How do theta oscillations 🧠 differ in individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis ⚠️, can they predict psychosis conversion ➡️, and do they relate to deficits in mismatch negativity 🔗?

How does pretreatment brain activation ⚡ in prefrontal and cingulate regions 🧠 moderate the effectiveness of exposure-focused CBT 🎯 versus relaxation training 🧘 for pediatric anxiety 👧😟?

Can we use a vocal biomarker 🗣️ to effectively enrich participants in antipsychotic clinical trials💊 for schizophrenia 🧠, leading to enhanced treatment outcomes ✨, reduced sample sizes 📉, and reduced costs💲?

How can we integrate multi-omic 🧬 data 📊 across blood 🩸 and brain 🧠 to help identify candidate molecular mechanisms 🔗 and novel drug targets 💊 for major depression 😔?

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How do age-related changes in the fear network influence PTSD risk and resilience in later life?

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How does the neurophysiological response to perceived stress relate to suicide risk as well as cannabis and nicotine use in young adults with bipolar disorder?

How do steroid hormones modulate molecular systems to influence suicide risk throughout the menstrual cycle?

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How can we leverage dynamic analytic approaches to describe brain activity patterns over time 🧠, infer causal mechanisms ➡️, decode latent dynamics 🕰️, and simulate complex neural processes 🤖? And how can these approaches provide insights into psychiatric illnesses 💡?

What role does μ-opioid system 🧠 play in the atypical functional connectivity 🕸️ of the sensorimotor network in autism?

How does posterior cerebellar activation 🧠⚡ during executive functioning 💡 relate to general psychopathology 😔, and do these functional alterations ↔️ reflect inefficient information processing?

Can fMRI-based neurofunctional models 🧠💻 of empathic fear and subjective fear reveal distinct neural signatures ↔️ that can differentiate between anxiety and depression?

How do ketamine's 💊 actions on opioid and glutamatergic systems 🧠 explain its role as both a therapeutic agent ✨ and a substance with misuse potential ⚠️?

Excited to see this paper out in Biological Psychiatry! It highlights that emotional pain and fear represent distinct PTSD dimensions, leading us closer to identifying PTSD subtypes with dissociable biological underpinnings. Congrats on leading the charge on this cool study @zivbenzion.bsky.social

How do advanced EEG methods 〰️ identify the distinct brain mechanisms that underlie learning impairments 📚 across various psychopathologies 😔, especially in working memory and reinforcement learning 🔄?

The Two Faces of #PTSD: Fear vs. Emotional Pain. Our new research in Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social identifies distinct clinical & neural profiles. AI says no one reads long papers, so we made an infographic!👇 Full Paper (for the insistents😉): doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

How is functional brain activity 🧠 correlated 🔗 with intermittent rhythmic delta/theta EEG activity 〰️, and how does this correlation vary across healthy individuals and transdiagnostic psychiatric groups?

What white matter 🧠🕸️ microstructure alterations ↔️ are found in social anxiety disorder 😬 and how do these vary by age 👶👩🧓 and sex ♀️♂️?

How does the relationship between synaptic density 🔗 and cortical microstructure 🧠 differ in healthy subjects, schizophrenia spectrum disorder patients, and their unaffected siblings?

How effective is accelerated repeated TMS 🧠⚡ across symptom domains of neuropsychiatric disorders 😔, and how do sex ♂️♀️ and dose 🎚️ influence its outcomes?

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

How do parabrachial nucleus 🧠 neurons relay threat ⚠️ information to ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons to influence long-term aversive memory 🤔 ?

Paper mills 🏭, citation cartels 🤝, coercive citation practices ⛓️, fake reviewers 🎭, and AI-generated papers 🤖 challenge scientific integrity. Learn more about what we're doing in our journals to address this.

📣 Our latest Special Issue is now out! 📣 Exploring Sleep Alterations in Severe Mental Disorders: Converging Evidence From Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research was edited by Armando D’Agostino, Anna Castelnovo, Giulio Tononi, and Fabio Ferrarelli. 💤 🧠 🧬 Learn more about what's in the issue ⬇️

How are advanced PET imaging biomarkers 🔬 enhancing our ability to study neuroimmune dynamics 🧠🛡️ in psychiatric illness 😔 to refine diagnostics 🩺 and discover new therapies ✨? Find out here 👇

What role do the pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide 🧬 connections play in the pathway from the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis to the dorsal medial habenula 🧠➡️🧠 to mediate depression-like behaviors 😔 after chronic stress? Learn more here 👇

What have clinical trials 🧪 revealed about optimizing 📈 the use of immunomodulatory drugs 💊 for psychiatric disorders 🧠? Find out here 👇

Can studying white matter network 🕸️ disruption in Multiple Sclerosis advance our understanding of depression's 😔 pathophysiology? Learn more here ⬇️

How are methamphetamine-induced 💊 changes ↔️ in functional brain connectivity patterns 🧠🔗 linked to attention 🎯 and arousal ⚡? Find out here ⬇️

How do altered brain network 🧠 co-activation 🤝 patterns relate to clinical symptoms 🏥 in major depressive disorder 😞 ? Find out here 👇

How do mood and psychotic disorders differentially affect effort-cost decision-making 💪💰 and how is that related to subjective value representation ⭐? Learn more here 👇

Can Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists 💊 reduce 📉 alcohol consumption 🍷? Find out here ⬇️

How does stress-induced activation in the oval nucleus of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis 🧠 establish a pathway to resilience 💪 against chronic stress-induced depression 😩? Find out here 👇

How does chronic stress-induced immune dysfunction 🔥 in the brain 🧠 and periphery contribute to psychiatric behavioral changes? Learn more here ⬇️

How do stress 😩 and schizophrenia 🧠 alter the timing ⏰ of neurovascular coupling 🩸 across brain networks 🕸️? Find out here 👇

How can the visual system 👁️ be used to guide psychosis treatment 🧠 and assess treatment response 📈? Learn more here 👇

How do orexins 🧪 affect stress states 😩 and behavioral responses 🧠? Find out here 👇

Our November issue of Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science is live!

How do striatal levels of glutamate & GABA 🧪 associate 🔗 with dopaminergic function ⚡ in antipsychotic-naive first-episode psychosis 🧠? Find out here ⬇️

Join us in congratulating Paul M. Thompson, PhD, a leader in brain imaging and associate director of USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI), who has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Gold Medal Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

We're looking forward to #SOBP2026! 🧠Building Better Brains: From Synapses to Societies 📆When: April 30 – May 2, 2026 📍Where: New York Marriott Marquis, New York City, New York Join us for an engaging conference featuring the latest advancements in biological psychiatry.

Longitudinal associations of structural and functional brain connectivity with dimensions of psychopathology in adolescence. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

How does stimulation ⚡ of the frontal cortex 🧠 for anxious depression differentially affect executive function/attention 💡 and threat sensitivity ⚠️? Find out here 👇

How do dissociative states affect brain state dynamics 🧠, and do these effects vary if pharmacologically induced 💊 or due to a clinical condition 🏥? Learn more here ⬇️

The latest Biological Psychiatry issue, focused on Social Stress and Psychological Traumas, is now out! Check it out ⬇️

Do the associations between irritability 💢 and subcortical volume 🧠 differ between the sexes ♂️♀️ ? Learn more here ⬇️