Brian Kavanaugh
bkavanaughpsyd.bsky.social
Brian Kavanaugh
@bkavanaughpsyd.bsky.social
Pediatric neuropsychologist @ Bradley Hospital and Brown Psychiatry. Executive functions, child mental health, brain stimulation
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Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️
#PsychSciSky #DevPsy
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December 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Reposted by Brian Kavanaugh
What is the status of DBS for epilepsy?
Find out in our new review/metaanalysis spearheaded by @laurenahart.bsky.social & Garance Meyer in JNNP: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40666371/

A 🧵 — please RT for reach! 🙏
December 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Reposted by Brian Kavanaugh
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Another new pre-print from our group on working memory-related oscillatory bursting in adolescent ADHD!
Dysfunctional oscillatory bursting patterns underlie working memory deficits in adolescents with ADHD https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.09.627520v1
December 13, 2024 at 2:19 PM
New pre-print from our group looking at oscillatory bursting in human working memory!
The association between oscillatory burst features and deviations during human working memory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.06.622989v1
December 13, 2024 at 2:17 PM
New to bluesky! Excited to connect with others interested in brain stimulation, child psychiatry, neuropsychology, and electrophysiology.
December 12, 2024 at 6:33 PM