#BINW24 is here!!! Register today to get all the details sent straight to your inbox. Get your intros ready, because we’re starting with one of my faves, #BlackInNeuroRollCall. 🙌🏾Let’s celebrate the Black In Neuro 🧠 community today, and can’t wait to meet everyone! 🥳🎉

YAY it’s Black In Neuro 🧠 week! 🧠 I’m Jewel, and I just finished my PhD in neuroscience this month!🧠 I am an incoming postdoctoral fellow in anesthesia Stanford Medicine , and I recently got great news that I will be joining as a Stanford Propel awardee! I’m so excited #BINW24 ! 🥳🧠

Happy #BINW24! 🎉 I'm Brielle 👋🏾 and I'm an asst. prof at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's. My lab studies circuit mechanisms of attention and cognition in health and disease. 🧠 I'm also a co-founder and outgoing Programming Director for Black In Neuro 🧠. #BlackInNeuroRollCall

Happy #BINW24. I'm Kafui Dzirasa - NeuroMentor at Duke University School of Medicine and HHMI. This is me in my most natural form...raising up and guiding champions. 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿#BlackInNeuroRollCall Black In Neuro 🧠

Happy #BINW24 🥳🎉 I’m Bri 👋🏽 I’m entering the 2nd year of my postdoc in the Kash lab at Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at UNC-CH. My research interests include investigating the factors that drive increased vulnerability to substance/alcohol use disorders #BlackInNeuroRollCall Black In Neuro 🧠

Touched by the kind UC San Francisco profile re: my recent UCSF IHPS mentoring award. So sweet of Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, MD for her kind words, and of course Chuan-Mei Lee, Marilyn Thomas, & Paul Wesson for nominating me! It's an honor to join an incredible group of prior awardees! ucsf.edu/news/2024/07/4…

Thank you Vanderbilt Health for featuring my 🧠🧲research. Here's hoping that increased awareness of the high prevalence of nicotine use in people with psychiatric disorders leads to better treatments! Vanderbilt Psychiatry VUMC Research NIDAnews discoveries.vanderbilthealth.com/2024/07/can-rt…

🎉 Honored to announce that I have been selected as a Columbia University Irving Program Scholar! Grateful for the support to continue our clinical investigation on ACEs in underrepresented populations. irvinginstitute.columbia.edu/news/nearly-1-…

Now in press at ACSChemNeurosci – our study about psilocybin’s effect on fear extinction. 🍄🐭⚡ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Proud of the systematic work by Sam Woodburn, where we tested how the behavioral effects depend on dose, timing, serotonin receptors.

My NIMH K01 Career Development Award has just arrived. Deeply thankful for my mentor team Eleni Linos Carolyn Rodríguez, MD, PhD Tina Hernandez-Boussard Fatima Rodriguez Rayhan Lal #LLM #MentalHealth Stanford Department of Medicine Stanford Center for Digital Health 🙌

Truly honored to announce I am now a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor and Physician-Scientist Vanderbilt Psychiatry Thank you to Dept Chair and mentor Stephan Heckers and Warren Taylor, MD, MHSc Roscoe Brady for their advocacy and support! Look out for 🤩🧲🧠 research from the WARD LAB!

Endless gratitude for International OCD Foundation #OCDCon ‘24! 🧠🙏🏾 It was an honor to integrate my identities as an OCD survivor, researcher, advocate, + science communicator, & present 4 sessions this year on: 🍄 Psychedelics & OCD 📣 Peer Support 🌏 DEIA in OCD recovery 📣 OCD Advocacy﹢SciComm

International OCD Foundation #OCDCon is so special to me! It’s a safe space, a reprieve from the world that still doesn’t understand #RealOCD — where passionate stakeholders from ALL walks of life come together for the shared mission of supporting our OCD community… it’s nothing short of magical.💫🙏🏾

Three years after getting a grant from American Psychological Foundation to conduct a pilot study, I am pleased to share that the main outcomes paper has been accepted for publication Aging & Mental Health just in time to make my tenure packet! Thank you Caitlyn Nix for being my coauthor! #tenuretrack

IOCDF Advocate Uma R. Chatterjee, M.S., MHPS provides critical education on OCD on NOCD's recent podcast episode.

Thanks to Stanford Department of Medicine for spotlighting this #StanfordCDH study from Jiyeong Kim, PhD, MPH, Eleni Linos & Carolyn Rodríguez, MD, PhD that suggests #LargeLanguageModels could improve the speed & accuracy of #OCD diagnosis. stanford.io/4fXYBVL

Quick thread on our JAMA psych paper: multiple studies, often in large samples, report either positive or negative associations between cognition and mental health. What do you notice about the effect in this gif, where quartiles of mental health symptoms are separately plotted?

Brain scans of patients revealed a distinct pattern of neuronal interactions that may predispose some people to developing depression, according to a new study led by Dr. Conor Liston and Dr. Charles Lynch (Chuck Lynch) of Weill Cornell Medicine Psychiatry. Full story: bit.ly/3ASqcb5

Happy to share that our work applying precision mapping to individuals with depression sampled longitudinally over an extended period has been published this week in @nature. Brief recap of the main findings and their potential implications below. nature.com/articles/s4158…