine @DalMedNB | PhD 📚 | Psychiatry and psychiatric genetics researcher 🧠🧬 | She/her.

[Alyson Zwicker @AlysonZwicker]

Jumped ship to bluesky (handle @azwicker)!

[Alyson Zwicker @AlysonZwicker]

More great work from @E_HowesVallis @ProjectFORBOW

[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.

[Rudolf Uher @RudolfUher]

Which polygenic score is the best predictor of major mood and psychotic disorders in youth?

#neuroticism is the unlikely winner.

https://t.co/kVwig3zMaF

[Journals of The American Psychiatric Association @APAPubJournals]

Polygenic scores for neuroticism and subjective well-being predict the risk of major mental illness independently of family history. https://t.co/tiCsZvv8pc

[Alyson Zwicker @AlysonZwicker]

🧵(7/7) Summary - Polygenic scores add to family history to better predict who is at risk for major mental illness.

https://t.co/tQ9C5ufb8c

[Alyson Zwicker @AlysonZwicker]

So excited to share our latest paper - it has been in the works since I was just a baby MSc student! 🧵(1/7)

https://t.co/tQ9C5ufb8c

[Alyson Zwicker @AlysonZwicker]

🧵(6/7) Offspring of controls w low neuroticism PGS had the lowest probability of onsets, followed by offspring of controls w high neuroticism PGS, then offspring of affected parents w low neuroticism PGS, and finally offspring of affected parents w high neuroticism PGS.

[Alyson Zwicker @AlysonZwicker]

@NbTenants - just got a notice that my Saint John NB rent is set to increase by 11.5% in March 2023. Any word on extending the 3.8% cap on rent increases into 2023? #rentcontrolnow

[Alyson Zwicker @AlysonZwicker]

@courtums I was also thinking this - hate these flags!

[Alyson Zwicker @AlysonZwicker]

Great work by @VallisEmily! #CBT is effective in reducing #anxiety in young #children and reduction is maintained over follow-up. So glad I could be involved with this work!

[Emily Howes Vallis @E_HowesVallis]

I’m very excited to share my first meta-analysis 📚

Cognitive-behavioural interventions for prevention and treatment of anxiety in young children: A systematic review and meta-analysis

@AlysonZwicker @RudolfUher

https://t.co/P1XjyjeNp0

[Alyson Zwicker @AlysonZwicker]

@shanniesci @AcademicChatter I printed out my thesis and had it bound with a coil at Staples. I put little sticky notes indicating the start of chapters, and the location of figures and tables. I found this super helpful - I could just calmly flip to a chapter/fig/table when asked a question about it!

[Rudolf Uher @RudolfUher]

Most questionnaires are too long. Not this one. Depression, anxiety, affective lability, sleep, psychotic and basic symptoms, all measures with a single page youth-report YETI. Good for adolescents and young adults @ProjectFORBOW
https://t.co/TXQ9TLJAY3

[Rudolf Uher @RudolfUher]

Reliable brain measurement in adolescents with psychopathology #anxiety #ADHD. @VladDrob @ProjectFORBOW open-access @ Brain & Behavior
https://t.co/qE8ZNfvvHc

[Alyson Zwicker @AlysonZwicker]

@DalPathology Thank you!

[Rudolf Uher @RudolfUher]

"We never know what he will feel like the next hour."
Affective lability increased in sons and daughters of parents living with depression, bipolar disorder. @ProjectFORBOW @AlysonZwicker https://t.co/A6VFprGxNf

[Alyson Zwicker @AlysonZwicker]

Genetic predisposition to #ADHD is associated with increased risk of adversity (maltreatment, bullying, socioeconomic disadvantage) - among individuals with and without ADHD. https://t.co/Uuh0qdJdzX @ProjectFORBOW @Dal_Psychiatry @NSHAResearch @TheJCPP