{"id":1121,"date":"2024-11-27T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=1121"},"modified":"2024-11-27T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T14:28:07","slug":"estwell-seminar-associate-professor-kelli-lehto-what-can-our-genes-tell-us-about-mental-health-and-well-being","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/event\/estwell-seminar-associate-professor-kelli-lehto-what-can-our-genes-tell-us-about-mental-health-and-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"EstWell seminar <br>Associate Professor Kelli Lehto: What can our genes tell us about mental health and well-being?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1122\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/781\/EstWell-IV-Seminar-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/781\/EstWell-IV-Seminar-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/781\/EstWell-IV-Seminar-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/781\/EstWell-IV-Seminar-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/781\/EstWell-IV-Seminar-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/781\/EstWell-IV-Seminar.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>What can our genes tell us about mental health and well-being?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mental health problems affect nearly half of the population during their lifetime, but still remain challenging to prevent, detect and treat due to our limited understanding of their etiology. In this seminar, I will discuss how large biobanks and genetic data can help make progress. Specifically, I will:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Explore the role of genetics in mental health conditions and traits;<\/li>\n<li>Discuss phenotypic heterogeneity as the key challenge in research on mental health and well-being;<\/li>\n<li>Introduce the Estonian Biobank \u201cWell-Being and Mental Health\u201d Study which includes data from over 86,000 Estonians \u2014 approximately 10% of Estonia\u2019s adult population; and<\/li>\n<li>Outline future directions and ethical considerations for integrating genetics into personalized health care for mental health problems.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can our genes tell us about mental health and well-being? Mental health problems affect nearly half of the population during their lifetime, but still remain challenging to prevent, detect and treat due to our limited understanding of their etiology. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":608,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-1121","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1121\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}