Schizophrenia exists. Mental illness exists. Psychiatric medications can be life-saving. Psychotherapy can be life-saving. Don't let misinformed people tell you otherwise. Enough with the anti-psychiatry propaganda and stigma. ✌️

Exciting news! dr. christine liu on blue sky and I are co-hosting an Art of Neuroscience social at #SfN24! Come and showcase your art (submit by Sept 27!) or come and mingle with us and fellow artists and art enthusiasts! 🎨🧠 artofneuroscience.com Please RT! Poster art by Danielle Beckman 🔬

Thanks to Sachin Patel for hosting me at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine yesterday! Many great conversations about schizophrenia, oscillations and neurodevelopment with @jones_g_parker Peter Penzes and others! Bonus: taking these home to win points with the family

Looking forward to #sfn2024! I'll talk on Sat PM and the lab will have posters on Mon PM from Aarron J Phensy @LenaShindy Lara Hagopian & Teagan Bullock. Thanks to dr. christine liu on blue sky for flyer production!!

Congrats to Xiyu Zhu - 朱希雨 on his Young Investigator award from BBRFoundation !!

Many thanks to @CarlJShi & Attila Losonczy for hosting me at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute today. So great to see our superstar former tech now developing cool new technologies, and hear from Columbia folks about PFC development, inhibitory synaptic plasticity and much more.

Thrilled to share our new paper in nature - "Understanding the neural code of stress to control anhedonia." A wonderful team effort with Frances Xia, Valeria Fascianelli and Stefano Fusi. Check out the thread below. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Please join the SfN webinar at 1-2pm EST, Wednesday Jan 15. Dr. Vikaas Sohal Vikaas Sohal will be showcasing his career as a physician-scientist, together with his great science on psychiatric disease research! We will have plenty time for questions from audience!!

Excited to share our Preprint led by talented PDFs, Yu-Tzu Shih PhD and Jason Alipio PhD describing our identification of Experience-dependent PV IN plasticity as a convergent mechanism for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NDDs) 1/n researchsquare.com/article/rs-562…

One more post while I'm at it: my 'Meet-the-Clincian-Expert' Society for Neuroscience (SfN) talk, describing my lab's work plus my career path, is now available on demand: neuronline.sfn.org/scientific-res…

Our preprint detailing our novel approach to identifying personalized neuromodulation targets to treat severe, refractory OCD using brain mapping is now out on MedRxiv. Here, we describe our first SEEG-guided DBS case for OCD at UCSF: medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

I’m excited to share a new paper from the lab. The study led by Xiaowei Gu reveals how the mPFC encodes complex emotional memories, using an internal model to infer emotional associations and memories via projections to the amygdala rdcu.be/el19t nature.com/articles/s4158…

Excited to see this in print this morning, coincidentally on the lab's birthday! Here we tackle the question of how the PFC multiplexes social and contextual information using overlapping ensembles of neurons. doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

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