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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Symposium submissions are now open for #SANS2027! Submissions must be made through the online submission portal by 23:59 (Eastern Time) on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. More details here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/symposia-sub...

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Symposia Submission - Social Affective Neuroscience Society

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Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@sidchop.bsky.social explains why we need to re-evaluate how we think about antipsychotics and their effects on the brain.

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Katie Insel @katieinsel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The CATS Lab is moving to Columbia next year, and I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle to start Fall 2027 in the Department of Psychology. Learn more about how to apply here: psychology.columbia.edu/content/prep... I am also recruiting a postdoc and staff for 2027. More info coming soon!

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Preparing to Apply | Department of Psychology

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Sidhant Chopra @sidchop.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🧠 New work showing prominent and widespread 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘰 pre-synaptic terminal reductions in people with schizophrenia.🧠 nature.com/articles/s41... Strongest effects in left hemisphere, but synaptic loss didn't track with MRI grey matter alterations, but did align with..👇1/4

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Widespread synaptic density loss in schizophrenia follows molecular and network architecture - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - Widespread synaptic density loss in schizophrenia follows molecular and network architecture

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Jin Ke @jinke.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Preprint alert! 🧠 Using movie-watching fMRI and NLP, we show that prior social impressions shape how new social information is processed and updated over time, while moments of sudden insight ("aha"!) accompany transient shifts in brain activity that predict impression updates. (1/10)

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Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

A new framework reframes depression not as a disorder of negative thoughts but of cognitive flow. It proposes that depressed thinking is stuck, slow, and narrow, and treatments restoring the brain's ability to move fluidly between ideas may be key to recovery.

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Facilitating Thought Progression: A Neurocognitive Framework Linking Thought Dynamics and Mood Disorders

Mood and thought are tightly coupled, but the mechanisms linking them are not understood. This link is particularly important when considering mood disorders such as depression. We propose the…

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Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Anxiety and anhedonia may distort the brain's model of the world in opposite ways. Anxious people overestimate how rapidly threatening environments change, while anhedonic people underestimate change, potentially fueling hypervigilance and hopelessness respectively.

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Anhedonia and Anxious Arousal are Associated with Distinct Expectations about the Statistics of a Volatile Environment

The brain is believed to construct a generative model of the environment, updated via differences between predictions and incoming sensory evidence (i.e., prediction errors). Uncertainty can arise at…

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Yueyue Lydia Qu @lydiaquq.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Just heard about this paper from Dr. Liston's talk an hour ago

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I finally got to watch this stunningly clear explanation of transformers from the amazing Idan Blank. I agree with Ev, Idan is the best teacher I know. This lecture is a gift to the field. Thank you Idan! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGMn...

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How Transformers Work: A Detailed, Conceptual Explanation (No Coding / Math)

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Rodrigo Braga @rodbraga.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Our new paper on brain networks engaged during imagining is out now in Neuron! Here is a download link (free for 50 days): authors.elsevier.com/c/1msNE3BtfH... Congratulations to Nate Anderson for leading this work @rementurus.bsky.social 🧵

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Yueyue Lydia Qu @lydiaquq.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Now out in Psychological Medicine! We identified lifetime exposures to humiliation and entrapment, as well as frontoparietal-left cerebellar RSFC, as correlates of adolescent anxiety and depression symptoms across three time points. Link: doi.org/10.1017/S003...

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Life experiences of humiliation, entrapment, and frontoparietal-cerebellar connectivity predict adolescent anxiety and depression symptoms | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core

Life experiences of humiliation, entrapment, and frontoparietal-cerebellar connectivity predict adolescent anxiety and depression symptoms - Volume 56

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Toomas Erik Anijärv @teanijarv.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I couldn't find a tool to plot different #neuroimaging data in one consistent style, so I made one! Meet yabplot (yet another brain plot) - a #Python package for (sub)cortex & tracts.🧠 - Simple API - Built-in atlases - Custom atlas support 🔗 github.com/teanijarv/ya... (drop a ⭐️!)

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Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Looking for a post-bac RA position focused on the brain bases of affective and psychotic illness? @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring! @cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

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Chris Baldassano @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

New preprint 🎉: How do episodic memory, emotions, and schemas for caregiver experiences come together in kids’ brains and verbal recall? Check out our new results showing how past and present childhood experiences shape perception and memory for movies: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Past and present caregiving experiences impact prefrontal connectivity and recall for attachment-schema narratives

We investigated how past and current caregiving experiences impacted emotional event processing by examining inter-subject functional correlation in 7- to 15-year-olds during narrative movies depictin...

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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcula... The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵

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Holmes Lab @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

PsyPost covered @lydiaquq.bsky.social's new paper linking internalizing/externalizing symptoms to distinct features! Check it out ⬇️ 🖇️https://www.psypost.org/scientists-identify-distinct-brain-patterns-linked-to-mental-health-symptoms #SciComm #Neuroscience

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Yueyue Lydia Qu @lydiaquq.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

David is a wonderful mentor and a fantastic human being!! Many congrats :)

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Yueyue Lydia Qu @lydiaquq.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I'm thrilled to share that my graduate school project was just published in Nature Mental Health! We found that resting-state functional network predictors are more similar within vs between categories of internalizing and externalizing behavior in children (ABCD), adolescents (HBN) and adults (HCP)

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