Now out PNASNews! Fast dopamine increases produce divergent effects on brain activation and global functional connectivity - the latest from our simultaneous PET-fMRI study! Big thanks to NIAAA News NIDAnews NIH Intramural for their support! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Thank you so much ⁦Block Club Chicago⁩ for having me ⁦BiAffect⁩ 🥹🥹really really appreciate you guys for giving us a chance to talk about all the things our citizen scientists taught us!! blockclubchicago.org/2023/12/20/bia…

Looking forward to our #WCBR2024 panel, ‘Shredding Sex Differences in Opioid Reward Systems From Transcript to Circuit’, this afternoon. Come check it out! Jesse Niehaus Yanay Alonso Caraballo Jessica Higginbotham

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

It will be the Dragon Year!! No expectations of eggs in the refrigerator

our third seasonality paper out now@Psychological Medicine!! Seasonality in regional brain glucose metabolism-bit.ly/44bKRRV

Day 2 RSoA #RSA2024 A lot of great symposium options this am; I chose alcohol and brain networks led by Dr.Donita Robinson. Rui Zhang discusses overlap between AUD and OUD in DMN/VIS networks... (1/2)

(Cont.) Amanda Elton brings fun audience participation in a delay discounting demo, and found network engagement during DD predicts SUD tx in adolescents, and mediated drinking behaviors in college students. #RSA2024 RSoA 2/2

🚨Postdoc position available! tinyurl.com/nih-sud-ad Our lab NIH NIAAA News (PI: Nora Volkow) wants someone to help run our clinical trials! Test new therapies for addiction w/ brain imaging (PET/MRI) and work with world leaders in the field! Plus, the DC area rocks!

One major project you could help lead: Test the efficacy of suvorexant, an orexin receptor antagonist and sleep aide, as an adjunctive therapy for alcohol use disorder! clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06484…

Excited to share our new ABCD paper on within-subject changes in Fitbit data, exploring brain and behavioral correlates and environmental factors—now out JAACAP Journals NIAAA News NIDAnews sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great catching up and seeing everyone’s progress in their careers and lives. Looking forward to seeing you all at the next ACNP , if not sooner!

Many thanks to Society of Biological Psychiatry for the travel award. Looking forward to my first SOBP, connecting with fellow researchers, and sharing my work #SOBP2025

Excited to share my K99 findings JAMA Network Open! MOUD+ participants showed greater sleep-wake irregularity. These findings set the stage for my lab's work UAB Psychiatry to understand mechanisms, causal links and individual differences. Stay tuned! jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

🚨New paper alert!🚨 Our latest study is now published in Journal of Neuroscience! 🧠✨ Too busy to read? No worries—We turned our key findings into a song !🎵 Give it a listen and let the science sink in: suno.com/song/3623d63f-… #BrainResearch #SciComm 🎶🔬

Registration is now open for the 2025 Alabama Summit on Addiction and Pain on September 2-3, 2025 at the Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation Conference Center! Register today, go.uab.edu/44fpK1r.