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Jared Young
@jaredwyoung.bsky.social
Scottish neuropsychopharmacologist living in sunny San Diego for some reason! At UCSD but thoughts and rants certainly my own! Proud founder of several LGBTQIA2S+ socials at conferences! He/they, him/them 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈
Ok so @nanopharmnc.bsky.social you are ABSOLUTELY our Bard!
@superkash.bsky.social , looks like you're our Barbarian :D
@bangasserlab.bsky.social absolutely you are a wizard!
@markgbaxter.bsky.social is our Paladin (who knew?!)
Guess I'll be our Fighter!
Let's go take on some dragons!
January 28, 2026 at 5:14 PM
So hard to pick a favorite...here's a few @acnporg.bsky.social
From the #LGBTQIA2S+ social such a great reunion (DM me if you want invites for next year) to bringing the house down at #AXNP2026 #KARAOKE w @dbarch.bsky.social and many others to making new friends at the E&R networking night
Amazing
January 17, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Thoroughly deserved Millie, you're amazing and @acnporg.bsky.social is so lucky to have you!
Thank you for all you do and have done!
January 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Hope all can come to Imperial Ballroom B so you can learn how to unlock clinical mechanisms thru the us of animal models starting in 5!
January 15, 2026 at 1:56 PM
It was a fantastic session thank you for organizing Marija and Kale!
So thoughtful 🥰
January 15, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Great quotes to finish on and live by!
#ACNP2026
January 13, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Led by Dr. Millie Rincon-Cortez and Dr. Greg Fonzo, we will hear from amazing people in the field with resilience experience!
First up, Dr. Victoria Arango who is amazing and has long studied suicidality!
#Resilience
#ACNP2026
January 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
At Plato's Bar at #ACNP2026 @acnporg.bsky.social for an unofficial LGBTQIA2S+ networking social before everything kicks off!
Come join us, meet your colleagues!
#LGBT
#Visibilty
January 11, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Hi All @sfn.org attendees #SfN2025!
Please come see what's happening in the lab & support some excellent researchers (whilst getting out of the rain!).
With topics ranging from #HIV, #psychedelics, #fiberphotometry, #social rewards, #risky decision making, to #opioid withdrawal cog deficits!
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
If ever evidence were needed that Trump sending troops into cities eg Chicago is NOT about #crime but creating fear as they do with #ICE
Govt own stats show crime's at a low since Trumps last Presidency
#KansasCity has TRIPLE violent crime rate >1500/100k - but is in a red state so no troops
September 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Really loving what @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is doing. Apparently the only way the right recognizes the authoritarianism of a leader is when their dear leader is copied - get your yard sign and #MakeRedHatsGreatAgain
#FightFireWithFire

store.gavinnewsom.com/the-patriot-...
August 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Is it just me, or does this feel like yet another movement toward the dystopian future of Gilead, since we are clearly in Gilead beta right now....
The #RoseGarden at the Whitehouse never looked so ..militaristic....
August 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Happy to survive the jet lag to be there for Day 2 of this #ECNP2025 discussing emerging technologies.
Also thanks to the #touchscreen symposium inc @timbussey.bsky.social & @lisasaksida.bsky.social for the most colorful lanyard & @acnporg.bsky.social for the flash!
March 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Seems oddly familiar....
#DOGE #Musk #Swatstikar
February 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Rewatching The Wizard of Oz in prep for Wicked Saturday.
Scarecrow "some people without a brain do an awful lot of talking", from 1939.
Holds up here in 2025.
February 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
View from my office right now
Really hope all are ok and evacuated, no idea why or what else is happening. Didn't think I'd see anything like this in #SanDiego
#wildfire
January 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Sometimes a simple Google search is your friend.
But if your opinion (not fact) is so set, there's little point talking further is there?
Sadly no Nobel prize because such people have been discussed and documented since the 8th century if not earlier
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interse....
January 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Importantly, the better performance in people with HIV that were smokers negatively correlated with their TSPO-measured neuroinflammatory levels!
In other words, the lower the neuroinflammation, the better the 5C-CPT performance metrics!
January 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
PLHIV exhibited worse cognitive control in the masked 5C-CPT–specifically in non-cigarette smokers (Smok-). Those smoked to satiety prior to testing (Smok+) had comparable levels, via increased hit rate, as in mice in the 5C-CPT (not alpha7 KOs; Higa et al 2017) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28243714/
January 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
People living with HIV exhibited elevated neuroinflammation as measured by the PET radioligand [F18]FEPPA – specifically in people that did not smoke cigarettes (Smok-). Those that smoked to satiety prior to testing (Smok+) however, had comparable neuroinflammatory levels.
January 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
From working in the 5CSRTT in my PhD, I developed the 5C-CPT in my Post Doc for mice rats & humans (all improved by amphetamine, impacted in psychiatric conditions, with comparable theta EEG power during performance), enabling better testing of cognitive control #RDoC (Young et al 2009)
January 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
V happy to get this out!
Working with an amazing group, we showed that people living with #HIV are worse at the 5-choice continuous performance test (5C-CPT-linked to elevated neuroinflammation) but those cigarette smoking had better metrics on both outcomes!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Had an amazing #ACNP2024
Brill science, swag, karaoke, catchin up w old friends, & makin many new ones! Too many to name, but loved #BestVest & #FashionACNP fun too!
Maybe #ShoesOfACNP next year @ahmarilab.bsky.social & @dr-stan.bsky.social ?
Thank you @acnporg.bsky.social
Now for home in style!
December 12, 2024 at 8:17 PM
One other contender Dr. Benjamin Reiner! @benjaminreiner.bsky.social
The color coordination was immaculate and who doesn't love a pinstripe!
#ACNP2024 @acnporg.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 2:15 AM
New contenders for #FashionACNP
Dr Maya Schumer with the fabulous shoes!! (And whole outfit)
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December 12, 2024 at 2:13 AM