Join the EBBS/EBPS Special Symposium at #FENS2026: 🧠 The importance of behaviour to neuroscience: from cells to systems Discover how behavioural approaches help bridge molecular, cellular and systems neuroscience. 📅 Monday 6 July | 10:00–12:00 📍 Hall H @fens.org @eurbehavpharm.bsky.social

This recent study suggests that MDMA's primary effect limits trauma-driven alcohol escalation rather than enhancing extinction learning in 🐀 / Gavan McNally Shalini Arunogiri Leigh Walker

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Oula Puonti, Juan Eugenio Iglesias, et al: Fast segmentation with the NextBrain histological atlas doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

For those attending @FENSorg Forum this year, we have arranged a joint symposium with @ebbsociety.bsky.social on Monday 6th July 10am-12pm. This symposium brings together researchers from our societies to highlight brain and behaviour from cells to systems. #FENSForum2026

⚗️ Cannabis is legal in half the U.S., but safety testing is a patchwork. Each state sets different limits for heavy metals, pesticides, and contaminants. Consumer protection varies by zip code. Researchers call for national standards before markets outpace oversight. 📄 doi.org/10.1177/2578...

My PI @brainsbeesbikes.bsky.social wrote an excellent article in @dpn-journal.bsky.social, on her toolkit for supporting new PIs setting up their labs. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

GLP-1 receptor agonists show benefits for weight loss, heart and kidney protection, and potentially brain health and psychiatric conditions.

Wake up, new giant apex predator cephalopod just dropped 🦑 - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

R-MDDMA is a Safer Analogue of MDMA with Therapeutic Potential doi.org/10.1021/acsc...

A prefrontal cortex-lateral hypothalamus circuit controls stress-driven increased food intake www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are accepting Travel Award applications for #EBPS2026. We are especially interested in applications from trainees from underrepresented backgrounds. All details can be found on the event website ebps2026.azuleon.org/information#...

Persistent selective attention impairments in adult ADHD are context-dependent, dominant during visual attention, linked to altered sustained attention, and manifest with distinct electrophysiological patterns across presentations, indicating asymmetric rather than global deficits.

Registration is now open for the EBPS 2026 workshop! Learn more about the workshop and speakers at the event website ebps2026.azuleon.org

The first time you start a research lab, there’s no manual. So I made one. A practical toolkit for postdocs and early-career faculty launching their first lab: hiring, startup planning, collaborations, and building a sustainable research program. zenodo.org/records/1888... #research #postdoc

I will be presenting much of the cannabinoid work I have been doing in the Mental Health and Addiction Program Rounds. My talk "Pharmacological Manipulation of the Endocannabinoid System" ties together my work with @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social and my current work with @brainsbeesbikes.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce the keynote and confirmed speakers for our 2026 workshop "Integrating new perspectives on punishment for learning, decision making and psychopathology". More information can be found at ebps2026.azuleon.org. Registration opens March 5th 2026 #EBPS2026

I'm so happy this is finally out! My first empirical paper from my postdoc, and my first time wading into fMRI in a clinical sample. See inside: FAAH inhibition may not have done anything beyond exposure CBT in PTSD, but the DLPFC may play more of a role in treatment response than we thought...? 🤔

Excited to share the Psychopharm Special Issue on Stress, Trauma & Cannabinoids 14 papers examining how the endocannabinoid system shapes stress & trauma responses. Guest edited with @connorhaggarty.bsky.social, @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social & Christelle Baunez. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Proud father to a beautiful, 14 paper special issue 🥲

Social factors of drug use link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science, featuring just some of the amazing women who make our society great across the executive, full, IDEA and communications committees #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience

Call for papers for a Special Issue on Big Data, AI and Machine Learning in Addiction research, guest edited by @flagel-lab.bsky.social and @gavanm.bsky.social in @psychopharmacology.bsky.social link.springer.com/collections/...

What an undertaking this was. So proud of the collection @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social , @brainsbeesbikes.bsky.social , @cbaunez.bsky.social and I collected for the “Stress, Trauma and Cannabinoids” special issue in @psychopharmacology.bsky.social Editorial: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm so excited we have some new, timely content to add to our newsletter. Any researchers or industry who would like to contribute, message us (or me).

Congratulations to Harriet De Wit, Ph.D., for being awarded the Barbara Fish Memorial Award! ☺️ #ACNP2026 Please click here ➡️tinyurl.com/2ndexz5k#ACNP2026to watch the nominator video by Abraham Palmer, Ph.D.

#cannabinerds coming in hot at #ACNP2026 🔥

What a powerful conversation about what it’s like to navigate life and a research career with lived experience of mental illness. I’m deeply grateful for the speakers being willing to share their experiences and how we can all be more supportive of our colleagues #ACNP206 @acnporg.bsky.social

Love some swag #ACNP2026

A very important part of #ACNP2026 so far, was me meeting my spirit animal

Not a bad view 😋 #ACNP2026

Discrete Circuits of the Ventral Hippocampus in Threat-Based Learning and Memory doi.org/10.1002/hipo...

A systematic review of pharmacological effects on human aversive memory www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Been waiting for such a study to relate #psilocybin dose to 5-HT2AR occupancy in the mouse brain. They found RO₅₀ = 0.88 mg/kg. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ever watched a TV show that becomes your entire personality thereafter...

🚨Meeting Announcement🚨 Our 2026 workshop will be held in Amsterdam, NL. August 25th & 26th. The workshop will focus on the influence of punishment on learning, decision making and psychopathology. Organised by Nathan Marchant, Heidi Lesscher, and @bertush.bsky.social. More information to follow!

Please follow, I had to jump through circus hoops to get them to allow me to control this page 😅

I wrote about the intersections of the war on drugs, authoritarianism and lived experience - all of which were discussions at the 2025 Reform conference - via @filtermag.bsky.social 😎

This detailed protocol is being implemented in multiple trials in our lab, and I'm thrilled to be a part of this exciting research! #Cannabinerds

Are fear 😱 and emotional pain 💔 characterized by shared or unique symptom networks 🕸️ and neural signatures 🧠 in PTSD?

Yes!

This is really cool! Finally a use for CBD? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fascinating study, you can also read my Research Highlight on this paper and connectome harmonics here pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40940590/

RPDR reference to keep the readers entertained 🤭

Arutiunian and colleagues found that youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder have altered EEG alpha-band activity(particularly in younger males), which is linked to poorer language skills, more autistic traits, and higher genetic burden from copy number variations.

It was a great day @westernu.ca, and such an honor to be selected by students for the Treva Glazebrook Lecture. Thank you, Kendra Loedige, for being a wonderful host. Great to see you and catch up, @drjkhokhar.bsky.social - thanks for teaching me about academia in Canada. 🤩🇨🇦

💫Convergent evidence from 3 studies: amygdala-targeted neurofeedback produced large, dissociation-specific improvements in #PTSD - a step toward new treatments for #depersonalization and #derealization! tinyurl.com/bdsjnzrd