Using neuroimaging, @mountsinainyc.bsky.social's Dr. Rita Z. Goldstein, et al. simultaneously examine sex differences & hormonal effects on brain responses to drug cues, and their down-regulation thru cognitive reappraisal, in subjects w/ #SubstanceUseDisorders👉
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Shameless self plug :) we (@gregkronberg.bsky.social, @narcatms.bsky.social et al) recently showed: when inpatients with heroin use disorder watch Trainspotting during fmri, the OFC is synchronized to drug scenes, which decreases after ~15 weeks of treatment as a function of a reduction in craving

Excited to finally share this collaborative effort led by Philip Boone, Michael Talkowski and @abepalmer.bsky.social!

I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle.

Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.

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Overwhelmed (in the best way!), speechless, and many other adjectives..Thank you, @bbrfoundation.bsky.social for propelling my research in addiction neuroscience with the 2025 Young Investigator Award + thanks as always to @narcatms.bsky.social and Mount Sinai for the unwavering support!

Neat registered report from @mattmattoni.bsky.social @dvsmith.bsky.social @mindimager.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social diving into the tension between nomothetic (group-level) v. idiographic (individual specific) in functional connectivity models.

#Neuroskyence

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I’m looking for a postdoc to join me at UCSD, ideally a clinical psychologist PhD who can deliver mindfulness interventions as well as write papers and do analyses. I have one of the world’s largest psychophysiology datasets of opioid misuse, OUD, & chronic pain. Competitive salary. DM or email.

This will change everything!

Finally, neuroscientists have discovered a pill to treat their craving for simple brain explanations. It's very effective, provided it's taken daily, but no one knows how or why.

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Ok, reinforcement learning fans: RL is great, but what do we do when there's no obvious reward from the environment? What about perfecting a golf swing or a foxtrot or a musical performance? We may have an answer. A tale of 🐦 🎶 + 🧠. 🧵1/ #bioacoustics #prattle 💬 #neuroai #compneuro

In an MRI study with 45 participants using deep-learning models, hippocampal activity was predictive of experiential choices, such as choosing a song to listen to. For choices involving risk, the ventral striatum and insula were active. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Online #fMRI course coming up August 6-8!
3-day intensive with lectures and hands-on analysis for all skill levels. #SPM, #ICA, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love teaching this course and meeting students from all areas! Info+Reg here:
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Major props to the team: Yuefeng Huang, @gregkronberg.bsky.social, @nataliemcclain.bsky.social, Sarah King, Eduardo Butelman, Nelly Alia-Klein, Rita Goldstein: @narcatms.bsky.social for their brilliant contributions

Catch this in @annualreviews.bsky.social of Psychology in the January 2026 issue!

A colossal effort from the NARC lab: we reviewed the recent advances in drug addiction research from the lens of the impaired response inhibition and salience attribution model. A one stop shop for theory, severity, recovery, and novel directions.
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Super excited to contribute to this book with our chapter "Enhancing Ecological Validity in Habit Research via Naturalistic Methods" (with Elizabeth Tricomi). Thanks, @dvsmith.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, and @dfareri.bsky.social for organizing!

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Changes in Model-Based and Model-Free Control Prospectively Predict Drinking Trajectories in Young Men www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Challenging the status quo: A guide to open and reproducible neuroimaging for early career researchers direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

9/ Check out the actual study for many more analyses, e.g., phenotypic variation, scan parameters, signal to noise ratio, etc! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Thank you to the editor @meharpist.bsky.social and anonymous reviewers for the many helpful suggestions, which greatly improved the study.

I still can’t believe that all NIH grants to my colleagues at Harvard and Harvard Medical School have been nullified. And that, as a nation, we’re somehow okay with this illegal, arbitrary, and petty act. Just think of the consequences: scientists, students, and patients will all suffer.