Excited to share a new commentary piece, now out in in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social: CNNI, discussing recent findings by Tsomokos et al. that examined how socioeconomic disadvantage relates to internalizing problems via pubertal effects on cortical thinning in adolescence!

In this article, @ariellekeller.bsky.social and I argue how the field is well positioned to leverage recent advances in exposomics and personalized neuroscience to inform public policy and precision psychiatric medicine: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to share our new paper, “The Functional Neuroimaging of Meditation: A Whole-Brain Quantitative Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review”, check out the thread below! 😁

We have now mapped the most robust whole-brain characterization of meditation to date.

I had an amazing time attending SOBP 2026 in NYC! You can listen to a short recording of my poster presentation in the SOBP poster gallery if you search "V99"!

SO PROUD of my amazing students representing team ACORN Lab @acornlab.bsky.social at #SOBP2026! I am the luckiest mentor! 🥰 Way to go Natalie, @caitiebaten.bsky.social and @heatherarobinson.bsky.social! 🎉

Come see the latest from ACORN Lab at #SOBP2026! 🐿️🧠🗽 Thread below! 👇

Oral Session III Friday ~1:45pm: Caitlin Baten @caitiebaten.bsky.social will be presenting on smartphone ownership and cognition in early adolescence and I'll present some recent work on variation in youth cognition across the calendar year! 📱☀️

Delighted to share that our latest manuscript is now out in NeuroImage! This project began with a simple but critical question: If meditation trains attention, what exactly changes—and could those changes help us better understand and support advanced meditative states and stages? ⤵️

Loved getting to think deeply about the intersection of meditation research and cognitive neuroscience studies of attention with @matthewsacchet.bsky.social t.bsky.social, @sebastianehmann.bsky.social and team! 🎉🎉 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #neuroimaging #CogSci

So grateful for our amazing ACORN Lab team!! Can’t believe it’s already been a whole year! 😊🐿️🧠 #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cogdev #devsci #neuroimaging

Happy New Preprint Friday!* Thrilled to share new results in collab with Sarah Lichenstein & @yiplab.bsky.social showing our brain's functional connections reflect the environments we grow up in! tinyurl.com/exposomeConnectivity #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #DevPsy #cognition *can this be a thing??

So happy to be a part of such an amazing team of scientists 🥳

Can meditation be understood as systematic mental training? Despite the obvious appeal of thinking of meditation training like a workout for the mind, as the gym is for muscles, and its wide usage across communities practicing and researching meditation...

Powerful scientific clues to the mystery of consciousness are emerging from its very absence. Advanced meditation research seeks to scientifically understand profound and powerful shifts in consciousness that can arise from contemplative mastery. One such shift, which we call...

Advanced meditation ushers in incredible new possibilities for the science of consciousness. In the first-ever fMRI study of Extended Cessation (EC), for which we’ve just preprinted, my colleagues and I examine this advanced meditative event—where consciousness is deliberately switched off and...

Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky #cogdev