Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Research Interests: Biomarkers predictive of depression and suicide risk; Heterogeneity confounds in brain-derived epigenomic datasets; Suicide; postpartum depression; Major depression; Mood disorders; Epigenetic factors underlying psychiatric disease.
The Suicide Gene Imagine being able to prevent just one of the roughly 40,000 suicides that happen every year in the US. That possibility is a little closer to reality thanks to a new study published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.The study looked at a gene that helps regulate cortisol, and found some people who committed suicide had a mutated version of this gene. This could lead to a suicide blood test.
Trump says goodbye Paris Accord: What does it mean for U.S. and the planet? President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, the landmark international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Trump was to renegotiate a new deal, but will that happen?
Securing Public Spaces, Super Wealthy Asians Vehicles are increasingly being used as weapons, as seen in the London Bridge attack over the weekend and in New York’s Times Square last month. The Compton-based company Calpipe is designing security bollards to help make public spaces safer. And novelist Kevin Kwan satirizes the “crazy rich” Asian jet set and their luxurious tastes in his latest book, “Rich People Problems.”