Happy new year! 2024 is the perfect time to apply for the Baltimore Brain Series award; abstract submission is open! Speakers will be invited for an in-person seminar with Zoom links given to the other institutions. Univ of Maryland School of Medicine Neuroscience NIDAnews Hopkins Neuroscience Hopkins Neuro Grad Students

Neat PET study showing cardiovascular exercise releases endogenous dopamine, and this leads to increases in reaction-time performance: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP…

Emilya Ventriglia @eventrig , a predoc at NIMH, greeting the attendees at the UAW CAP conference. We are thrilled to be joining UAW and our UAW siblings are welcoming us with open arms!

President Biden gave a shout out to our HUGE union election victory today at the UAW CAP convention!

Our latest out Neuropsychopharmacology 🚨 Brain connectivity patterns are strikingly different to slow vs fast dopamine increases-- Implications for why Ritalin is therapeutic when brain delivery is slow (e.g., taken orally), but very addictive if fast (e.g., IV)! rdcu.be/dx5hv

Pleased to announce that I was selected for the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Trainee Professional Development Award! Excited for October 🥳

The NIH is refusing to agree to enforceable protections against bullying, harassment, and discrimination in our contract negotiations. Read our op-ed on how these issues affect us Fellows and why we need stronger protections. medium.com/@nihfellowsuni…

All walks of life at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) early career poster session

Standing strong for fair wages and respect! NIH, it’s time to invest in those who drive the research. #FairContractNow #NIHFellowsUnited

NIH Fellows United-UAW rallied this morning to protest NIH administrators' use of egregious anti-union bargaining tactics. "We are calling on NIH to put an end to the constant delays and deferrals that administrators are using to deny us a fair contract." #StandUpUAW

Happy (almost) birthday to me! Our new review on the polypharmacology of ketamine is out in the American Journal of Psychiatry! Here we argue that it is ketamine's interactions with both mu opioid and NMDA receptors that drives its antidepressant effects. psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap…