Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology

WOW this is the honor of a lifetime, Vienna (Airport Conference Center) here I come!

Toward a Better Understanding of Electroconvulsive Therapy | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/deny...

The Baller Lab is thrilled to announce that @elenaccooper.bsky.social just had her first first-author publication! “Investigating mood and cognition in people with multiple sclerosis: a prospective cross-sectional study protocol” is now published on BMJ Open: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/5/e094733! 🧠

Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New evidence shows electroconvulsive therapy triggers a brain event called cortical spreading depolarization, challenging previous assumptions about how ECT achieves its therapeutic effects. doi.org/g9mnvt

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

It is beyond disturbing when the NIH and HHS Directors do not understand that animal models are essential in research www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/a...

Hot off the press! We found that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) induces a previously undescribed, second brain event after seizure, called cortical spreading depolarization (CSD), using optical neuroimaging in both a mouse model to human patients. 🧵 below! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Thanks to expansion microscopy, clever labeling, and modern segmentation approaches, doing connectomics with #light #microscopy has become feasible - huge congratulations Mojtaba & the Danzl lab at @istaresearch.bsky.social ! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share the culmination of my postdoctoral work in the Thompson Lab out today in Nature Communications! rdcu.be/ehfWU

🧠 NEW PAPER: How do we capture excitability noninvasively in mood and emotion networks in the human brain? Here, we used real-time optimization to improve these measures! @sparmi.bsky.social @stanfordpntlab.bsky.social @clinicalneuroph.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2025.02.261 1/7

🚨iGluSnFR4 is finally out!🚨🧪 We present iGluSnFR4f and 4s, a novel pair of genetically-encoded glutamate indicators designed for high-fidelity imaging of synaptic activity in the living brain. ⬇️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🎥 Below: iGluSnFR4s detecting minis in cultures w/ TTX #Neuroscience

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

📣🗣️Reminder to PA residents- keep calling @fetterman.senate.gov and tell him NOT to support a continuing resolution until language is included in the bill to prevent impoundment! DC: (202) 224-4254 Pittsburgh: (412) 803-3501 Philly: (215) 241-1090 Wilkes-Barre: (570) 820-4088 Erie: (814) 453-3010

The ad-hoc termination of training grants, PhD fellowships, and center grants at Columbia is catastrophic and sends a message. The WH will: * Seek revenge at all costs * Destroy science & higher ed, if it can * Risk lives, careers and the economy. Rest assured: they will not stop w/Columbia

In order to protect students from antisemitism at Columbia, the administration (advised by not one but two people who did a Nazi salute this year) is freezing support for students to learn science.

I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...

Hi friends, If you haven't seen it already, I was part of a mess this week — about science in the United States, and about NIH research aimed at understanding things like Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, autism, and depression. 🧪 Thread with some details. 🧠📈 🧠🤖 1/10

The House Continuing Resolution budget “adjustments” for NIH are drastic. Here are some examples:

👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.

“While other universities across our city, as we’ve heard, our commonwealth, our region, are reaffirming their commitment to their values in response to attempts to scare, distract and divide us, Penn has chosen simply to fold in advance,” Saval added.

In case you were wondering how Fox News is covering the proposed cuts at the NIH:

@nature.com “Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? Tell Nature” www.nature.com/articles/d41... via Signal: Max Kozlov: mkozlov.01; Dan Garisto: dgaristo.72; Heidi Ledford: hledford.01; Jeff Tollefson: jtollefson.11; Alexandra Witze: alexwitze.01; General Nature: naturenews.61 🧪

hot off the presses 🚨🗞️📰 just in time to close out #ACNP2024!! RCT of 10 days of frontal pole cTBS for cocaine use disorder — reduced cocaine use (100% abstinence 2 mo after real tms!!!) and reduced cocaine cue reactivity — small sample but exciting prelim data! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Inspired by @ariellekeller.bsky.social and created a Starter Pack for those who zap brains! ⚡Let me know if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/9MnSuJ6

Hoping to track research advances in neuromodulation on Bluesky through this starter pack: go.bsky.app/4LP6pxR Please let me know if others should be added!

Super excited to share our official ACORN Lab website!! 🍁🧠 appliedcognitionlab.psychology.uconn.edu We are recruiting new team members at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels - join us! #Neuroskyence #neuroimaging #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #ClinPsych #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci

Incredibly grateful to have been included in #ACNP2024, I have had some of the best scientific and professional conversations in my life this week. Thank you to everyone who made my first time attending such a special experience!

Super huge congrats to postdoc in our group Bernie Mulvey and co-leads Kristen Maynard & @kasperdhansen.bsky.social on this absolute tour de force paper profiling sex differences in the human hypothalamus. Really important biological insight about gene expression differences in sex-biased disorders.

Come by poster 202 tonight at #ACNP2024 to talk about a new discovery about the neurobiology of ECT, and how we can optimize stimulation parameters to precisely modulate brain dynamics!

Great connecting with colleagues and fellow #neuromodulation aficionados at #ACNP2024, David McMullen, @zachrosenthal.bsky.social of ‘ECT induces cortical spreading depolarization' fame, and Zhi Deng.

I'm Erica Baller, PI of the Baller Lab, and I am looking forward to #ACNP2024! Excited to present our recent work linking anxiety to uncinate lesion burden in MS (12/11 Poster Session, #22)!! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Super cool work by @zachrosenthal.bsky.social showing slow depolarizing waves following some ECT sessions. Huge potential to further understand ECT and improve treatment! #ACNP2024

My very unofficial #ACNP2024 @acnporg.bsky.social award for best acronym for a study goes to #psychiatry resident @zachrosenthal.bsky.social on his ECT study: “SWEET COMBO” 🧪👏 #neuromodulation

My incredible co-resident @zachrosenthal.bsky.social giving his first (but likely not last) talk at #acnp2024 on his awesome research. Go check out his poster tomorrow M202

Now we have @zachrosenthal.bsky.social examining the effects of ECT on brain activity after seizure. Using mouse model of ECT, jrGECO, and full cortical window, see cortical spreading depression independent of initial seizure. Very useful for parameter testing for this important Rx #ACNP2024 🔥Topics