The authoritative psychometric paper on our moral injury measure in civilians is out, thanks to @courtlandhyatt.bsky.social Travis Fulton and team --and free to use in clinic and research! Check it out www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... and our website www.negarfani.com

Such cool findings hinting at how sternal vibration might be the key to making mindfulness practice easier to do--look out for more of this by 🌟 @timmcdermottphd.bsky.social

Beautifully written piece by @dianakwon.bsky.social in @sciam.bsky.social on interoception, central to many mental health problems and also a thing we can target with the right technology (including our clinical trial, discussed therein)

Rock star postdoc @timmcdermottphd.bsky.social shows some amazing evidence that temporal interference can do the same things as FU (but lots easier and cheaper) - check it out tonight #SOBP2025

Who knew--breath-synced vibration helps you breathe at an even pace, and this makes you less angry and anxious! Incredibly cool findings from innovative postdoc @timmcdermottphd.bsky.social Super informative about our tech and value of assessing respiration variability during meditation.

🚨On Friday, NIH had indirect research funding slashed by 70%, crippling medical & military research. This will halt vital studies on PTSD, cancer, and more. Contact your reps to reverse this! TAKE ACTION: www.sfn.org/Advocacy/Adv...

In this moment of extreme erasure of voices of color, my graduate student Aziz Elbasheir wrote about his experience of being Black in the US, and how his research reflects that experience. Powerful read. harvardpublichealth.org/equity/racis...

Looking for a #postdoc in a multimodal #neuropsych lab studying novel #PTSD interventions & #stress biomarkers? My lab @emoryuniversity.bsky.social is hiring! Supported by #NIMH, #NCCIH #R01s. My team is creative, passionate, & delightfully quirky--join us. faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/141032/...

The data for enrollment to med school since the Supreme Court's aff. action decision shows Black enrollees down by 11.6% compared to last year and Latinx down by 10.8%. Even steeper drops for American Indian/ Alaska Natives - down by 22.1%, NHPI down by 4.3%. www.statnews.com/2025/01/09/m...

Was too sick to be there in person for my lab holiday party this year but zooming in means I also got be a judge for the cookie decorating contest. They never disappoint. The winning cookie is my grad student Travis wearing his bear shirt.

Coming back from an exhilarating @acnporg.bsky.social meeting and feeling incredibly excited to start a new research chapter: an NIMH-funded racism, EMA, multimodal imaging data fusion #R01 alongside my heroes Drs. Nate Harnett, William Smith, Vince Calhoun, Robert Krafty. Hiring Postdocs and RAs!