Exceptional keynote from the legendary Dr. Michelle Craske🌟She highlighted her ongoing work on mechanistic insights into threat and reward systems, which continues to be instrumental for advancing precise & effective interventions for depression and anxiety #2025SPR
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A really interesting closing talk on behalf of Linhao Zhang showed that sleep duration and physiological regulation (RSA) jointly predict teen mental health💤 Among teens with higher RSA, shorter sleep duration was linked to greater internalizing problems.
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Sofia Cardenas presented fascinating work on sleep & brain connectivity in first time fathers 🧠 Poorer sleep quality & changes in testosterone after birth were linked to differences in white matter organization in regions important for cognition and emotion processing
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Kicking off an interesting symposium on sleep and physiology: Emily Cardenas shared fascinating work on the peripartum period, showing that in women with a more reduced reward response (RewP) sleep problems were more strongly linked to depressive symptoms 💤 #2025SPR
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Fascinating to see how blunted reward learning appears across those with depression, in remission, and even at family risk. Dr. Pizzagalli’s work highlights how reward-related markers may help match patients to the most effective treatment, like bupropion vs. sertraline. #2025SPR

Such an incredible and inspiring keynote by Dr. Diego Pizzagalli at #2025SPR 🧠 He shared decades of translational, multi-method work on anhedonia and reward learning, illustrating how neuroscience can meaningfully inform clinical understanding of treatment for depression @therealspr.bsky.social