Psyched that we got the green light for a new Gordon conference on #psychedelics in 2025! #GRCPsychedelics 🔥 Save the date: 7/13-7/18/2025 at Bryant University in Rhode Island. Look forward to organizing with Vlad Vyazovskiy Vidita Vaidya Dr Melissa Herman

Another great lab Christmas dinner in the books! Thanks to my lab for all your hard work in 2023. Alex Alario, PhD 👻 Big Grove Brewery #biggrovecedarrapids

Bulking update: I now weigh 190 lbs and can deadlift 325 lbs 😅 There’s so many runners and rock climbers on science twitter…I wanna meet more scientists who lift!

Applications are due in a month! Senior graduate students come showcase your research, build connections across the breadth of neuroscience, and receive career guidance at Einstein EDGE symposium

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Distinguished Lecture, “Our Hidden Conversations” with Michelle Norris (as introduced by Dean Denise Jamison)

Proud to announce that I joined UIowa Research Iowa Neuroscience Institute faculty this month as an Assistant Prof of ObGyn & Psychiatry. I chose UI bc it’s a place that lets me be a whole person, and therefore my best scientist. SO grateful to mentors and peers who lit this path. Here we go!!

Psilocybin-induced changes in neural reactivity to alcohol and emotional cues in patients with alcohol use disorder: an fMRI pilot study nature.com/articles/s4159…

Banu Gumusoglu, PhD, studies how illness and environmental factors during pregnancy influence a baby’s brain development and lifelong health, illuminating new approaches to screening and treatment for neurodevelopmental disorders. #DiscoverUI spr.ly/6015nRZS5

Sustained antidepressant effects of ketamine metabolite involve GABAergic inhibition-mediated molecular dynamics in aPVT glutamatergic neurons: Neuron cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Today, my colleagues and I in University of Iowa Psychiatry will potentially administer psilocybin legally for the first time in the state of Iowa as part of our psilocybin-assisted vs. ketamine-assisted psychotherapy trial for alcohol use disorder! #psilocybin #ketamine #alcoholusedisorder

Today, I’m thrilled have our lab’s work featured on the cover of nature In this article, we have developed a therapeutic approach for a severe condition called Timothy syndrome. This has been a long journey. It started with making hiPS cell-derived neurons in 2D cultures 15

Looking forward to participating in this landmark NIDDK workshop on gastrointestinal #interoception tomorrow. With this incredible group of speakers there are some surely amazing insights ahead! niddk.nih.gov/news/meetings-…

Department of Psychiatry Chair Peg Nopoulos, MD, was featured on KCRG this past Saturday to talk about Huntington's disease and the importance of community.

Nicholas Trapp, MD, was featured in today's Noon News for innovations in interventional psychiatry! Check out the article below. medicineiowa.org/spring-2024/ni…

We're excited to announce the 2024 Department of Psychiatry graduates! 🎉 Click the link to learn more about their incredible achievements and future plans: medicine.uiowa.edu/psychiatry/fil…

Congratulations to our 2024 Psychiatry graduates!

Just found this little gem I had saved back in December 2022 (when ChatGPT was brand-new):

What's your favorite thing about Iowa City? Our residents answer. youtube.com/watch?v=cVgpky…

I have Asthma, allergies, dyslexia, ADD, anxiety, and Depression. But I will tell you that what you have does not define what you can become. Why Not You!

I'd be much more interested in a To Catch a Predator type series, but with successful labs. Chris Hansen going around and trying to reproduce flashy findings from raw data, hugging distraught visa-hostages, calling the ombudsperson on the PI, that kind of thing