Hope it’s a meaningful #Veterans Day for ALL Veterans and #military families, as well as my colleagues who dedicate their lives and careers to provide clinical care, research, and other resources with and for these folks within the VA Health Care System. #VeteransDay2025 #VAServesAllWhoServe

Great opportunity for senior doc students, postdocs, and new faculty.... adaa.org/conference/c...

This is profoundly sad. We lost a true pioneer in the field of psychiatry Sincere condolences to his family friends and collaborators

Congrats to Duke Psychiatry's Dr. Kate Webb on her new #ClimateChange & #GlobalMentalHealth award to support her collaborative work in S. Africa on how air pollution affects inflammatory & gut microbiome biomarkers & mental health outcomes, funded by Duke Global Health Institute. 🌟 Kate Webb, PhD

Check out our preprint on ethical and legal considerations regarding Mendelian Imputation of missing parental genotypes! The method raises tricky questions about informed consent and potential harm. We highlight gaps in current practice and provide recommendations for researchers and IRBs.

The lateral prefrontal cortex 🧠— which we think of as critical for goal driven behavior + is a target for psychiatric treatments— is fundamentally different in individuals relative to the group averages we’ve often studied. 👇see preprint and thread, led by Zach Ladwig #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Our NASEM Committee Report on the mental, emotional, and behavioral health impacts of school active shooter drills is now out. A big thanks to the National Academies, the Department of Education, and the stellar committee that got this done. nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2910...

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

My brilliant labmate, Keith Dodd, created this non-aggressive denoising pipeline for fMRI data for his dissertation! It has been super useful on some of our high-motion datasets, and I highly suggest folks check it out for their own studies 🧠📈🪲: direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Health is more than the absence of disease, and depends on harmony across multiple brain-body systems. We need more research on whole-person health! The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) @thenccih.bsky.social funds vital whole-person research. RP and #KEEP_NCCIH!

A few years ago, I (w/2 other training directors) participated in an SSCP Q&A on the #ClinicalPsych internship application process. Thinking about applicants who like to use this time of year to get a head start on the process, I thought it might be another good time to share...

Submissions are NOW OPEN for poster abstracts 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. Deadline to submit is August 28, 2025, at 5:00 pm Central. https://bit.ly/3TXuYcz #ACNP2026

My most favorite week of the year! 🎉

Heads up! APA is urging anyone who cares about health and science to let their reps/senators know now that they should oppose the admin's murder budget. Easy to do here: www.votervoice.net/Shares/BAAAA... APA is plugged in. If they say NOW, listen! #StandUpForScience

RFK Jr says autism research is a priority, and that he wants to find the cause of the condition by September. He's also overseen a 26% cut to autism research at NIH, per @disabilityscoop.bsky.social.

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

Viewpoint in JAMA details the consequences of the proposed cuts to NIH: ❌15% reduction in new therapies ❌reduction in life expectancy by 83M life years in the US = $8.2T ❌loss of $51B in economic output annually All to save $20B annually. The math ain't mathin.' jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Excited about this!

Wednesday June 4th, Dr. @negarfani.bsky.social (Emory University) will present on neurophysiological signatures of stress in minoritized populations and how neurostimulation can support stress relief. Join live via Zoom: ColumbiaPsychiatry.org/Grand-Rounds

Finally getting to post the thread on this, and excited to force you all to read some of the new work from our group on trying to understand if traumatic stress might impact reactivity to basic stimuli. Or, honestly, where we asked “what if we just flash a checkerboard at trauma survivors?” 1/🧵

The BEAR Lab will be opening it's doors in July at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and we are looking for our first Research Tech! This position will help with funded MRI studies looking at the brain and alcohol use. More info: bearlab.science/contact/ #neuroscience #psychology #sciencejobs

Huge congrats to @clairelavalley.bsky.social on this new paper. www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Results show that methamphetamine users show a specific deficit in model-based planning, in which they fail to simulate plans with large short-term losses (elevated aversive pruning). Brief thread below!

🚨🧬 New preprint! We tested whether PGS predicted global functioning across psychiatric hospitalization among 5991 people with schizophrenia. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Federal funding plays a critical role in supporting life-saving research. In the recent APA Div56 newsletter, we outline how Trump policies place trauma research at risk and emphasize the importance of collective action. apatraumadivision.org/spring-2025-...

🚨New Postdoc Opportunity We have an opening for a postdoc jointly mentored by Justin Baker and me for work on digital therapeutics and passive sensing using smartphones and wearables (smartwatches + smart rings). More info 👉: webbslab.com/job-postings Please RT & share!

Congratulations to co-first author @clairelavalley.bsky.social on validating this new performance-based measure of social emotion regulation ability: emotionandpsychopathology.org/journal/arti... In psychopathology, this may be crucial for maintaining social support. We hope others find it useful!

How delays in issuing NIH funds may create the appearance of a budget 'surplus' that becomes justification to cut the NIH budget. @statnews.com #neuroskyence

Great panel on the benefits of Social Media use, how we can promote ourselves and our work, and how we need to engage more on BlueSky (😜) With @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social @scientificruvvy.bsky.social & @tamargurmdphd.bsky.social #SOBP2025

Rock star postdoc @timmcdermottphd.bsky.social shows some amazing evidence that temporal interference can do the same things as FU (but lots easier and cheaper) - check it out tonight #SOBP2025

I’ll be presenting poster F121 tonight at #SOBP2025, which is titled: “Temporal Interference Brain Stimulation of Bilateral Striatum During Breath-Focused Meditation Practice Enhances the Reward-Positivity Event-Related Potential”. Come on by if you’re attending and would like to learn more!

About time! Scientists led by @lucinauddin.bsky.social are suing academic publishers for running an illegal cartel that violates US antitrust law www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

My flight is about to take off for #SoBP2025. I’m looking forward to connecting with other researchers in the field of biological psychiatry, and it’s my first time visiting Toronto too! 🇨🇦

We're hiring! The Shackman Lab is hiring a full-time postbac RA for the 2025-26 academic year. This is fabulous opportunity to learn, work, and play with us in the DMV before heading off to graduate school. shackmanlab.org/studycoordin...

We're hiring - a great opportunity to join our team of dedicated researchers and help push the boundaries of human neuroimaging! Our human brain imaging Core Facility (ImageTech) welcomes applications for a MEG/EEG Research Engineer: tre.tbe.taleo.net/tre01/ats/ca...

Psychological interventions for adult posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review of published meta-analyses. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great work by Wes Thompson, Evan White and Chun Chieh Fan at LIBR as well as others: The promise of population neuroscience: understanding brains across diverse groups.

A labor of love with my friend & long-time collaborator Murray B. Stein. Addressing Difficult-to-Treat Anxiety: A review integrating computational psychiatry, systems neuroscience, & novel interventions. Mechanistic insights for precision psychiatry. www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...

Excited to be attending #ADAA 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada! Nice to be able to connect with other researchers seeking to improve mental health during challenging times. I’ll be presenting poster S125 on Saturday focused on the neurophysiology of vibration augmented mindfulness. Come on by if you can!

Who knew--breath-synced vibration helps you breathe at an even pace, and this makes you less angry and anxious! Incredibly cool findings from innovative postdoc @timmcdermottphd.bsky.social Super informative about our tech and value of assessing respiration variability during meditation.

New publication at the Journal of Anxiety Disorders from the Fani Lab showing breath-synced vibration feedback during breath-focused mindfulness reduces respiration variability compared to other mindfulness interventions in dissociative trauma-exposed adults www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

📣Read our new @pppl-journal.bsky.social paper examining how personal connection to sexual assault influences conviction decisions in rape cases in a representative sample of mock jurors: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Thanks Fieldhouse & Mertens (2024) for help with my rally sign. #standupforscience2025

Thank you to all of those who are making their voices heard to @standupforscience.bsky.social today! #standupforscience

Why support medical researchers (please listen to her for 2 minutes) streamable.com/v2fz1q

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

I tell student therapists all the time that our effectiveness is inherently limited by our ability to use the skills on ourselves. Yesterday, I did some behavioral activation. The whole lead up I was thinking it’s not gunna work and just like with clients the truth was precisely the opposite.

value of NIH for our economy - check out the impact of NIH on your state - www.unitedformedicalresearch.org