Media
The lab in the press
Coverage of the lab’s work, interviews, and public-facing writing on mental health, substance use, and what longitudinal research tells us about how common psychiatric conditions really are.
Coverage by study
Selected news coverage of the lab’s research, grouped by the study covered. Outlet names link to the article where a copy is available online.
Associations between adolescent cannabis use and young-adult functioning in three longitudinal twin studies
PNAS · 2021
Air pollution exposure in childhood and adolescence and psychopathology at the transition to adulthood
JAMA Network Open · 2021
Association of childhood lead exposure with adult personality traits and lifelong mental health
JAMA Psychiatry · 2019
Adolescent victimization and early-adult psychopathology: approaching causal inference with a longitudinal twin study
Clinical Psychological Science · 2018
Eleven telomere, epigenetic clock, and biomarker-composite quantifications of biological aging
American Journal of Epidemiology · 2018
🏆 Article of the Year
Use of hierarchical measures of psychopathology in the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (commentary)
JAMA Psychiatry · 2018
Enduring mental health: prevalence and prediction
Journal of Abnormal Psychology · 2017
Quantification of biological aging in young adults
PNAS · 2015
Early-life intelligence predicts midlife biological age
Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences · 2015
The global cognitive impairment in schizophrenia: consistent over decades and around the world
Schizophrenia Research · 2013
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Features & profiles
Researcher Looks to Build Twin Registry in Tennessee
Feature · by Hannah Herner
Jonathan Schaefer, Ph.D., L.P. — Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department feature
Interviews & appearances
On the adolescent-cannabis twin study
Minnesota Public Radio
How better mental-health epidemiology can lower stigma
Episode 134 · with Seth Gillihan
with Sarb Johal
Essays & commentary