Distinct patterns of emotional and behavioral change in child psychiatry outpatients during the COVID-19 pandemic
This was the first publication on pandemic-related mental health changes in child psychiatric outpatients in the United States. Empirically-derived multivariate models showed that child psychiatric outpatients had highly variable emotional and behavioral reactions to the pandemic, with some showing stability, others even showing improvement, and two groups manifesting distinctive patterns of worsening symptoms predicted by their prior psychopathology. Results have implications for clinical care as well as ongoing research on genetic contributions to youth mental health.
Read more in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
December 14, 2022
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The Center for Genomic Medicine (CGM) comprises one of the largest and most vibrant hubs of genomic medicine research in the world. The CGM includes 46 faculty collaborating to define the ‘genomic medicine cycle’ – which envisages a genomics community seeking to advance research from basic genomics research to ultimately using genome information for diagnostics and targeted therapeutics. All of our investigators are faculty at Harvard Medical School, and many members of our community are also investigators at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.
