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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow will be two years since the attack which began this terrible war. I have lived through several wars, but this one has changed me. I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I am not above praying for peace.... Hostages back home, this war can be over. Amen 🙏

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Ophir Netzer @ophirnetzer.bsky.social · 22d

Our World Psychiatry paper is out! we studied responses to trauma experienced under different psychoactive substances and found distinct patterns across substances. Immense gratitude to our collaborators and above all, to the survivors❤️‍🩹

Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 22d

Just published in World Psychiatry our study "Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing" . Amazing work led by @ophirnetzer.bsky.social with the brave survivors of the Nova festival attack. Huge team effort, thx to all!
👉 doi.org/10.1002/wps....

Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing

Click on the article title to read more.

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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 22d

This is a good question. We examined the possibility of a MDMA "phenotype". However the data shows that most people who used MDMA here used other substances in other occurrences and many who used e.g. LSD in the Nova used MDMA in other parties. We didn't find evidence for a phenotype

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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks Nicole. Very difficult.

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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 22d

Just published in World Psychiatry our study "Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing" . Amazing work led by @ophirnetzer.bsky.social with the brave survivors of the Nova festival attack. Huge team effort, thx to all!
👉 doi.org/10.1002/wps....

Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing

Click on the article title to read more.

doi.org

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Sep 1

Impressive data set with interesting findings:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dose-response relationship between accelerometer-measured physical activity and depression: evidence from the UK Biobank - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Dose-response relationship between accelerometer-measured physical activity and depression: evidence from the UK Biobank

www.nature.com

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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is a fascinating article. Well-researched. And while it doesn't interrogate the reasons why the FDA knocked back the MDMA application at least it reasonably accepts the rejection was based on problems with the science and not solely the result of a tiny "activist" group.

How Elon Musk’s billionaire Doge lieutenant took over the US’s biggest MDMA company

Antonio Gracias is part of the growing movement among Silicon Valley’s right wing enamored with the therapeutic and commercial potential of drugs like MDMA

www.theguardian.com

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Deng Pan @dengpan.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.

Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · Aug 28

I can see why, but the truth must ring out so we "follow the data"...

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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · Aug 28

Really nice and important!

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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · Aug 16

Many protestors hold up pictures of Palestinian children killed in Gaza as well as those of kidnapped Israeli hostages. If we have no empathy for the suffering of others, what is left of our humanity?

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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · Aug 16

The situation in Israel is not good. A crazy government extending a terrible war to retain power while reducing freedoms. Despite the violence against protestors we will continue to stop the war, return the hostages and seek peace.

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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · Aug 16

This week I came for my last day at the university before setting off for a 1 year sabbatical at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. The amazing students in my lab surprised me with a goodbye party. So lucky to be working with such talented and kind people! Thanks salomonlab.org

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Alex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social · Aug 16

Dopamine induces fear extinction by activating the reward-responding amygdala neurons | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Dopamine induces fear extinction by activating the reward-responding amygdala neurons | PNAS

The extinction of conditioned fear responses is crucial for adaptive behavior, and its impairment is a hallmark of anxiety disorders such as posttr...

www.pnas.org

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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · Aug 11

Very interesting case. Hope this is indeed a framework for future translation of cog-neuro into clinical improvements

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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Xavier Job @xavierjob.bsky.social · Jul 31

📣 New preprint 📣

The brain attenuates self-touch, but how does this unfold at the neural level before the touch? We used MEG to find out 🧠 👉👈

Motor prediction reduces beta-band power and enhances cerebellar-somatosensory connectivity before self-touch to enable its attenuation

Prevailing theories suggest that the brain uses an internal forward model to predict tactile input during voluntary movements, thereby reducing the intensity of the reafferent tactile sensation, a phe...

www.biorxiv.org

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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · Aug 5

We all know that something is deeply broken in the publishing system, but this is amazing to see the scope of the problem... Well done to all the authors!

Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · Aug 4

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise

Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

reeserichardson.blog

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Yuval Nir @labnir.bsky.social · Aug 5

Closed-loop electrical stimulation prevents focal epilepsy progression and long-term memory impairment:

rdcu.be/ezjNt

Closed-loop electrical stimulation prevents focal epilepsy progression and long-term memory impairment

Nature Neuroscience - Pathological neural communication drives the spread of the epileptic network and contributes to memory impairment in focal epilepsy. The authors show that closed-loop...

rdcu.be

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putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · Aug 2

We need more human beings.

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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · Jul 25

just out in Molecular Psychiatry 😍: spinal & cortical alterations in processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis

including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀

#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
@paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social
rdcu.be/exN0e

Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels

Molecular Psychiatry - Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels

rdcu.be

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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · Aug 2

Congrats Rebecca! Looks super interesting

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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · Aug 2

Whats up?

Armin Raznahan @bogglerapture.bsky.social · Aug 2

Strong and sobering signals that need to be understood …

Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · Jul 30

Bravo Leah!

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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · Jul 29

As an Israeli ERC grant winner and peace activist I think this would be a terrible move. I have been working for peace since I was 13. I've been assaulted and arrested for my views. Most Israeli academics have bravely and sternly opposed this terrible government. We are not our government!

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