Kicking off day 4 of Society for Neuroscience (SfN) with Ginger presenting her 🐭 work in Dani Dumitriu, MD, PhD !!

That’s a wrap for COMBO Study posters at Society for Neuroscience (SfN) !! 11 posters - over 4 days - spanning human and animal data. Last (but not least!) postdoc Jen Warmingham, PhD and coordinator Vitoria Chaves both presenting on maternal cognition and infant outcomes! Dani Dumitriu, MD, PhD #SfN2023

🙏 RT To struggling trainees: My career stage finally affords me to (occasionally!) show vulnerability. Couldn’t have dreamt of writing this as a struggling student. DM/email me if it resonates. Life of a Neuron: The Mentor–Mentee Backstage Story jneurosci.org/content/43/48/…

📣 New paper in which Dani Dumitriu, MD, PhD and I co-first authored a research agenda for advancing early relational health in collaboration with Reach Out and Read, Nurture Connection David Willis, MD, COMBO Study and many more! Check it out 👇🏻

Loneliness in the middle of life is linked to mortality Experiencing lonliness 3 times over a decade is associated with 288 excess deaths per 10,000 person-years. pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…. "Loneliness may be an important target for interventions to improve life expectancy"

As we enter our fifth year of studying the pandemic’s effect on “the COVID generation,” we're celebrating the COMBO Initiative’s many accomplishments in 2023. Click to see this year’s highlights from the COMBO Initiative, and the team that made it possible vagelos.columbia.edu/combo-2023-yea…

Today's Grand Rounds presentation features Dr. Catherine Monk, Perinatal Pathways Lab, Dani Dumitriu, MD, PhD, and Rachel Marsh discussing "The COVID-19 Generation: Lessons from the COMBO Initiative." Join us soon at 11am EDT: columbiapsychiatry.org/about-us/event…

Me: 🤔 “… does getting stuck in a Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute elevator with Rebecca Saxe, Rachel Marsh, Kate D. Fitzgerald, MD, Nim Tottenham and some super awesome trainees for ~45 min at >95 degrees F count?”

Teddy (with his favorite Andreane Lavallee, PhD) is reminding you to come to the COMBO Study playdate this Sunday from 2-4:30 at Haven Plaza! Dani Dumitriu, MD, PhD

Baby Talk: Early Social Interaction Spurs Language Growth A new study illuminates the significant role that early social interactions—specifically those involving 'parentese', eye contact, and positive feedback—play in fostering infants' language development. By employing

Want to see a baby make 60 million neural connections? 🧠 Look no further than this fantastic video. As they bide a little time in the car, our hero and his dad engage in this lovely “serve and return” interaction. And it’s hard to tell which of them is loving it more. If

.Pediatric Academic Societies 2024 was a success — 7 posters, 1 oral and lots of fun for the COMBO Study!!

In the 1950s Brenda Milner changed the course of 🧠brain science by identifying the specific brain region crucial to memory formation and by identifying multiple memory systems. Today we celebrate her 106th! Happy Birthday Brenda Milner!🎂🎉 mcgill.ca/x/wYY

Excited to share from ⁦COMBO Study⁩ the 🌎’s 1st 👀 at autism risk for the ‘COVID generation’. 🤜 no risk w/ either maternal infection or pandemic stress!! 🙏 ⁦Morgan Firestein, PhD⁩ ⁦Angela Gigliotti-Manessis⁩ ⁦Jen Warmingham, PhD⁩ ⁦Andreane Lavallee, PhD⁩ jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Incredible team effort led by my friend and collaborator Guillaume Fontaine!! If you have interest in implementation strategies and optimized patient outcomes, check out our massive meta-analysis just published in Implementation Science 👇🏻

Looking for a very seasoned project coordinator for our clinical trial of pediatric OCD. Person must have experience with recruitment. Link to apply opportunities.columbia.edu/cw/en-us/job/5…