This month's #addictionmedicine & #addictionpsych journal club is today! Join us at noon via the link below 👇 Register here: pitt.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Announcing NIDA’s new "Product Prototypes to Combat Drug Craving” Challenge! Get inspired to create a working prototype to help people struggling with their substance use and who experience cravings. Learn about submission requirements and prizes: loom.ly/bDSDoKM

Our very own Dr. Daniel Buysse appointed as a Distinguished Professor!! Pitt Psychiatry #pittsleep psychiatry.pitt.edu/daniel-buysse-…

Congratulations to our Co-Director, Dr. Buysse, and our Advisory Board member, Dr. Luna!

The human brain has 12 hr rhythms!! And the timing of mitochondrial related transcript expression is completely wrong in schizophrenia, which could lead to suboptimal neuronal energy when cells need it most. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Submit your abstract to the Baltimore Brain Series and get a chance to present your research at one of the institutions in Baltimore! Univ of Maryland School of Medicine Neuroscience NIDAnews Hopkins Neuroscience Hopkins Neuro Grad Students read more on our website sites.google.com/view/baltimore…

California becomes first state to move back school start times trib.al/hcbl4nL

Want to boost America's high school graduation rate? Start school later. New study shows that after pushing start time later than 830am in 28 schools, graduation rate over the next 4 years climbed 12.5% & attendance increased 3.3%. Effect was strongest for low-income kids.

Colleagues at Penn Medicine are offering a 2-day crash course in sleep and circadian science in October! You can register online: med.upenn.edu/snaplab/worksh… @sleepmh @GoldschmiedPhd and others!

🚨 Call for abstracts! 🚨 We’re now accepting abstracts for the 7th Annual Sleep & Circadian Research Day on November 10th, 2022 in Pittsburgh. DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 25th! sleep.pitt.edu/cscs-research-…

Deadline has been extended to Sunday, October 2nd! Spread the word!

In a study published in Progress in Neurobiology, Pitt Health Sciences neuroscientists described compelling new evidence of a critical neuroplasticity period in the frontal brain region during adolescence. upmc.me/3EhyJmY

Yay, Brad! Congratulations! The Pittsburgh Foundation #pilotgrantee

Great presentation, Delainey Wescott! The Pittsburgh Foundation #pilotgrantee

The second summer SWIM program is happening April 12-14, 2023! This is a three day immersive workshop teaches state of the art methodologies in human and animal research on sleep and circadian rhythms. For more info or to register: sleep.pitt.edu/swim-workshop-…

Check out a paper from today's #NSRR #ResearcherSpotlight Dr. Meredith Wallace that used #NSRR data to establish the predictive utility of #PSG-assessed #sleep measures for mortality using a novel machine learning framework #LoveYourDataWeek onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

The spring edition of our Seminar Series “Current Topics in Sleep & Circadian Health” is kicking off on Monday, 17 April 2023. 📋 Signup: tum-conf.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 🌐 Information: sg.tum.de/en/chronobiolo…

We are thrilled to announce that the NIMH has awarded Pitt Psychiatry a multi-site U01 award focused on applying computational methods to identify sleep signatures predictive of mental health outcomes among youth engaged in pediatric primary care! bit.ly/4crb164

In a paper published in Biological Psychiatry, investigators reported that an EEG waveform derivative accurately tracked real-time Ca2+melanin-concentrating hormone in rats. bit.ly/3Z0VXIN

An amazing panel at Pitt Center for Sleep and Circadian Science Research Day on school start times, featuring Dr. Wendy Troxel Joanna Fong and others. Big takeaways: educate families; don't assume others are talking about this issue, speak to your legislators; the research backs this up so let's advocate for this.