In JAMA Psychiatry, scientists including Kristen Eckstrand, MD, PhD, discuss the psychiatric and ethical concerns raised by care denial for transgender youth: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Pitt Psychiatry investigators have recently published research studies on mental health in late life in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, Nature Communications, and Neuropsychopharmacology. See more from Minjie Wu, PhD; Tharick Pascoal, MD, PhD; Helmet Karim, PhD; and Carmen Andreescu, MD: bit.ly/3KziYxR

Preprint is now published: doi.org/10.1002/hbm.... Special thanks to co-authors @twktan.bsky.social @kimnganngt.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social

Excellent commentary from Haroon & Miller on our REMBRANDT late-life depression study led by Andrew Gerlach (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This study explored relapse & recurrence in late-life depression, finding widespread 🧠 network configuration was required for resilience, while failure to reconfigure was associated w/ vulnerability to relapse www.nature.com/artic...

A recent study investigated the role of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in sustaining remission in patients with treatment-resistant depression. Full article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

A recent study explored the effects of low-intensity transcranial focused ultrasound (LIFU) on amygdala activation during emotional processing. Utilizing MRI-guided LIFU, researchers aimed to modulate the amygdala's response to emotional stimuli.

New finding! 5-day accelerated TMS (no MRI needed) showed major PTSD symptom relief in n~100 Veterans—77% response, 62% remission. Fast, scalable, and effective with scalp-based targeting. A big step for accessible PTSD care. 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #TMS #PTSD

I encourage everyone to visit this site 5calls.org/all/. Make your calls to your representatives to make your voice heard. Highly encourage everyone to call about recent scientific funding changes: 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns....

New essay on NIH and indirect costs: goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

Instead of cutting costs for working families, Donald Trump is slashing the federal investments that fund their lifesaving care, fuel their local economy, and lower their health care costs. It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.

Another banger from the REMBRANDT study! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hi Bluesky! I'm Noah Schweitzer, a 5th year Bioengineering PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh. I will be wrapping up my dissertation this summer, focusing on sex-specific vascular dysfunction in AD in humans and mice. I'll soon be on the hunt for postdoc positions so I'm happy to connect🤠

Felix’ story is devastating, relatable, and underlines why we should be concerned about psychedelic hype: www.paperlesspost.com/go/7BbrzXXhb...

Hi all! This is Layla Banihashemi, Associate Professor of Psychiatry & BioE at Pitt. I'm a neuroscientist researching stress-control circuits and their relationships with adversity & trauma. Come find me All the way in the back (😄) at poster W300 sharing new data from our 7T R01 study! #ACNP2024

Hey #ACNP2024, come check out our poster tonight (M78) on using cTBS to modulate nucleus accumbens to dmPFC connectivity and its effects on positive affect. See our blue sky poster (it's a 1 minute gif)!

Hey #ACNP2024, I’m Andrew Gerlach, Asst. Prof. of psychiatry at Pitt studying late life depression and anxiety, primarily with MRI. If you’re still around on Wednesday afternoon, stop by poster 82 to chat about the intrinsic networks and involved in antidepressant placebo response!

Hi I'm Helmet Karim, I'm an assistant professor of Psychiatry at U. Of Pittsburgh. Come see my hot topics talk at 5p tonight or my poster M78 on dmpfc TMS!

Excited for @helmetkarim.bsky.social ‘s hot topic talk on TMS at #ACNP2024!

✨Our paper is out in Nature today! ✨ In this work, we investigated how we can leverage study designs to improve the replicability of brain-wide association studies (BWAS) 👇👇👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Loneliness is one critical risk factor for cognitive health 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s44...