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Thomas Kraynak

@tekraynak.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @ Pitt Psychiatry 👨🏻‍🔬📝 Brain-body 🧠-🫀pathways linking stress 😫 health 😷 & aging 👴 fMRI enthusiast 🎆 & TMS newbie 🧲 🐈‍⬛ dad & 🎹🎶 lover Views my own

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Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (new name!) @bsamjournal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New open access article, Cardiovascular Stress Physiology and Interoceptive Pathways to Brain Aging and Health. A Scienitifc Spotlight article from Peter Gianaros, Dept. of Psychology & Center for Mind-Body Science and Health, Univ. of Pittsburgh doi.org/10.1097/PSY.... @connectsbsm.bsky.social
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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My friend is a co-lead on this project (my wife is a collaborator). Let me tell you what it was about and why Battacharya’s decision simply amplifies the consequences of structural racism that the project was attempting to understand. A 🧵 1/12
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Thomas Kraynak @tekraynak.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Grateful to the BBRF @bbrfoundation.bsky.social for funding my Young Investigator Grant application We (@skhalsa.bsky.social @helmetkarim.bsky.social & more) will use TMS & fMRI to probe brain mechanisms of cardiac interoception & severe worry Officially a funded #interoception researcher!
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Layla Banihashemi, Ph.D. @laylabraindoc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Beyond honored to receive the MacLean Award from @connectsbsm.bsky.social. Deep thanks to my nominator @tekraynak.bsky.social and the SBSM Awards and MacLean committees for this distinction. Forever grateful to Dr. Pete Gianaros for his mentorship that fostered my translational imaging program.
Dr. Layla Banihashemi and Dr. Thomas Kraynak standing together, with Banihashemi holding the MacLean Award plaque.Dr. Layla Banihashemi presenting her MacLean Award lecture, showing an introductory slide on Paul MacLean and the “visceral brain.”Dr. Layla Banihashemi and Dr. Peter Gianaros standing together, with Banihashemi holding the MacLean Award plaque.Dr. Layla Banihashemi and Dr. Thomas Kraynak standing together in front of an SBSM event backdrop.
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Thomas Kraynak @tekraynak.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Are you a Postdoc or Early Career Faculty interested in health psychology, behavioral medicine, or mind-body science? Apply to the Pittsburgh Mind-Body Science and Health Summer Institute - July 13-15 in Pittsburgh! Travel and accommodations supported by the Institute Application Deadline Jan 9
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Health Psych Research Network Website - Summer Institute
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Alex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Fitness and Exercise Effects on Brain Age: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Examine the effect of aerobic exercise on structural brain age and explore potential mediators. In a single-blind, 12-month randomized clinical trial, 130 healthy participants aged 26–58 years were randomized into a moderator-to-vigorous intensity ...
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Alex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
cool - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The functional neurobiology of negative affective traits across regions, networks, signatures, and a machine learning multiverse
Understanding the neural basis of negative affective traits like neuroticism remains a critical challenge across psychology, neuroscience, and psychiatry. Here, we investigate which level of brain org...
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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Our latest NPP BrainPod episode is out 🧠🎙️ Worry seems like something most people do, but for some, severe worry can become overwhelming...and for older adults later in life, it has been associated with an increased risk of morbidity open.spotify.com/show/6s3gf3Q...
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Older and wiser? The neural correlates of worry induction and reappraisal in older adults
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Thomas Kraynak @tekraynak.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Why I cough up a fit after eating Chipotle
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Thomas Kraynak @tekraynak.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Check out our paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social:
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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
#ThisWeekInNPP Remitted late-life depression (LLD) participants had ⬇️ cardiovascular & posterior insula response to stress, while ⬆️ stressor-evoked BNST activity was linked to faster depression relapse, highlighting 🧠mechanisms of stress-related vulnerability in LLD www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Brain and cardiovascular responses to acute stress in remitted and recurrent late-life depression - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Brain and cardiovascular responses to acute stress in remitted and recurrent late-life depression
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Thomas Kraynak @tekraynak.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This Pitt alum is heartbroken by this decision. The attacks on science, research, and higher education continue. Afraid we will never know the full extent of the damage inflicted by these horrible policies.
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Thomas Kraynak @tekraynak.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Attn: neuroimagers
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Thomas Kraynak @tekraynak.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Shameful that our PA Attorney General did not join this suit, especially considering that 2 of the 6 universities most affected by the cap are in PA. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/l0ZqA/9/
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Estimated Single Year Loss of NIH Funding if 15% Indirect Cost Rate is Imposed
Based on analysis of 2024 NIH funding data. Sums are totals of losses in funding to programs if indirect costs had been capped at 15%
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Olu Ajilore, MD, PhD @pshrink.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Another banger from the REMBRANDT study! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Brain and cardiovascular responses to acute stress in remitted and recurrent late-life depression - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Brain and cardiovascular responses to acute stress in remitted and recurrent late-life depression
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
As we near the end of Insula week, I want to introduce you to Insula's bestie, Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC). Left: ACC (yellow) Right: "Insula" (Anterior Insular Cortex, AIC; green).
ACC and Insula
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