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• Delineating trajectories of alcohol consumption and alcohol problems from adolescence to young adulthood: An integrated assessment of genetic, familial, and psychosocial factors October 31, 2025
  CONCLUSIONS: Findings from this study indicate that genetic, familial, and personality traits related to externalization were associated with the initial level of drinking or drinking-related problems, whereas fewer variables were associated with the change in drinking or drinking-related problems over time. These findings suggest that these variables can be used to identify high-risk individuals for […]
  Hui G Cheng
• Bullying Perpetration and Depressive Symptoms: A Causal Investigation of TwinLife Data October 27, 2025
  CONCLUSION: It was found that depressive symptoms and bullying perpetration share genetic influences.
  Jacyra Azevedo Paiva de Araujo
• Transmission of Major Depression and Bipolar Disorder to Alcohol and Other Drug Use Disorders in a Swedish National Sample: Strongest Effects From Mothers to Daughters October 23, 2025
  CONCLUSIONS: Findings demonstrate familial transmission of MDD and BD in parents to AUD and DUD in offspring. Affected mothers may be particularly influential. When sex-specific transmission occurred, it was consistently strongest from mother to daughter.
  Kathryn Polak
• Rüdin's Unpublished Family Study From the Early 1920s: "On the Inheritance of Manic-Depressive Insanity" October 18, 2025
  Ernst Rüdin, an important and controversial figure in the history of psychiatric genetics, published only one major empirical study on siblings of dementia praecox (DP) probands in 1916. He conducted a parallel study of siblings of probands with manic-depressive insanity (MDI), but the resulting monograph, written in the early 1920s, was left incomplete and unpublished. […]
  Kenneth S Kendler
• The nature of the relation between mental well-being and ill-being October 16, 2025
  Research on mental health has traditionally separated the study of ill-being, including clinically defined mental and behavioural disorders and subthreshold problems, from the study of well-being, which encompasses factors such as life satisfaction and positive affect. Although previous reviews of studies primarily using self-report scales indicate that ill-being and well-being are distinct yet interconnected constructs, […]
  Christian K Tamnes
• Parent PTSD, social support and differential associations with facets of anxiety sensitivity October 15, 2025
  Background: Anxiety Sensitivity (AS), the belief that anxiety experiences have negative implications, is a prospective predictor of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and has been linked to changes in PTSD in experimental studies. AS is comprised of three sub-components: cognitive, physical, and social concerns. PTSD is moderately heritable and parental PTSD may increase risk for these […]
  Kristen Bermingham
• Risk of major depression in partners of people with Alzheimer's disease: a national cohort study October 7, 2025
  CONCLUSIONS: In this large national cohort, partners of people diagnosed with AD or all-cause dementia had ~1.5-fold risks of major depression, which remained elevated several years later. Partners of people with dementia need psychosocial support and long-term follow-up for timely detection and treatment of depression.
  Casey Crump
• Functional Relationships of Binge Drinking and Alcohol-Related Problems With Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in a Pilot Sample of Veterans October 6, 2025
  CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest negative affect, rather than PTS, has the strongest association with variation in ARP symptoms in this at-risk sample. There was also evidence of individual differences in the strength and direction of effects.
  Angela J Zaur
• Publisher Correction: Genome-wide association meta-analysis of childhood ADHD symptoms and diagnosis identifies new loci and potential effector genes September 30, 2025
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  Camiel M van der Laan
• Adolescent suicide behaviors associate with accelerated reductions in cortical gray matter volume and slower decay of behavioral activation Fun-Seeking scores September 25, 2025
  Distinguishing those at risk of making a suicide attempt from those who experience only suicidal ideations remains a significant clinical challenge. Longitudinal studies during early adolescence may provide insight into altered brain and behavioral developmental trajectories among those who develop suicide behaviors (SB). Here, we applied linear mixed effects regression models to several global brain […]
  Yi Zhou
• Associations of Romantic Partners' Characteristics with Alcohol Consumption and Binge Drinking: Examining Evidence for Gene-Environment Interaction September 25, 2025
  We investigated associations of romantic partners' alcohol use, cigarette smoking, personality, and psychological distress with alcohol use and binge drinking within a sample of Finnish twins who have initiated alcohol use (N = 1620, 51% female, mean age = 33.6 years) and their romantic partners. We also used twin modeling to examine whether partner characteristics […]
  Mallory Stephenson
• Genetic Overlap Between DSM-IV Major Depressive Disorder and Suicidal Behaviors: Evidence from Polygenic Risk Scores in Young Adult Twins September 24, 2025
  Suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) represent a significant public health concern. This study aimed to examine the extent to which polygenic risk scores (PRSs) for suicide attempt and major depression (MD) explain variance in suicidal ideation, plans, and attempts among young adult twins. Data from 2876 participants of European ancestry in the Brisbane Longitudinal Twin […]
  Nathan A Gillespie
• Within-Person Changes in Daily Ovarian Hormone Levels Influence Genetic Effects on Emotional Eating in Women September 17, 2025
  CONCLUSION: Cyclic, within-person changes in ovarian hormones may contribute to phenotypic changes in dysregulated eating across the menstrual cycle by dynamically regulating expression of underlying genetic risk. Genetic influences may be particularly pronounced under the hormonal conditions characteristic of the mid-luteal phase (i.e., moderate estradiol and progesterone).
  Megan E Mikhail
• Genome-wide association meta-analysis of childhood ADHD symptoms and diagnosis identifies new loci and potential effector genes September 17, 2025
  We performed a genome-wide association meta-analysis (GWAMA) of 290,134 attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptom measures of 70,953 unique individuals from multiple raters, ages and instruments (ADHD(SYMP)). Next, we meta-analyzed the results with a study of ADHD diagnosis (ADHD(OVERALL)). ADHD(SYMP) returned no genome-wide significant variants. We show that the combined ADHD(OVERALL) GWAMA identified 39 independent loci, of […]
  Camiel M van der Laan
• Causal Analyses of Associations Between Brain Structure and Suicide Attempt in Adulthood and Late Childhood September 9, 2025
  CONCLUSION: Brain markers of suicide risk may be instantiated differently in adults compared with older children, though lower ACT may be causally related to psychopathology associated with suicidality in these youth.
  Yi Zhou
• Evidence for Genetic Nurture Effects on Substance Use September 5, 2025
  Substance use runs in families. Beyond genetic transmission, parental genetics can indirectly influence offspring substance use through the rearing environment, known as "genetic nurture". This study utilized transmitted and non-transmitted polygenic scores to investigate genetic nurture effects on tobacco, alcohol and cannabis use in up to 15,863 adults with at least one genotyped parent from […]
  Mannan Luo
• Longitudinal Associations between Well-Being and Academic Achievement throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic: Testing the Moderating Role of Academic Stress among First-Generation and Continuing College Students September 2, 2025
  First-generation and ethnic-racial minoritized college students experience greater academic disparities, but limited work has focused on intersectional experiences underlying academic achievement in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic over time. The current longitudinal study examined the associations between various forms of well-being (i.e., emotional, psychological, and social) at T1 (Time 1; acute pandemic) predicting academic […]
  Chelsea Derlan Williams
• The impact of investing in private clinics and pharmacies on modern contraceptive uptake: an agent-based model of a segmented market September 2, 2025
  CONCLUSIONS: The factors that family planning policies should target to maximize their effect on modern contraceptive prevalence differ for markets characterized by different social contexts. Success of a policy will require policymakers' attention to the relative preferences for low price, short wait time, short travel time, and quality among population subgroups. Our study results suggest […]
  Mingxin Chen
• Deep Phenotyping at Scale: Study Protocol for the Korean Mood Disorder Genetic Study-Depression (KOMOGEN-D) August 25, 2025
  A core challenge in the genetic analysis of major depressive disorder (MDD) is how to recruit large numbers of stringently diagnosed cases with sufficient information to explore the interplay between genetic and environmental risk factors and evaluate genetic influences on putative MD subtypes and key clinical features. Currently, most genome-wide association studies of MDD rely […]
  Sooyeon Min
• Phenome-wide association study of male and female sex chromosome trisomies in 1.5 million participants of MVP, FinnGen, and UK Biobank August 21, 2025
  Sex chromosome trisomies (SCTs) are the most common whole-chromosome aneuploidy in humans. Yet, our understanding of the prevalence and associated health outcomes is largely driven by observational studies of clinically diagnosed individuals, resulting in a disproportionate focus on 47,XXY and associated hypogonadism. We analyzed microarray intensity data of sex chromosomes for 1.5 million individuals enrolled […]
  Shanlee M Davis