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Cecile Ladouceur, PhD

@cdladouceur.bsky.social
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Professor of Psychiatry & Psychology, University of Pittsburgh. Child Psychologist. Director, Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience & Development Lab. Mom of 4

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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
National Norms and Psychometrics for the Pubertal Development Scale | medRxiv www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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clare mccann @clarefmccann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New paper out in Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology!! I had the pleasure of collaborating with a group of experts in puberty, adolescence, quantitative methods & more to create a comprehensive guide to measuring & modeling pubertal development over time: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Share! 👇👇👇
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Maria Jalbrzikowski @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
HIRING: Staff Scientist @ NeRD Lab at Boston Children's Hospital. Come join a powerhouse lab of 14 remarkable women. Looking for someone who loves neurodevelopment, sleep, & psychopathology, thrives on collaboration, & is excited to become the scientific backbone of our lab. tinyurl.com/mveskh4p
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CondeNanoLab @condenanolab.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
My Working Life article @science.org - When I stopped trying to have all the answers, my lab members thrived | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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When I stopped trying to have all the answers, my lab members thrived
This professor learned “to be there when people struggled without taking the wheel,” he writes
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UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent @cda-adolescence.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
How will #AI shape the next generation's ability to love, work & connect? 🤝 In a new #Adaptivitypod episode, host Ron Dahl talks with researchers about what young people need to become connected & thriving humans in a changing world. 🎙️Listen now: developingadolescent.semel.ucla.edu/podcasts/ite...
Adaptivity Podcast Episode: Adolescence, AI, and the Future of Authentic Human Connection
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Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Very excited to share new findings from an NIMH-funded R21 on the neurodevelopment of worry! Manuscript led by super 🌟 Postdoctoral Scholar in the lab @ceciwestbrook.bsky.social , check it out! 👇👇👇 @psychiatry.pitt.edu
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Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Excited to share recent findings from the lab examining how puberty-related changes in connectivity within the mesocorticolimbic circuitry is associated with sensitivity to reward/punishment. Manuscript led by the talented @amarojha.bsky.social - check it out in @npp-journal.bsky.social ! 👇👇👇
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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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Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
🚨FREE WEBINAR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 Get an early start to #statnerdsummer with a free seminar on how multilevel models and structural equation models intersect. I'll be showing this through MLM and SEM growth curves. Sign up for free! Share widely! You can register here: smart-workshops.com/workshops
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Super proud of @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social who demonstrated that amygdala-TUS slows initial threat acquisition and enhances subsequent extinction. Great collaboration with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social and @deVoogdld.bsky.social ea. Thanks to @ERC.europa.eu. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The human amygdala in threat learning and extinction
Ultrasonic neuromodulation of the human amygdala provides causal evidence for its role in forming persistent threat memories.
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Brenden Tervo-Clemmens @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
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I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
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Cheng Huang @huangchengwashu.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Recent review about long-range axons rdcu.be/eXeDG
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Long-range axon branching: contributions to brain network plasticity and repair
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Connectome reconstructions across multiple species reveal that the morphology of axonal projections is highly variable, even between neurons of the same location or...
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Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Registration is open!!!! You can also submit a poster abstract! Come join us for an amazing set of talks and insightful discussions on the impact of stress on brain development and implications for the development of affective disorders… @pittpsychiatry.bsky.social
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Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Excited to share these findings from our CATS center in a manuscript led by the talented Ceci Westbrook, MD, PhD, Post-doctoral Scholar in the lab!🤩 👇👇👇
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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Excited to share that my TEDx talk is finally available online. I loved sharing what the science shows us: that it's time to reframe adolescence - from problem to ✨ potential ✨ 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8V...
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The surprising science of adolescent brains | Jennifer Pfeifer | TEDxPortland
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Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Spread the word!! DANS 2025 registration is opening very soon…take a look at some of our amazing speakers! You can present a poster you will present or have presented elsewhere…the goal is to foster discussion. Check dans.pitt.edu for updates!
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Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Wow…awesome and impactful work!!! Bravo! 👏👏👏
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Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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NOT-OD-25-131: Revision: NIH Policy and Guidelines on the Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Revision: NIH Policy and Guidelines on the Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research NOT-OD-25...
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Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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NIH will only accept six applications per PI per calendar year.
NIH has issued NOT-OD-25-132 Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications which informs us that NIH will only accept six new, renewal, resubmission, or revision applications fro…
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Niamh MacSweeney @niamhmacsweeney.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Our paper - Neuroimaging Insights into Adolescent Depression and Development - is now out in Nature Mental Health! 🧠 Huge thanks to my wonderful co-authors @yaratoenders.bsky.social and @cktamnes.bsky.social. I loved bringing these ideas together with you! rdcu.be/eugUM
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Neuroimaging insights into adolescent depression risk and development
Nature Mental Health - Adolescence marks a critical period for the onset of depression, yet the neurobiological mechanisms remain unclear. Here the authors review literature linking adolescent...
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Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Screens, Sleep, and White Matter in Childhood and Adolescent Depression url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2835092?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=062825
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Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Got my hopes up for a hot minute when the R13 notice came out-for our DANS conf- only to find this notice today 😢 But happy to see Fs are finally out!
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NOT-MH-25-210: Notice of NIMH Withdrawal from Participation in PA-25-080, "NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (Parent R13 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)"
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of NIMH Withdrawal from Participation in PA-25-080,
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Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
CAN-D lab staff and trainees had fun showcasing their work at our Dept annual Research Day! Celebrating science! 🤩
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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
#ThisWeekInNPP This study explored relapse & recurrence in late-life depression, finding widespread 🧠 network configuration was required for resilience, while failure to reconfigure was associated w/ vulnerability to relapse @agerlachphd.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Network homeostasis: functional brain network alterations and relapse in remitted late-life depression - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Network homeostasis: functional brain network alterations and relapse in remitted late-life depression
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Friedemann Zenke @fzenke.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
1/6 Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance? Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by @jrbch.bsky.social
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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Really happy to receive my first paperback copy of Coming Of Age 🎉 I wrote this book to examine the emotional power of the adolescent years – I explore why adolescents behave the way they do, but also about why events from those years continue to affect who we are, even many years later 1/
Me with Coming Of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us
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Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
DANS is happening!! 🎉🎉 Mark your calendars and please spread the word!
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com
Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation
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TAKE ACTION
Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation.

 

Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work.

 

 Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.
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Isabelle Rosso @irosso.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
How delays in issuing NIH funds may create the appearance of a budget 'surplus' that becomes justification to cut the NIH budget. @statnews.com #neuroskyence
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Neuroendocrinology and Behavior lab at UCLA @alwardlab-ucla.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Please tell everyone you know that 60 minutes is covering the NIH tonight youtu.be/noyS-L5gK7k?...
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NIH | Sunday on 60 Minutes
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
For my scientist friends who have been struggling with anxiety, depression, grief and more, two licensed therapists are hosting a 90min pro bono session. It's today (Apr 17), starting in half an hour (9:30am PT) but there will be more sessions in future. www.eventbrite.com/e/coping-wit...
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Coping with Upheaval: Support for Terminated/Defunded Scientists
If you're a US scientist feeling demoralized, burned out, or anxious in this unprecedented political moment--you are not alone. (Free event)
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Science Magazine @science.org · 17/04/2025
The National Science Foundation has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency set up shop at the agency this week. scim.ag/4iowX4t
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NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review
Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency
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Susan Perlman, Ph.D. @drperlman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
So happy to write this opinion standing up for science in my local paper!
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ACNP @acnporg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
ACNP Travel Award Applications open TODAY for the ACNP 64th Annual Meeting: January 12-15, 2026, Nassau, Bahamas. Deadline to Submit is May 8, 2025, at 5:00 pm Central. acnp.org/annual-meet... #ACNP2026 #travelawards
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bbrfoundation @bbrfoundation.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Congratulations to the 2025 Distinguished Investigator Grantees! . Read the Press Release: ow.ly/oVn050Vk6vx . #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #neuroscience #depression #anxiety #schizophrenia #autism #OCD #PTSD #BPD #bipolardisorder #ADHD #ADD
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Katie Witkiewitz @katiew.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
And a plug for a new special issue on sex differences and alcohol use disorders led by @nicoleacrowley.bsky.social and Erin Calipari. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Alcohol | Sex and Alcohol Use Disorders | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
There has been a lack of preclinical research studying sex differences in the mechanisms that lead to sex differences in vulnerability to disease. This special issue brings together a collection of pr...
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Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Finally here! First post on @bsky.app! Come join us in Pittsburgh!
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