#BGA26 was a blast! Happy to have had the opportunity to present my work in Amsterdam and share one of my favorite research topics. Thanks to @lydiarader.bsky.social, @tabeasch.bsky.social, and @evangiangrande.bsky.social for such a great discussion and for their amazing talks!

Original: Drs. @lydiarader.bsky.social, @dangustavson.bsky.social, @torwager.bsky.social, & coll. used mixed-effects models to examine associations between polygenic scores and adolescent self-reported pain presence, intensity, recurrence, and multi-site pain. FULL: www.jpain.org/article/S152...

What if some adolescent pain complaints are early manifestations of lifelong chronic pain risk? www.jpain.org/article/S152...

So much for "sex, drugs, and rock n' roll". A new paper by Dr. Lydia Rader shows that adolescent music engagement is related to less alcohol use & substance use experimentation 5-11 years later through protective environmental factors. @lydiarader.bsky.social pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

New paper! 🎶🎸 • Do adolescents who engage in music use less substances later in development? • Are the links direct effects or due to shared genetic/environmental influences? • Is music constructive for youth at high genetic risk for substance use? Paper link: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New preprint alert! 🚨 Building on exciting new work in autism subtyping, we investigated how biological sex 👭 and age at diagnosis 👵 shape the genetic landscape of autism. 🧬 Check out our findings below 🧵 and the full paper here: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9...

There was a lot of laughter during this conversation and a few secret confessions... But we also had some great discussions about musicality, genetics, Beethoven and public outreach, mental health, and music genres... Thank you @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social and @aysuo.bsky.social for having me! 🎶

Yuan et al. show that neuropathic chronic low-back pain has distinct thalamic brain changes compared to non-neuropathic low-back pain, underscoring the need to distinguish between these phenotypes to reduce heterogeneity in future studies #PAIN bit.ly/4msHe3i

New Scientific Reports article lead by IBG graduate student @eamonnduffy.bsky.social and faculty member Marissa Ehringer finds genetically divergent rat strains differ in oxycodone self-administration and effects on gut microbiome. Congrats to the team on this work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New Nature Communications paper from IBG graduate student Jeremy Lawrence describes high genetic overlap across 73 physical illnesses (e.g., cancers, heart failure, pneumonia) and internalizing, substance use, and neurodevelopment disorders.🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Original: Tacugue, Dr. Kossowsky et al. ( @bostonchildrens.bsky.social) found that chronic pain doesn't just hurt, it impairs memory & attention in adolescents —4 weeks of intensive rehab improved cognition, sleep & mental health Full: www.jpain.org/article/S152...

New article published in Addiction and lead by IBG postdoc @lydiarader.bsky.social identifies transdiagnostic genetic overlap between general chronic pain and addiction risk, along with substance-specific pathways. doi.org/10.1111/add....

Check out our new paper! We found general chronic pain is genetically linked to broad addiction liability, while musculoskeletal pain shows more substance-specific genetic associations, particularly with tobacco and alcohol use. Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...