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Blackford NeuroScience Team
@bnsteam.bsky.social
Emotional neuroscience lab studying the BNST, anxiety, and alcohol in humans | Led by @jenniblackford.bsky.social | 📍UNMC, Omaha, NE
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fMRI Peeps - I remember reading a paper, years ago, focused on identifying regions for brain-association analyses based on peak inter-individual variance (rather than peak activation), but a 20-min search failed to recover it. Suggestions? Thx!
May 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Excited to share our new paper @acerjournal.bsky.social showing that there are distinct subgroups based on trajectories of anxiety and depression symptoms in alcohol use disorder.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....

Manesh Gopaldas, @lizzieflook.bsky.social, Meg Benningfield, Nick Hayes.
May 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Congrats to the BNSTeam’s @neurozabik.bsky.social on receiving the @acerjournal.bsky.social Journal Award for Early Career Investigator Outstanding Paper!
April 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Half of all US counties will lose at least $250K in revenue!
Cuts to NIH affect ALL americans! Check out this new analysis and look up your county here:
www.axios.com/2025/04/09/n...
A closer look at the nationwide impact of NIH cuts
Nearly half of U.S. counties will see economic losses of at least $250,000 from cuts to indirect funding by the National Institutes of Health.
www.axios.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Our lab lead—Katelyn Kelley—received the highest accolade at @unmc.bsky.social this week! We are so proud of her!

www.unmc.edu/newsroom/202...
MMI's Katelyn Kelley is April's Gold U recipient
From a summer intern to a clinical research program manager, Kelley has found a career she loves.
www.unmc.edu
April 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Good morning #Skyence people! We are the Blackford NeuroScience Team — hailing from University of Nebraska Medical Center and led by @jenniblackford.bsky.social . We use functional neuroimaging to study the bed nucleus of the stria terminals (BNST) in #anxiety and #alcoholusedisorder .
March 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM