Natalie McClain
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Neuro PhD Student at the Icahn School of Medicine
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Go check out our paper illustrating that objective cognitive-behavioral measures can outperform traditional self-reports when it comes to informing clinical outcomes! This is a promising step towards improving the tools we use to assess severity.
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Moving Beyond Self-Report in Characterizing Drug Addiction: Using Drug-Biased Behavior to Predict Treatment Completion and Dropout in Heroin-Primary, Medication-Maintained Opioid Use Disorder
Drug addiction is accompanied by enhanced salience attributed to drug over nondrug cues. This bias can be objectively measured and is reliable but und…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667174325002216
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Our story about The Krakencoder - a new AI tool to analyze brain networks - is out in Weill Cornell's Impact magazine. Support from NIMH and
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Led by Keith Jamison, with
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Unleashing the Krakencoder
Mapping the connections between the brain’s structure and function.
https://impact.weill.cornell.edu/fall-2025/features/unleashing-krakencoder
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Thank you for the feature! Everyone should go check out the other submissions as well, such a cool collection of brain art.
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's "Metropolis of the Mind" reimagines the brain as a city. Different buildings (distinct brain regions) are connected by bridges (neural pathways). Collapsed bridges represent neural pathways weakened by
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fMRI connectivity is dominated by recurring high-amplitude BOLD events (CAPs, QPPs) But what originates these events? Many think neuromodulation is the culprit. Our new work offers a simpler take: cortico-cortical dynamics alone can generate CAP-like events!
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Biological Psychiatry
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People recovering from heroin addiction show reduced brain synchronization with their partners and poorer perspective-taking, revealing how addiction disrupts not just individual brain function but also the neural coordination between people during social interaction.
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Social cognitive deficits and altered multi-brain dynamics during problem-solving in heroin abstainers: An fNIRS hyperscanning study
Despite extensive research on the neurobiology of addiction, little is known about how repeated drug use and withdrawal are related to social functioning impairments in humans, a highly social…
https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(26)01154-6/fulltext
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Also check out a commentary on these results, which highlights the utility of these drug-biased behavioral measures in clinical addiction research!
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Go check out our paper illustrating that objective cognitive-behavioral measures can outperform traditional self-reports when it comes to informing clinical outcomes! This is a promising step towards improving the tools we use to assess severity.
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Moving Beyond Self-Report in Characterizing Drug Addiction: Using Drug-Biased Behavior to Predict Treatment Completion and Dropout in Heroin-Primary, Medication-Maintained Opioid Use Disorder
Drug addiction is accompanied by enhanced salience attributed to drug over nondrug cues. This bias can be objectively measured and is reliable but und…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667174325002216
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