Huge congratulations to the CCP’s newest PhDs! 🎓🎉 We are so proud of all your hard work, dedication, and accomplishments. Thrilled to see the incredible things you’ll do next! 🧠✨

Excited to share new work now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social Using single-neuron recordings in humans, we show that dopamine neurons encode reward expectations derived from past experience––giving us a new look into how reward learning unfolds in the human brain 🧵👇

In NYC early? Join us on Wednesday, April 29th for a pre-SOBP happy hour ✨ Connect with fellow attendees and faculty, meet new people, and get ready for an exciting week! RSVP for location and details: www.eventbrite.com/e/1984134906...

📢 New preprint out now! In three samples (N=594), including a U.S.-representative cohort and a test-retest cohort, we formalize social motivation, learning, and homeostatic control within a single computational framework and identify a phenotype linked to chronic loneliness doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Huge shoutout to my co-authors: Kannon Bhattacharyya, @krkulkarni.bsky.social, and @xiaosigu.bsky.social Recent work in substance craving by @krkulkarni.bsky.social and @xiaosigu.bsky.social served as a huge inspiration for this project: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

In NYC early? Join us on Wednesday, April 29th for a pre-SOBP happy hour ✨ Connect with fellow attendees and faculty, meet new people, and get ready for an exciting week! RSVP for location and details: www.eventbrite.com/e/1984134906...

✨ 👀 THIS FRIDAY, Dr. Christina Wierenga will be presenting at 1pm for our Speaker Series RSVP here for more details: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

✨ April is #GraduateStudentAppreciation Month! 🏐 Highlighted here, Emma Andraka. Mentored by Daniela Schiller & @brianmsweis.bsky.social, Emma is developing a cross-species task for elucidating decision-making processes & neurophysiology underlying social interactions in rodents & humans. AMAZING!

Thanks to @onemindorg.bsky.social for consistently championing the importance of community. Whether in the lab or through the arts, the power of connection is vital to transforming mental health care.

🧠 👀 Watch our director, @lauraaberner.bsky.social, discuss her research on an intervention that trains individuals with eating disorders to change their brain activation, take control of their behaviors, and strengthen recovery with @onemindorg.bsky.social here! 👉 youtu.be/yDStULYrXH0

Big news 🎉 Dr. @shawnrhoadsphd.com has been recognized as a Rising Star by @psychscience.bsky.social, which honors impactful early-career contributions to shaping the future of psychological science. Congratulations! 👏

⭐️ Congratulations to the newest class of APS Rising Stars ⭐️ www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...

🚨The Sweis Lab for Translational Neuroeconomics at Mount Sinai is searching for a postdoctoral research fellow! If you or someone you know is searching for a position, please share! 📄 📌Link to job flyer here: tinyurl.com/3vapfpn5 🧠 🐁 🔬🏙️🌆🧪🧬💊🧫💡🏥 @sinaibrain.bsky.social @mountsinai.bsky.social

Tonight won't be just any night! JOIN @brainbodylab.bsky.social and Pamela Toh as they host 6 #StoryTellers who share personal accounts of the challenges they've overcome & triumphs they've experienced in their journey through the brain and beyond! GET YOUR🎟️NOW! checkout.square.site/merchant/MJN...

Grateful for the opportunity to start two new collaborations through the #FBIScholars awards. These projects use a cross-species approach to explore mechanisms underlying human brain states and cognition. Thank you to the Nash and Friedman families for empowering boundary pushing neuroscience! 🧠✨

👉Up next, Dr. Ghazaleh Darmani will be presenting this Friday, 3/27, at 1pm for our Speaker Series RSVP here for more details: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Happy 5 year-anniversary to the CCP! 🎉 Such a great night celebrating together. Thank you to everyone who joined us and made it so special 🥂 Here’s to everything ahead!

Some of the best conversations at CCN happen in these venues. If you’re able, consider submitting — it’s a great way to share your work and shape the space!

Massive congratulations to Dr. @christinamaher.bsky.social on a brilliant defense! 👏 Christina is a force of nature, and her work is incredibly exciting. It’s been a true joy to co-mentor her alongside @angelaradulescu.bsky.social. Stay tuned for Christina’s papers dropping soon! 🎓🚀

Proud to share the lab’s first preprint, led by the fantastic @christinamaher.bsky.social! 🎉 Real-world environments are high-dimensional and noisy. Selective attention is thought to shape the state representations that make reinforcement learning tractable.

Join TODAY at 1pm! 🎉

✨For our next CCP Speaker Series Speaker, we are thrilled to welcome @sarahfineberg.bsky.social next Friday, 3/13, at 1pm EST. RSVP here for more details: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

As we argued in earlier work, we can benefit from extending tasks to more naturalistic settings. www.cell.com/trends/cogni... This paper takes a step toward that broader goal by integrating RL, perceptual inference, and decision dynamics in VR.

The project started pre-Covid, so it’s especially exciting to finally see it in print. Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators who made this possible: Bas van Opheusden, @fredcallaway.bsky.social, @cocoscilab.bsky.social and James Hillis. Paper here: direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Where you look next isn’t arbitrary. In our new paper, we model human eye movements in immersive visual search as reinforcement learning under cognitive constraints. 🧵

Thrilled to be at #ACNP2026 this week! 🏝️😎 If you are interested in computational modeling of social cognition for mental health, I'd love to connect and nerd out! Also excited to share the latest from my new Social Interaction & Neural Computation Lab: sinclaboratory.com

✨For our next CCP Speaker Series Speaker, we are thrilled to welcome @atsypes.bsky.social next Friday, 1/16, at 1pm EST. RSVP here for more details: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚀 Huge congrats to @angelaradulescu.bsky.social on being part of the Mount Sinai team awarded a @bipolardiscoveries.org grant to study the neural mechanisms behind mood state transitions and drive new discoveries in bipolar disorder biology! 🧠 👉Read more: www.bipolardiscoveries.org/our-work/dis...

👉Up next, we are excited to welcome @sbe.bsky.social for our next CCP Speaker Series talk! Join us THIS FRIDAY, December 5th, at 1pm EST RSVP HERE for more details: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📣We are excited to welcome @rssmith.bsky.social for our next CCP Speaker Series talk! Join us TODAY, November 21st, at 1pm EDT Register HERE for the Zoom Link 👉https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfA-SAlxM8jP0D9V-tu_fMEK_SeFzhN7HrnG9lrBM8V3UInGA/viewform?usp=header

That’s a wrap on #NYCPW2025! Huge thank you to our instructors and incredible participants for an inspiring, engaging, and energizing three days. Your curiosity and collaboration made this workshop a success. 🙌🧠✨

👉 Saren Seeley continues our Day 3 with a discussion on Study Design & Replicability #NYCPW2025

@lauraaberner.bsky.social started Day 3 of #NYCPW2025 by helping the group map out their own clinically relevant questions in computational psychiatry. 🧭 🧠

💭Closing out Day 2 of #NYCPW2025 with Ülgen Kılıç's talk on Network Theory in Psychiatry and some hands-on project work! 🙌

Next up, @bshev.bsky.social inspired some group discussion on Drift Diffusion modeling during #NYCPW2025 Day 2!🗣️📊

☀️ Good morning #NYCPW2025 Day 2! @shawnrhoadsphd.com starting strong with a tutorial on fitting computational models to behavioral data!

Wrapping up Day 1 of #NYCPW2025 with @neurokim.bsky.social using LLMs for cognitive model discovery. Excited to end the day with some project brainstorming! 💡🧠

📣Up next at the 2025 New York Computational Psychiatry Workshop: @vincgfiore.bsky.social on Bayesian Inference! #NYCPW2025 📊

🙌 @angelaradulescu.bsky.social kicking off Day 1 of #NYCPW2025 with a tutorial on Reinforcement Learning!

How do our brains learn when choices affect both ourselves and others? New work by @shawnrhoadsphd.com, @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @drjocutler.bsky.social, et al. in @natcomms.nature.com reveals shared neural computations for prosocial & antisocial learning rdcu.be/eL8mZ

Many prosocial & antisocial behaviors simultaneously impact both ourselves & others. In order to guide future choices, how do people learn that their behavior has resulted in benefits/harm to themselves and/or someone else? @shawnrhoadsphd.com Nature Communications 👉 nature.com/articles/s41...

Great to see this out! Exciting work led by @shawnrhoadsphd.com on how we learn when actions affect ourselves and others 🧠 w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social

Many prosocial & antisocial behaviors simultaneously impact both ourselves & others. In order to guide future choices, how do people learn that their behavior has resulted in benefits/harm to themselves and/or someone else? @shawnrhoadsphd.com Nature Communications 👉 nature.com/articles/s41...

Must-read #NYBCI25 coverage by @neurotechnology.substack.com in @forbes.com. My key takeaway on cognitive BCI: Our biggest limiting factor isn't tech—it's fundamental scientific understanding. We can’t advance the tech until we define the disorder. Basic research must lead the way!

Thrilled to be part of this fantastic new project led by @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social and supported by @bipolardiscoveries.org. Grateful to collaborate with an outstanding team — Dr. Helen Mayberg, Dr. James Murrough and others — and looking forward to the work ahead!

For those heading to #SfN25, come check out our posters on Saturday Afternoon! The lab is growing & expanding in several new directions & collabs #neuroeconomics 🧠🐭🧠 @sinaibrain.bsky.social @sinaiccp.bsky.social @sfn.org @socforneuroecon.bsky.social @bwfund.bsky.social @animalsocaging.bsky.social

📢For our first Speaker Series this semester, Dr. Herman Cappelen will be presenting his talk titled, "The Emotional Life of AI Companions" NEXT WEEK!🙌 When: Monday, November 3, at 1pm EDT RSVP here for Zoom👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... For more info: hermancappelen.net

PRESS RELEASE! @mountsinainyc.bsky.social receives $4.5 million @bipolardiscoveries.org grant! Led by @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social, team will investigate neural mechanisms underlying #BipolarDisorder & pioneer novel neuromodulation-based treatment strategies 👉 www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...

📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly 🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ

⌛️ Only 3 days left to apply for the New York Computational Psychiatry Workshop (Nov 10–12)! Don’t miss your chance to learn about methods in computational psychiatry. Apply now! 👉 form.jotform.com/252448781112... More info: bit.ly/nycpw2025 Please share & RT!