Cool work from @ufl.edu grad student, Jackie Aloumanis! We show how #ADHD symptoms may lead to increased #cannabis use due to differences in brain regions where cannabis binds🧠

Intertemporal decision-making, nucleus accumbens activation, and alcohol use trajectories in young adults with a family history of alcohol use disorder doi.org/10.1111/acer...

Really interesting approach to mood regulation! news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Got a NOA for a new R01 from #NIAAA this week. Looks like new awards are finally moving! Also year two is already listed as pending?

Updating my analysis now that August data should be relatively complete. Not great news... The rate of investment of the appropriation is not increasing and it seems unlikely that the entire appropriation will be committed this year. 1/2

#NIAAA funded 5 new R01s last week, bringing the FY25 total to 13. 10 of 50 grants funded last week were new (not renewals). Perhaps marks a shift towards funding of new awards in the final stretch?

Family history of alcohol use problems increases reward-related brain activity, leading to increased drinking trajectories in young adults. New preprint: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #addiction #fMRI #NIAAA 1/5

The numbers for #NIAAA are especially bleak. No new (Type 1) NIAAA awards posted on Reporter last week. With 4 weeks to go, there is an immense amount of ground to make up to ensure that novel alcohol research is supported and investigators can support their work, their staff and trainees.

I'm thrilled to announce that I just got my first R01 from NIAAA! 1R01AA031007. I'm hiring here in Baton Rouge, LA, so message me if you are interested in working on this alcohol grant, or on other projects in lab involving opioid use!

So are we all resubmitting next cycle, or what?

NIH progress on new R01s in FY 2025 drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/n...

Adverse experiences in early life affect brain development. A Review in Nature Reviews Neuroscience discusses evidence for how these adversity-induced changes to human brain architecture alter developmental trajectories that may underpin adult psychopathology. go.nature.com/45xZOii 🔒

College students pursuing careers in science or medicine can learn skills for grad school through the Summer Neuroscience Internship Program at the University of Florida, now celebrating its 10th year. SNIP provides mentorship, hands-on lab work and more. Learn more: bit.ly/4kdYPJC

fMRI Peeps - I remember reading a paper, years ago, focused on identifying regions for brain-association analyses based on peak inter-individual variance (rather than peak activation), but a 20-min search failed to recover it. Suggestions? Thx!

👏👏👏 fMRIPrep Lifespan: Extending A Robust Pipeline for Functional MRI Preprocessing to Developmental Neuroimaging | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Psychiatric disorders share genetic roots, but the mechanisms are unclear. With exon-level brain data, we linked common & rare variants to 110 core genes in pathways such as cortisol & dopamine cascades, mainly in excitatory neurons, offering new therapeutic targets 🧠✨ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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New study in JAACAP with wonderful collaborators, Shanting Chen and Catalina Lopez-Quintero: Racial discrimination alters subcortical brain connections in minority youth, speeding up maturation. Changes tied to mental health issues, especially in girls #ABCDStudy authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

⚕️ NEW RESEARCH! 🧠 👀 Haque et al. report a case of chronic alcohol use disorder #AUD that had reduced cravings & stopped drinking following a traumatic brain injury that damaged frontal lobe connectivity. https://bit.ly/44k6WzN#AUD#addictionsci #BrainInjury

(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Confirmed (by many sources) news about 50 NIH Study Sections being allowed to announce meetings in the Federal Register. As usual, MANY more questions than answers... 1/2

New Hurd Lab paper in Molecular Psychiatry explores how cannabidiol can help reduce anxiety linked to specific triggers. Learn more about our findings 🧵 and read the full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/7) #Neuroskyence #WomenInSTEM #CBD

Would be great to ask about Advisory Council meetings too. How many people (like me) have a grant that was scored favorably but still see 'pending council review' on ERA Commons? As I understand it no ACs have met since 1/20/25 ie no new grants have been approved in any institute. Is that true?

So it looks like you can look this up here: www.csr.nih.gov/RevPanelsAnd... (Sort by date, see screenshot). The ones that are cancelled have an asterisk. For today 2/18, there are 8 meetings, of which 3 are cancelled. Those 3 are not in the federal register. Seems the others are.

Now, with the Reporter data, we can see what the ratio of indirect to total cost for these institutions were: 17/n

🏠📉 New research in @jama.com (JAMA Network Open) highlights the impact of housing instability on children's mental health. We explored how stress about eviction or housing loss affects child depression, anxiety, ADHD, & behavioral problems. #HousingInstability jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... /1

Bluetorial: Potential impact of “NIH” “plan” regarding indirect costs on institutions

Can’t believe I’m typing this but… FUCK IT IM PLANNING A STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PROTEST IN DC. If you want to be involved, be dm me. I’m nervous, I’ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world.

Florida NIH Awards Funding: $914 M Jobs Supported: 14,688 Economic Activity Supported: $2.78 B

Gray matter correlates of childhood maltreatment: searching for replicability in a multi-cohort brain-wide association study | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The peer-reviewed NIAAA journal, Alcohol Research: Current Reviews, and all of the previously open access papers published in the journal have been removed from the web. arcr.niaaa.nih.gov/about-arcr

📅 New lab review article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social with allydworetsky.bsky.social, & @laboranathan.bsky.social Check it out here: go.illinois.edu/ticsReview #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroimaging #neuroscience 🧵below...

Hi bluesky, The Martinez-Rivera Lab's website is now available! Pls share! :) www.martinezriveralab.org

Little pre-holiday reminder: I'm recruiting for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...) - deadline is January the 12th, so think about it over the break and then apply in the New Year! Do get in touch if you have any questions (though bear in mind I'll be OOO too 🎄)

Hi BlueSky fam, for my first post and to celebrate our recent paper being physically published I thought I’d do a summary thread! This has been my most favourite (and toughest) work to date. Please help share around!! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... (Reach out if you can’t access)

Congrats to new @acnporg.bsky.social Associate Members!!! 👏 👏 👏 #ACNP2024 @rossenator.bsky.social @guneskutlu.bsky.social @evgoldfarb.bsky.social @nataliematosin.bsky.social @jaymemcreynolds.bsky.social @drnancypadilla.bsky.social @kathaschmack.bsky.social @brianmsweis.bsky.social

Excited for my second #ACNP2024! My work focuses on addiction and its risk factors, and I enjoy using neuroimaging tools to look at the brain. Poster Wednesday. See you there 🌵🌵🌵

Our recent work looking at adverse life events and resting-state functional connectivity in the ABCD study now available online www.nature.com/articles/s41... Key findings: 1/2

woo hoo - fantastic new work from ‪@wanb.bsky.social‬ @sofievalk.bsky.social @sbe.bsky.social & many more on microstructural asymmetry now out in Nature Comms ⤵️

Link to the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884 Link to the original source from "x": x.com/Andrew_Akbas... Link to the criticism of #overpublishing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Help me get connected so I can keep up with all the awesome new science! Interested in cognitive neuro, addiction/alcohol, psychiatry, psychology, fMRI... 👀