Thursday, September 12, 2019

This Week's New Publications (August 22nd - August 28th)

We are proud to share our faculty and graduate students' accomplishments in research.  We have 2 new publications in our department.


Prediction of neurocognition in youth from resting state fMRI

C Sripada, S Rutherford, M Angstadt, WK Thompson…M Luciana... - Molecular Psychiatry, 2019
Difficulties with higher-order cognitive functions in youth are a potentially important vulnerability factor for the emergence of problematic behaviors and a range of psychopathologies. This study examined 2013 9–10 year olds in the first data …

The role of parental genotype in predicting offspring years of education: evidence for genetic nurture

EA Willoughby, M McGue, WG Iacono, A Rustichini… - Molecular Psychiatry, 2019
Similarities between parent and offspring are widespread in psychology; however, shared genetic variants often confound causal inference for offspring outcomes. A polygenic score (PGS) derived from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) can …