Cecile Ladouceur, PhD
@cdladouceur.bsky.social
Professor of Psychiatry & Psychology, University of Pittsburgh. Child Psychologist. Director, Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience & Development Lab. Mom of 4
HIRING: Staff Scientist @ NeRD Lab at Boston Children's Hospital. Come join a powerhouse lab of 14 remarkable women. Looking for someone who loves neurodevelopment, sleep, & psychopathology, thrives on collaboration, & is excited to become the scientific backbone of our lab. tinyurl.com/mveskh4p
My Working Life article @science.org - When I stopped trying to have all the answers, my lab members thrived | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
When I stopped trying to have all the answers, my lab members thrived
This professor learned “to be there when people struggled without taking the wheel,” he writes
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How will #AI shape the next generation's ability to love, work & connect? 🤝 In a new #Adaptivitypod episode, host Ron Dahl talks with researchers about what young people need to become connected & thriving humans in a changing world. 🎙️Listen now: developingadolescent.semel.ucla.edu/podcasts/ite...
Very excited to share new findings from an NIMH-funded R21 on the neurodevelopment of worry! Manuscript led by super 🌟 Postdoctoral Scholar in the lab @ceciwestbrook.bsky.social , check it out! 👇👇👇 @psychiatry.pitt.edu
@ceciwestbrook.bsky.social · 4mo ago!! New publication alert !! Identifying neurodevelopmental signatures of worry: An ultra-high field (7-Tesla) fMRI study among adolescents and young adults www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @cdladouceur.bsky.social @antonija-kolobaric.bsky.social @helmetkarim.bsky.social
Excited to share recent findings from the lab examining how puberty-related changes in connectivity within the mesocorticolimbic circuitry is associated with sensitivity to reward/punishment. Manuscript led by the talented @amarojha.bsky.social - check it out in @npp-journal.bsky.social ! 👇👇👇
amar ojha@amarojha.bsky.social · 4mo agoHow does puberty shape how brain connectivity relates to environmental stimuli? And might this inform sex differences in psychiatric risk during this period? Excited to share new work now out in @npp-journal.bsky.social @acnporg.bsky.social examining this! rdcu.be/e9ASG tinyurl.com/56dhse2t. A 🧵1/n
Precision reward/affect fMRI study out now in HBM! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @dvsmith.bsky.social @olinotom.bsky.social @coopersharp.bsky.social and @shenghanwang.bsky.social Intensively sampled task + rest fMRI data with behavioral manipulation openly available on OpenNeuro! (1/2)
Precision Imaging for Intraindividual Investigation of the Reward Response
We present open data for an intensively sampled precision imaging study including multiple reward-related tasks and a behavioral mood manipulation. Our initial analysis found low test–retest reliabil....
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Matt Mattoni@mattmattoni.bsky.social · 10mo ago🚨🚨New precision imaging study and open dataset 🚨🚨 Featuring almost 200 functional runs acquired in 3-4d intervals and behavioral manipulations focused on intraindividual study of the reward response - The Night Owls Scan Club (NOSC) With @dvsmith.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social!
🚨FREE WEBINAR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 Get an early start to #statnerdsummer with a free seminar on how multilevel models and structural equation models intersect. I'll be showing this through MLM and SEM growth curves. Sign up for free! Share widely! You can register here: smart-workshops.com/workshops
Super proud of @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social who demonstrated that amygdala-TUS slows initial threat acquisition and enhances subsequent extinction. Great collaboration with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social and @deVoogdld.bsky.social ea. Thanks to @ERC.europa.eu. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The human amygdala in threat learning and extinction
Ultrasonic neuromodulation of the human amygdala provides causal evidence for its role in forming persistent threat memories.
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Matt Mattoni@mattmattoni.bsky.social · 4mo agoPrecision reward/affect fMRI study out now in HBM! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @dvsmith.bsky.social @olinotom.bsky.social @coopersharp.bsky.social and @shenghanwang.bsky.social Intensively sampled task + rest fMRI data with behavioral manipulation openly available on OpenNeuro! (1/2)
This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
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Recent review about long-range axons rdcu.be/eXeDG
Long-range axon branching: contributions to brain network plasticity and repair
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Connectome reconstructions across multiple species reveal that the morphology of axonal projections is highly variable, even between neurons of the same location or...
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Registration is open!!!! You can also submit a poster abstract! Come join us for an amazing set of talks and insightful discussions on the impact of stress on brain development and implications for the development of affective disorders… @pittpsychiatry.bsky.social
Cecile Ladouceur, PhD@cdladouceur.bsky.social · 12mo agoSpread the word!! DANS 2025 registration is opening very soon…take a look at some of our amazing speakers! You can present a poster you will present or have presented elsewhere…the goal is to foster discussion. Check dans.pitt.edu for updates!
Excited to share these findings from our CATS center in a manuscript led by the talented Ceci Westbrook, MD, PhD, Post-doctoral Scholar in the lab!🤩 👇👇👇
@ceciwestbrook.bsky.social · 12mo agoOur new paper out in Translational Psychiatry explores brain activity in different phases of the reward response and their relationship to treatment outcomes in adolescents with anxiety disorders. @cdladouceur.bsky.social @erika-forbes.bsky.social @jennifersilk.bsky.social et al. --> rdcu.be/eAY7o
Excited to share that my TEDx talk is finally available online. I loved sharing what the science shows us: that it's time to reframe adolescence - from problem to ✨ potential ✨ 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8V...
The surprising science of adolescent brains | Jennifer Pfeifer | TEDxPortland
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Spread the word!! DANS 2025 registration is opening very soon…take a look at some of our amazing speakers! You can present a poster you will present or have presented elsewhere…the goal is to foster discussion. Check dans.pitt.edu for updates!
Wow…awesome and impactful work!!! Bravo! 👏👏👏
Damien Fair@drdamienfair.bsky.social · 12mo agoI 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...
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NOT-OD-25-131: Revision: NIH Policy and Guidelines on the Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Revision: NIH Policy and Guidelines on the Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research NOT-OD-25...
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NIH will only accept six applications per PI per calendar year.
NIH has issued NOT-OD-25-132 Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications which informs us that NIH will only accept six new, renewal, resubmission, or revision applications fro…
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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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Screens, Sleep, and White Matter in Childhood and Adolescent Depression url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2835092?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=062825
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Got my hopes up for a hot minute when the R13 notice came out-for our DANS conf- only to find this notice today 😢 But happy to see Fs are finally out!
NOT-MH-25-210: Notice of NIMH Withdrawal from Participation in PA-25-080, "NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (Parent R13 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)"
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of NIMH Withdrawal from Participation in PA-25-080,
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CAN-D lab staff and trainees had fun showcasing their work at our Dept annual Research Day! Celebrating science! 🤩
#ThisWeekInNPP This study explored relapse & recurrence in late-life depression, finding widespread 🧠 network configuration was required for resilience, while failure to reconfigure was associated w/ vulnerability to relapse @agerlachphd.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Network homeostasis: functional brain network alterations and relapse in remitted late-life depression - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Network homeostasis: functional brain network alterations and relapse in remitted late-life depression
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1/6 Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance? Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by @jrbch.bsky.social
Really happy to receive my first paperback copy of Coming Of Age 🎉 I wrote this book to examine the emotional power of the adolescent years – I explore why adolescents behave the way they do, but also about why events from those years continue to affect who we are, even many years later 1/
DANS is happening!! 🎉🎉 Mark your calendars and please spread the word!
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com
How delays in issuing NIH funds may create the appearance of a budget 'surplus' that becomes justification to cut the NIH budget. @statnews.com #neuroskyence
Rosa Lafer-Sousa@rosalafersousa.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 This MUST READ essay and call to action spells out, in very clear terms, how the Trump administration could get away with slashing the NIH budget. NIH scientists and Dems in congress need to read and understand it. This is where we win or lose the battle to save the NIH and US science. 🧪 🧠 🧬 🔊
