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Looking for a post-bac RA position focused on the brain bases of affective and psychotic illness?
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Looking for a post-bac RA position focused on the brain bases of affective and psychotic illness?
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
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A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...
Authors retract Science paper on controversial fMRI method
Several MRI artifacts contribute to the neuronal activity signal picked up by the method, according to a preprint the authors posted this month.
www.thetransmitter.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...
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Some recent work led by @peterjonghona.bsky.social and myself at @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social looks at environmental, psychiatric, and genetic predictors of alcohol use disorder.
Online today at The American Journal of Psychiatry (@apapsychiatric.bsky.social):
psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
Online today at The American Journal of Psychiatry (@apapsychiatric.bsky.social):
psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
September 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Some recent work led by @peterjonghona.bsky.social and myself at @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social looks at environmental, psychiatric, and genetic predictors of alcohol use disorder.
Online today at The American Journal of Psychiatry (@apapsychiatric.bsky.social):
psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
Online today at The American Journal of Psychiatry (@apapsychiatric.bsky.social):
psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
I had forgotten about this paper but it’s one of my favorites. Elegantly done and especially clinically relevant journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
The Impact of Individual Depressive Symptoms on Impairment of Psychosocial Functioning
Previous studies have established that scores on Major Depressive Disorder scales are correlated with measures of impairment of psychosocial functioning. It remains unclear, however, whether individua...
journals.plos.org
September 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I had forgotten about this paper but it’s one of my favorites. Elegantly done and especially clinically relevant journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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rdcu.be/eCVaQ Neurodevelopmentally rooted epicenters in schizophrenia: sensorimotor-association spatial axis of cortical thickness alterations - bravo Yun Shuang Fan and team 😍🌸
Neurodevelopmentally rooted epicenters in schizophrenia: sensorimotor-association spatial axis of cortical thickness alterations
Molecular Psychiatry - Neurodevelopmentally rooted epicenters in schizophrenia: sensorimotor-association spatial axis of cortical thickness alterations
rdcu.be
August 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
rdcu.be/eCVaQ Neurodevelopmentally rooted epicenters in schizophrenia: sensorimotor-association spatial axis of cortical thickness alterations - bravo Yun Shuang Fan and team 😍🌸
New preprint from my lab led by Cemal Demirlek and me www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hierarchical Clustering of Canonical Retinal-Biopsychosocial Covariation Patterns Reveals Distinct Psychosis Subgroups: A Data-Driven Study from the UK Biobank
Background: Retinal alterations and related health/cognitive profiles are reported in psychosis spectrum disorders (PSD), but it is unknown whether multivariate retina-biopsychosocial covariations can...
www.medrxiv.org
August 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
New preprint from my lab led by Cemal Demirlek and me www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation (PACE) in Treatment-Resistant Depression | osf.io/5c3ba_v1/
OSF
osf.io
August 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation (PACE) in Treatment-Resistant Depression | osf.io/5c3ba_v1/
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Folks who had RAs learn R while in your lab - what resources were helpful? Are things like datacamp worth it?
July 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Folks who had RAs learn R while in your lab - what resources were helpful? Are things like datacamp worth it?
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1000s of studies have been published mapping neuroanatomical changes in psychiatric disorders. Can we ever converge on robust disease phenotypes? Our latest PP led by Trang Cao in a huge collab effort investigates this question...
@nsb-lab.bsky.social
@nsb-lab.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
1000s of studies have been published mapping neuroanatomical changes in psychiatric disorders. Can we ever converge on robust disease phenotypes? Our latest PP led by Trang Cao in a huge collab effort investigates this question...
@nsb-lab.bsky.social
@nsb-lab.bsky.social
I’m so glad to have gone to CVOP this year and got to share some projects in the lab. Already looking forward to next year!
June 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I’m so glad to have gone to CVOP this year and got to share some projects in the lab. Already looking forward to next year!
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Latest from the lab: our theory of how paranoia can be about social things, without dedicated social processing @juliasheffield.bsky.social, Santiago Castiello, Rosa Rossi-Goldthorpe, @praveensuthaharan.bsky.social and @celiaheyes.bsky.social
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June 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Latest from the lab: our theory of how paranoia can be about social things, without dedicated social processing @juliasheffield.bsky.social, Santiago Castiello, Rosa Rossi-Goldthorpe, @praveensuthaharan.bsky.social and @celiaheyes.bsky.social
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why aren't americans taking those jobs?
June 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
why aren't americans taking those jobs?
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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Sharing another wonderful paper from Yuan Cao et al. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Associations among bipolar II depression white matter subgroups, inflammation, symptoms and childhood maltreatment - Nature Mental Health
The authors analyze white matter alterations in bipolar II depression, revealing significant correlations with inflammation and psychiatric symptoms. These findings suggest that childhood emotional ma...
www.nature.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Sharing another wonderful paper from Yuan Cao et al. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
May 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
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Hot off the press! We found that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) induces a previously undescribed, second brain event after seizure, called cortical spreading depolarization (CSD), using optical neuroimaging in both a mouse model to human patients. 🧵 below!
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Electroconvulsive therapy generates a postictal wave of spreading depolarization in mice and humans - Nature Communications
The underlying mechanism of electroconvulsive therapy remains not fully understood. Here, the authors use optical neuroimaging in mice and humans to show that electroconvulsive therapy elicits a secon...
doi.org
May 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Hot off the press! We found that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) induces a previously undescribed, second brain event after seizure, called cortical spreading depolarization (CSD), using optical neuroimaging in both a mouse model to human patients. 🧵 below!
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Excited to share our recent paper published by our team. This work identifies perfusion abnormalities in motion processing and facial areas of the brain across the psychosis spectrum, suggesting neurovascular deficits related to cognition and visual processing.
Frontiers | Cerebral perfusion differences in the visual cortex and fusiform subregions across the psychosis spectrum
links.email.frontiersin.org
May 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Excited to share our recent paper published by our team. This work identifies perfusion abnormalities in motion processing and facial areas of the brain across the psychosis spectrum, suggesting neurovascular deficits related to cognition and visual processing.
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Excited to share another recent paper from our group. This work provides proof of concept evidence for using an an accelerated HD-tDCS protocol targeting a lesion network site for hallucinations, which helped to relieve treatment refractory psychosis symptoms when medications weren't helpful.
Frontiers | Case Report: Lesion network guided transcranial direct current stimulation targeting treatment refractory hallucinations and delusions: a traditional and accelerated stimulation case study
Transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) has been shown to reduce symptoms related to psychosis, especially positive symptoms such as auditory hallucination...
links.email.frontiersin.org
May 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Excited to share another recent paper from our group. This work provides proof of concept evidence for using an an accelerated HD-tDCS protocol targeting a lesion network site for hallucinations, which helped to relieve treatment refractory psychosis symptoms when medications weren't helpful.
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🚨New Postdoc Opportunity
We have an opening for a postdoc jointly mentored by
Justin Baker and me for work on digital therapeutics and passive sensing using smartphones and wearables (smartwatches + smart rings). More info 👉: webbslab.com/job-postings
Please RT & share!
We have an opening for a postdoc jointly mentored by
Justin Baker and me for work on digital therapeutics and passive sensing using smartphones and wearables (smartwatches + smart rings). More info 👉: webbslab.com/job-postings
Please RT & share!
May 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🚨New Postdoc Opportunity
We have an opening for a postdoc jointly mentored by
Justin Baker and me for work on digital therapeutics and passive sensing using smartphones and wearables (smartwatches + smart rings). More info 👉: webbslab.com/job-postings
Please RT & share!
We have an opening for a postdoc jointly mentored by
Justin Baker and me for work on digital therapeutics and passive sensing using smartphones and wearables (smartwatches + smart rings). More info 👉: webbslab.com/job-postings
Please RT & share!
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We’re hiring a clinical research coordinator to lead a neuroimaging study on brain changes across pregnancy and perinatal depression.
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April 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We’re hiring a clinical research coordinator to lead a neuroimaging study on brain changes across pregnancy and perinatal depression.
wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...
Please RT.
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