In this week’s episode, Lisa Feldman Barrett shares insights on how our brain manages the body to keep us functioning at our best—especially when we’re under pressure. Listen to this conversation on "Lives Well Lived," the podcast I co-host with Kasia de Lazari-Radek. New episodes are

Very excited that our paper “From placenta to the foetus: a systematic review of in vitro models of stress- and inflammation-induced depression in pregnancy” has just been published in molecularpsychiatry 🤩

#Alexithymia can be important for mental health and medical issues. In our new study led by Rachel Aaron, PhD, we show that the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire is the first alexithymia measure successfully validated for use in people with #ChronicPain journals.lww.com/painrpts/fullt…

1/3 Today, an anecdote shared by an invited speaker at #NeurIPS2024 left many Chinese scholars, myself included, feeling uncomfortable. As a community, I believe we should take a moment to reflect on why such remarks in public discourse can be offensive and harmful.

How #dynamical systems theory may be used to explain the nature and dynamics of psychiatric disorders ? An enlightening article from Wageningen U&R in JAMA Psychiatry : jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

New paper out in Nature Mental Health from my work applying machine learning to identify which early adversities are most important for predicting mental health risk in children - results might surprise you nature.com/articles/s4422… Amazing team DAN LAB Michael Milham

The SBSM Affect Science in Medicine SIG is happy to host a presentation from Professor Hugo Critchley on January 15th, 2025 from 11:00am - 12:00pm. More information and a link to register is below! thesbsm.org/uncategorized/…

New publication from the Fani Affective Neuroscience Lab highlighting the relationship between racial discrimination and lesser insula-mPFC connectivity during attention to threat and its association with greater dissociative symptoms! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… check it out!!

The special issue of Development and Psychopathology entitled “The Future of Developmental Psychopathology: Honoring the Contributions of Dante Cicchetti” is published! My intro to the volume is doi.org/10.1017/S09545… Link to all of the papers is in the comments

Mark your calendars: The Penn State Neuroscience Institute will host the Big Ten Neuroscience Annual Meeting on July 21-22 at the Nittany Lion Inn. Penn State Psychologist, Dr. Koraly Perez-Edgar, will be one of the esteemed keynote speakers. For more, see psu.edu/news/huck-inst…

Can’t believe our new Nature Communications paper is out! ✨🧠🤰 We tracked a cohort of 179 women before, during, and post-pregnancy, revealing a U-shaped trajectory in the mother’s brain structure linked to steroid hormone fluctuations and maternal attachment. #ParentalBrain 🧵👇

Semantic associations between socioenvironmental and emotion concepts varied between non-Hispanic White Americans & Black/African Americans. These differences were partially mediated by the political leanings of the news sources consumed by participants. nature.com/articles/s4427…

Child adversity influences future decision-making. This systematic review suggests adversity shifts individuals to prioritize information about risks and de-value information about reward- likely adaptive in adverse contexts. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S01… Karen Smith ミーム

Stress about eviction or loss of housing was associated with increased odds of internalizing issues, such as depression and anxiety, among children. ja.ma/3X0xpOj

Bayesian logistic regression is a powerful method for predicting binary outcomes (such as yes/no decisions). It differs from traditional logistic regression by incorporating prior beliefs and quantifying uncertainty using posterior distributions. This makes Bayesian logistic

Another intriguing study published in BrainBehavImm by Kate R Kuhlman, Ph.D., conducted at Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at UCLA, examines the negative effects of childhood adversities on immune adaptation and resilience, particularly in the context of recent chronic stress. Link: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40064430/

How does early life adversity (ELA) shape empathy? 🤔 Our scoping review of 43 studies shows mixed findings: ⬆️ Empathy (15 studies) ⬇️ Empathy (19) 🚫No link (12) doi.org/10.1007/s10567…

First tweet on an exciting new manuscript online Nature Neuroscience - in collab with Lucina Uddin and Catie Chang. We take a fresh look at the physiological dynamics associated with the global signal 🧠... #neuroscience #neuroimaging #fMRI Read here: rdcu.be/ek01F

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 Interesting review on spontaneous activity and predictions. Idea of "predictions" is natural (could it be otherwise?) but emphasis on constructing models of world not persuasive. Bayesian motivation is vague imo. doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see paper, thread doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…