@article {389, title = {National Child and Adolescent Health Policies as Indicators of Adolescent Mental Health: A Multilevel Analysis of 30 European Countries}, journal = {The Journal of Early Adolescence}, volume = {40}, year = {2020}, pages = {537-565}, abstract = {

There is little evidence on the association between child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) policies and adolescent mental health. This study examined this association using data on indicators of adolescent mental health - aggressive behavior, life satisfaction, and psychosomatic symptoms- in 172,829 eleven- to fifteen-year-olds from 30 European countries in the 2013-2014 Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) study. Individual records were linked to national-level policies for CAMH, controlling for national-level adult violence, adult well-being, and income inequality. Multilevel analyses revealed lower adolescent aggressive behavior in countries with more CAMH policies, even after controlling for other national-level indicators. Adolescent life satisfaction and psychosomatic symptoms were not associated with CAMH policies. Results may inform policy recommendations regarding investments in adolescent mental health.

}, doi = {10.1177/0272431619858413}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431619858413}, author = {Anne M. Hendriks and Meike Bartels and Gonneke W. J. M. Stevens and Sophie D. Walsh and Torbj{\o}rn Torsheim and Frank J. Elgar and Catrin Finkenauer} } @article {323, title = {The Netherlands Twin Register: Longitudinal research based on twin and twin-family designs}, journal = {Twin Research and Human Genetics}, volume = {22}, year = {2019}, pages = {623{\textendash}636}, abstract = {

The Netherlands Twin Register (NTR) is a national register in which twins, multiples and their parents, siblings, spouses and other family members participate. Here we describe the NTR resources that were created from more than 30 years of data collections; the development and maintenance of the newly developed database systems, and the possibilities these resources create for future research. Since the early 1980s, the NTR has enrolled around 120,000 twins and a roughly equal number of their relatives. The majority of twin families have participated in survey studies, and subsamples took part in biomaterial collection (e.g., DNA) and dedicated projects, for example, for neuropsychological, biomarker and behavioral traits. The recruitment into the NTR is all inclusive without any restrictions on enrollment. These resources - the longitudinal phenotyping, the extended pedigree structures and the multigeneration genotyping - allow for future twin-family research that will contribute to gene discovery, causality modeling, and studies of genetic and cultural inheritance.

}, keywords = {biobank, endophenotyping, longitudinal phenotyping, multigeneration pedigree, twins, zygosity}, doi = {10.1017/thg.2019.93}, author = {Ligthart, Lannie and van Beijsterveldt, Catharina E M and Kevenaar, Sofieke T and de Zeeuw, Eveline and van Bergen, Elsje and Bruins, Susanne and Pool, Ren{\'e} and Helmer, Quinta and van Dongen, Jenny and Hottenga, Jouke-Jan and Van{\textquoteright}t Ent, Dennis and Dolan, Conor V and Davies, Gareth E and Ehli, Erik A and Bartels, Meike and Willemsen, Gonneke and de Geus, Eco J C and Boomsma, Dorret I} } @article {276, title = {The new genetics of intelligence}, volume = {19}, year = {2018}, month = {08/2018}, pages = {148 - }, abstract = {

Intelligence - the ability to learn, reason and solve problems - is at the forefront of behavioural genetic research. Intelligence is highly heritable and predicts important educational, occupational and health outcomes better than any other trait. Recent genome-wide association studies have successfully identified inherited genome sequence differences that account for 20\% of the 50\% heritability of intelligence. These findings open new avenues for research into the causes and consequences of intelligence using genome-wide polygenic scores that aggregate the effects of thousands of genetic variants.

}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg.2017.104}, author = {Robert Plomin and Sophie von Stumm} }