Upregulation of reward mesolimbic activity and immune response to vaccination: a randomized controlled trial www.nature.com/articles/s41...

At #ACNP2026? Come see my poster (W45, 5–7 pm)! We @erika-forbes.bsky.social find that immune activation and basal ganglia dopamine availability interact and relate to anhedonia among youth w/ depression, with evidence for anticipatory and not consummatory anhedonia. Preprint is now available!

This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Basal Ganglia Dopamine Availability and Immune Activation Interact and Relate to Anhedonia Severity among Youth with Depression https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.23.696320v1

The lab is recruiting a postdoc. Please share with anyone who might be interested. www.adaptprogram.com/join-adapt

Excited to share that I'm accepting applications for a PhD student to join my lab in Fall 2026! More info on how to apply can be found here: graduate.catalog.tcu.edu/colleges/eng... @bsamjournal.bsky.social @pnirs.bsky.social #HealthPsychology #PNI #Psychoneuroimmunology #DevelopmentalPsychology

The Two Faces of #PTSD: Fear vs. Emotional Pain. Our new research in Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social identifies distinct clinical & neural profiles. AI says no one reads long papers, so we made an infographic!👇 Full Paper (for the insistents😉): doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Prevention and intervention for inflammation-associated transdiagnostic psychopathology: A role for clinical psychologists: https://osf.io/qysa2

Congratulations @iriskayichat.bsky.social!!! See you there 😎

Honored to receive the ACNP Travel Award and looking forward to attending my first ACNP conference in the Bahamas! #ACNP2026 @acnporg.bsky.social

Dr. Iris Ka-Yi Chat explores neurobiological mechanisms of motivation deficits & anhedonia, with a focus on immune function, reward processes, and their crosstalk in adolescents and emerging adults 🧠 #ACNP2026 / @iriskayichat.bsky.social

Are you working on #CancerNeuroscience and presenting at #SfN? Let me know! I want to come see your talk or poster and the app is really not helpful for locating your info 🤓. Drop it in 🧵 please 🙏

If you use the Monetary Incentive Delay task or any task with complex events in fMRI, you should read this. We demonstrate that common modeling approaches can result in bias due to omitted variables. By @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social & the ABCD task fMRI team. direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Developing interferon-β as a safe in vivo experimental-medicine model of human inflammation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you're a member of the HiTOP Society, I hope you'll consider voting for me for President 💛 I'd be delighted to lead us in this new chapter Ballots went out today so we can join the current deluge of exciting election results And whether or not you vote for me - please do vote!

I’ve spent the last 8 years(!) working from the position that HiTOP relies too much on analyses of traditional diagnoses, baking in limitations of the DSM, and that we need to move to symptom-level analyses to fix it It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀 1/

Excited to share that I’ll be reviewing applications for the Clinical Child Psychology Program at the University of Houston this cycle! If you’re interested in clinical neuroscience research of autism, please consider applying to join our growing team. More info here: www.uh.edu/class/psycho...

Obesity, low-grade inflammation, and inflammatory response to immune challenge modulate willingness to expend effort for reward: https://osf.io/xtkw7

The role of subcortical brain tissue iron as an indicator of dopamine neurophysiology in adolescent cannabis use: https://osf.io/rfh6k

Submit your symposia proposals for the #PNIRS2026 Annual Meeting in New Orleans! This year's meeting theme is Modifiable Risk Factors Across the Lifespan. More info and submission site here: mss-abstracts.pnirs.org

Thrilled to share that I am planning to admit a grad student and will be reviewing applications to the clinical psychology PhD program at Miami University! Excited to mentor and learn from future mentees! For information about my lab and application FAQ, check out: www.seahpepl.com/joincontact-...

📣 #PNIRS2026: Save the Date‼️ 🗓️ June 22–25, 2026 📍 New Orleans, Louisiana 🇺🇸 ✨ Whether your PsychoNeuroImmunology research emphasizes the P, N, or I — we look forward to seeing your work and connecting in The Big Easy! 📻 Stay tuned for more info re: call for abstracts. Please spread the word 🙏🏼

It is time for our annual Tell Us About Your Research series!! Please fill out the form here by November 11th if you would like your research to be featured in this fun weekly series! 🔬🧠👩‍🔬 t.co/25hh5XUCKw

Please RSVP & spread the word! #UCLA

Do late adolescents and emerging adults who live in a communities with higher violent crime rates exhibit altered reward-related neural activation? This question was recently investigated in a sample of 101 adolescents. Read more in BSAM, free for the week! #healthpsych #psychscicky

Join us in Congratulating the 2025 ACNP Travel Award Class! 🙌🎉

Let’s do this www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...

My dept (HDFS) at Texas Tech is hiring an Assistant Professor who studies family science and health, broadly defined to include physical health, mental health, community health, and relational health, including romantic and intergenerational relationships. Plz share widely! #healthpsych

Neural anticipation of virtual infection triggers an immune response www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Friendly reminder: Poster submissions are open for the ACNP 64th Annual Meeting: January 12-15, 2026, Nassau, Bahamas. You must be registered for the meeting before you can submit a poster. The deadline to submit poster abstracts is August 28th. https://bit.ly/3TXuYcz #ACNP2026

Hey folks: A little while aback, @jschleiderphd.bsky.social and I created a repository of SOPs to help folks prepare for grad applications. If you'd like to add your SOP, feel free to use this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Of note, mask as you desire as I will be posting them as is.

Ever wonder how stress and the estrous cycle affects reward learning? Well we have answers for you in our paper led by @askaneuroscientist.bsky.social published in @npp-journal.bsky.social And huge thanks to the NIH and NSF who supported this research.

Yesterday, I officially graduated with a PhD in Immunopsychiatry from the @uob-ieu.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social 🎉 🎓 An incredibly special (and sunny!) day spent celebrating with friends and family. A huge thank you to my parents, siblings, supervisors, and all those supporting from afar ❤️

That's All Folks (for Season 1) of the Stress Puzzle! 🧩 Season 2 is coming this Fall & I'm excited to continue growing this science communication effort. In the meantime, you can listen to episodes from Season 1 here: www.stressmeasurement.org/podcast #scicomm #psych #affectivescience #devpsych

Highly recommend working with Julie!!! An incredible researcher and, more importantly, a fantastic human being!!

‼️🚨 postdoc position 🚨‼️ I am looking for a postdoc in psychoneuroimmunology - come join our group to work on sickness behavior in humans 🤒🦠 at Karolinska Institutet @ki.se !! ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... deadline July 31st @pnirs.bsky.social #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #interoception

Congrats @ivanka13.bsky.social , @daniellepratt.bsky.social , @GregoryStrauss on a new paper in Schizophrenia Bulletin! Temporal Relationship Between Momentary Negative Affect Intensity and Momentary Attenuated Delusions in Individuals at Clinical High-risk for Psychosis doi.org/10.1093/schb...

DC and NYC: Please join the rallies against this dangerous ruling if you can. #TransRights are not up for debate. 🏳️‍⚧️

#PNIRS2025 #Recap✨: The annual meeting finished strong with the George Solomon Award Lecture by Dr. Robert Dantzer, aka the Father of #Psychoneuroimmunology. He shared insights on the current state of the field and offered wisdom on key future directions for the next generation of PNI scientists 🧠🔍

We loved seeing trainees from around the world connect at the Trainee Mixer! Hope everyone had the best time! 🤩 #PNIRS2025 #TraineeMixer #ScienceCommunity 🌎🌍🌏

Dr. Annelise Madison presented fascinating exploratory findings focused on how omega-3 supplementation may affect social perception in a sex-specific manner #PNIRS2025

Genevieve Craig (@genevievecraig.bsky.social) examined inflammation effects on fear and anxiety-related circuits and symptoms with a focus on the potential role of dopamine. An excellent presentation with comprehensive results and phenomenal visuals 🙌🏼 #PNIRS2025

Many highlights at #PNIRS2025 but one of them was definitely dinner (at KBaroque) with the PNIRS RISING STARS (from left to right) @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social @iriskayichat.bsky.social @estherina.bsky.social Annelise Madison @linashansson.bsky.social 🤩😍🥰 @pnirs.bsky.social

Also thrilled to be more actively contributing to the society this year as a member of the Communications Committee and especially grateful to get to know this stellar group of scholars! #PNIRS2025

Brilliant symposium and talks by the amazing, Iris, Julie and Elizabeth 👏👏👏 @julielasselin.bsky.social @iriskayichat.bsky.social #PNIRS2025

Amazing final words of #PNIRS2025 from Robert Dantzer, who has shaped the field of PNI and inspired so many of us @pnirs.bsky.social

I so enjoyed our symposium at #PNIRS2025 this morning! So grateful to @iriskayichat.bsky.social for having pushed this to success!! @pnirs.bsky.social

🎉 Big congrats to Julie Lasselin, Iris Ka-Yi Chat, and Elisabeth Vichaya on a fantastic Member Symposium 6! 👏 Brilliant insights on how inflammation shapes mood and reward in humans and animals! 🧠🔥#PNIRS2025