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Submit your poster by August 15! TIPS is a great venue for students/researchers to network with colleagues from academia and industry. Don't miss your chance to be a part of the conversation at this year's poster session in Tampa, FL on Dec. 1. #TIPS2023 tips.societyconference.com/v2/

Synaptic pruning - a fascinating process in the 🧠 and a great example of the intricate relationship between #neurons and #microglia! Strengthening circuits and removing redundant synapses: underdo it and you can have autism; overdo it and you can develop schizophrenia. #Science

🚨We are happy to announce that NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience is now accepting manuscript submissions!🚨 If your research involves digital technologies or computational approaches relevant to the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and study of psychiatric illnesses, consider publishing with us!

Absolutely thrilled 🤩 to have received the 2023 #NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from BBRFoundation🙏 to study the involvement of non-neuronal cells in #PTSD in 🧠 & 🧫! 🙏Many thanks to SysBioStress - Daskalakis Lab, McLean Hospital, Broad Institute, Harvard Medical School, SPARED Center at McLean Hospital for the support!

Now online in Neuropsychopharmacology, "Early life stress moderates the relation between systemic inflammation and neural activation to reward in adolescents both cross-sectionally and longitudinally" nature.com/articles/s4138…

Our journal doors are wide open for manuscript submissions! We're looking forward to reading your work 🤓

We were honored to have Brenhouse Lab here today as part of McLean's Celebrating Women in Medicine & Science Month! She spoke elegantly about her work on early life adversity and pubertal timing, and gave career advice to trainees on campus. #McLeanSpared #WomeninScience

Please read the recent update on the ACNP Annual Meeting location. acnp.org/about-us/updat…

We are so pleased to welcome Dr. Nicholas Gilpin @The_Gilp for our second in-person McLean Hospital Neuroscience Seminar series to talk to us about the #amygdala as a hub for traumatic stress effects on alcohol-related behaviors. Harvard Medical School

The Carlezon Lab hosted its first ever Cookie Baking Competition for McLean Hospital MRC building scientists! The competition was stiff & scores were close, but the WINNER for our first bakeoff was Zenith from Dr. Kwang-Soo Kim's lab!! CONGRATULATIONS!! Harvard Medical School SPARED Center at McLean Hospital

We were thrilled to have Denise J. Cai, Ph.D. here today to talk about recent preprint work on memory linking across time. Beautiful data and what a great talk! McLean Hospital Harvard Medical School

Join us to feature emerging leaders in psychiatry for a virtual panel discussion: "Troubled Teens: Strategies & Solutions to Address the Teen Mental Health Crisis" moderated by WBUR reporter wburdebbecker! Dr. Luana Marques McLean Hospital Harvard Medical School

Got a thank you card today for a guest lecture I gave to McLean Hospital MMRSP students, signed by the students themselves and it made my week :) What a lovely gesture. Thank you to the organizers and to Dr. Josephine McGowan again for the invite!

Article alert! Linda Valeri et al. used smartphones to sense social connectivity & loneliness in people w/ severe mental illness. The number of important contacts a person communicates with is a promising marker to capture subjects perceived loneliness: nature.com/articles/s4427…

Precision mapping of a gut-brain circuit w/ functional impact. Glands in the small intestine (Brunner's) have GLP-1 receptors, are stress-sensitive, connect to the brain via the vagal nerve, modulate bacterial species in the gut microbiome, and regulate immunity

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SPARED researchers show delayed sleep disruption reduces conditioned fear in male & female mice, substituting for extinction training (rdcu.be/dStKU).  Potentially beneficial effect?