This past Friday, one of our Outreach & Translation members, Natalia Padillo-Anthemides was able to visit the North Central Florida SfN chapter and present a poster describing how our organization aims to reach a multilingual audience. Everyone give her a round of applause!

Happy Valentine's! 🧠💖 Here are some brainy facts from one of our most popular infographics! #valentines #scicomm #scienceeducation #neuroscience #brainfacts #PhDstudent #gradstudent

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So proud of our team Knowing Neurons for expanding their reach.

Brain Awareness Week (BAW) is this month!! 🎉 If you are located in any of these areas, make sure to stop by and celebrate BAW by learning about the brain. 🧠

📢 The CU Pain Science / Mind Body Medicine Program is hiring! 📢 Seeking a full-time research assistant for data collection & analysis of neuroimaging, clinical trials of pain, emotion, and mind-body treatments dri.applytojob.com/apply/8aeICwns… medschool.cuanschutz.edu/general-intern… Pls RT

The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine National Academies is hosting a free online workshop May 19 and 21 on the #neurobiology of #empathy and #compassion. It is wonderful to see empathy and compassion being studied scientifically. They are part of the (usually

Check out our new OCD GWAS (53,660 cases and 2,044,417 controls) in Nature Genetics 🧬🧠 Genetic risk was associated with excitatory neurons in the cortex and hippocampus. There was much genetic overlap with anxiety, depression, and anorexia. Open access: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Supplements and chronic pain: What does the research say? A list of 5 supplements that may help with nerve and chronic pain, as part of a broader treatment plan: 1. Acetyl-L-Carnitine -Helps your cells make energy. - Studied in people with diabetic nerve pain. - May help

Lifting weights significantly reduces depressive symptoms.

Chronic pain doesn’t just stay in the body—it can rewire the brain. Over time, repeated pain signals make the nervous system more sensitive and reduce its ability to "turn down" pain. This is called central sensitization—and it helps explain why some people feel more pain even

Smith et al. find that cumulative adverse childhood experience exposure is associated with multisite pain in early adolescence using data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study. Learn more in #PainReports bit.ly/4jmLYnX

USASP is currently participating in virtual Hill visits to educate congressional staff about the importance of NIH funding for pain research. Want to help? Reach out to your representatives and share why pain research matters to you. Learn more here ⬇

Chronic pain by the numbers — Dr. Sean Mackey explains: •Up to 100 million Americans live with chronic pain. •20 million+ have pain so severe it affects daily life — this is called high-impact chronic pain. The most common types:  • Low back pain (28%)  • Neck pain (16%)

Our project, looking at the genetic relationships between immune diseases and psychiatric disorders, has finally been published! Now with gene expression analyses as well as additional sensitivity analyses, thanks to reviewers. Find the full article here: nature.com/articles/s4139…

"Multi-ancestral genome-wide association study of clinically defined nicotine dependence reveals strong genetic correlations with other substance use disorders and health-related traits" led by Emma Johnson and Dongbing Lai of PGC-SUD is now online. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Sarah Gonzalez Coffin (PhD Candidate-Social PSYC), received the 2025 Behavior, Energy & Climate Change Fellowship from ACEEE! 🎉 This will fund Sarah's participation in their bi-annual convention where she will be featured as an emerging scholar in environmental psychology.

Experts from around the world worked together to agree on how to define “refractory migraine,” a type of migraine that does not improve with usual treatments. They created four groups of migraine: 1. Refractory migraine – when all proven treatments fail. 2. Resistant migraine

Loneliness is associated with cognitive impairment. Stay connected.

The brain's energy demands are huge, and it takes a village, or in this case, a powerful partnership between neurons and astrocytes. Click on the link below to learn more from our latest infographic! 🧠 knowingneurons.com/neuron-astrocy…