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Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences @dukepsychiatry.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats to Duke Psychiatry's Dr. Kate Webb on her new #ClimateChange & #GlobalMentalHealth award to support her collaborative work in S. Africa on how air pollution affects inflammatory & gut microbiome biomarkers & mental health outcomes, funded by Duke Global Health Institute. 🌟
Kate Webb, PhD

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Evan Giangrande @evangiangrande.bsky.social · Aug 15

Check out our preprint on ethical and legal considerations regarding Mendelian Imputation of missing parental genotypes! The method raises tricky questions about informed consent and potential harm. We highlight gaps in current practice and provide recommendations for researchers and IRBs.

Margot van de Weijer @margotvdweijer.bsky.social · Aug 1

New pre-print online: Imputing parental genotypes through Mendelian Imputation: Ethical and Legal Considerations
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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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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Nate @nateurneuro.bsky.social · Aug 14

Our NASEM Committee Report on the mental, emotional, and behavioral health impacts of school active shooter drills is now out. A big thanks to the National Academies, the Department of Education, and the stellar committee that got this done.

nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2910...

School Active Shooter Drills: Mitigating Risks to Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health

Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.

nap.nationalacademies.org

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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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Kelly T. Cosgrove @kellytcosgrove.bsky.social · Aug 4

My brilliant labmate, Keith Dodd, created this non-aggressive denoising pipeline for fMRI data for his dissertation! It has been super useful on some of our high-motion datasets, and I highly suggest folks check it out for their own studies 🧠📈🪲:
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

CICADA: An automated and flexible tool for comprehensive fMRI noise reduction

Abstract. Independent component analysis (ICA) denoising methods can be highly effective for reducing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) noise. ICA denoising method success heavily depends, ...

direct.mit.edu

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tor @torwager.bsky.social · Jul 30

Health is more than the absence of disease, and depends on harmony across multiple brain-body systems. We need more research on whole-person health! The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) @thenccih.bsky.social funds vital whole-person research. RP and #KEEP_NCCIH!

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Timothy J. McDermott, PhD @timmcdermottphd.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Timothy J. McDermott, PhD @timmcdermottphd.bsky.social · Jul 11

Congratulations!

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Lauren Weinstock, PhD @lmweinstock.bsky.social · Jul 9

A few years ago, I (w/2 other training directors) participated in an SSCP Q&A on the #ClinicalPsych internship application process. Thinking about applicants who like to use this time of year to get a head start on the process, I thought it might be another good time to share...

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ACNP @acnporg.bsky.social · Jun 23

Submissions are NOW OPEN for poster abstracts for the ACNP 64th Annual Meeting: January 12-15, 2026, Nassau, Bahamas. You must be registered for the meeting before you can submit a poster. Deadline to submit is August 28, 2025, at 5:00 pm Central. https://bit.ly/3TXuYcz #ACNP2026

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Timothy J. McDermott, PhD @timmcdermottphd.bsky.social · Jun 18

This is a great question! I know some students who have not had the opportunity to complete VA practicum experiences that were previously offered following recent changes, and I'm also curious how this might affect those applying to VA psychology internships.

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Elizabeth Heinrichs-Graham @heinrichs-graham.bsky.social · Jun 9

My most favorite week of the year! 🎉

Institute for Human Neuroscience @boystown-ihn.bsky.social · Jun 9

#IHN is one of the leading #neuroscience research institutes using #MEG technology in the world!
Today, we kicked off our 3-day #MEGbootcamp to train new #gradstudents #RA & staff on this powerful instrument.#neuroimaging @heinrichs-graham.bsky.social @giorgia-picci.bsky.social @tmi-lab.bsky.social

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Thomas L. Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · Jun 3

Heads up! APA is urging anyone who cares about health and science to let their reps/senators know now that they should oppose the admin's murder budget.

Easy to do here: www.votervoice.net/Shares/BAAAA...

APA is plugged in. If they say NOW, listen! #StandUpForScience

ACT NOW! Tell Congress to Reject Unprecedented Funding Cuts

Please take 2 minutes today to urge Congress to reject the administration’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget proposal that seeks to cut $163 billion across the federal government. This would have signific...

www.votervoice.net

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Jun 2

RFK Jr says autism research is a priority, and that he wants to find the cause of the condition by September.

He's also overseen a 26% cut to autism research at NIH, per @disabilityscoop.bsky.social.

NIH Autism Research Funding Down 26% Under Trump, Analysis Shows

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he wants to get to the bottom of surging autism rates, but a new analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut funding for such research by double digit...

www.disabilityscoop.com

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · May 31

How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · May 30

Viewpoint in JAMA details the consequences of the proposed cuts to NIH:

❌15% reduction in new therapies
❌reduction in life expectancy by 83M life years in the US = $8.2T
❌loss of $51B in economic output annually

All to save $20B annually. The math ain't mathin.'
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...

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Alexander Harris @dralexharris.bsky.social · May 30

Excited about this!

Columbia Psychiatry @columbiapsych.bsky.social · May 30

Wednesday June 4th, Dr. @negarfani.bsky.social (Emory University) will present on neurophysiological signatures of stress in minoritized populations and how neurostimulation can support stress relief.

Join live via Zoom: ColumbiaPsychiatry.org/Grand-Rounds

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Columbia Psychiatry @columbiapsych.bsky.social · May 30

Wednesday June 4th, Dr. @negarfani.bsky.social (Emory University) will present on neurophysiological signatures of stress in minoritized populations and how neurostimulation can support stress relief.

Join live via Zoom: ColumbiaPsychiatry.org/Grand-Rounds

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Nate @nateurneuro.bsky.social · May 27

Finally getting to post the thread on this, and excited to force you all to read some of the new work from our group on trying to understand if traumatic stress might impact reactivity to basic stimuli.

Or, honestly, where we asked “what if we just flash a checkerboard at trauma survivors?” 1/🧵

NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience @dpn-journal.bsky.social · May 21

🆕 in DPN from our EB member @nateurneuro.bsky.social, @brainstorm12.bsky.social & @irosso.bsky.social et al:

Traumatic stress alters neural reactivity to visual stimulation

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Traumatic stress alters neural reactivity to visual stimulation - NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience

This study investigated if exposure to traumatic stress altered brain activity to basic visual stimulation. The authors found that recent trauma survivors showed altered activity within the visual cor...

www.nature.com

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David Baranger @davidbaranger.bsky.social · Mar 20

The BEAR Lab will be opening it's doors in July at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and we are looking for our first Research Tech! This position will help with funded MRI studies looking at the brain and alcohol use. More info: bearlab.science/contact/ #neuroscience #psychology #sciencejobs

Contact

We are actively recruiting a Research Technologist! (start date ~7/1/25) Job ad is coming soon. This position will primarily assist with funded studies examining brain function in people who drink …

bearlab.science

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Ryan Smith @rssmith.bsky.social · May 25

Huge congrats to @clairelavalley.bsky.social on this new paper. www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Results show that methamphetamine users show a specific deficit in model-based planning, in which they fail to simulate plans with large short-term losses (elevated aversive pruning). Brief thread below!

Computational mechanisms underlying multi-step planning deficits in methamphetamine use disorder - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Computational mechanisms underlying multi-step planning deficits in methamphetamine use disorder

www.nature.com

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Evan Giangrande @evangiangrande.bsky.social · May 23

🚨🧬 New preprint! We tested whether PGS predicted global functioning across psychiatric hospitalization among 5991 people with schizophrenia. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Polygenic Scores for Schizophrenia and Educational Attainment Predict Global Functioning Across Psychiatric Hospitalization Among People with Schizophrenia

Question Is variation in global functioning among people with schizophrenia associated with genetic differences? Findings In this genetic association study of 5991 adults with schizophrenia and 59,79...

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Kate Webb, PhD @brainstorm12.bsky.social · May 13

Federal funding plays a critical role in supporting life-saving research. In the recent APA Div56 newsletter, we outline how Trump policies place trauma research at risk and emphasize the importance of collective action.

apatraumadivision.org/spring-2025-...

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Timothy J. McDermott, PhD @timmcdermottphd.bsky.social · May 6

Amazing! Congrats to you and the team for completing data collection!

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