🚨Preprint Alert 🧠 Our new preprint „Menarche onset is an inflection point for mental health and brain development“ is now online! 👉 Preprint available here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A new article from the Cornell Chronicle highlights recent research from NSCA member Anthony Burrow on how often a sense of purpose fluctuates during #adolescence, and why it is important to provide young people with opportunities to engage in purposeful pursuits: news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...

A stable sense of purpose helps teens navigate life’s challenges | Cornell Chronicle

Like their emotions and self-esteem, teenagers’ sense of purpose fluctuates day to day, and those who experience it steadily – not just intensely – may benefit most.

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How do we define "good" fMRI data? Especially with resting state, there are circularity risks if we evaluate data quality as showing the networks we expect to see. Javier Gonzalez-Castillo (& me & others) developed pBOLD, a new metric that uses multi-echo info. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/8

New preprint out! We show that the exposome and attention-related brain networks jointly predict attention problems in early adolescence—highlighting how environment and brain function have shared and unique associations with reported attention problems. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...

The exposome and attention-related brain networks jointly predict attention problems in early adolescence

Background: Attention problems are common transdiagnostic symptoms of psychiatric illness. Although environmental exposures and experiences influence attention during adolescent development, the under...

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When I retired only around 25% of Full Professors in STEM were women. I was proud be one of them, and to support the success of fellow women in STEM through mentoring. This was not an organic process. It took hard work and persistence. And now The Regime is setting us back decades.

NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men, study finds

A new paper shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, have been disproportionately affected by NIH grant terminations.

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$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers

So proud of @meganspurney.bsky.social and team for this exciting new paper from my lab! Younger adolescents' working memory performance benefits more from reward than older teens and young adults. This occurs even though all ages report similar preferences about reward value and cognitive demand.

Megan Spurney@meganspurney.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Check out my new preprint!! We investigate how monetary rewards influence working memory performance across ages💸 @katieinsel.bsky.social @camillephaneuf.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

Loved being a part of this project team! And super interested by our finding that reward-related improvements in working memory emerge during early adolescence (vs. mid- to late-adolescence in other cognitive domains). Shout-out to Megan and Katie for leading this charge!

Megan Spurney@meganspurney.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Check out my new preprint!! We investigate how monetary rewards influence working memory performance across ages💸 @katieinsel.bsky.social @camillephaneuf.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

Monetary Rewards Modulate Working Memory Performance During Adolescence: https://osf.io/xzu2n

Check out my new preprint!! We investigate how monetary rewards influence working memory performance across ages💸 @katieinsel.bsky.social @camillephaneuf.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

ear Community Members, I am excited to announce we have launched a search to fill a new Position at the Institute for Adolescent Mental Health and Well Being. Please share this posting, for a Senior Program Coordinator, with anyone you think might be interested.

netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️

ICE whistles work.

The horns and whistles work

What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.

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The awfulness of the northwestern/Trump deal, described on NPR yesterday will.illinois.edu/21stshow/sto...

Breaking down Northwestern University’s $75 million settlement with the Trump administration | Illinois Public Media

Northwestern University will pay $75 million to the federal government, and make commitments to comply with Trump preferences in admissions, hiring, campus protests policies, and trans health care. In...

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📢 We’ve received several questions about the character count for OHBM 2026 submissions in our new platform, Oxford Abstracts. To help clear things up, we’ve put together a brief blog post explaining the updated limits and what they mean for you. 📝 Read more here: 👉 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/new-abs...

We must keep calling out those that cave to the Trump Admin, and the latest is Northwestern. As part of their "deal," NU will pay $75 million, stop vital research, renege on agreements with its students over the war in Gaza, and more. Throwing your students under the bus to please Trump. Shameful.

Northwestern Agrees to a Deal With Trump Administration

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Navigate the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using The Transmitter's interactive map, which is based on a semantic analysis of nearly 350,000 abstracts in leading neuroscience journals. Explore more: www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/p... #neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience

Putting 50 years of neuroscience on the map

Navigate the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using our interactive map, which is based on a semantic analysis of nearly 350,000 abstracts.

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2 weeks left to apply!!

Katie Insel@katieinsel.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠 Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...

Sign up for our final winter session of Scan Camp!! Looking for teens in the Chicagoland area! 8-10 MRI scans at Northwestern's Feinberg campus. Wear an Oura ring and answer daily surveys. Earn up to $1,360, prizes, and a 3D-print of your brain! northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Katie Insel@katieinsel.bsky.social · last yr.

Scan Camp is in session at the Northwestern CATS Lab! 🧠 We're looking for teens for a 5 week study. Participants complete 8-10 MRI scans and can earn up to $1,210! Parents and teens can learn more: northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please spread the word!

I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠 Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...

How can the "default network" support many forms of introspective thought? Our new review argues these functions rely on distinct MTL connections: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks to @denizvatansever.bsky.social & Jess Andrews-Hanna for the invitation to this Special Issue! 🧵

The canonical default network comprises parallel distributed networks with distinct medial temporal lobe connections

The default network (DN) is associated with a variety of introspective cognitive processes. Recent developments support that the ‘canonical’ DN compri…

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Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization? @rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print): go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky 🧵👇

Dense Phenotyping of Human Brain Network Organization Using Precision fMRI

The advent of noninvasive imaging methods like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) transformed cognitive neuroscience, providing insights into large-scale brain networks and their link to cog...

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“Women-led papers were more likely to be featured in local outlets than in national, international, or science-specialty media. They appeared more often in liberal-leaning outlets than conservative ones. And coverage of their work carried a more negative tone” www.science.org/content/arti...

When women researchers publish, media attention doesn’t always follow

Men-led papers receive more media coverage than women’s, new study finds

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Delayed thank you to @fluxsociety.bsky.social for a wonderful meeting in Dublin earlier this month! Thank you to everyone who came to my poster on reward-motivated working memory across children, adolescents, and adults