NOT TO MISS! In Episode 3 of The Vitals | HealthSpan Explained miniseries, host Dr. Shruti Naik is joined by Drs. Thomas Marron & @fanny-elahi.bsky.social to explore the science behind clinical trials - and why they're the foundation of modern medicine. The Vitals 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wScN...
The Friedman Brain Institute
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The Friedman Brain Institute is an interdisciplinary clinical and research hub for studying and treating brain and spinal cord disorders at Mount Sinai. Learn more: https://icahn.mssm.edu/research/friedman
Thank you @sinaibrain.bsky.social for supporting this project! Looking forward to continue working with Dado Marcora and @esschaffer.bsky.social on rethinking statistics training 🙌
🎉Huge Congratulations to 2026 Mount Sinai Graduate Teaching Innovator Award Recipients Edoardo Marcora, @angelaradulescu.bsky.social & @esschaffer.bsky.social! We can't wait for your project to come to fruition & to see the lasting impact it will have on graduate & medical education at #MountSinai!👏
🎉Congratulations to the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine's Gregory Gagnon, PhD; Elizabeth Ochoa, PhD; Yulia Landa, PsyD & Ashley Doukas, PhD on being recognized w/ Distinguished Faculty Awards from the Division of Psychology.👏 Learn More health.mountsinai.org/blog/four-fa...
🎉 Super proud of Laura Berner, Daniela Schiller and Blair Shevlin, recipients of a 2026 Mount Sinai Graduate Teaching Innovator Award 👏 We can't wait for the successful completion of this project and its contribution to graduate and medical education @mountsinainyc.bsky.social. Congratulations 💯
🎉Huge Congratulations to 2026 Mount Sinai Graduate Teaching Innovator Award Recipients Edoardo Marcora, @angelaradulescu.bsky.social & @esschaffer.bsky.social! We can't wait for your project to come to fruition & to see the lasting impact it will have on graduate & medical education at #MountSinai!👏
TOMORROW! On July 31st, 3pm, please join hosts Drs. @benjaminweekley.bsky.social, @rimjhimtomar.bsky.social & Dina Iathzil Vázquez Carrillo when #NashNeuroscience welcomes @harvardmed.bsky.social's Dr. Ava Carter to #MSNSeminars 👉 NOT TO MISS!
New study by Rebecca Birnbaum, et al. provides a practical framework for recall-by-genotype research w/in healthcare system biobanks to advance precision psychiatry. npj | Genomic Medicine www.nature.com/articles/s41... Overview @neurosciencenews.bsky.social neurosciencenews.com/recall-by-ge...
Thrilled to receive a 2027 ACNP Travel Award! One of my favorite parts of this job is getting immersed in the science @ ACNP meetings and learning from so many brilliant people. Thanks @acnporg.bsky.social for recognizing my work + helping me become a regular! @sinaibrain.bsky.social
COMING UP! Friday, July 31, 3pm, please join hosts Drs @benjaminweekley.bsky.social, Rimjhim Tomar & Dina Vázquez Carrillo when #NashNeuroscience welcomes @harvardmed.bsky.social's Dr. Ava Carter to #MSNSeminars 👉 “Evolving Responses to the Environment: Human-specific Gene Regulation in the Brain".
VERY EXCITING! 👏 Please join us in offering HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. @xiaotingwu.bsky.social for her promotion to Associate Professor at #NashNeuroscience. 🎉 Learn More about Xiaoting and the great work being done in the Xiaoting Wu Lab 👉 labs.neuroscience.mssm.edu/project/wu-l...
🎉 A Huge Congratulations to Dr. @xiaotingwu.bsky.social on receiving an @bbrfoundation.bsky.social Freedman Prize - Honorable Mention. 👏 The Klerman & Freedman Prizes honor exceptional clinical and basic research in mental illness by early-career scientists! Again, Congrats Xiaoting! 💯
Huge congrats to Cai Lab postdoc @destyniemedeiros.bsky.social for being named a @simonsfoundation.org Junior Fellow! 🎉 Destynie is a brilliant rising star 🌟 The rigor of her science and the leadership she has built in our community impress me again and again. So well earned. Congrats, Destynie! 🧠✨
TOMORROW! The #BrainBodySeminarSeries is excited to welcome @gladstoneinst.bsky.social's Dr. Andrew Yang. Join hosts @cameronmcalpine.bsky.social & @jmcastell.bsky.social as Dr. Yang presents "Tracing proteomes & immune cells across #BloodBrainBarrier". Register 👉 mountsinai.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Researchers Daniel Wacker, et al. have uncovered first hi-res structure of NBCn2, a brain protein linked to #Epilepsy, #AutismSpectrumDisorder & other neurological conditions, & developed first compounds capable of inhibiting its activity. PRESS RELEASE 👉 www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...
@narcatms.bsky.social and I wrote a @npp-journal.bsky.social Hot Topic highlighting the synergistic combination of memory updating and dopaminergic enhancement as a potential component of addiction interventions. Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @sinaibrain.bsky.social
Restoring prefrontal function with dopaminergic enhancement of memory updating in addiction - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Restoring prefrontal function with dopaminergic enhancement of memory updating in addiction
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On Friday, July 31, 3pm, please join hosts Drs. @benjaminweekley.bsky.social, Rimjhim Tomar & Dina Iathzil Vázquez Carrillo when #NashNeuroscience welcomes @harvardmed.bsky.social's Dr. Ava Carter to #MSNSeminars 👉 “Evolving Responses to the Environment: Human-specific Gene Regulation in the Brain".
What’s holding us back from developing a clinical BCI for mental health? My new review in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social outlines a roadmap to overcome the unique hurdles facing cognitive BCIs by integrating & expanding on existing neurotech methods. Read here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nSLK4sIRv...
The #BrainBodySeminarSeries is excited to welcome @gladstoneinst.bsky.social's Dr. Andrew Yang. Join hosts @cameronmcalpine.bsky.social & @jmcastell.bsky.social when Dr. Yang presents "Tracing proteomes & immune cells across the #BloodBrainBarrier". Register 👉 mountsinai.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
SUPER EXCITED! The #NestlerLab's Trevonn Gyles has been selected as an award recipient for the 2026 NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program. This award recognizes exceptional early-career neuroscientists as rising leaders in the field. 🎉 Huge achievement! Congratulations Trevonn 💯
OUT NOW! Landmark #Autism research, led by scientists from the Seaver Autism Center at Mount Sinai, finds that #PhelanMcDermid syndrome affects approximately 1 in 7,300 people, making it dramatically more common than previous estimates suggested. Press Release👉 www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...
Researchers at The Icahn School of Medicine, working w/ Boston Children’s Hospital, have ID'd cancer-associated genetic mutations in specialized brain immune cells, #Microglia, that may contribute to chronic #Inflammation & #Neurodegeneration seen in #Alzheimers. 👉 www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...
🎉 HUGE CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Tamara Markovic for being promoted to Instructor in #NashNeuroscience.👏 Since joining the #NestlerLab, she has been developing an independent research program focused on the molecular & circuit mechanisms underlying addiction vulnerability & negative affect.💯 CONGRATS👏
🎉Please join us in congratulating Dr. Carina Seah for her promotion to Instructor in the Nash Family Department of Neuroscience.💯 As Instructor, she joins the laboratory of Dr. Fanny Elahi. A Huge Congratulations Carina! 👏 Learn More about Dr. Seah 👉 profiles.icahn.mssm.edu/carina-seah
In Rome? 🛵 Come see me and let’s chat about science 🧬 🧠 Join us on Monday July 13 at 12.30 for a seminar on the genetics and neurobiology of #autism, with a focus on the #DDX3X gene. @sinaibrain.bsky.social
Hope you will join us at the Center for Computational Psychiatry at Mount Sinai for a #CCN2026 satellite on computational cognitive science approaches to modeling mental health dynamics. Big shoutout to @meghangallo.bsky.social for making it happen! @sinaiccp.bsky.social @sinaibrain.bsky.social
What predicts mental health disorders' onset and treatment success? Join our free #CCN2026 satellite meeting on the latest computational cognitive neuroscience parsing the multi-scale, dynamical systems of disorders that emerge across development, symptom expression, presentation & treatment.
On Tuesday, July 28, 10am, the #BrainBodySeminarSeries is excited to welcome @gladstoneinst.bsky.social's Andrew Yang, PhD. Join host @cameronmcalpine.bsky.social when Dr. Yang presents "Tracing proteomes and immune cells across the blood-brain barrier". Register 👉 mountsinai.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Exciting Study! Hongyan Jenny Zou, et al. @mountsinainyc.bsky.social show that blocking a protein called the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) may help neural regeneration & restore function after injuries to the peripheral nerves or spinal cord. Learn More @nature.com 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Press Release! #EatingDisorders & #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder exhibit clinical & genetic overlap, yet whether they converge at molecular level in human brain is unknown. Michael Breen, Dorothy Grice, et al. provide critical insight into their biological overlap. 👉 www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...
TOMORROW 👉 On Tuesday, June 30, 10am, join the #BrainBodyResearchInstitute Seminar Series when host Dr. Jessica Ables welcomes @cshlaboratory.bsky.social's Jeremy Borniger, PhD. Dr. Borniger will present "Distal regulation of hypothalamic neuronal activity in breast cancer." NOT TO MISS!
Out Now! @mountsinainyc.bsky.social researchers Edgar Gonzalez-Kozlova, @panosroussos.bsky.social, Navneet Dogra, et al. have discovered blood RNA biomarkers that offer promising minimally invasive approach for earlier diagnosis of #Alzheimers. PRESS RELEASE 👉 www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...