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This 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥 from @tiffanycheingho.bsky.social discusses how the exposome - the sum of internal, external, and contextual exposures - shapes adolescent neuroplasticity & mental health risk and could present a novel opportunity to guide strategies to promote adolescent 🧠 health

Does smartphone language use reflect depression risk in teens?

This Deep Dive covers a study finding that adolescents with depression used more self-focused & negative emotion words, and fewer future-focused words. Brain activity was tied to these language patterns.

youtu.be/2U7M40Hl_dw?...

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...

Health is more than the absence of disease, and depends on harmony across multiple brain-body systems. We need more research on whole-person health! The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) @thenccih.bsky.social funds vital whole-person research. RP and #KEEP_NCCIH!

Call for papers for a Brain, Behavior, and Immunity special issue on precision immunopsychiatry of depression! If you have a project in the pipeline that fits the bill, we encourage you to submit.

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

@pnirs.bsky.social

NIH researchers were working on treatments, health equity, and saving lives—but their work was cut for being ideologically inconvenient.

Now a federal judge says: illegal.

Recently, NIHers risked everything to speak out. Stand with them here ➡️zurl.co/rqq7T

zurl.co/0GTNE

“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ

Could be huge. Especially for those terminated in the anti-DEI purge.

"...NIH will allow individuals whose mentored career development awards prematurely ended on or after January 1, 2025, to be eligible to apply for a new mentored career development award"

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I've been taking early walks in the park to watch and listen to birds for my sanity, and the Merlin Bird ID app has been indispensable for identifying bird songs.

Merlin was funded by a grant from the NSF, the science funding agency that Trump is trying to destroy.

www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

Without NIH funding for research, "your mother's cancer will wait for a cure. Your child's genetic disorder will wait for a breakthrough. The research that could save lives may be delayed or never come." ~Melissa Byrn, UChicago @standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpForScience2025

If you are looking for a postdoc focused on how environmental factors shape brain development using publicly available data check out this position at King’s College London with the incredible Dr. Divyangana Rakesh:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX655/p...

People who work or have worked at HHS, NIH, FDA, CMS, CDC, HRSA and other health agencies - we want to hear from you.

Researchers who rely on federal funding from any of these entities, we also want to hear from you.

Reach out to us: www.propublica.org/tips/

Or find me on Signal: 347-549-0332 🔎

Welcome to BSky @tiffanycheingho.bsky.social

Tiffany is the Director of the Research in the Cognition Affect + NeuroDev in Youth lab- Follow her to keep up with her team's great, developmentally centered, neuropsych research covering early adversity, PNI, and other factors in depression risk :)

New paper in print @ JoPaCS!

1st registered report
1st study published w/ data I collected

🧵on the Anger Incentive Delay Task as a reward-salient stressor that is more synergistic to many reward-focused theories of health than the TSST 1/12

psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

🎉We are hiring 1-2 postdoctoral fellows in my lab (webbslab.com) to work on NIMH/NCCIH-funded projects focused on the causes and treatment of depression in teens. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️
webbslab.com/job-postings