Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠
@clarazundel.bsky.social
Behavioral Neuroscientist | Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the wsuthinklab | F32 NIMH Awardee | Broadway Enthusiast | Detroit, MI
October 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
October 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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As the current class of SfN Early Career Policy Ambassadors (ECPAs) meet with their congressional offices this week to discuss neuroscience priorities, watch a former ECPA explain how funding uncertainties are affecting emerging scientists across the country.
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September 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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✨ Just hit submit on my first tenure-track application this cycle! Feeling excited to officially be on the market!
My work sits at the intersection of psychiatry, environmental health 🌍, and neuroscience 🧠.
If you know of open positions, I’d love to connect! #Neuro #Academia
My work sits at the intersection of psychiatry, environmental health 🌍, and neuroscience 🧠.
If you know of open positions, I’d love to connect! #Neuro #Academia
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September 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Last day of #ISESISEE2025! Make sure to stop by the last poster session at 3:30! Come discuss my prelim data from my ongoing pilot study examining #ClimateChange anxiety in Detroit emerging adults! #neuro #environmentalhealth #postdoc
August 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Last day of #ISESISEE2025! Make sure to stop by the last poster session at 3:30! Come discuss my prelim data from my ongoing pilot study examining #ClimateChange anxiety in Detroit emerging adults! #neuro #environmentalhealth #postdoc
Wonderful and inspiring opening remarks from Dr. C. Arden Pope III! Although many things are uncertain right now, we keep moving and keep doing the BEST science we can. #ISESISEE2025 #AirPollution #EnvironmentalHealth
August 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Wonderful and inspiring opening remarks from Dr. C. Arden Pope III! Although many things are uncertain right now, we keep moving and keep doing the BEST science we can. #ISESISEE2025 #AirPollution #EnvironmentalHealth
Thrilled to be in Atlanta for #ISESISEE2025 conference! Looking forward to sharing ideas and learning from colleagues across environmental health and exposure science! #EnvironmentalHealth #postdoc #neuro
August 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Thrilled to be in Atlanta for #ISESISEE2025 conference! Looking forward to sharing ideas and learning from colleagues across environmental health and exposure science! #EnvironmentalHealth #postdoc #neuro
✈️ Last week I traveled to Washington, DC to advocate for #ScienceFunding with an incredible group of early career scientists from Wayne State and Sci-pol Detroit. Uncertainty in funding affects people, progress, and public health. We showed up to make that clear. 💪🏻👩🏻🔬 🧠 #ScienceAdvocacy
July 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
✈️ Last week I traveled to Washington, DC to advocate for #ScienceFunding with an incredible group of early career scientists from Wayne State and Sci-pol Detroit. Uncertainty in funding affects people, progress, and public health. We showed up to make that clear. 💪🏻👩🏻🔬 🧠 #ScienceAdvocacy
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🚨 New paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We combined data from 3 studies (including an SSRI RCT) to explore how endocannabinoids relate to anxiety & treatment response in kids + teens. Team science w/ Jeanne Barcelona, Jeffrey Strawn & more!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@wsuthinklab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@wsuthinklab.bsky.social
Circulating endocannabinoids in children and adolescents: associations with anxiety and the impact of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Circulating endocannabinoids in children and adolescents: associations with anxiety and the impact of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
www.nature.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🚨 New paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We combined data from 3 studies (including an SSRI RCT) to explore how endocannabinoids relate to anxiety & treatment response in kids + teens. Team science w/ Jeanne Barcelona, Jeffrey Strawn & more!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@wsuthinklab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@wsuthinklab.bsky.social
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Inflammation in the brain can be beneficial or pathogenic. It varies across neurological diseases. And many new ways are emerging to modulate it
An outstanding new review
@science.org
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An outstanding new review
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science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Neuroinflammation across neurological diseases
The brain’s response to injury includes the activation of intrinsic microglia and the influx of leukocytes, collectively constituting neuroinflammation, the “flame” of the brain. Although details diff...
science.org
June 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Inflammation in the brain can be beneficial or pathogenic. It varies across neurological diseases. And many new ways are emerging to modulate it
An outstanding new review
@science.org
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An outstanding new review
@science.org
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Detroit is experiencing some awful air quality this week, thanks to the Canadian wildfires. Ever wonder what those particles (PM2.5) that I study look like? This is it!! Stay indoors folks! #AirPollution #wildfires #Detroit #EnvironmentalHealth
June 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Detroit is experiencing some awful air quality this week, thanks to the Canadian wildfires. Ever wonder what those particles (PM2.5) that I study look like? This is it!! Stay indoors folks! #AirPollution #wildfires #Detroit #EnvironmentalHealth
Why is it that in #academia we constantly feel like we’re falling behind? I opened my RPPR convinced I was off track—turns out I’m exactly where I should be. Taking this small win and celebrating it. #postdoc #neuro #SmallWins
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June 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Why is it that in #academia we constantly feel like we’re falling behind? I opened my RPPR convinced I was off track—turns out I’m exactly where I should be. Taking this small win and celebrating it. #postdoc #neuro #SmallWins
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🌳🧠 Nature shapes the mind
A study of 7,100+ US adolescents found that living near greenspace was linked to slower brain thinning, greater surface area, & better mental health outcomes – via changes in brain structure.
🔗 www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
#SciComm #Greenspace 🧪
A study of 7,100+ US adolescents found that living near greenspace was linked to slower brain thinning, greater surface area, & better mental health outcomes – via changes in brain structure.
🔗 www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
#SciComm #Greenspace 🧪
Longitudinal associations between greenspace exposure, structural brain development, and mental health and academic performance during early adolescence
Greenspace exposure is associated with positive mental health and academic outcomes.
This preregistered longitudinal study examines whether the influence of greenspace
exposure on structural brain dev...
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
🌳🧠 Nature shapes the mind
A study of 7,100+ US adolescents found that living near greenspace was linked to slower brain thinning, greater surface area, & better mental health outcomes – via changes in brain structure.
🔗 www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
#SciComm #Greenspace 🧪
A study of 7,100+ US adolescents found that living near greenspace was linked to slower brain thinning, greater surface area, & better mental health outcomes – via changes in brain structure.
🔗 www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
#SciComm #Greenspace 🧪
I studied Gulf War vets’ health in grad school. The PACT Act was meant to expand care + research on toxic exposures. Now the VA is slashing positions and censoring doctors from publishing findings.
This is dangerous.
Guardian: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#VeteransHealth #PACTAct
This is dangerous.
Guardian: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#VeteransHealth #PACTAct
Exclusive: US veterans agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearance
Move that seeks political control of doctors’ and scientists’ published research fits a pattern of censorship by the Trump administration, veterans advocates say
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June 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I studied Gulf War vets’ health in grad school. The PACT Act was meant to expand care + research on toxic exposures. Now the VA is slashing positions and censoring doctors from publishing findings.
This is dangerous.
Guardian: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#VeteransHealth #PACTAct
This is dangerous.
Guardian: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#VeteransHealth #PACTAct
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Poor air quality from pollution is a HUGE concern linked to deaths, shortened life expectancy and conditions including asthma, COPD, cancer and cardiovascular disease likely in large part to impacts on immune function. Its vital we monitor air quality so we can understand mechanisms & impacts 🧪🧵
May 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Poor air quality from pollution is a HUGE concern linked to deaths, shortened life expectancy and conditions including asthma, COPD, cancer and cardiovascular disease likely in large part to impacts on immune function. Its vital we monitor air quality so we can understand mechanisms & impacts 🧪🧵
🚨New paper out now! 🌄
We found that higher exposure to outdoor air pollution was linked to greater anxiety symptoms in adolescents and elevated levels of anti-inflammatory lipid mediators 🧪
Read more: tinyurl.com/Zundel2025
#AirPollution #EnvironmentalHealth #Neuro #Youth
We found that higher exposure to outdoor air pollution was linked to greater anxiety symptoms in adolescents and elevated levels of anti-inflammatory lipid mediators 🧪
Read more: tinyurl.com/Zundel2025
#AirPollution #EnvironmentalHealth #Neuro #Youth
Frontiers | Outdoor air pollution and psychiatric symptoms in adolescents: a study of peripheral inflammatory marker associations
IntroductionFine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution is associated with increased internalizing symptoms (e.g. depressive and anxiety symptoms), particu...
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May 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🚨New paper out now! 🌄
We found that higher exposure to outdoor air pollution was linked to greater anxiety symptoms in adolescents and elevated levels of anti-inflammatory lipid mediators 🧪
Read more: tinyurl.com/Zundel2025
#AirPollution #EnvironmentalHealth #Neuro #Youth
We found that higher exposure to outdoor air pollution was linked to greater anxiety symptoms in adolescents and elevated levels of anti-inflammatory lipid mediators 🧪
Read more: tinyurl.com/Zundel2025
#AirPollution #EnvironmentalHealth #Neuro #Youth
Honored to hear @brainsbeesbikes.bsky.social give today’s @sfnmichigan.bsky.social keynote. She shared her journey from researcher to patient—and why listening to patients must guide our science. With NIH trials being halted, her words were a powerful reminder of what’s at stake. #ScienceHero ❤️💪🏻
May 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Honored to hear @brainsbeesbikes.bsky.social give today’s @sfnmichigan.bsky.social keynote. She shared her journey from researcher to patient—and why listening to patients must guide our science. With NIH trials being halted, her words were a powerful reminder of what’s at stake. #ScienceHero ❤️💪🏻
Reposted by Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠
#misfn2025 annual meeting at Wayne State University on May 19, 2025.
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Click here for Abstract booklet - drive.google.com/file/d/1qR0X...
Click here for full program - drive.google.com/file/d/1A6kF...
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May 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
#misfn2025 annual meeting at Wayne State University on May 19, 2025.
Visit www.mi-sfn.org for more details.
Click here for Abstract booklet - drive.google.com/file/d/1qR0X...
Click here for full program - drive.google.com/file/d/1A6kF...
Visit www.mi-sfn.org for more details.
Click here for Abstract booklet - drive.google.com/file/d/1qR0X...
Click here for full program - drive.google.com/file/d/1A6kF...
Reposted by Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠
Trump and Musk have eliminated virtually every federal program intended to protect our health from the ravages of climate change, yet our poll last December found that most voters want the government to do MORE, not less.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social @lisapatel.bsky.social @bfrist.bsky.social
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A majority of registered voters want federal agencies to increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming - Center for Climate Change Communication
Many Americans understand that climate change harms health, and an increasing percentage believe climate-related health harms will become more common in their community over the next 10 years. Federal...
climatecommunication.gmu.edu
May 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Trump and Musk have eliminated virtually every federal program intended to protect our health from the ravages of climate change, yet our poll last December found that most voters want the government to do MORE, not less.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social @lisapatel.bsky.social @bfrist.bsky.social
@docsforclimate.bsky.social @lisapatel.bsky.social @bfrist.bsky.social
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Several Members of ACNP are in Washington D.C. today to meet with elected officials including Representative Dr. Neal Dunn of Florida. This photo includes ACNP Executive Director Sarah Timm, Dr. Hilary Marusak, and Dr. Sara Nixon.
May 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Several Members of ACNP are in Washington D.C. today to meet with elected officials including Representative Dr. Neal Dunn of Florida. This photo includes ACNP Executive Director Sarah Timm, Dr. Hilary Marusak, and Dr. Sara Nixon.
Reposted by Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠
Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter During Pregnancy Is Associated With Hippocampal Development in Offspring www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter During Pregnancy Is Associated With Hippocampal Development in Offspring www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Are you a young adult living in Detroit, MI?
Help us out by taking a 1-hour online survey on community + mental health 🧠💬
🎁 Enter to win 1 of 16 e-gift cards!
📲 Sign up here: www.tinyurl.com/detroitonehe...
#Detroit #MentalHealth #Neuroscience
April 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
📢 Still looking for participants!
Are you a young adult living in Detroit, MI?
Help us out by taking a 1-hour online survey on community + mental health 🧠💬
🎁 Enter to win 1 of 16 e-gift cards!
📲 Sign up here: www.tinyurl.com/detroitonehe...
#Detroit #MentalHealth #Neuroscience
Are you a young adult living in Detroit, MI?
Help us out by taking a 1-hour online survey on community + mental health 🧠💬
🎁 Enter to win 1 of 16 e-gift cards!
📲 Sign up here: www.tinyurl.com/detroitonehe...
#Detroit #MentalHealth #Neuroscience
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📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵
April 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵