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Yasmin Ahmadzadeh

Dr Yasmin Ahmadzadeh PhD

Research Fellow

Biography

Dr Yasmin Ahmadzadeh’s research is focused on understanding how common mental health concerns run in families. She is a member of the INHERIT Lab, specialising in genetically informed, intergenerational research.

Dr Ahmadzadeh holds an ESRC Administrative Data Research UK fellowship, to explore links between prenatal exposure to maternal psychiatric illness and offspring developmental outcomes within the Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) resource. Dr Ahmadzadeh was Principal Investigator on the ESRC Emerging Minds funded TRADE project, exploring the Transmission of experiences of Racism, Anxiety and DEpression in families.

Dr Ahmadzadeh joined King’s College London as a Research Assistant, helping to set up and run the Children of the Twins Early Development Study (CoTEDS). She completed her PhD part-time alongside this Research Assistant role, exploring familial risk for anxiety and depression: intergenerational effects and genetic transmission.

Prior to working at King’s College London, Dr Ahmadzadeh completed her BSc in Neuroscience with Industrial/Professional Experience at the University of Manchester.

Research interests

  • Intergenerational transmission
  • Anxiety and depression
  • Family interactions
  • Genetics
  • Child development
  • Mental health inequalities
  • Anti-racism in mental health research

Teaching

  • Nature Nurture 1 module co-lead for the Developmental Psychology & Psychopathology MSc: 2022/23, 2023/34

Expertise and public engagement

    Research

    CoTEDS Thumbnail 17-10-17
    Children of TEDS (CoTEDS) Study

    The aim of this project is to explore the origins of the development of emotional disorders.

    Project status: Ongoing

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    Family Footsteps - A Parent Engagement Project

    Family Footsteps is a Wellcome Trust funded project exploring parent beliefs and concerns around mental health in families.

    Project status: Ongoing

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    INHERIT Lab

    Inherit Lab studies large family databases to understand the role of genetic and environmental factors in the intergenerational continuity of mental health problems.

    News

    Parent and child experiences of racism affect whole family's mental health, according to new study

    Parents’ experiences of racism affect their children’s mental health and vice versa, according to a new briefing published today, on World Mental Health Day,...

    A constant battle - CMH report

    IoPPN researchers receive the Gottesman-Shields Prize for best PhD theses 2020-2022

    Dr Olakunle Oginni and Dr Yasmin Ahmadzadeh, Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre (SGDP) alumni PhD students at the Institute of Psychiatry,...

    SGDP Gottesman-Shields award 2020-23

    IoPPN researchers announced winners of the 2022 ACAMH Awards

    Several researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) won awards at the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health...

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    Anxiety during pregnancy does not pass from mother to baby, finds new King's study

    Mothers who experience anxiety during pregnancy do not pass on similar emotional problems to their children, but later exposure to an anxious parent might...

    Pregnant woman

    Features

    The 2021 IoPPN Youth Awards

    This year, the IoPPN Youth Awards were faced with the challenge of making the annual event work during a global pandemic. In this blog, Dr Yasmin Ahmadzadeh...

    Kings-IoPPN-Youth-Awards-hero

      Research

      CoTEDS Thumbnail 17-10-17
      Children of TEDS (CoTEDS) Study

      The aim of this project is to explore the origins of the development of emotional disorders.

      Project status: Ongoing

      News Story Images Template (21)
      Family Footsteps - A Parent Engagement Project

      Family Footsteps is a Wellcome Trust funded project exploring parent beliefs and concerns around mental health in families.

      Project status: Ongoing

      iStock-1416803934 (1)
      INHERIT Lab

      Inherit Lab studies large family databases to understand the role of genetic and environmental factors in the intergenerational continuity of mental health problems.

      News

      Parent and child experiences of racism affect whole family's mental health, according to new study

      Parents’ experiences of racism affect their children’s mental health and vice versa, according to a new briefing published today, on World Mental Health Day,...

      A constant battle - CMH report

      IoPPN researchers receive the Gottesman-Shields Prize for best PhD theses 2020-2022

      Dr Olakunle Oginni and Dr Yasmin Ahmadzadeh, Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre (SGDP) alumni PhD students at the Institute of Psychiatry,...

      SGDP Gottesman-Shields award 2020-23

      IoPPN researchers announced winners of the 2022 ACAMH Awards

      Several researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) won awards at the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health...

      star

      Anxiety during pregnancy does not pass from mother to baby, finds new King's study

      Mothers who experience anxiety during pregnancy do not pass on similar emotional problems to their children, but later exposure to an anxious parent might...

      Pregnant woman

      Features

      The 2021 IoPPN Youth Awards

      This year, the IoPPN Youth Awards were faced with the challenge of making the annual event work during a global pandemic. In this blog, Dr Yasmin Ahmadzadeh...

      Kings-IoPPN-Youth-Awards-hero