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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 20d

#ThisWeekInNPP

This 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥 from @tiffanycheingho.bsky.social discusses how the exposome - the sum of internal, external, and contextual exposures - shapes adolescent neuroplasticity & mental health risk and could present a novel opportunity to guide strategies to promote adolescent 🧠 health

The exposome and the developing adolescent brain: understanding mechanisms of neuroplasticity - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - The exposome and the developing adolescent brain: understanding mechanisms of neuroplasticity

www.nature.com

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 3d

oooh new version of Positron just released and it has (1) github copilot chat and (2) automatic {dplyr} code generation based on filtering/sorting/etc that you do in the data viewer #rstats

Me saying "hey it's github copilot chat in my positron"

Automatically generated dplyr code that matches the filtering and arranging that I did by clicking on columns in the data viewer

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Alexis Brieant @abrieant.bsky.social · 3d

New lab paper in DCN! 🧠 We conducted interviews with adolescents to better understand their perceptions of neuroscience research and barriers to participation, w/qualitative data that is shaping how we design lab studies & efforts to increase representation.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Understanding barriers to adolescent participation in developmental neuroscience research

Increasing representation of youth in developmental neuroscience research is essential to elucidating neurobiological mechanisms of cognition, behavio…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Maria Perica @mariaperica.bsky.social · 4d

A little positivity posting for once in my life: I am actually having a lot of fun being a postdoc. All this time to just think about research and do research…FINALLY! 🥳

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davidweinshenker.bsky.social @davidweinshenker.bsky.social · 4d

Excited to share the Special Issue on "Stress and Addiction" in Addiction Neuroscience is now available. Huge kudos to guest editors Karl Schmidt and Anushree Karkhanis and all the authors who contributed. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Addiction Neuroscience | Stress <-> Addiction | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Stress and drugs of abuse have a bidirectional relationship, such that stress is often seen as a driver of drug use, while at the same time drug use/abuse alters stress responses. Acute exposure to a ...

www.sciencedirect.com

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 7d

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there.
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...
#neuroscience

Principles for proper peer review

jocnf.pubpub.org

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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 7d

Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories

Longitudinal measurements of brain structure and function are critical for understanding how humans change over time. Traditional longitudinal approaches sample sparsely across large windows of time t...

www.cell.com

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 10d

A study in Nature Mental Health uses data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development cohort study to evaluate the relationship between state-level income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health in young people. go.nature.com/4872wyh 🧪

This is figure 3, which shows neural mediators of the link between income inequality and mental health problems 18 months later.

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Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 12d

In this review, @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Hugh Garavan examine how task and resting-state fMRI can reveal brain-behavior relationships in youth, highlighting current controversies and challenges, outlining solutions, and proposing future directions in developmental neuroscience research.

Task and resting state fMRI modelling of brain-behavior relationships in developmental cohorts

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data are often used to inform individual differences in cognitive, behavioral, and psychiatric phenotypes. These so-called “brain-behavior” association stu...

www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com

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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 14d

This recent 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥 highlights how moving from 🧠 scans to clinically actionable biomarkers will require neurodevelopmental research to go beyond biology & integrate socio-cultural context

Integration of developmental and socio-cultural factors that confer risk for mental illness

Neuropsychopharmacology - Integration of developmental and socio-cultural factors that confer risk for mental illness

www.nature.com

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Maria Perica @mariaperica.bsky.social · 15d

Lots of good suggestions here already but just jumping in
to add that your neighbor always has the option of joining a coworking space/working from a coffeeshop or library! Just throwing it out there that they have options on their end so hopefully you don’t feel too responsible.

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Maria Jalbrzikowski @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social · 20d

I’ll be at #SRP2025 if you’d like to chat about this position! Anyone graduating soon and interested in a stable, long term high level position (but doesn’t want to be a PI) would be purrrrfect for this position!!!!

Maria Jalbrzikowski @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social · Sep 3

NeRD lab has a new opening for a long-term position! Clinical Research Manager - need 5+ years of research experience and masters or PhD. Please repost! I'm so excited to find someone who can help me manage the day-to-day research activities in the lab! jobs.bostonchildrens.org/job/22350688...

Clinical Research Manager I

Careers at Boston Children’s Hospital will help you reach your goals – both in and out of the workplace.

jobs.bostonchildrens.org

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David Baranger @davidbaranger.bsky.social · 18d

Excited to share that I am officially recruiting a postdoc to study the neurobiology of addiction! Looking for someone who would be excited to lead current projects in the lab and develop new directions in related areas.
More info: bearlab.science/opportunities/

Opportunities

Interested in the neuroscience of addiction? We are recruiting at all levels!! Reach out to Dr. Baranger – [email protected] Postdoctoral fellows/Senior Scientists: Please send an email conta…

bearlab.science

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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 19d

✨✨ New paper out in JPSP! ✨✨

Despite rich theory on links between temperament and personality, they're rarely studied together. This has left major unaddressed questions.

We tackled these questions by looking at how temperament and personality develop together from ages 10-26.

Brief thread...

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Maria Perica @mariaperica.bsky.social · 21d

Damn, I used to intern for R!A back in the day. Thats super disappointing to hear.

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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 21d

Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉

📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · Feb 27

(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health

Major mental disorders are increasingly understood as disorders of brain development. Large and heterogeneous samples are required to define generalizable links between brain development and psychopat...

doi.org

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Maria Perica @mariaperica.bsky.social · 27d

Attention prospective grad students!! Go work with Jamie!! You won’t regret it :)

Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 GRADUATE PHD APPLICATIONS OPEN 🚨
I'm accepting students for the next psychology PhD admissions cycle! If you're passionate about developmental neuroscience and clinical psychology, this might be for you 👇
#GradSchool #Psychology #Research /1

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Janik Goltermann @janikgoltermann.bsky.social · 27d

🧠Out now @natcomms.nature.com !
Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵

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amar ojha @amarojha.bsky.social · Sep 13

How does human amygdala circuitry develop through adolescence to support affective and cognitive control processes? Excited to share recent work from my dissertation, now out in Cell Reports, that uses longitudinal, multimodal neuroimaging at 7 Tesla to answer this question! A 🧵 tinyurl.com/5aaf9fpv

Human amygdala nuclei show distinct developmental trajectories from adolescence to adulthood in functional integration with prefrontal circuitry

Ojha et al. use longitudinal 7 T neuroimaging to characterize distinct developmental trajectories of fronto-amygdala connectivity across nuclei through adolescence. They identify how age-related conne...

www.cell.com

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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 29d

netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Michael W. Cole @mwcole.bsky.social · 29d

Lab’s latest is out in Imaging Neuroscience, led by Kirsten Peterson: “Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding”, where we demonstrate a major improvement to standard fMRI functional connectivity (correlation) 1/n

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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · Sep 10

🚨 Excited to share the latest preprint form the lab ➡️https://tinyurl.com/32d3be9f

Here we tackle a long-standing chicken-or-egg 🐣🥚question in #autism and developmental neuroscience

➡️ Is excitation–inhibition (E:I) imbalance a "cause" or a "consequence" of #autism?

Check out what we found!
🧵1/n

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Steve W. C. Chang @stevewcchang.bsky.social · Sep 12

Excited to share this super comprehensive review of psychedelic research in NHPs! W/ Alex Kwan. This work was by our grad student Jamie who is passionate about psychedelics. Her in-depth knowledge is impressive as reflected here.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Psychedelic studies in nonhuman primates: Past and future

Molecular Psychiatry - Psychedelic studies in nonhuman primates: Past and future

www.nature.com

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MUSC Youth Collaborative @muscyouthcollab.bsky.social · Sep 11

Hi @bsky.app! 👋 We’re the MUSC Youth Collaborative. We study how substance use affects the developing brain and work to turn research into practical education and prevention programs for young people. Excited to share our work and connect with you here!
#Neuroscience #YouthResearch #ScienceEducation

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Posit @posit.co · Sep 4

🎉 We added a Virtual Day to posit::conf(2025)!

🗓️ Tues, Sept 16 = talks, trivia, & hangouts.
AMA with @richmeister.bsky.social & more.

Also? Discord is open to all! Come join us.

🔗 Event portal: pos.it/conf-event-p...
🔗 Virtual Day info: posit.co/blog/posit-c...

#positconf2025 #rstats #python

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