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Amrita Lamba

@amritalamba.bsky.social
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Postdoc at MIT. 🇨🇦. New to bsky. I'm a computational neuroscientist interested in social interactions and strategic reasoning in games with applications to mental health and interactions with AI & technology. www.amritalamba.com

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Amrita Lamba @amritalamba.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Thanks for this Harrison, and for your question Eiko. ^ this is correct. Regarding the sample size, it is quite small as you note. We scanned 29 adolescents. After dropping few kids from the analysis for excess head motion it is about 6-7/group so small, but the continuous trend holds.
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Amrita Lamba @amritalamba.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Recent preprint with Oriel FeldmanHall and Matt Nassar, showing clear neural evidence that adolescent (13-15 yrs) social media and smartphones use are associated with blunted reward signaling in the ventral striatum, the brain's reward processing hub, and worse mental health. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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