Joeri Meijsen
joerimeijsen.bsky.social
Joeri Meijsen
@joerimeijsen.bsky.social
Postdoc in Psychiatric Genetics 🧬🕵‍♂️ | Institute of Biological Psychiatry (IBP) & Center for Eating and Feeding Disorder Research (CEDaR), Copenhagen 🇩🇰 | via 🇳🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸

@cedar-research.bsky.social
I almost forgot to say that our paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... has now been published 🥳 How amazing is it to work with medical records and genealogies of 17 million people from 🇩🇰 and 🇸🇪 to derive familial risk estimates, heritabilities, and 🧬 correlations of #anorexia, #bulimia and more!
Shared genetic architecture between eating disorders, mental health conditions, and cardiometabolic diseases: a comprehensive population-wide study across two countries - Nature Communications
Here, the authors’ findings highlight genetic overlap between eating disorders, mental disorders, and cardiometabolic diseases, supporting the need for integrated treatment strategies across physical ...
www.nature.com
July 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Reposted by Joeri Meijsen
❓How do eating disorders develop?

👇 Watch our* video below to find out.

💜 *Credit to CEDaR PhD student, Stefana Aicoboaie.
May 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Reposted by Joeri Meijsen
We have not one but TWO job openings - come and join us in beautiful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

We are looking for:

⭐ Postdoctoral researcher with expertise in longitudinal methods
⭐ Junior/Senior Postdoctoral researcher with expertise in psychiatric epidemiology

More info in the links below 🔗 👇
March 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Check out our latest paper, led by our good friends from @ki.se Thuy-Dung and Lu Yi, about the #genetic basis of psychotic major depressive disorder #MDD, a rare subtype of #MDD characterised by psychotic symptoms that occur exclusively during mood episodes!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Genetic insights into psychotic major depressive disorder: bridging the mood-psychotic disorder spectrum
Psychotic major depressive disorder (MDD), a subtype of MDD characterised by psychotic symptoms that occur exclusively during mood episode, is clinica…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Check out our latest preprint about the shared #genetics of #eatingdisorders and many other outcomes! We used the massive national registers of 🇩🇰 and 🇸🇪 and observed new genetic overlap between EDs and Autism and replicated previous OCD findings. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Shared Genetic Architecture Between Eating Disorders, Mental Health Conditions, and Cardiometabolic Diseases: A Comprehensive Population-Wide Study Across Two Countries
Eating disorders arise from a complex interaction of genetic and environmental influences. Here we provide comprehensive population-level estimates of the heritability of eating disorders and their ge...
www.medrxiv.org
December 19, 2024 at 12:44 PM