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Layla Banihashemi, Ph.D.
@laylabraindoc.bsky.social
Neuroscientist examining stress-control neural circuitry, childhood adversity and mental health.
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🔥🔥🧠PhD positions are open in my lab, studying brain development and neurodevelopmental disorders based on neuroimaging MRI scans. Due: Dec 1, 2025. If you are interested, please DM me.
October 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Looking for a role between postdoc & faculty?

We're hiring TWO Senior Research Scholars at Purdue Indianapolis. You'll lead cutting-edge research on #epigenetics of #depression or using baby teeth for mental health #biomarkers 🧬🦷

Learn more & apply: www.thedunnlab.com/join-the...
September 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Age-related patterns of resting EEG power in infancy: Associations with prenatal socioeconomic disadvantage www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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If you're looking at pre-6.0 ABCD results with subcortical rs-fMRI correlations, the labels are all wrong! We reported a result as Auditory - L Putamen, but it it was actually Default Mode - L Cerebellum. docs.abcdstudy.org/latest/docum...
September 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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🔥🧠Excited to announce that I am recruiting PhD students this fall. Our lab uses neuroimaging (MRI) and computational modeling to study the mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders, bridging genetic factor, brain circuitry, early life stress, and psychopathology. Please feel free to DM me.
September 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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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...
August 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Looking for @theabcdstudy.bsky.social fMRI timeseries data?It's all in the 6.0 data release, thanks to @drdamienfair.bsky.social and team at ABCC 🧠: docs.abcdstudy.org/latest/docum...
ABCD-BIDS community collection
docs.abcdstudy.org
July 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Welcome to the Stress, Aging, and Relationships (STAR) Lab at Texas Tech University, led by Dr. Ryan L. Brown. We’re excited to share our logo for the first time!

Through this page, we'll share ongoing research in the lab, highlight student projects, & disseminate related research. Follow along!
August 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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If you are a published author, check your name on the LibGen database which list works illegally used by Meta to train AI.

30 of my books and papers are in this database.

The sheer scale of this intellectual theft is beyond imagination.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
www.theatlantic.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Finally out!!! Our new study described the CNV landscape of the ABCD study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. We identified its associations with dimensions of chid psychopathology and cognitive development. Thanks, Aaron, Joe and all co-authors.
psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
Copy Number Variant Architecture of Child Psychopathology and Cognitive Development in the ABCD Study | American Journal of Psychiatry
Objective: Late childhood is a crucial period for individuals with psychiatric disorders. While common single-nucleotide polymorphisms explain a large proportion of inherited risk, structural variatio...
psychiatryonline.org
June 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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A recent study investigated the role of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in sustaining remission in patients with treatment-resistant depression.

Full article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
June 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... Early childhood behavioral inhibition predicts altered social and emotional functioning in early adulthood: An ecological momentary assessment study.
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
June 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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This study explore how stress-related factors interact with socioeconomic status to impact cardiovascular risk

www.nature.com/artic...
Stress-related genetic factors modify the effect of socioeconomic status on cardiovascular risk
Neuropsychopharmacology - Stress-related genetic factors modify the effect of socioeconomic status on cardiovascular risk
www.nature.com
June 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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#Depression #Anxiety Hello Bleeps! Recommendations for best or newest meta-analyses of rsFC/iFC and pathological anxiety/depression? Relevant big-N papers also useful. Thanks in advance!
May 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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How are one's socioeconomic status (SES) and epigenetic age linked at midlife? Do associations differ by gender? Dr. Jennifer Robinette and Theo Moran examined these questions using individual and neighborhood indicators of SES from MIDUS.

Free to read for the week: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...
Household Income, Neighborhood Poverty, and Epigenetic Age: ... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine
compared with men. Some research documents an even stronger SES-health link among women. The present study investigated gender differences in SES-epigenetic age associations. Methods: Using data fr...
journals.lww.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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On the Stress Puzzle, @dalmeidapsu.bsky.social shared good news about aging from a daily stress perspective!

He highlighted that we experience fewer stressors AND have less affective reactivity to daily stressors as we age. #psychscisky #affectivescience #devpsych

Listen: tinyurl.com/dailystress
May 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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I invite you to join me & my colleagues on Monday, April 21 for APA’s Essential Science Conversation where we will discuss how Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine can transform to address the #ClimateCrisis.

🗓 April 21, 2025
🕙 10:00 AM CST
🔗 apa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
April 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Trauma Research Foundation is hiring a Research Associate. "This position may be ideal for someone who has recently completed a BA or MA in a related field who has aspirations of pursuing doctoral level work that integrates research and practice in a mental-health related field." DM for more info
March 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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I'm excited to announce that this spring/summer Statistics, Methods, and Research Training (SMaRT) Workshops are live!

Check out the offerings here: smart-workshops.com/workshops

Please repost and share widely!

Some more info in 🧵

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March 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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📣 Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA) @repsummerlee.bsky.social will speak at the Stand Up for Science rally in #Pittsburgh 🔥

Join us to stand up for facts, research, and the future TOGETHER!

📢 RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

Please repost 🔈🔊🔉

@standupforscience.bsky.social
#StandUpForScience
March 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Pittsburgh folks please keep spreading the word about the Stand Up for Science rally with the community! 💪🏼

@standupforscience.bsky.social
#StandUpforScience
#StandUpforScience2025
#ScienceforAll
#ScienceNotSilence
#Pittsburgh
February 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Check out our paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social:
#ThisWeekInNPP

Remitted late-life depression (LLD) participants had ⬇️ cardiovascular & posterior insula response to stress, while ⬆️ stressor-evoked BNST activity was linked to faster depression relapse, highlighting 🧠mechanisms of stress-related vulnerability in LLD

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brain and cardiovascular responses to acute stress in remitted and recurrent late-life depression - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Brain and cardiovascular responses to acute stress in remitted and recurrent late-life depression
www.nature.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM