Congratulations to Dr. Hamdi Eryilmaz and team for his new publication on working memory-related connectivity changes in NeuroImage!
Dr. Roffman talks ABCD
Dr. Ghazaleh Sadri-Vakili, Director of Research Programs for Mass General Neurology, interviews Dr. Roffman about the ABCD Study and related research opportunities in adolescent brain development during COVID-19. Check it out here!
Dr. Roffman presents at MGH Grand Rounds
Dr. Roffman presented his talk, “The Prenatal Environment and Risk for Serious Mental Illness: Toward Early Common Pathways for Prevention,” at MGH Psychiatry Grand Rounds this week. Thanks to all who attended!
JAMA Psychiatry article selected as one of 2018’s Leading Research Achievements by the BBRF
Our work understanding how increased exposure to folic acid through fortification may reduce schizophrenia risk was selected as one of 2018’s Leading Research Achievements by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation! Learn more about this work and some other fantastic advances in psychiatry published this year by clicking here.
MGH Coverage of Recent JAMA Psychiatry Paper
Brain Genomics Lab @ ACNP 2018
At ACNP this year? So are we! Check out poster M200 at this evening’s poster session and T195 at tomorrow’s. Hear lab PI Joshua Roffman talk about some of recent work at tomorrow’s 8:30 am mini-panel on folate and severe mental illness!
Dr. Hamdi Eryilmaz Promoted to Instructor
Congratulations to Dr. Hamdi Eryilmaz on his recent promotion to Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School!
Lab PI, Dr. Joshua Roffman named as co-director of MGH Neuroscience
Lab principal investigator, Dr. Joshua Roffman, has been named as a co-director of the new MGH Neuroscience initiative. The initiative aims to promote collaborations within the large neuroscience clinical and research community at the MGH. Read the MGH announcement here.
Study Published in JAMA Psychiatry
Check out our recent publication in JAMA Psychiatry that suggests increased exposure to folic acid in utero may alter the trajectory of brain development in a manner that predicts reduced risk for psychosis in youth. Congratulations to lead author, Dr. Hamdi Eryilmaz!
Paper Published in Nutrients
Congratulations to co-first authors Daniel Cummings and Kevin Dowling for their paper, ‘A Cross-Sectional Study of Dietary and Genetic Predictors of Blood Folate Levels in Healthy Young Adults.’ Check out the paper here.
