Brittany Rohl, PhD (she/her)
@brittanyrohl.bsky.social
🧠neuropsychology of acquired brain injury
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It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function
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#neuroscience
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#neuroscience
It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function
The authors review evidence that the primary function of the brain, supported by distributed
neural systems, is the predictive regulation of physiology (i.e., allostasis). An
example from Alzheimer’s ...
www.cell.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
#neuroscience
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#neuroscience
officially and forever Dr. Rohl 🐊🎉
August 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
officially and forever Dr. Rohl 🐊🎉
Curious about how trauma is talked about online?
Here’s our NEW preprint about #PTSD content on TikTok -my 2nd first-author paper!
1/3 of surveyed content contained misleading info, biggest risk = discouragement re: prognosis.
Pts w/PTSD are not “broken”!
preprints.jmir.org/preprint/712...
Here’s our NEW preprint about #PTSD content on TikTok -my 2nd first-author paper!
1/3 of surveyed content contained misleading info, biggest risk = discouragement re: prognosis.
Pts w/PTSD are not “broken”!
preprints.jmir.org/preprint/712...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Content on TikTok: Cross-Sectional Analysis of Popular #PTSD Posts
Background: Attentional problems are a non-specific symptom that occurs in both Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A recent study reported...
preprints.jmir.org
June 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Curious about how trauma is talked about online?
Here’s our NEW preprint about #PTSD content on TikTok -my 2nd first-author paper!
1/3 of surveyed content contained misleading info, biggest risk = discouragement re: prognosis.
Pts w/PTSD are not “broken”!
preprints.jmir.org/preprint/712...
Here’s our NEW preprint about #PTSD content on TikTok -my 2nd first-author paper!
1/3 of surveyed content contained misleading info, biggest risk = discouragement re: prognosis.
Pts w/PTSD are not “broken”!
preprints.jmir.org/preprint/712...
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Emerging studies reveal that the brain & body maintain continuous communication via the Vagus nerve. In the Spring 2025 #FBINewsletter, Learn More about how a racing heart, increased breathing, or altered metabolism, informs the brain about #Stress 👉 reports.mountsinai.org/article/fbis...
June 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Emerging studies reveal that the brain & body maintain continuous communication via the Vagus nerve. In the Spring 2025 #FBINewsletter, Learn More about how a racing heart, increased breathing, or altered metabolism, informs the brain about #Stress 👉 reports.mountsinai.org/article/fbis...
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You might have heard that psychology has a WEIRD problem. Though it aims to understand human minds, many of its studies have historically been skewed towards WEIRD minds.
In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17
In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17
APA PsycNet
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June 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
You might have heard that psychology has a WEIRD problem. Though it aims to understand human minds, many of its studies have historically been skewed towards WEIRD minds.
In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17
In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17
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In ~2 weeks I'll begin launching my lab, the Brain Lesion and Neuromodulation Lab! I'm looking to fill 2 roles: 1 RA & 1 postdoc. If you're interested in intracranial electrical stimulation, lesion-deficit mapping, and/or neuropsychology, reach out! Official postings to come.
June 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In ~2 weeks I'll begin launching my lab, the Brain Lesion and Neuromodulation Lab! I'm looking to fill 2 roles: 1 RA & 1 postdoc. If you're interested in intracranial electrical stimulation, lesion-deficit mapping, and/or neuropsychology, reach out! Official postings to come.
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Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.”
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
jamanetwork.com
June 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.”
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
No kings NYC ✊🏻
June 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
No kings NYC ✊🏻
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Send us your published op-eds to add to the growing map 🌱. Use the map to find fellow scientists from nearby hometowns. We’ll help you contact your REGIONAL newspaper to pitch a story about homegrown scientists 🏠 🧪
sciencehomecoming.com
sciencehomecoming.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Send us your published op-eds to add to the growing map 🌱. Use the map to find fellow scientists from nearby hometowns. We’ll help you contact your REGIONAL newspaper to pitch a story about homegrown scientists 🏠 🧪
sciencehomecoming.com
sciencehomecoming.com
My @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social editorial about the importance of federal scientific funding was published today in the Babylon Beacon, my hometown newspaper on Long Island. www.babylonbeacon.com/articles/new...
New York can’t afford to lose federal scientific funding - Babylon Beacon
Growing up in Babylon, there were endless opportunities to explore. During the summers, while my dad cleaned the fish he caught, I would collect the discarded parts and try to fit them back together —...
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June 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
My @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social editorial about the importance of federal scientific funding was published today in the Babylon Beacon, my hometown newspaper on Long Island. www.babylonbeacon.com/articles/new...
I had SO much fun giving my last didactic presentation today for my internship teaching requirements. As a soon-to-be UF alum I had to bring it back (to the future!) with the BPA. I genuinely believe I have the coolest job.
June 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I had SO much fun giving my last didactic presentation today for my internship teaching requirements. As a soon-to-be UF alum I had to bring it back (to the future!) with the BPA. I genuinely believe I have the coolest job.
Very cool “Art of the Brain” exhibit this evening @sinaibrain.bsky.social @mountsinainyc.bsky.social 🎨🧠
Bringing science out of the lab and into the community is critical, now more than ever. Can’t wait to check out the rest of the ongoing exhibit at the Guggenheim.
Bringing science out of the lab and into the community is critical, now more than ever. Can’t wait to check out the rest of the ongoing exhibit at the Guggenheim.
June 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Very cool “Art of the Brain” exhibit this evening @sinaibrain.bsky.social @mountsinainyc.bsky.social 🎨🧠
Bringing science out of the lab and into the community is critical, now more than ever. Can’t wait to check out the rest of the ongoing exhibit at the Guggenheim.
Bringing science out of the lab and into the community is critical, now more than ever. Can’t wait to check out the rest of the ongoing exhibit at the Guggenheim.
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Remembering Dr. Alan Hart for Pride, trans man from the early 1900s. He revolutionized the detection of tuberculosis, saved thousands of lives, and died using his name, as the man he always was meant to be.
We have always been here.
We have always been here.
June 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Remembering Dr. Alan Hart for Pride, trans man from the early 1900s. He revolutionized the detection of tuberculosis, saved thousands of lives, and died using his name, as the man he always was meant to be.
We have always been here.
We have always been here.
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“You work so hard to put yourself in a position where you don’t have to worry, and then that’s taken away from you,” said Camila Valderrama-Martínez...She can get a job, but that “takes away time from my research and my time in lab and focusing on my studies and my thesis.” 🧪
Another casualty of Trump cuts? California students pursuing science research careers
At least 24 UC and Cal State campuses lost science research training grants that provided their students with annual stipends of $12,000 or more.
calmatters.org
May 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
“You work so hard to put yourself in a position where you don’t have to worry, and then that’s taken away from you,” said Camila Valderrama-Martínez...She can get a job, but that “takes away time from my research and my time in lab and focusing on my studies and my thesis.” 🧪
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Scientists,
I am asking us to do something that goes against our nature:
Step away from fine-grained, nuanced arguments. Zoom WAY out. Share the big picture. Don’t soften the seriousness of this moment with “xxx may be ok in xxx circumstances” talk.
It’s uncomfortable AND necessary.
I am asking us to do something that goes against our nature:
Step away from fine-grained, nuanced arguments. Zoom WAY out. Share the big picture. Don’t soften the seriousness of this moment with “xxx may be ok in xxx circumstances” talk.
It’s uncomfortable AND necessary.
May 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Scientists,
I am asking us to do something that goes against our nature:
Step away from fine-grained, nuanced arguments. Zoom WAY out. Share the big picture. Don’t soften the seriousness of this moment with “xxx may be ok in xxx circumstances” talk.
It’s uncomfortable AND necessary.
I am asking us to do something that goes against our nature:
Step away from fine-grained, nuanced arguments. Zoom WAY out. Share the big picture. Don’t soften the seriousness of this moment with “xxx may be ok in xxx circumstances” talk.
It’s uncomfortable AND necessary.
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APS and psychological scientists from seven states (AZ, GA, MA, PA, TN, TX, VA) are headed to the Capitol this morning to advocate for #NSF and #NIH funding.
#PsychologicalScience #HillDay
#PsychologicalScience #HillDay
May 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
APS and psychological scientists from seven states (AZ, GA, MA, PA, TN, TX, VA) are headed to the Capitol this morning to advocate for #NSF and #NIH funding.
#PsychologicalScience #HillDay
#PsychologicalScience #HillDay
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Honored to be a part of this panel addressing financial elder abuse, a significant and important issue in our country. Grateful for the work of the National Center on Elder Abuse to protect and advocate for all of us so that we can age with dignity and financial stability. Link here: bit.ly/3FclBTv
May 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Honored to be a part of this panel addressing financial elder abuse, a significant and important issue in our country. Grateful for the work of the National Center on Elder Abuse to protect and advocate for all of us so that we can age with dignity and financial stability. Link here: bit.ly/3FclBTv
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Academic workers across the country are calling 📞 Legislators to ask them to sign on to bipartisan letters ✉️ in support of robust NIH funding and opposing the 15% indirect cost caps. Take 5 minutes to call your legislators today. Deadline is May 19th.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
May 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Academic workers across the country are calling 📞 Legislators to ask them to sign on to bipartisan letters ✉️ in support of robust NIH funding and opposing the 15% indirect cost caps. Take 5 minutes to call your legislators today. Deadline is May 19th.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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It’s worth saying again, but with notes: Alzheimer’s Studies Are Diversifying (which is a scientific necessity because Black older adults are 2x & Latinos 1.5x more likely to get it, pointing to social determinants of health as important for dementia). WILL SCIENTISTS BE ABLE TO FINISH THE JOB?
May 8, 2025 at 5:38 AM
It’s worth saying again, but with notes: Alzheimer’s Studies Are Diversifying (which is a scientific necessity because Black older adults are 2x & Latinos 1.5x more likely to get it, pointing to social determinants of health as important for dementia). WILL SCIENTISTS BE ABLE TO FINISH THE JOB?
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3/9 The most surprising aspect of this work is not only that 8 laboratories have collaborated to contrast both proposals, but also that the main proponents of both theories have agreed on a series of predictions to test them : )
(blog) theconversation.com/how-does-con...
(blog) theconversation.com/how-does-con...
How does consciousness work? Duelling scientists tested two big theories but found no winner
When it comes to consciousness, theories are like toothbrushes. Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else’s.
theconversation.com
May 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
3/9 The most surprising aspect of this work is not only that 8 laboratories have collaborated to contrast both proposals, but also that the main proponents of both theories have agreed on a series of predictions to test them : )
(blog) theconversation.com/how-does-con...
(blog) theconversation.com/how-does-con...
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1/9 Clashing theories of consciousness
They have finally published the first result of the ARC-COGITATE initiative after comparing the best known theories, the “global neuronal workspace (GNWT)” and the “integrated information theory (IIT)”.
(paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
They have finally published the first result of the ARC-COGITATE initiative after comparing the best known theories, the “global neuronal workspace (GNWT)” and the “integrated information theory (IIT)”.
(paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
1/9 Clashing theories of consciousness
They have finally published the first result of the ARC-COGITATE initiative after comparing the best known theories, the “global neuronal workspace (GNWT)” and the “integrated information theory (IIT)”.
(paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
They have finally published the first result of the ARC-COGITATE initiative after comparing the best known theories, the “global neuronal workspace (GNWT)” and the “integrated information theory (IIT)”.
(paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Things that have helped me a lot:
-focusing on stuff in my control
-learning how to encourage myself
-telling myself what I'm proud of every day
-learning to ask for help
-helping others
-remembering I'm smart and prepared for many worst-case scenarios
-"just do 5 min"
-friends
-therapy
-ADHD meds
-focusing on stuff in my control
-learning how to encourage myself
-telling myself what I'm proud of every day
-learning to ask for help
-helping others
-remembering I'm smart and prepared for many worst-case scenarios
-"just do 5 min"
-friends
-therapy
-ADHD meds
May 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Things that have helped me a lot:
-focusing on stuff in my control
-learning how to encourage myself
-telling myself what I'm proud of every day
-learning to ask for help
-helping others
-remembering I'm smart and prepared for many worst-case scenarios
-"just do 5 min"
-friends
-therapy
-ADHD meds
-focusing on stuff in my control
-learning how to encourage myself
-telling myself what I'm proud of every day
-learning to ask for help
-helping others
-remembering I'm smart and prepared for many worst-case scenarios
-"just do 5 min"
-friends
-therapy
-ADHD meds
I have sent my first query email to write an op-ed for my hometown newspaper as part of @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social and I am nervous but very excited! I believe in this so much - there is such a need for scientists to connect with their communities. Fingers crossed!!!
April 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I have sent my first query email to write an op-ed for my hometown newspaper as part of @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social and I am nervous but very excited! I believe in this so much - there is such a need for scientists to connect with their communities. Fingers crossed!!!
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You may not know that the Department of Defense funds medical research designed to address the health needs of Service Members & Veterans.
This research has advanced care of conditions like Alzheimer’s Disease, TBI & PTSD.
Tell Congress to restore this funding www.congressweb.com/rallyfoundat...
This research has advanced care of conditions like Alzheimer’s Disease, TBI & PTSD.
Tell Congress to restore this funding www.congressweb.com/rallyfoundat...
Ask Congress To Fully Restore CDMRP Funding
Send your representatives an email asking them to fully restore CDMRP funding.
www.congressweb.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
You may not know that the Department of Defense funds medical research designed to address the health needs of Service Members & Veterans.
This research has advanced care of conditions like Alzheimer’s Disease, TBI & PTSD.
Tell Congress to restore this funding www.congressweb.com/rallyfoundat...
This research has advanced care of conditions like Alzheimer’s Disease, TBI & PTSD.
Tell Congress to restore this funding www.congressweb.com/rallyfoundat...
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Anthony Correro & I led a special issue w/ The Clinical Neuropsychologist. We highlight key LGBTQIA+ research: 1) Foundational efforts, 2) Pediatric neuropsychology for transgender & gender diverse youth living with autism, 3) Lifespan & adult neuropsychology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Special issue editorial: Promoting cognitive health in LGBTQIA+ clinical neuropsychology
Published in The Clinical Neuropsychologist (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
April 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Anthony Correro & I led a special issue w/ The Clinical Neuropsychologist. We highlight key LGBTQIA+ research: 1) Foundational efforts, 2) Pediatric neuropsychology for transgender & gender diverse youth living with autism, 3) Lifespan & adult neuropsychology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....