Niamh MacSweeney
@niamhmacsweeney.bsky.social
Postdoc at @PromentaC | 🧠 + puberty + adolescent mental health | 🇮🇪🇳🇴 |
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September 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Thrilled to receive a @srcdorg.bsky.social Small Grant for Early Career Scholars! This funding will support my research on how hormonal contraceptive use may affect brain development and mood during adolescence.
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Announcing the 2025 Recipients of the Small Grants for Early Career Scholars | Society for Research in Child Development SRCD
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July 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Thrilled to receive a @srcdorg.bsky.social Small Grant for Early Career Scholars! This funding will support my research on how hormonal contraceptive use may affect brain development and mood during adolescence.
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Our paper - Neuroimaging Insights into Adolescent Depression and Development - is now out in Nature Mental Health! 🧠 Huge thanks to my wonderful co-authors @yaratoenders.bsky.social and @cktamnes.bsky.social. I loved bringing these ideas together with you! rdcu.be/eugUM
Neuroimaging insights into adolescent depression risk and development
Nature Mental Health - Adolescence marks a critical period for the onset of depression, yet the neurobiological mechanisms remain unclear. Here the authors review literature linking adolescent...
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July 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Our paper - Neuroimaging Insights into Adolescent Depression and Development - is now out in Nature Mental Health! 🧠 Huge thanks to my wonderful co-authors @yaratoenders.bsky.social and @cktamnes.bsky.social. I loved bringing these ideas together with you! rdcu.be/eugUM
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Happy to announce that our article (my master’s thesis) is now published in PNAS. Here we investigated the link between pregnancy and birth and child brain structure 🧠🤰🏼👶🏻
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Linking pregnancy- and birth-related risk factors to a multivariate fusion of child cortical structure | PNAS
Pregnancy- and birth-related factors affect offspring brain development, emphasizing
the importance of early life exposures. While most previous st...
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June 18, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Happy to announce that our article (my master’s thesis) is now published in PNAS. Here we investigated the link between pregnancy and birth and child brain structure 🧠🤰🏼👶🏻
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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New preprint out on the link between gratitude and wellbeing: who benefits most and under what circumstances?
Across four studies with 220,314 individuals from 67 countries, we investigated whether individual, contextual, or cultural differences moderated this relationship.
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Across four studies with 220,314 individuals from 67 countries, we investigated whether individual, contextual, or cultural differences moderated this relationship.
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April 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
New preprint out on the link between gratitude and wellbeing: who benefits most and under what circumstances?
Across four studies with 220,314 individuals from 67 countries, we investigated whether individual, contextual, or cultural differences moderated this relationship.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Across four studies with 220,314 individuals from 67 countries, we investigated whether individual, contextual, or cultural differences moderated this relationship.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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🚨 HIRING 🚨 a Postdoctoral Associate in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social
My group's research aims to understand how social and physical environments impact brain and behaviour development.
Application window closes in three days!
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My group's research aims to understand how social and physical environments impact brain and behaviour development.
Application window closes in three days!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX655/p...
Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at King's College London
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March 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🚨 HIRING 🚨 a Postdoctoral Associate in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social
My group's research aims to understand how social and physical environments impact brain and behaviour development.
Application window closes in three days!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX655/p...
My group's research aims to understand how social and physical environments impact brain and behaviour development.
Application window closes in three days!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX655/p...
🚨New paper out in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 🚨 In this pre-registered study, we examined the role of pubertal development in the association between trauma exposure and internalising symptoms in female youth using ABCD data:
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<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Exposure to trauma in childhood is associated with an increased risk for internalising symptoms. Alterations in pubertal development has been proposed as a potential mechanism underpinnin...
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March 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🚨New paper out in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 🚨 In this pre-registered study, we examined the role of pubertal development in the association between trauma exposure and internalising symptoms in female youth using ABCD data:
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Offering a #postdoc role and a competitive #PhD scholarship at Deakin University in Australia. Join our new @enigmabrains initiative bringing together #neuroimaging (#MRI) data on #adolescent #brain develop and the influence of #puberty
February 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Offering a #postdoc role and a competitive #PhD scholarship at Deakin University in Australia. Join our new @enigmabrains initiative bringing together #neuroimaging (#MRI) data on #adolescent #brain develop and the influence of #puberty
Hi Bluesky👋 Excited to use my first post to share our new paper: "Multimodal brain age indicators of internalizing problems in early adolescence: A longitudinal investigation" Now out in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Multimodal Brain Age Indicators of Internalizing Problems in Early Adolescence: A Longitudinal Investigation
Adolescence is a time of increased risk for the onset of internalizing problems, particularly in females. However, how individual differences in brain…
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January 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Hi Bluesky👋 Excited to use my first post to share our new paper: "Multimodal brain age indicators of internalizing problems in early adolescence: A longitudinal investigation" Now out in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...