NARC at Mount Sinai NY
narcatms.bsky.social
NARC at Mount Sinai NY
@narcatms.bsky.social
Neuropsychoimaging of Addiction and Related Conditions uses multi-modality imaging & scalable neuromodulation in human addiction (to stimulants/opiates) at Mount Sinai NY. Directed by RZ Goldstein & N Alia-Klein. http://icahn.mssm.edu/research/narc/about
Read Methylphenidate and drug memory modulation normalizes brain function in drug addiction on Kudos: www.growkudos.com/publications...
Methylphenidate and drug memory modulation normalizes brain function in drug addiction
Individuals with cocaine use disorder underwent a brain imaging task designed to weaken drug memories by extinguishing reactivity to images that were previously associated with drug use. When methylph...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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A colossal effort from the NARC lab: we reviewed the recent advances in drug addiction research from the lens of the impaired response inhibition and salience attribution model. A one stop shop for theory, severity, recovery, and novel directions.
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July 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Our research shows how #cannabis affects the developing brain. I spoke to Dr. Delaney Ruston about how #THC exposure in adolescent rats alters cell communication vital for cognitive function.

Watch more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Eb...
June 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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🎉Excited to share that Dr. Rita Goldstein, Director of Icahn Mount Sinai's Neuroimaging of Addictions and Related Conditions (NARC) Research Program, has been awarded an @bbrfoundation.bsky.social Distinguished Investigator Grant. CONGRATULATIONS Rita! Learn More👉
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April 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Symposium 2 chaired by Rita Goldstein, is focused on dopamine and its function in behaviour outside of the traditionally considered reward research sphere. #EBPS2025
April 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Learn More in Brain
Shared orbitofrontal dynamics to a drug-themed movie track craving and recovery in heroin addiction
- Greg Kronberg, Ahmet Ceceli, Yuefeng Huang, Pierre-Olivier Gaudreault, Sarah King, Natalie McClain, Nelly Alia-Klein, Rita Z Goldstein
👉 academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
Shared orbitofrontal dynamics to a drug-themed movie track craving and recovery in heroin addiction
Kronberg et al. measured fMRI responses to a drug-themed movie in individuals with heroin use disorder. Responses in the orbitofrontal cortex were biased t
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May 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Dr. @ericjnestler.bsky.social & @paulkennyphd.bsky.social were thrilled to present Dr. Rita Z. Goldstein w/ the Neuroscience Mentorship Distinction Award at the 17th annual Friedman Brain Institute Neuroscience Retreat! A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS Rita! So we'll deserved💯👏🎉! @mountsinainyc.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Congratulations to the 2025 Distinguished Investigator Grantees!
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Read the Press Release: ow.ly/oVn050Vk6vx
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#mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #neuroscience #depression #anxiety #schizophrenia #autism #OCD #PTSD #BPD #bipolardisorder #ADHD #ADD
March 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
NARC lab for science!
March 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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If anyone is still having trouble accessing Pubmed, this worked for me!
March 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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If pubmed is inaccessible at the moment, try @europepmc.org
March 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I always realized one key advantage of tDCS is that the technology can be made really cheap. But didnt realize it could even be disposable systems. Fascinating exploration by Marom Bikson.
February 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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An eternally long delay to drug reward

In this work, we trained rats to report, so to speak, a subjective estimate of the delay of i.v. cocaine reward

Their verdict: few tens of seconds, an eternity for rats which explains why cocaine is so low on their value ladder

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pharmacokinetics trumps pharmacodynamics during cocaine choice: a reconciliation with the dopamine hypothesis of addiction - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Pharmacokinetics trumps pharmacodynamics during cocaine choice: a reconciliation with the dopamine hypothesis of addiction
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February 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Grateful for the chance to share my thoughts on responsible use of LLMs in psychology research @spspnews.bsky.social #spsp2025. Here's a summary of my presentation for those who missed it. Thanks to @ashwinia.bsky.social for organizing this panel!

How should LLMs be used in psychology research? 🧵
February 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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... in understanding how drugs of abuse cause addiction in vulnerable individuals. This knowledge provides an increasingly powerful foundation upon which to develop more effective treatments for substance use disorders. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The biology of addiction
Insights into the biology of addiction and their potential translation into advances in therapy are discussed.
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February 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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SAMHSA website is back-up. Now is a great time to download NSDUH data, for those interested in these data.
February 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Hello Bluesky!
@vcalhoun.bsky.social, Kent Kiehl and I are teaching our 3-day
#fMRI course live online Feb 5 - 7, 2025!
#SPM, #ICA, path analysis, #DataScience

We've been at it for >20 years & love talking methods & connecting with colleagues!

Register at:
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fMRI Course
Instructors
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January 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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This paper is magical.
Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky

1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research

Open Access
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December 15, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Wonderful times #ACNP2025 for the NARC current and former members
December 13, 2024 at 1:48 AM
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"Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" w @ken-lxl.bsky.social
and braingpt.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. nature.com/articles/s41... 1/8
November 27, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Our new preprint on sex differences and hormonal effects in drug cue reactivity and its reappraisal in human addiction - an fMRI study
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Sex and hormonal effects on drug cue-reactivity and its regulation in human addiction
Objective To study the sex and hormonal effects on cortico-striatal engagement during drug cue-reactivity and its regulation focusing on drug reappraisal. Methods Forty-nine men (age=41.96±9.71) with...
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November 26, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Our newest in Brain by Greg Kronberg to serve as our first post here!
November 21, 2024 at 1:56 AM