MGH takes a knee for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Know that this is just a first step on a long road towards #RacialJustice. It’s time for leaders to lead. Kneeling shoulder to shoulder with MassGeneral Medicine residents, fellows, faculty and staff. #GeorgeFloyd #WhiteCoatsForBlackLives

Wow. I’m speechless (which if you know me is uncommon). This has to be required reading for everyone who has or wants an MD. A must read. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

“Artificial intelligence can assess patient risk and guide providers to optimal treatment options, but developers must ensure the technology doesn’t perpetuate existing [racial] biases.” healthitanalytics.com/news/eliminati…

NIH funding gaps: R01 award rates for Black applicants were 55% award rates for White applicants. "Preliminary criterion scores fully account for racial disparities [...] in preliminary overall impact scores." #NIH #racialequality #science advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/23/e…

Mental Disorder In A Healthy Brain: The Goose, The Fox, and Addiction discovermagazine.com/mind/mental-di… I discuss a fascinating new paper that argues that mental illness can exist without brain disease

Fantastic! This looks wonderful! Highly recommend people check out these talks and listen to the superb Aaron Steiner Very cool stuff as always from Jonathan Fisher

Beautiful and difficult work by the team

"Similarities between the architectural design of the ancient Egyptian tomb and Sigmund Freud's office" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32848985/ Well there you have it.

Thank you to my current research mentor Justin Baker and to the MGH/McLean PSTP for their support in my application for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) #ORAP. Now to not let them down… #science #mentalhealth #psychiatry MGH Psychiatry McLean Hospital mghmcleanpsychiatry.partners.org/11497/joshua-s…

The landscape of the United States. Very cool discussion of visualization and the colormap of the country's landscape. The New York Times nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Congratulations to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for earning the ⁦The Nobel Prize⁩ in Chemistry for their work on CRISPR! #NobelPrize #Science nature.com/articles/d4158…

Great review and perspective on #computational modeling in #psychiatry and the caution researchers should take with respect to their implicit assumptions. Neuropsychopharmacology (UPV/EHU) @nature nature.com/articles/s4138…

Jim Hudspeth: How Do We Hear — And How Do We Lose Our Ability To Hear? #science #hearing Rockefeller University Neuroskeptic 🇺🇦 NPR npr.org/2020/10/16/923…

"It is vital to build #diversity and inclusion not only into datasets, but also in research participant populations and research teams." #deepphenotyping blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2021/01/27/bia…

I never tire of hearing Jim Hudspeth, my PhD mentor, discuss #hearing. Great episode of TED Radio Hour from October. National Association of Science Writers (NASW)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Implementation of Antiracism ja.ma/3b3qiwP via JAMA Psychiatry part of JAMA Network

Beautiful review by @AnnieHandler

Our new commentary is out in AJP! ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap… Journals of The American Psychiatric Association @APAPsychiatric #psychiatry #dynamicalsystems #mentalhealth