Thomas Kraynak
@tekraynak.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ Pitt Psychiatry 👨🏻🔬📝 Brain-body 🧠-🫀pathways linking stress 😫 health 😷 & aging 👴 fMRI enthusiast 🎆 & TMS newbie 🧲 🐈⬛ dad & 🎹🎶 lover Views my own
New open access article, Cardiovascular Stress Physiology and Interoceptive Pathways to Brain Aging and Health. A Scienitifc Spotlight article from Peter Gianaros, Dept. of Psychology & Center for Mind-Body Science and Health, Univ. of Pittsburgh doi.org/10.1097/PSY.... @connectsbsm.bsky.social
My friend is a co-lead on this project (my wife is a collaborator). Let me tell you what it was about and why Battacharya’s decision simply amplifies the consequences of structural racism that the project was attempting to understand. A 🧵 1/12
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 3mo agoFresh grant terminations at NIH 🤬 www.science.org/content/arti... 1/7
Grateful to the BBRF @bbrfoundation.bsky.social for funding my Young Investigator Grant application We (@skhalsa.bsky.social @helmetkarim.bsky.social & more) will use TMS & fMRI to probe brain mechanisms of cardiac interoception & severe worry Officially a funded #interoception researcher!
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.
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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Fitness and Exercise Effects on Brain Age: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Examine the effect of aerobic exercise on structural brain age and explore potential mediators. In a single-blind, 12-month randomized clinical trial, 130 healthy participants aged 26–58 years were randomized into a moderator-to-vigorous intensity ...
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cool - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The functional neurobiology of negative affective traits across regions, networks, signatures, and a machine learning multiverse
Understanding the neural basis of negative affective traits like neuroticism remains a critical challenge across psychology, neuroscience, and psychiatry. Here, we investigate which level of brain org...
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Our latest NPP BrainPod episode is out 🧠🎙️ Worry seems like something most people do, but for some, severe worry can become overwhelming...and for older adults later in life, it has been associated with an increased risk of morbidity open.spotify.com/show/6s3gf3Q...
Older and wiser? The neural correlates of worry induction and reappraisal in older adults
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Check out our paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social:
Neuropsychopharmacology@npp-journal.bsky.social · 2y ago#ThisWeekInNPP Remitted late-life depression (LLD) participants had ⬇️ cardiovascular & posterior insula response to stress, while ⬆️ stressor-evoked BNST activity was linked to faster depression relapse, highlighting 🧠mechanisms of stress-related vulnerability in LLD www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ThisWeekInNPP Remitted late-life depression (LLD) participants had ⬇️ cardiovascular & posterior insula response to stress, while ⬆️ stressor-evoked BNST activity was linked to faster depression relapse, highlighting 🧠mechanisms of stress-related vulnerability in LLD www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brain and cardiovascular responses to acute stress in remitted and recurrent late-life depression - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Brain and cardiovascular responses to acute stress in remitted and recurrent late-life depression
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This Pitt alum is heartbroken by this decision. The attacks on science, research, and higher education continue. Afraid we will never know the full extent of the damage inflicted by these horrible policies.
WESA@wesa.fm · 2y agoThe University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
Shameful that our PA Attorney General did not join this suit, especially considering that 2 of the 6 universities most affected by the cap are in PA. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/l0ZqA/9/
Estimated Single Year Loss of NIH Funding if 15% Indirect Cost Rate is Imposed
Based on analysis of 2024 NIH funding data. Sums are totals of losses in funding to programs if indirect costs had been capped at 15%
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Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 2y agoBREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Another banger from the REMBRANDT study! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brain and cardiovascular responses to acute stress in remitted and recurrent late-life depression - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Brain and cardiovascular responses to acute stress in remitted and recurrent late-life depression
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As we near the end of Insula week, I want to introduce you to Insula's bestie, Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC). Left: ACC (yellow) Right: "Insula" (Anterior Insular Cortex, AIC; green).
Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · 2y agoFollowing a week of big emotions, I declare a celebration of a part of your brain that's been on overdrive but you've barely heard of: the Insula! Each day, I'll pass along a fascinating something about the Insula. In 7 days it just might be your new favorite brain region (it's mine). Day 1 ...
