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Ahmet O. Ceceli

@aoceceli.bsky.social
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Director, Ceceli Cognitive Control Lab. Asst professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience @ Mt. Sinai. Studying the neuroscience of self-control, goals, and habits.

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Ahmet O. Ceceli @aoceceli.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
SO EXCITED to share that the Ceceli Cognitive Control Lab is open for business in the Dept of Psychiatry at @mountsinainyc.bsky.social! We’ll study self control across disorders of compulsivity using neuroimaging and real-world data. Stay tuned for hiring updates + an MS Paint lab logo!
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NARC at Mount Sinai NY @narcatms.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Looking very much forward to my keynote address at the international conference "Addictions: New Perspectives in Treatment and Support" taking place tomorrow in Vilnius, Lithuania. The entire event will be available online+ interpretation to English. 🔗 Link: urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
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2026-09-17 Konf. „Priklausomybės: naujos gydymo ir pagalbos perspektyvos“ (anglų kalba)
Transliacija anglų kalba: https://youtube.com/live/Dkvm7vuq2UA Tai ...
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Sarah Yip @yiplab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Looking for a postdoc in addiction and neuroimaging!! Check out medicine.yale.edu/biomedical-i... Message me directly if you are interested in hearing about opportunities to apply to work with the YIP lab :)
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ACNP @acnporg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Please join us in Congratulating the 2026 ACNP Travel Award Class! 👏🤩 Click Here ➡️ tinyurl.com/5bzaz8va for more information on Travel Awards. 📝
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Ahmet O. Ceceli @aoceceli.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
More good news from @acnporg.bsky.social! @narcatms.bsky.social and I will be chairing the panel "Tracking addiction recovery in real time: dense phenotyping of risk and resilience" at ACNP 2027, ft talks from @nguyenheartylab.bsky.social, Woo-Young Ahn, Paul Glimcher, and me. Don't miss!
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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A Hot Topics article suggests that combining pharmacological and behavioral approaches to target dysfunctional prefrontal circuits is a promising approach to reduce relapse in addiction @aoceceli.bsky.social @narcatms.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Restoring prefrontal function with dopaminergic enhancement of memory updating in addiction - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Restoring prefrontal function with dopaminergic enhancement of memory updating in addiction
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Ahmet O. Ceceli @aoceceli.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thrilled to receive a 2027 ACNP Travel Award! One of my favorite parts of this job is getting immersed in the science @ ACNP meetings and learning from so many brilliant people. Thanks @acnporg.bsky.social for recognizing my work + helping me become a regular! @sinaibrain.bsky.social
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Ahmet O. Ceceli @aoceceli.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
@narcatms.bsky.social and I wrote a @npp-journal.bsky.social Hot Topic highlighting the synergistic combination of memory updating and dopaminergic enhancement as a potential component of addiction interventions. Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @sinaibrain.bsky.social
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Restoring prefrontal function with dopaminergic enhancement of memory updating in addiction - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Restoring prefrontal function with dopaminergic enhancement of memory updating in addiction
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David V. Smith @dvsmith.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Update: the book is now officially out! Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions is available from Springer here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Huge thanks again to @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @dfareri.bsky.social, and all of the contributors.
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Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions
This book provides comprehensive coverage of core topics and recent advances in the field of neuroeconomics and highlights emerging trends in the field.
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David V. Smith @dvsmith.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Check out our new review titled "Contributions of default mode network to subjective valuation and maladaptive decision making" now out in Current Opinion in Behavioral Science! @dfareri.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1n8Js8MqMi...
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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Where, exactly, does learning happen in the brain? Out today in @nature.com, we identify a synaptic locus of birdsong learning and show that the circuit can be tuned to make birds learn faster - but at a cost. Read on👇 #neuroskyence 🧪 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics Shareable link: rdcu.be/fiyrS
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A synaptic locus of song learning - Nature
Combining a computational framework and optogenetic and chemogenetic manipulations within and downstream of the cortico-basal ganglia circuit identifies the specific cortico-basal ganglia synapse...
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The Friedman Brain Institute @sinaibrain.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
@nataliemcclain.bsky.social's "Metropolis of the Mind" reimagines the brain as a city. Different buildings (distinct brain regions) are connected by bridges (neural pathways). Collapsed bridges represent neural pathways weakened by #Addiction. VOTE NOW for #ArtoftheBrain Image # 28 👉 Most 🧡s wins!
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Marcelo Mattar @marcelomattar.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
New Annual Review with @nathanieldaw.bsky.social: “Planning in the Brain: It's Not What You Think It Is.” We argue that the brain's 'planning' machinery is mostly used for learning from simulated experience, and that thinking prospectively at decision time is just one special case of this process.
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Planning in the Brain: It's Not What You Think It Is
The neuroscience of planning has long been analogized to search algorithms in artificial intelligence (AI), which simulate future actions to guide immediate choices. We argue that advances in both neu...
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Holly Sullivan-Toole @hollysully.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
🚨Preprint Alert🚨 Our new preprint 'A Scalable fMRI Estimate of Basal Ganglia Brain Tissue Iron for Use in Developmental and Translational Neuroscience' is live!! lnkd.in/gpG9naba
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.
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SCORE | Center for Open Science
SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...
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David V. Smith @dvsmith.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🚨 New preprint from the lab led by Shenghan Wang! 🚨
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Excited to share our new paper proposing a new computational model accounting for the dynamic interaction btw drug #craving and #decision-making, led by Kaustubh Kulkarni, MD/PhD rdcu.be/fab6B #AddictionScience #Neuroscience #ComputationalPsychiatry #BehavioralScience
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A computational mechanism linking momentary craving and decision-making in alcohol drinkers and cannabis users - Nature Mental Health
This study investigated the computational mechanisms linking momentary craving and decision-making in people with moderate to high addiction risk levels for alcohol or cannabis use, uncovering differe...
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Olivier George @brainaddiction.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Semaglutide reduces depression risk by 44%, anxiety by 38%, and substance use disorder by 47% (other GLP1s had lower or no effect). That said, it the failed Alzheimer/GLP1 trial taught us something, it's that confirmatory RCTs are essential. linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pi...
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Association between GLP-1 receptor agonist use and worsening mental illness in people with depression and anxiety in Sweden: a national cohort study
People with diabetes have an elevated risk of developing depression, anxiety, and suicide. GLP-1 receptor agonists are licensed to treat diabetes and …
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Matt Mattoni @mattmattoni.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Precision reward/affect fMRI study out now in HBM! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @dvsmith.bsky.social @olinotom.bsky.social @coopersharp.bsky.social and @shenghanwang.bsky.social Intensively sampled task + rest fMRI data with behavioral manipulation openly available on OpenNeuro! (1/2)
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Precision Imaging for Intraindividual Investigation of the Reward Response
We present open data for an intensively sampled precision imaging study including multiple reward-related tasks and a behavioral mood manipulation. Our initial analysis found low test–retest reliabil....
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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
New review/theory paper out with Julie Bugg, Chris Nuno, and Changrun Huang. The upshot is that we don’t know for certain why it’s so hard to get people to engage proactive control from trial to trial (but it’s fun to think about it and speculate!).
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NARC at Mount Sinai NY @narcatms.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Discussing The Resevoir this coming Tuesday urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
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Neuropsychologist Desiree Byrd and neuroscientists Rita Goldstein and Daniela Schiller join clinical psychologist Shilpa Taufique to discuss the scientific issues behind the new play THE RESERVOIR — ...
Following the 7:00 PM performance of THE RESERVOIR on Tuesday, March 10 at the Linda Gross Theater, audiences are invited to remain for an in-depth exchange between leading researchers in neuroscience...
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Natalie McClain @nataliemcclain.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Also check out a commentary on these results, which highlights the utility of these drug-biased behavioral measures in clinical addiction research! @narcatms.bsky.social
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Improving Treatment Outcome Prediction Beyond Self-Report: The Role of Drug-Biased Behavioral Measures
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Natalie McClain @nataliemcclain.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Go check out our paper illustrating that objective cognitive-behavioral measures can outperform traditional self-reports when it comes to informing clinical outcomes! This is a promising step towards improving the tools we use to assess severity. @narcatms.bsky.social @aoceceli.bsky.social
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Moving Beyond Self-Report in Characterizing Drug Addiction: Using Drug-Biased Behavior to Predict Treatment Completion and Dropout in Heroin-Primary, Medication-Maintained Opioid Use Disorder
Drug addiction is accompanied by enhanced salience attributed to drug over nondrug cues. This bias can be objectively measured and is reliable but und…
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Jibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Excited to share this in final form @sfnjournals.bsky.social: An Open-Source Restraint System for Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Awake Rats www.eneuro.org/content/13/2... if anyone wants to try doing it, give us a call! Happy to help you get going!
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An Open-Source Restraint System for Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Awake Rats
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a critical tool for translational neuroscience, but preclinical studies frequently rely on anesthesia, which alters neural activity and limits comparison with human...
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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New paper from the lab now out online! @changrun-huang.bsky.social asked whether people use informative pre-cues to up-regulate cognitive control in the spatial Stroop task. Surprisingly, they do not, and we rule out some possible reasons why. Enjoy!
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Jan R. Wessel @janw.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I reviewed 5+ fMRI papers on response inhibition within roughly the last year, and the same points come up over and over again. So I wrote a short note last week entitled "The unique limitations of BOLD-fMRI in the study of response inhibition". You can read it here. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Ahmet O. Ceceli @aoceceli.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Check out our new preprint documenting how Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement rebalances neural responses to drug and natural reward cues in opioid use disorder! W/ Yuefeng Huang, @narcatms.bsky.social, @drericgarland.bsky.social et al @sinaibrain.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement rebalances prefrontal responses to drug and natural reward cues in opioid use disorder
Despite decades of clinical implementation of medications for opioid use disorder (OUD), overdose mortality rates remain high, underscoring a critical gap in treatments that target brain mechanisms dr...
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Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Students need to remember that Inigo Montoya method for emails and greetings: "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Polite Greeting Name Relevant Personal Link Manage Expectations Keep it BRIEF.
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David V. Smith @dvsmith.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
New work from the lab! With @jameswyngaarden.bsky.social
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Mehdi Farokhnia @mehdifarokhnia.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🚨 Prospects of GLP-1 Therapies for Addiction and Mental Health Comorbidities—Quo Vadis? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @jamapsychiatry.com
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GLP-1 Therapies for Addiction and Mental Health Comorbidities
This narrative review discusses the current landscape of glucagon-like peptide-1 therapies in the context of alcohol and other substance use disorders, mental health considerations, and gaps and oppor...
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NARC at Mount Sinai NY @narcatms.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
#acnp2026
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Ahmet O. Ceceli @aoceceli.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Wrapping up my 4th #ACNP while savoring this view. Grateful to the presenters as I learned a ton from the panels and posters at #acnp2026. Looking fwd to returning in 2027! @acnporg.bsky.social @sinaibrain.bsky.social
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Ahmet O. Ceceli @aoceceli.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Come talk addiction cogneuro (or anything else really...) with me at poster TH54 @5p! @acnporg.bsky.social @sinaibrain.bsky.social #acnp2026
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Ahmet O. Ceceli @aoceceli.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
In attendance with the @narcatms.bsky.social lab! Excited to see old friends and meet new ones. And for everyone to check out poster TH54 on Thursday 5-7p where I'll talk about goals and habits in addiction! #acnp2026
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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Interactions between striatal–prefrontal & hippocampal–prefrontal systems shape value-based learning & goal-directed behavior during adolescence; asynchronous maturation of these circuits may contribute to vulnerability to mental health disorders
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Striatal and hippocampal contributions to value-based learning in adolescence
Neuropsychopharmacology - Striatal and hippocampal contributions to value-based learning in adolescence
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Alexander Huth @alexanderhuth.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!
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Benjamin Kay @benjaminkay.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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Ahmet O. Ceceli @aoceceli.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Greater automaticity -> greater devaluation sensitivity?? my mind -> blown
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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
"Socioeconomic status (SES) — not IQ or psychopathology — showed the strongest associations with both resting-state functional connectivity and cortical thickness in the ABCD Study." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Eric L. Garland @drericgarland.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Hiring a Postdoc at UC San Diego to assist with clinical trials and neuroscience of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy for addiction. Clinical psychology or psychiatry training preferred. Postdoc will provide psychedelic-assisted therapy sessions, analyze data, and write papers. Competitive salary! DM me.
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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Hate: Overextending claims about psychology/cognitive neuroscience based on resting-state fMRI
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 16/12/2025
AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i... - my latest in @thetransmitter.bsky.social
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AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor
These guidelines can help researchers ensure the integrity of their work while accelerating progress on important scientific questions.
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Javeria Hashmi @netphys.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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Ahmet O. Ceceli @aoceceli.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Objective estimates of drug-biased behavior outperform subjective drug use measures in predicting addiction treatment outcomes?! Read more about it in our new paper in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social GOS w/ @nataliemcclain.bsky.social @narcatms.bsky.social et al! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Moving beyond self-report in characterizing drug addiction: Using drug-biased behavior to predict treatment completion and dropout in heroin-primary, medication-maintained opioid use disorder.
Drug addiction is accompanied by enhanced salience attributed to drug over nondrug cues. This bias can be objectively measured and is reliable yet und…
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Shelly Flagel @flagel-lab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Excited to share our new GLP-1 receptor agonist study! Chronic semaglutide potentiates motivation for small food rewards and associated cues, but reduces intake when food is freely available—surprising twist! #GLP-1, #behavior #neuroscience #pharmacology 1/ 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Chronic semaglutide treatment enhances the incentive motivational value of a small food reward and associated cue in male and female rats
Rationale: Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, such as semaglutide, are increasingly utilized in clinical practice due to their efficacy in promoting sustained weight loss following chr...
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
ManuscriptCentral Wrapped! In 2025, you submitted 5 papers AND all got rejected 🎉 You spent 💯 minutes in total trying to submit your papers! You reviewed for 10 journals that would never publish your papers ❤️
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Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Cocaine Addiction Trinity Three subtypes of cocaine use disorder and their neurobehavioral profiles A ‘Relief Type’ with high negative emotionality A ‘Cognitive Type’ with lower executive function An ‘Undefined Type’ with no apparent impairments www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Subtypes of cocaine use disorder and their neurobehavioral profiles - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Subtypes of cocaine use disorder and their neurobehavioral profiles
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Distributed activity in the human posterior putamen distinguishes goal-directed from habitual control in humans www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Joey Dunsmoor @joeydunsmoor.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
New lab paper: "Emotional learning selectively distorts the temporal organization of memory: A quantitative synthesis." Across 17 different studies, fear conditioning consistently distorted temporal source memory for information encoded before and after. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Emotional learning selectively distorts the temporal organization of memory: A quantitative synthesis
Episodic memory allows us to remember when an event occurred by situating it within a coherent temporal context. Pavlovian fear conditioning, a widely…
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
1/2 New open access paper in which we apply the Nyquist-Shannon thereom from signal processing to 2 EMA datasets to figure out the optimal sampling frequency for EMA assessments. 🧪 #psychscisky #statssky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Optimizing the frequency of ecological momentary assessments using signal processing | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Optimizing the frequency of ecological momentary assessments using signal processing - Volume 55
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