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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 1d

Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood.

If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...

Nicole Rust - The representation of mood in the primate insula (May 6, 2025)

YouTube video by Simons Foundation

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Bryan Roth @zenbrainest.bsky.social · 1d

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Finally out!!

Psychedelic compounds directly excite 5-HT2A layer V medial prefrontal cortex neurons through 5-HT2A Gq activation - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Psychedelic compounds directly excite 5-HT2A layer V medial prefrontal cortex neurons through 5-HT2A Gq activation

www.nature.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

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G @monkeyes2.bsky.social · 1d

Shout out to the Chicago local news! @blockclubchi.bsky.social @thetriibe.com @southsideweekly.bsky.social
@unraveledpress.com
@borderlessmag.bsky.social

Follow the locals!

And the strong reporting hasn’t come only from legacy outlets such as the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune but also from newer independent media such as Block Club Chicago, the TRiiBE, Borderless, Unraveled, and South Side Weekly.

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Cherise Rosen @ccrosenphd.bsky.social · 7d

Hearing voices and other altered perceptual experiences across psychotic, mood, and anxiety disorders: from phenomenology and mechanisms to future directions
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hearing voices and other altered perceptual experiences across psychotic, mood, and anxiety disorders: from phenomenology and mechanisms to future directions - Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia - Hearing voices and other altered perceptual experiences across psychotic, mood, and anxiety disorders: from phenomenology and mechanisms to future directions

www.nature.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15d

If you want a palate cleanser after yesterday’s autism discussion, listening to Kevin Mitchell is a good place to start…

Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Jun 27

Free Will, Genetics, Autism, and What Makes You... You w/ Dr. Kevin Mitchell youtu.be/ntWpH97LXog?... via @YouTube - I really enjoyed this chat with Michael Cecchin, especially the chance to present the positive evidence for what really causes autism

Free Will, Genetics, Autism, and What Makes You... You w/ Dr. Kevin Mitchell

YouTube video by KNOW MORE KNOW LESS

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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 16d

Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉

📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · Feb 27

(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health

Major mental disorders are increasingly understood as disorders of brain development. Large and heterogeneous samples are required to define generalizable links between brain development and psychopat...

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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 23d

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails.
Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits.
Thank you!

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · Aug 26

1: This is a really cool study I was excited to be a part of! I was skeptical that brief unguided single session interventions could be effective in adults with depression as we had two studies in which we found minuscule effects vs weak controls (waiting), one in a large sample, N=828. I was wrong!

Benji Kaveladze @benji700.bsky.social · Aug 26

New preprint! A Crowdsourced Megastudy of 12 Digital Single-Session Interventions for Depression in American Adults

What's the best way to help someone overcome depression with just 10 minutes of their time online? We ran a trial (n=7,505) testing 12 diverse interventions.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Olu Ajilore, MD, PhD @pshrink.bsky.social · Aug 15

I missed the big Alaskan press conference

a close up of a sign that says al

ALT: a close up of a sign that says al

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Olu Ajilore, MD, PhD @pshrink.bsky.social · Aug 15

What does "minimizing the possibility of gatekeeping within an institute or center" even mean?

Different institutes cover research on different disorders or organ systems so there has to be some form of gatekeeping to make sure funded projects fall within the purview of the institute or center.

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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · Aug 14

The lateral prefrontal cortex 🧠— which we think of as critical for goal driven behavior + is a target for psychiatric treatments— is fundamentally different in individuals relative to the group averages we’ve often studied.

👇see preprint and thread, led by Zach Ladwig
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Image of brain networks in a group average and individual LPFC. Individuals show:
1) smaller FP network
2) more interdigitation
3) conserved motifs
4) idiosyncratic features
This was validated with task and rest fMRI

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Olu Ajilore, MD, PhD @pshrink.bsky.social · Aug 13

"Small men hide from history's giants" - Gov. Newsom

a man in a suit and tie is giving a speech at the second day of 2024 democratic national convention

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is giving a speech at the second day of 2024 democratic national convention

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Olu Ajilore, MD, PhD @pshrink.bsky.social · Aug 13

What I say when I haven't open my fridge in a while #AlienEarth

A scene from Alien Earth with a caption that reads "It presents as flora, but it may be fauna"

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 12

Danielle Spencer, the actress who played the lovably bratty and witty teenager on the 1970s hit sitcom, “What’s Happening!!,” died on Monday at 60.

Danielle Spencer, Child Star on ‘What’s Happening!!,’ Is Dead at 60

She played a witty teenager on one of the first American television shows that centered Black teenagers.

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Nico Dosenbach @ndosenbach.bsky.social · Aug 12

Precision Functional Mapping (PFM). 8 yrs ago some told us it wasn't interesting. Now it's helping cure depression as part of PACE (Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation), ... commercialized by @turingmedical.bsky.social.

osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · Aug 10

Let’s do this www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...

Stand Up for UC

We must stand together to protect our students, staff, faculty and our mission.

www.universityofcalifornia.edu

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Aug 10

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · Aug 6

In this Research Highlight, the authors propose that depression relapse occurs when brains can't create a stable "new normal" after recovery, with some patients staying 'stuck' in unstable limbo between illness & recovery

www.nature.com/artic...

The new normal: neural network adaptations in late-life depression

Neuropsychopharmacology - The new normal: neural network adaptations in late-life depression

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 4

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility

Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

www.wthr.com

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 3

Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667730v1

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Olu Ajilore, MD, PhD @pshrink.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down

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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · Jul 30

Looking for @theabcdstudy.bsky.social fMRI timeseries data?It's all in the 6.0 data release, thanks to @drdamienfair.bsky.social and team at ABCC 🧠: docs.abcdstudy.org/latest/docum...

ABCD-BIDS community collection

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Jul 30

Remember how FOX had to pay almost a billion dollars for promoting lies?

Cane sugar is 50% fructose.

“High-fructose” corn syrup is 55% fructose.

Unless your body is as stupid as Diana Atieh, it does “know what to do” with that 5% & there’s no different effect on the body at all. It’s still sugar.

Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · Jul 30

Fox News invited Diana Atieh a self described MAHA mom and influencer to talk about Coca-Cola's decision to add a cane sugar version of their product to the U.S. market. Atieh has a degree in media studies. She's not a nutritionist or a medical professional. This makes no sense.

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