New preprint from my lab! In an abuse-enriched transdiagnostic sample, childhood threat and deprivation showed opposing curvilinear relationships with amygdala and sgACC stress reactivity — and these neural measures also tracked with post-traumatic stress symptoms. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Amygdala and Subgenual Cingulate Stressor-Evoked Activity Varies Across a Spectrum of Childhood Adversity Severity: Links to Affective and Cardiovascular Outcomes

Background Childhood adversity is linked to psychopathology risk and dysregulated stress reactivity; however, unified underlying neural mechanisms are unclear. A central visceral network, including th...

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Excited to share new research from my lab in final published form! By deleting hypocretin (orexin) receptors from CRF neurons, we uncovered neuropeptide mechanisms linking alcohol drinking and negative emotional hyperarousal through BNST neuronal excitability. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Disadvantaged neighborhoods correlated with lower cortical thickness and accelerated maturation rates in adolescents. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaghttps://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/36/4/bhag034/8626323034

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Updated trends in the global prevalence and burden of mental disorders, 1990-2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 - PubMed

Gates Foundation, Queensland Health, and University of Queensland.

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Save the Date! Join us in New Orleans, March 17-20. 2027, for the SBSM 2027 Annual Meeting, focused on restorative practices for health and healing across the lifespan. Learn more: /thesbsm.org/2027-annual-meeting/ #SBSM2027 #SBSM #AnnualMeeting

We have a new Postdoc position, exploring how genetic factors and environmental factors (e.g., early life stress) influence brain development and neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., autism) based on brain MRI data. Welcome!

Beyond honored to receive the MacLean Award from @connectsbsm.bsky.social. Deep thanks to my nominator @tekraynak.bsky.social and the SBSM Awards and MacLean committees for this distinction. Forever grateful to Dr. Pete Gianaros for his mentorship that fostered my translational imaging program.

We are excited for the new pilot study by our team on a digital stress management intervention: Using the intervention following stressful events in daily life reduced stress and negative affect in a student sample. Want to know more? doi.org/10.1016/j.in...

Excited to share our new review “Mapping interactions between adversity and neuroplasticity across development” in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. We discuss how experience - particularly adversity - interacts with neuroplasticity during human development authors.elsevier.com/c/1mB5U4sIRv...

What a gift to the neuroimaging community from @anniegbryant.bsky.social 🧠🎨!

Annie G. Bryant@anniegbryant.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The extended version of my thesis procrastination project/subcortex visualization package is out now in both Python and R, now that I’ve graduated 🤠 This figure shows the 9 atlases included (and counting)! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Website: anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...

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Circuit-Based Approaches to Understanding the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC)

The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is essential for monitoring ongoing behavior, regulating affect, and guiding social interactions. Altered ACC structure and function are implicated in a host of psy...

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Are you a Postdoc or Early Career Faculty interested in health psychology, behavioral medicine, or mind-body science? Apply to the Pittsburgh Mind-Body Science and Health Summer Institute - July 13-15 in Pittsburgh! Travel and accommodations supported by the Institute Application Deadline Jan 9

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🔥🔥🧠PhD positions are open in my lab, studying brain development and neurodevelopmental disorders based on neuroimaging MRI scans. Due: Dec 1, 2025. If you are interested, please DM me.

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NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years

But the agency has spent nearly its entire budget for this fiscal year, which ends tomorrow.

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Looking for a role between postdoc & faculty? We're hiring TWO Senior Research Scholars at Purdue Indianapolis. You'll lead cutting-edge research on #epigenetics of #depression or using baby teeth for mental health #biomarkers 🧬🦷 Learn more & apply: www.thedunnlab.com/join-the...

🔥🧠Excited to announce that I am recruiting PhD students this fall. Our lab uses neuroimaging (MRI) and computational modeling to study the mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders, bridging genetic factor, brain circuitry, early life stress, and psychopathology. Please feel free to DM me.

h/t @foxdotdrew.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience - Communications Psychology

Programming is essential for modern research in neuroscience and psychology, but it can quickly become a source of frustration and error. This Primer introduces ten practical principles guiding resear...

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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...

Looking for @theabcdstudy.bsky.social fMRI timeseries data?It's all in the 6.0 data release, thanks to @drdamienfair.bsky.social and team at ABCC 🧠: docs.abcdstudy.org/latest/docum...

Welcome to the Stress, Aging, and Relationships (STAR) Lab at Texas Tech University, led by Dr. Ryan L. Brown. We’re excited to share our logo for the first time! Through this page, we'll share ongoing research in the lab, highlight student projects, & disseminate related research. Follow along!

If you are a published author, check your name on the LibGen database which list works illegally used by Meta to train AI. 30 of my books and papers are in this database. The sheer scale of this intellectual theft is beyond imagination. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

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Finally out!!! Our new study described the CNV landscape of the ABCD study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. We identified its associations with dimensions of chid psychopathology and cognitive development. Thanks, Aaron, Joe and all co-authors. psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

Copy Number Variant Architecture of Child Psychopathology and Cognitive Development in the ABCD Study | American Journal of Psychiatry

Objective: Late childhood is a crucial period for individuals with psychiatric disorders. While common single-nucleotide polymorphisms explain a large proportion of inherited risk, structural variatio...

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A recent study investigated the role of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in sustaining remission in patients with treatment-resistant depression. Full article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... Early childhood behavioral inhibition predicts altered social and emotional functioning in early adulthood: An ecological momentary assessment study.

#Depression #Anxiety Hello Bleeps! Recommendations for best or newest meta-analyses of rsFC/iFC and pathological anxiety/depression? Relevant big-N papers also useful. Thanks in advance!

How are one's socioeconomic status (SES) and epigenetic age linked at midlife? Do associations differ by gender? Dr. Jennifer Robinette and Theo Moran examined these questions using individual and neighborhood indicators of SES from MIDUS. Free to read for the week: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

Household Income, Neighborhood Poverty, and Epigenetic Age: ... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine

compared with men. Some research documents an even stronger SES-health link among women. The present study investigated gender differences in SES-epigenetic age associations. Methods: Using data fr...

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On the Stress Puzzle, @dalmeidapsu.bsky.social shared good news about aging from a daily stress perspective! He highlighted that we experience fewer stressors AND have less affective reactivity to daily stressors as we age. #psychscisky #affectivescience #devpsych Listen: tinyurl.com/dailystress

Ryan L. Brown@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social · 2y ago

🧩 My conversation with Dr. Dave Almeida is out now! We chatted about the ~10% of people who report no daily stressors, the importance of measuring positive emotions, how everyday stress & emotion processes shift as we age, & more! #scicomm #devpsych #psychscisky Listen now: tinyurl.com/dailystress

I invite you to join me & my colleagues on Monday, April 21 for APA’s Essential Science Conversation where we will discuss how Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine can transform to address the #ClimateCrisis. 🗓 April 21, 2025 🕙 10:00 AM CST 🔗 apa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Trauma Research Foundation is hiring a Research Associate. "This position may be ideal for someone who has recently completed a BA or MA in a related field who has aspirations of pursuing doctoral level work that integrates research and practice in a mental-health related field." DM for more info

I'm excited to announce that this spring/summer Statistics, Methods, and Research Training (SMaRT) Workshops are live! Check out the offerings here: smart-workshops.com/workshops Please repost and share widely! Some more info in 🧵 1/

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