Children whose brain structure more closely resembles their parent's psychosis-related brain patterns are more likely to develop psychiatric symptoms themselves, suggesting personalized, family-based brain comparisons could help predict who is most at risk for developing psychotic disorders.

The wait is over: the April issue of our #ECAP journal is now out! www.escap.eu/ecap-journal...

New preprint: When the heart and the brain meet: Cardiac-neural coupling in feature integration Maria I. Cobos Martin, Clara Alameda, Pedro M. Guerra, Ana B. Chica www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #interoception #neuroscience

🚨 Last chance❗Today, 𝟮𝟬 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝟮𝟯.𝟱𝟵 𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗧 is your last chance to benefit from 𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝘀 when you register for in-person participation at the 39th #ECNP Congress 2026, 10-13 October, Munich, Germany. Register now and pay less➡️ www.ecnp.eu/registration2026/ #neuroscience #psychiatry #ECNP2026

The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP) is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief to guide its next chapter of excellence, innovation and impact. Apply by Friday 29 May 2026! https://bit.ly/42eWbg6 #Academic #Research #Psychology #Psychiatry

The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

Suicide mortality among adolescents and young adults declined after the launch of the #988Lifeline, with fewer deaths observed than expected based on pre-2022 trends. ja.ma/4djJxCT

10 days left until the closing date (29 May) 👇. Join us!

Minutes that matter: A microburst approach to adolescents’ resolution of affect in response to daily stressors osf.io/preprints/ps...

🧠We offer 1-2 Postdoc positions in Circuit Neuroscience!🧠 Join us at @dandrite.bsky.social to study thalamic circuits for visual processing, funded by an ERC starting grant and the Lundbeck foundation. Deadline: 14. Juni 2026 Apply here: international.au.dk/about/profil...

🏆 𝗢𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝘄𝗲𝘀’s research contributions to the 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 recognised by the 2026 ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award. Congratulations! 👏 🔗 Read the full press release: www.ecnp.eu/ena-winner2026/ #ECNP2026 #ECNP #BrainResearch #PsychoticDisorders #Neuropsychopharmacology

Clear, compassionate, concise, and critical. Fantastic writing as usual by @awaisaftab.bsky.social. "Each of these labels can capture something useful and inform treatment options, but none of them do justice to the dimensional and dynamic nature of mental illness." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

My most recent and biggest work so far is finally out as a preprint! 🧠🧵 *Linking human brain functional connectivity to underlying neurotransmission* doi.org/10.64898/202... 1/n TL;DR below ↓ #neuroskyence #neuroimaging #MedSky #PsySciSky

Catching up on my paper threads 🧵 Here is a perspective from this year, lead-authored by my supervisor, @juergendukart.bsky.social The many-to-many problem of endophenotypes in psychiatry - a biological perspective doi.org/10.1038/s413... #neuroskyence #neuroimaging #MedSky #PsychSciSky 1/n

Join our JCPP Family as new Editor in Chief! Apply now 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Teens with rising depressive symptoms show a progressive disconnection between brain regions involved in emotion regulation across adolescence, suggesting this shifting brain circuit could serve as a marker for youth depression.

We're inviting submissions for a Special Issue on Increasing the Ecological Validity of Biological Psychiatry! Learn more here: www.bpsgos.org/content/bpsg...

This meta-analysis synthesizes 100 effect sizes based on 2,932 participants and 103,160 possible data points in 22 intensive longitudinal studies. https://twp.ai/IlpAhG

Special Collection: Separating Children & Families. https://twp.ai/9PbyH2

🚀 Unsere AG an der TU Dresden sucht Verstärkung! Ab 01.09. bieten wir eine Postdoc- oder WiMi-Stelle (50%, E13 TV-L) an der Professur für Klinische Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie - als Elternzeitvertretung mit Möglichkeit auf Verlängerung Bewerbung bis 20.05.👇 www.verw.tu-dresden.de/stellaus/ste...

📣 Emotion researchers! We need your input! We're designing a 2D/screen version of AffectTracker for real-time continuous ratings of affective experience, and we want the community to shape it. Got 1 minute? Fill out our short survey and help us make the right design choices 👇 🙏🙏🙏

🚨JOB ALERT! 🚨 PLEASE RT! 🚨 7 four-year PhD positions (75%) in DFG-funded Research Training Group “Flexibility and Balance as Characteristics of Adaptive Self-Regulation” in Saarbrucken, Germany. Starting date October 01, 2026. Official job ad: tinyurl.com/3v8b4chm (1/3)

“people that self-injure aren't necessarily any more impulsive than those who don't self-injure” 👉 Watch on ACAMH Learn · Free CPD/CME #ChildMentalHealth #PTSD #SelfHarm

📣Masterarbeitsthema zu vergeben: Wie hängt die Ruhe- #HRV mit #postpartal en #Bindungsproblem en und psychischer #Gesundheit zusammen? (Koop. mit @cfmhlab.bsky.social) Nochmal gepostet wegen kaputtem Bild. ;-)

🎙️ The Biological Psychiatry Podcast is launching this week! 🎙️ We'll be bringing you conversations with leading researchers about their latest findings in biological psychiatry! Stay tuned for our first few episodes. More details coming soon!

Are you a DGPA member (or thinking of becoming one 😁) conducting outstanding research in biopsychology, psychophysiology, or neuroscience? Apply now for the 2026 Early Career Award! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

Would love to get some colleagues at the intersection of NLP and CogSci. Reach out if you have any questions! Deadline: 31-Jul-2026

Richtig, unausweichlich, gut für alle NRW will mit dem neuen Hochschulstärkungsgesetz auch den Schutz vor Machtmissbrauch und Diskriminierung verbessern. Die Debatte um den Gesetzentwurf legt zugleich die Widerstände im System offen. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/04...

New paper: In a larger longitudinal sample, HR and #HRV predicted later reductions in depression and better functioning. HRV also predicted fewer BPD criteria. Not causal—but suggests #ANS as meaningful treatment target. Now published in Translational Psychiatry! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our landmark paper outlining the future of #CancerNeurosciene now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social Here are my two cents: if cancer forms functional synapses with neurons, what are the implications for brain-body interactions, psychological states and behavior? #TeamEffort!

🔬 On April 28th, Prof. Giuseppe Gangarossa (@peppeganga.bsky.social) from the Université Paris Cité will share his research on how #interoceptive signals shape #reward processing. As always, everyone is welcome, no registration necessary! 🔗 All information: www.psych.mpg.de/seminars

Thanks a lot for the invitation. I can't wait to meet the MPI of Psychiatry's community 🤩 and discuss about science.

“asking about self-injury is not going to put the idea in their head, if they haven't already thought about it” 👉 Watch on ACAMH Learn · Free CPD/CME #ChildMentalHealth #SelfHarm #Suicide

Ma este Európa szíve erősebben dobog Magyarországon. Europe’s heart is beating stronger in Hungary tonight.

‼️Don't forget to submit your abstract for the 2026 SPR meeting in Halifax!! Trainees have the chance to be selected for the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Poster Award. Learn more about the award: mailchi.mp/f933c452e18b...

JOB ALERT🚨 We are hiring a new research coordinator in the lab. Please apply if you are interested in psychopathology and personality reproach. Information about the position is here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2... Feel free to ask any questions here, in DM, or email.

📣Job Alert: In unserem Team ist ab Sommer eine 🎓PhD-Stelle zu vergeben. 👉Thema: Stress in der Elternschaft, soziale Berührung und Oxytocin. Methoden fMRT und Ecologically Momentary Assessment 🤳🧠🫂👨‍👧. Infos hier: karriere.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php?ac...

A view of the night sky from Mars. (Yes, really)

A new approach, called temporal interference stimulation, offers access to deep-brain areas previously only targetable with surgery. https://scim.ag/3NLYZgO

@eeskevanroekel.bsky.social @charlottev.bsky.social & myself are recruiting a PhD student on momentary emotion beliefs and well-being in adolescents (includes ESM & qualitative methods). Position requires Dutch (for data collection). Happy to answer questions! 👉 Apply: tiu.nu/23638 (27 april 2026)

Registration for the 2026 Residential Course in Catania is now open! Don't miss out - visit the course website for all further information, including the programme and application process: residentialcourse.com/6th-edition-...

Childhood maltreatment has age- and sex-specific effects on brain morphometry.

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

📣 New preprint out from the lab! We introduce emotional bandwidth: how much of your emotional state space you move through daily. Wider negative emotional bandwidth predicted more depressive symptoms, even beyond standard affect metrics, and linked to loneliness via depression. Thread below👇

The compensation for psychotherapeutic services in Germany was cut yesterday. Please support the petition against that 👇 c.org/wc7Vhk7h5L

Stoked to see the first of 5 RCTs from the ProHEAD consortium, published now in JCPP. Here we show evidence for web-based stress management in universal prevention of mental health problems in >2000 young people (12-25 years). acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The vast troves of health data generated during everyday medical care should be treated like essential public infrastructure—governed as a regulated utility rather than left fragmented across private silos, argue the authors of a new #SciencePolicyForum. https://scim.ag/4btOrfm

Our crowdsourced megastudy comparing a diverse set of 12 single-session interventions for depression is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com! Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/e6pzz (no paywall) We also published a brief non-academic piece about the study today: theconversation.com/free-10-minu...

Broad peer review is crucial for a healthy scientific literature, but neuroscientists turn down review requests too often. Simple math suggests that small groups of scientists can significantly bias the literature, writes @jvoigts.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/l...

New research publication: Childhood post-#adoption experiences and the long-term trajectories of deprivation-specific neurodevelopmental problems: a longitudinal study of the English and Romanian adoptee cohort by Rodriguez-Perez et al: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #ECAP #openaccess