Talk psych science with Michel & Amir Sariaslan

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I had a wide-ranging discussion with Amir Sariaslan, a senior researcher at Oxford University dept of Psychiatry, who works at the intersection between psychology, criminology and epidemiology, about better mental health research. Which in his case means research based on national registers that essentially cover almost anyone in Scandinavia. We also touched on how you'd go from hypothesis generated in massive coarse-grained nation wide datasets and move on to do fine-grained qualitative follow up.

00:00 Introducing Amir Sariaslan
02:31 Beyond Observational Research
04:50 No Link Between Maternal Epidurals during pregnancy and Autism in kids
21:48 Triggers of violent behaviour in people with a psychotic disorder diagnosis
35:11 The Potential of Qualitative Research and Machine Learning based on solid findings in register studies
41:23 The Long-Term Effects of Placements in Out-of-Home Care

Papers we discussed:

Hegvik, T. A., Klungsøyr, K., Kuja-Halkola, R., Remes, H., Haavik, J., D’onofrio, B. M., ... & Sariaslan, A. (2023). Labor epidural analgesia and subsequent risk of offspring autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a cross-national cohort study of 4.5 million individuals and their siblings. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 228(2), 233-e1.

Sariaslan, A., Kääriälä, A., Pitkänen, J., Remes, H., Aaltonen, M., Hiilamo, H., ... & Fazel, S. (2022). Long-term health and social outcomes in children and adolescents placed in out-of-home care. JAMA pediatrics, 176(1), e214324-e214324.

Sariaslan, A., Lichtenstein, P., Larsson, H., & Fazel, S. (2016). Triggers for violent criminality in patients with psychotic disorders. JAMA psychiatry, 73(8), 796-803.

Papers by others Amir suggested:

Kuja-Halkola, R., D’Onofrio, B. M., Larsson, H., & Lichtenstein, P. (2014). Maternal smoking during pregnancy and adverse outcomes in offspring: genetic and environmental sources of covariance. Behavior Genetics, 44, 456-467.

Watts, A. L., Greene, A. L., Bonifay, W., & Fried, E. I. (2024). A critical evaluation of the p-factor literature. Nature Reviews Psychology, 3(2), 108-122.