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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · 11d

Love my lab! A great dinner at SRP!

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · 15d

Don't miss the EmoTe Lab/Prechter Program presentations at #SRP2025 this year!

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · 16d

Check out the final paper from my @bbrfoundation.bsky.social Young Investigator Award, now published in Nature Mental Health!

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Modeling and predicting mood instability in a longitudinal cohort of bipolar disorder

Nature Mental Health - Sperry et al. used machine learning approaches to investigate profiles of mood instability and create a prediction model for clinical and functioning outcomes using data from...

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · 18d

Heading home after 10 days in Japan full of travel and conference fun! Thrilled my symposium went well - thank you to Maria Faurholt-Jensen, Kathleen Merikangas, and Benito Frey for standing beside me and talking all things mood instability in bipolar disorder!

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · 28d

Off to Japan for ISBD!!!!

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · Sep 2

Join the Prechter Program and the U-M Addiction Center for our webinar, "Mind Matters: The Intersections of Substance Use, Suicidality & Bipolar Disorder," on 10/7 from 6:30-8:30 PM ET. I’ll be speaking along with Dr. Mark Ilgen. Register here: michmed.org/dYkRq

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · Aug 12

I will be reviewing applications for the University of Michigan Clinical Psychology doctoral program this fall. If you are interested in applying, here’s some info I prepared for applicants: sites.lsa.umich.edu/aidangcw-lab...

2026 Applicants – Personality Processes and Outcomes Laboratory

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · Aug 5

It was so wonderful working with Fleur during her Fulbright Scholarship here at UofM! So excited to see this work available!

Fleur GL Helmink @fglhelmink.bsky.social · Aug 1

New preprint out now!

We studied how momentary affect and daily life behaviors interact in real time in adults with and without familial risk for mood disorders.

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Aug 1

Temporal Dynamics of Affect, Smartphone Use, and Physical Activity in Individuals at Risk for Mood Disorders: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/74fhk_v1

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · Jul 23

Check out our new Seminar on bipolar disorder in @thelancet.com! Was wonderful to work with these co-authors, led by Balwinder Singh.

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTurV-4XS...

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · Jul 18

It was so fun to collaborate with Alyson Dodd (UK) and Tamsyn Van Rheenen (AUS)! We created a short, more psychometrically valid, measure of appraisals of internal states based on the Integrated Cognitive Model of Bipolar Disorder:

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

Development and validation of a short version of the Hypomanic Attitudes and Positive Predictive Inventory (HAPPI): Measuring extreme appraisals of internal states and bipolar risk

Mood instability is often experienced by those with and at risk for bipolar disorders (BD). The Integrative Cognitive Model proposes that mood instabi…

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · Jul 15

Society for Affective Science is great for emotion/affective science. Less psychopathology. If you want a mix of all of them Society for Research in Psychopathology.

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · Jul 1

Addiction destroys lives.

And the current administration is dedicated to destroying the careers of scientists who seek to alleviate the pain and suffering of Americans with addiction. I cannot think of a more certain way to do this than by defunding training grants for early career scientists.

Katie Witkiewitz @katiew.bsky.social · Jul 1

Today our @unm.edu @casaa.bsky.social T32 training grant is no longer funded. We are waiting for our renewal that is pending. I spent most of yesterday crying with worry about how I will support our amazing trainees. Today I celebrate them and the joy of seeing them present at CPDD and RSA. 🧵

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · Jun 28

Yesterday was @julialsmith.bsky.social’s last day in the lab 😭 In addition to being a wonderful human and trainee, she single handedly ran my K23 and finished 4 years of recruitment in 2. It’s so bittersweet. She is off to IUI to do her PhD in Clinical Psych with Melissa Cyders and I’m so proud!

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · Jun 23

Check out our new paper on the relationship between the Late Positive Potential (LPP) and negative urgency! Led by my collaborator (& internship buddy) Brian Albanese's PhD student David Johnson!

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

The association of negative urgency and sustained attention: Evidence from the late positive potential

Urgency reflects the tendency to act rashly in the face of intense emotion and has been associated with a host of maladaptive outcomes spanning psycho…

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · Jun 20

We are excited to welcome Gjulia Camaj to the EmoTe Lab! Gjulia graduated from the UM with High Honors Distinction in Psychology & completing her thesis in Dr. Luke Hydes MIND lab. Gjulia will be the new study coordinator for EBI-BD (K23)!

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · May 23

When your preliminary results support Aim 1 of your K23 😅

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · May 14

Very proud of Janan’s work on this project! Beyond the concept of urgency, I believe it has important implications for how we think about “reactivity” indices in EMA. Should we rely so much on within-person covariance? Should we look more to cooccurrence of more well defined states? Time will tell.

Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · May 14

Just published in JoPACS!
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What is urgency and how should we best assess it in the moment? A thread 🧵 1/n

Uncovering urgency in daily life: Testing a novel method for assessing emotion-impulsivity co-occurrence in momentary data - PubMed

Impulsivity is a personality trait with broad health implications. Urgency is a facet of impulsivity defined as the tendency to engage in rash action when experiencing strong emotions. Thus, as define...

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · May 14

After a morning of writing various letters of recommendation for medical school and social work programs I am hopeful. These young scholars are amazing. How lucky we are to get to be a part of their story. We've got to keep them engaged and supported so they can thrive during these times...

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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · May 9

Co-occurring and covarying are different things. Nice to see others taking up this position. Super cool proof-of-concept with emotional impulsivity from @jananmost.bsky.social, @drsarahsperry.bsky.social, @kevinmking.bsky.social, and @aidangcw.bsky.social.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40323898/

Uncovering urgency in daily life: Testing a novel method for assessing emotion-impulsivity co-occurrence in momentary data - PubMed

Impulsivity is a personality trait with broad health implications. Urgency is a facet of impulsivity defined as the tendency to engage in rash action when experiencing strong emotions. Thus, as define...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Rebecca Sripada, PhD, ABPP @rebeccasripada.bsky.social · May 8

Uncovering urgency in daily life: Testing a novel method for assessing emotion–impulsivity co-occurrence in momentary data. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... @drsarahsperry.bsky.social @aidangcw.bsky.social

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · Apr 24

Congratulations to my undergraduate RAs Natalie Neubecker, Malina Maxham, and Alana Colvin, for presenting their posters at the UROP Research Symposium and to @julialsmith.bsky.social for being such an amazing mentor to them! Excited that all are staying in the lab!

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · Apr 23

‼️ Check out our "Michigan Medicine Presents..." podcast exploring the meaning of wellness for those with bipolar disorder...Check it out here or on Apple podcasts, spotify, or acast:

www.michiganmedicine.org/michigan-med...

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · Apr 21

Thanks for the highlight of my postdoc Hanjoo Kim’s work!!! Glad it’s getting downloads and hopefully that = reads!

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · Apr 21

Coming in at #5 is: "Longitudinal dynamics between anxiety and depression in bipolar spectrum disorders." By Hanjoo Kim, Melvin McInnis, and @drsarahsperry.bsky.social

Congrats to the authors!

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · Apr 15

Check out this new review on mechanisms, assessment, and treatment of co-occurring bipolar disorder and substance use I did with the lovely Beth Lippard for the APA's FOCUS Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry

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Co-Occurring Bipolar and Substance Use Disorders: A Review of Impacts, Biopsychosocial Mechanisms, Assessment, and Treatment | Focus

Individuals with bipolar disorder are at significant risk for having a co-occurring substance use disorder—particularly, alcohol and cannabis use disorders. Having a co-occurring substance use disorde...

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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · Apr 13

Honored to be nominated as a NAMI Michigan clinical professional of the year. Thank you to my nominator @ahvinson.bsky.social and to the Bipolar Disorder Learning Community for attending with me! ☺️

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