Received perfect score on a center grant. Looks like we will be hiring postdocs for big collaboration UC San Diego Health on organoid models of schizophrenia and autism genes, CRISPR a/i screens and integrative data analysis of genes and neuroimaging, EEG and neural phenotypes! Pls RT

I wrote about the FDA advisory committee meeting on Lykos MDMA-AT. #FDA is expected to respond by August 11. In this JAMA piece, I discuss the committee's votes and what they mean for future #psychedelic research with #psilocybin, #LSD, #MDMA. ja.ma/4doKWoE

❗️the 2025-26 #clinicalpsychology app cycle is almost here! I've compiled my materials (#neuropsych focus) from last year for 🇨🇦&🇺🇸 programs (email templates, statements, CV, interview prep), feel free to use these as examples, share them, & reach out❗️ 🔗drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

Psychedelic effects on the brain. 🧵1/13

🍄 Psilocybin & escitalopram create different reconfigurations in the global functional hierarchy of 🧠 brain dynamics in people with major depressive disorder 👇 @HedoniaResearch Robin Carhart-Harris Yonatan Sanz Perl nature.com/articles/s4422…

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre now has a Rapid Access in Neurosurgery (RAIN) clinic. sunnybrook.ca/RAINclinic for more information on referrals. Ontario Ministry of Health Ontario Health Thanks to everyone who made this possible!

Great new study with more evidence to support superiority of rTMS to standard treatment for TRD American Psychiatric Association rTMS as a Next Step in Antidepressant Nonresponders: A Randomized Comparison With Current Antidepressant Treatment Approaches doi.org/10.1176/appi.a…

Congrats to all the BBRFoundation awardees!! For those not selected, you are in the majority (even though @x makes it feel like everyone else was awarded!) FYI, I was not successful when I applied 5 years ago but was grateful to learn from the rejection and kept moving forward

How psychedelics may lead to false beliefs. 🧵1/11

FDA REJECTS MDMA! nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna1…

My and Tory Eisenlohr-Moul, PhD (CLEAR Lab)'s Dimensional Affective Sensitivity to Hormones across the Menstrual Cycle (DASH-MC) framework has been published in molecularpsychiatry! We aim to reshape how we study and treat #PMDD, #PME, and other forms of hormone sensitivity. 🧵 rdcu.be/dQYfU

Please retweet 😊 Our lab UBC Medicine and Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health is looking for MSc student to join ASAP. If you are interested, please reach out to me. Lab website: ksaresearch.med.ubc.ca

**Exciting Opportunity** We're seeking a motivated Research Assistant to contribute to innovative studies on #Neuromodulation as well as #AlzheimersDisease. This position, based Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, requires an 18-month commitment and is perfect for aspiring #grad_students Cognitive Brain Health Lab

I have joined the University of Calgary (Department of Psychiatry) as an Assistant Professor. I am recruiting a part-time research coordinator to work on a variety of substance use projects. I'm great to work with! Please share/apply! internal.careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/14827812-…

We know light therapy treats #depression, so what does this new RCT add? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38657564 1. Benefits in cognition 2. Improved connectivity in the Default Mode Network (DMN) The DMN is the seat of depressive rumination How to use light therapy: chrisaikenmd.com/lighttherapy

Viewpoint discusses clinical trial results of GLP-1 receptor agonists for treating the weight gain and cardiovascular disease risk of psychiatric medications. ja.ma/4duftSp

Congrats Nelson and team on another great study Pentoxifylline for Bipolar Depression: A Pilot Study 50d free full text: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jiCwbZg7P%7…

Sabrina Wong from our team leading the hypothesis that perhaps ketamine’s mechanism of action involves relevant molecular changes to metabolic systems in the brain and periphery pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39218315/

Honoured to be awarded 2nd place for 2023 ISBD Best Paper Awards for my research on #ketamine 💉for #bipolar disorder 🧠Thank you to all co-authors, the reviewers & my supervisor Joshua Rosenblat, MD, MSc, FRCPC.