Tomorrow will be two years since the attack which began this terrible war. I have lived through several wars, but this one has changed me. I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I am not above praying for peace.... Hostages back home, this war can be over. Amen 🙏

Our World Psychiatry paper is out! we studied responses to trauma experienced under different psychoactive substances and found distinct patterns across substances. Immense gratitude to our collaborators and above all, to the survivors❤️‍🩹

Just published in World Psychiatry our study "Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing" . Amazing work led by @ophirnetzer.bsky.social with the brave survivors of the Nova festival attack. Huge team effort, thx to all! 👉 doi.org/10.1002/wps....

Impressive data set with interesting findings: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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This is a fascinating article. Well-researched. And while it doesn't interrogate the reasons why the FDA knocked back the MDMA application at least it reasonably accepts the rejection was based on problems with the science and not solely the result of a tiny "activist" group.

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans. Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

The situation in Israel is not good. A crazy government extending a terrible war to retain power while reducing freedoms. Despite the violence against protestors we will continue to stop the war, return the hostages and seek peace.

This week I came for my last day at the university before setting off for a 1 year sabbatical at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. The amazing students in my lab surprised me with a goodbye party. So lucky to be working with such talented and kind people! Thanks salomonlab.org

Dopamine induces fear extinction by activating the reward-responding amygdala neurons | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Very interesting case. Hope this is indeed a framework for future translation of cog-neuro into clinical improvements

📣 New preprint 📣 The brain attenuates self-touch, but how does this unfold at the neural level before the touch? We used MEG to find out 🧠 👉👈

We all know that something is deeply broken in the publishing system, but this is amazing to see the scope of the problem... Well done to all the authors!

Closed-loop electrical stimulation prevents focal epilepsy progression and long-term memory impairment: rdcu.be/ezjNt

We need more human beings.

just out in Molecular Psychiatry 😍: spinal & cortical alterations in processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky @paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social rdcu.be/exN0e

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Proud of the Israel Young Academy, that like many others in Israeli academia sends a clear message to our government - against which many of us have been protesting for 2 years: END THE WAR. Now

📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS. The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏 Check out the full ms👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The horrendous government here has so little support from the people, that they are moving towards dictatorship. They know they will lose the election so are trying to prevent it. We need to stop the war now! How can anyone not be heartbroken when seeing the outcomes of this conflict.

The war in Gaza must end. The humanitarian crisis is heartbreaking and tragic.

Beautifully written and important piece here:

My first dissertation paper is out in Nature Mental Health! 🤩 With colleagues from @tudresden.bsky.social and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, we conducted a meta-analysis on the link between childhood trauma and interoception — our ability to sense internal bodily signals. rdcu.be/eu8bo 1/🧵

Sorry to be missing #ASSC28 in Crete. The stress of the latest conflicts here is felt and I have decided the best thing to do is to stay here with my family. I wish everyone a great meeting, and thanks to the organizers for making this happen. If someone solves the hard problem pls update.

Boss move

🧠📱Excited to share our invited commentary in @jamanetworkopen.com on the promise and pitfalls of using smartphones (and wearables) to track psychopathology w/ @hadarfisher.bsky.social and linked to excellent paper by @whitneyringwald.bsky.social, @aidangcw.bsky.social & team. tinyurl.com/5n8z4r6e

This! 👉 Inter-Brain Neural Dynamics in Biological and Artificial Intelligence Systems www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning

No matter how bad things seem, we all have an opportunity and obligation to make them better. After the crazy war with Iran we are back on the street protesting for peace and the return of the hostages. #NeverGiveUP

Most of the day I'm ok. I function well under stress, taking my kids to the bomb shelter while still responding to emails , writing papers and cooking. But every day there is a moment where the reality breaks though and I cry for all the people, on all sides, suffering in this tragedy. Peace.

Honored to be named a Stiftung Charité Visiting Professor. Together with Dr. Dimitris Repantis from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin we will extend our research on Trauma and Psychedelics. www.stiftung-charite.de/en/news-in-d... #Charité #Psychedelics

Thanks to everyone who has reached out. We are OK. Running with family to bomb shelter several times a day is hard, but we are lucky to be together and have shelter. I hope that the people in our region will find a way to live in peace, I'm sure that this is what most people want 🙏

My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature! When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️ The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar bit.ly/3HvWSum

Thrilled to get my hands on the first copies of my book! “A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality” in bookshops soon - from 26th June 🧠 🍎 (Though Ralphie more interested in the packaging….) www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515... #booksky #neuroskyence

Everywhere people who care for freedom and liberty must stand tall and resist totalitarian regimes. Democracy is a fragile thing, and must be continuously cared for. Here we must first stop the war! PEACE

this is perfect

My god what's up in L.A? Over the line!

My med school textbook says stimulants like Ritalin treat hyperactivity by “stimulating” the brain’s attention and cognitive control systems. We studied children taking stimulants in the ABCD Study, and the largest differences were actually in arousal and reward networks! Check out our preprint!

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Our study using layer fMRI to study the direction of communication between the hippocampus and cortex during perceptual predictions is finally out in Science Advances! Predicted-but-omitted shapes are represented in CA2/3 and correlate specifically with deep layers of PHC, suggesting feedback. 🧠🟦

5 years since our first pilot, and 25,000 participants later, I'm super happy this work with Makaela Nartker, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and Howard Egeth on inattentional blindness is now out in eLife! A little 🧵 of what we found... 1/12 elifesciences.org/articles/100...

How does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with Subbu Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia www.nature.com/articles/s41... that integrates 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this vital [email protected] sky.social #neuroskyence #neuroscience

Very Cool work. Seems body and brain are somewhat related... who would have guessed

Saturday evenings are dedicated to demonstrations (just the last 2.5 years or so). Despite police actions against this, people are bravely holding up pictures of innocent Palestinian children killed in Gaza. We must remember that most people on both sides just want to live in peace!

Every year we light candles to remember my mother's 7 aunts and uncles and grandparents murdered by Nazi's in Auschwitz. For me the tragedy of the holocaust is a reminder to always fight for life and humanity and against hatred and racism. This is salvation.

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What is your moral obligation when your government is doing things opposed to your beliefs? As an Israeli I have faced this dilemma often. Do you leave? Do you stay and try to make a change?

Great outcome for this paper, many novel ideas, waiting to see commentaries...

🚨 New preprint! How do we know what is real? so... "Unreal? A Behavioral, Physiological & Computational Model of the Sense of Reality" is out! The result of 4 years of incredible teamwork👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

very interesting !