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Neuroscientist examining stress-control neural circuitry, childhood adversity and mental health.
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Zhiqiang Sha (X: @sha_zhiqiang)
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🔥🔥🧠PhD positions are open in my lab, studying brain development and neurodevelopmental disorders based on neuroimaging MRI scans. Due: Dec 1, 2025. If you are interested, please DM me.
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Lucina Uddin
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NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years
But the agency has spent nearly its entire budget for this fiscal year, which ends tomorrow.
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Erin Dunn, ScD, MPH
about 1 month ago
Looking for a role between postdoc & faculty? We're hiring TWO Senior Research Scholars at Purdue Indianapolis. You'll lead cutting-edge research on
#epigenetics
of
#depression
or using baby teeth for mental health
#biomarkers
🧬🦷 Learn more & apply:
www.thedunnlab.com/join-the...
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Jamie Hanson
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Age-related patterns of resting EEG power in infancy: Associations with prenatal socioeconomic disadvantage
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David Baranger
2 months ago
If you're looking at pre-6.0 ABCD results with subcortical rs-fMRI correlations, the labels are all wrong! We reported a result as Auditory - L Putamen, but it it was actually Default Mode - L Cerebellum.
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Zhiqiang Sha (X: @sha_zhiqiang)
2 months ago
🔥🧠Excited to announce that I am recruiting PhD students this fall. Our lab uses neuroimaging (MRI) and computational modeling to study the mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders, bridging genetic factor, brain circuitry, early life stress, and psychopathology. Please feel free to DM me.
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Alex Shackman
3 months ago
h/t
@foxdotdrew.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience - Communications Psychology
Programming is essential for modern research in neuroscience and psychology, but it can quickly become a source of frustration and error. This Primer introduces ten practical principles guiding resear...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00236-3
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Jamie Hanson
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Prenatal Household Income Instability and Infant Subcortical Brain Volumes
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Prenatal Household Income Instability and Infant Subcortical Brain Volumes
Prenatal stress exposure may negatively influence the development of the amygdala and hippocampus. Although there is significant income instability during pregnancy, and it can increase stress among ...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.70022
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Damien Fair
3 months ago
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
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Lucina Uddin
3 months ago
Looking for
@theabcdstudy.bsky.social
fMRI timeseries data?It's all in the 6.0 data release, thanks to
@drdamienfair.bsky.social
and team at ABCC 🧠:
docs.abcdstudy.org/latest/docum...
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ABCD-BIDS community collection
https://docs.abcdstudy.org/latest/documentation/imaging/abcc_start_page.html
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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab
3 months ago
Welcome to the Stress, Aging, and Relationships (STAR) Lab at Texas Tech University, led by Dr. Ryan L. Brown. We’re excited to share our logo for the first time! Through this page, we'll share ongoing research in the lab, highlight student projects, & disseminate related research. Follow along!
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Ayona Datta
7 months ago
If you are a published author, check your name on the LibGen database which list works illegally used by Meta to train AI. 30 of my books and papers are in this database. The sheer scale of this intellectual theft is beyond imagination.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libgen-meta-openai/682093/
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Zhiqiang Sha (X: @sha_zhiqiang)
5 months ago
Finally out!!! Our new study described the CNV landscape of the ABCD study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. We identified its associations with dimensions of chid psychopathology and cognitive development. Thanks, Aaron, Joe and all co-authors.
psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
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Copy Number Variant Architecture of Child Psychopathology and Cognitive Development in the ABCD Study | American Journal of Psychiatry
Objective: Late childhood is a crucial period for individuals with psychiatric disorders. While common single-nucleotide polymorphisms explain a large proportion of inherited risk, structural variatio...
https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.20240445
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Helmet Karim
5 months ago
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...
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Alex Shackman
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Early childhood behavioral inhibition predicts altered social and emotional functioning in early adulthood: An ecological momentary assessment study.
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https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-60419-001
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Neuropsychopharmacology
5 months ago
This study explore how stress-related factors interact with socioeconomic status to impact cardiovascular risk
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Stress-related genetic factors modify the effect of socioeconomic status on cardiovascular risk
Neuropsychopharmacology - Stress-related genetic factors modify the effect of socioeconomic status on cardiovascular risk
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-025-02130-2
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Alex Shackman
6 months ago
#Depression
#Anxiety
Hello Bleeps! Recommendations for best or newest meta-analyses of rsFC/iFC and pathological anxiety/depression? Relevant big-N papers also useful. Thanks in advance!
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Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (new name!)
6 months ago
How are one's socioeconomic status (SES) and epigenetic age linked at midlife? Do associations differ by gender? Dr. Jennifer Robinette and Theo Moran examined these questions using individual and neighborhood indicators of SES from MIDUS. Free to read for the week:
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Household Income, Neighborhood Poverty, and Epigenetic Age: ... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine
compared with men. Some research documents an even stronger SES-health link among women. The present study investigated gender differences in SES-epigenetic age associations. Methods: Using data fr...
https://journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltext/2025/05000/household_income,_neighborhood_poverty,_and.7.aspx?context=featuredarticles&collectionid=1
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Ryan L. Brown
6 months ago
On the Stress Puzzle,
@dalmeidapsu.bsky.social
shared good news about aging from a daily stress perspective! He highlighted that we experience fewer stressors AND have less affective reactivity to daily stressors as we age.
#psychscisky
#affectivescience
#devpsych
Listen:
tinyurl.com/dailystress
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Kristi E. White, Ph.D., ABPP (she/her)
7 months ago
I invite you to join me & my colleagues on Monday, April 21 for APA’s Essential Science Conversation where we will discuss how Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine can transform to address the
#ClimateCrisis
. 🗓 April 21, 2025 🕙 10:00 AM CST 🔗
apa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Trauma Research Foundation is hiring a Research Associate. "This position may be ideal for someone who has recently completed a BA or MA in a related field who has aspirations of pursuing doctoral level work that integrates research and practice in a mental-health related field." DM for more info
8 months ago
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Aidan Wright
8 months ago
I'm excited to announce that this spring/summer Statistics, Methods, and Research Training (SMaRT) Workshops are live! Check out the offerings here:
smart-workshops.com/workshops
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Iris Ka-Yi Chat
8 months ago
📣 Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA)
@repsummerlee.bsky.social
will speak at the Stand Up for Science rally in
#Pittsburgh
🔥 Join us to stand up for facts, research, and the future TOGETHER! 📢 RSVP:
www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
Please repost 🔈🔊🔉
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#StandUpForScience
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Iris Ka-Yi Chat
9 months ago
Pittsburgh folks please keep spreading the word about the Stand Up for Science rally with the community! 💪🏼
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#StandUpforScience
#StandUpforScience2025
#ScienceforAll
#ScienceNotSilence
#Pittsburgh
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Thomas Kraynak
9 months ago
Check out our paper in
@npp-journal.bsky.social
:
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Jeremy Berg
9 months ago
From the WTAE Pittsburgh stories (to re-air this weekend as well). Individual to my interview and related pieces to follow.
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Pittsburgh researcher warns NIH cuts could harm patient care, economic growth
Pittsburgh's economy once relied heavily on the steel industry, which lined Second Avenue with miles of mills. When that industry collapsed, medicine and education filled the economic void.
https://www.wtae.com/article/pittsburgh-researcher-nih-cuts/63961080
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Annika Barber
9 months ago
Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled."
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2025 Study section tracking
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Iris Ka-Yi Chat
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An RSVP link for the STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PITTSBURGH RALLY is now available! Please RSVP and Repost!!
www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
Pittsburgh let’s go! 💪🏼♥️
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#StandUpforScience2025
#StandUpforScience
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Iris Ka-Yi Chat
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#StandUpforScience
local rally in Pittsburgh is confirmed! 📅 March 7, 2025 ⏰ 11 AM-1:30 PM 📍Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh Follow the local rally’s Instagram @savesciencepgh for updates Spread the word 🔥
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#StandUpForScience2025
#ScienceForAll
#ScienceNotSilence
#STEM
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Ruvvy Resilience Lab
9 months ago
New newsletter out this afternoon from our lab! We talk about maternal mortality and morbidity in the United States, and how we can save lives through the Momnibus legislation at the federal and state levels. Read more here: Protecting Mom
brain-blooms-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/protecting...
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Protecting Mom
Reducing the Risk of Maternal Morbidity & Mortality for Underserved Women
https://brain-blooms-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/protecting-mom
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Mitch Prinstein
9 months ago
Hey - please help save jobs and lives! Anyone who works at a university, who works on medical research, or could benefit from medical research is at risk! Please tell them to click the link below. Takes 2 seconds, literally.
click.info.apa.org?qs=09c745fe0...
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Tell Congress to Stop NIH Cuts
Please take 2 minutes today to ask Congress to take steps to stop funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The administration's proposed cuts to federal research funding, particul...
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Alex Shackman
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Threat perception and behavioral reactivity in response to an acute stressor in infant rhesus macaques
Attentional bias to threat is an adaptive response to the presence of threat and danger in the environment (Haselton et al., 2009; Pollak, 2008). Atte…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691824005250
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Negar Fani
9 months ago
In this moment of extreme erasure of voices of color, my graduate student Aziz Elbasheir wrote about his experience of being Black in the US, and how his research reflects that experience. Powerful read.
harvardpublichealth.org/equity/racis...
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The neurological impact of being Black in the U.S.
Racism may lead to faster aging because of victims' constant exposure to chronic stress, a new theory posits.
https://harvardpublichealth.org/equity/racism-may-have-a-significant-impact-on-neurological-health/
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Negar Fani
10 months ago
Looking for a
#postdoc
in a multimodal
#neuropsych
lab studying novel
#PTSD
interventions &
#stress
biomarkers? My lab
@emoryuniversity.bsky.social
is hiring! Supported by
#NIMH
,
#NCCIH
#R01s
. My team is creative, passionate, & delightfully quirky--join us.
faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/141032/...
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Careers | Emory University | Atlanta GA
https://faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/141032/post-doctoral-fellow/job?mode=view
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Many thanks to
@willgiardino.bsky.social
for organizing this panel! Excited to hear the latest from these exceptional extended amygdala scientists.
#wcbr
#winterbrain
#winterbrain2025
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Olu Ajilore, MD, PhD
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New work for the CoNeCT lab with friends and colleagues Dr. Warren Taylor and Dr. Carmen Andreescu!
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Reconsidering remission in recurrent late-life depression: clinical presentation and phenotypic predictors of relapse following successful antidepressant treatment | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge...
Reconsidering remission in recurrent late-life depression: clinical presentation and phenotypic predictors of relapse following successful antidepressant treatment
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/reconsidering-remission-in-recurrent-latelife-depression-clinical-presentation-and-phenotypic-predictors-of-relapse-following-successful-antidepressant-treatment/948DE4CB748654139FFFDDF6A7908262?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark
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Dynamic changes and future trend predictions of the global burden of anxiety disorders: analysis of 204 countries and regions from 1990 to 2021 and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the future burden of anxiety disorders, necessitating greater attention towards young individuals, particularly women. There is an urgent need for the adoption of targeted prevention and treatment strategies on a global scale, especially in high SDI regions, to effectively address the escalating issue of anxiety disorder burden.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00593-5/fulltext
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Erin Dunn, ScD, MPH
11 months ago
Excited to share our
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
Mental Health cover story! Led by
@alussier.bsky.social
, we found that childhood adversity rewires DNA methylation. The twist? Early stress was linked to both depression risk AND resilience mechanisms 🧬 Paper here:
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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And here is the link:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Left Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortical Activity During Reward Expectancy and Mania Risk
This cross-sectional study seeks to replicate an observed association between left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex activity during reward expectancy and risk of mania/hypomania among individuals with ...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2828936
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Alexander Harris
11 months ago
If you (like me) are starting to feel
#acnp2024
withdrawal, check out the recordings of sessions you missed on
acnp.societyconference.com/conference_h...
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Conference Home Page
https://acnp.societyconference.com/conference_hall/?conf_id=10034
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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
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