Disadvantaged neighborhoods correlated with lower cortical thickness and accelerated maturation rates in adolescents. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaghttps://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/36/4/bhag034/8626323034

Save the Date! Join us in New Orleans, March 17-20. 2027, for the SBSM 2027 Annual Meeting, focused on restorative practices for health and healing across the lifespan. Learn more: /thesbsm.org/2027-annual-meeting/ #SBSM2027 #SBSM #AnnualMeeting

We have a new Postdoc position, exploring how genetic factors and environmental factors (e.g., early life stress) influence brain development and neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., autism) based on brain MRI data. Welcome!

Beyond honored to receive the MacLean Award from @connectsbsm.bsky.social. Deep thanks to my nominator @tekraynak.bsky.social and the SBSM Awards and MacLean committees for this distinction. Forever grateful to Dr. Pete Gianaros for his mentorship that fostered my translational imaging program.

We are excited for the new pilot study by our team on a digital stress management intervention: Using the intervention following stressful events in daily life reduced stress and negative affect in a student sample. Want to know more? doi.org/10.1016/j.in...

Excited to share our new review “Mapping interactions between adversity and neuroplasticity across development” in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. We discuss how experience - particularly adversity - interacts with neuroplasticity during human development authors.elsevier.com/c/1mB5U4sIRv...

What a gift to the neuroimaging community from @anniegbryant.bsky.social 🧠🎨!

Are you a Postdoc or Early Career Faculty interested in health psychology, behavioral medicine, or mind-body science? Apply to the Pittsburgh Mind-Body Science and Health Summer Institute - July 13-15 in Pittsburgh! Travel and accommodations supported by the Institute Application Deadline Jan 9

🔥🔥🧠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.

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...

🔥🧠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.

h/t @foxdotdrew.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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...

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...

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!

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...

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/...

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...

psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... Early childhood behavioral inhibition predicts altered social and emotional functioning in early adulthood: An ecological momentary assessment study.

#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!

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: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

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

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...

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

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 Please repost and share widely! Some more info in 🧵 1/

📣 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

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

Check out our paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social:

From the WTAE Pittsburgh stories (to re-air this weekend as well). Individual to my interview and related pieces to follow. www.wtae.com/article/pitt... 1/n

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." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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

#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

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...

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...

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...

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/...

Many thanks to @willgiardino.bsky.social for organizing this panel! Excited to hear the latest from these exceptional extended amygdala scientists. #wcbr #winterbrain #winterbrain2025

New work for the CoNeCT lab with friends and colleagues Dr. Warren Taylor and Dr. Carmen Andreescu!

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...

And here is the link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

If you (like me) are starting to feel #acnp2024 withdrawal, check out the recordings of sessions you missed on acnp.societyconference.com/conference_h...

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