The Stress Peptide Advanced Research, Education, & Dissemination Center @McLeanHospital is dedicated to studying stress peptides in neuropsychiatric conditions.
Hello 👋! We are excited about the upcoming launch of this new open access journal, NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience. We are an official publication of @ACNPorg & affiliated with @npp_journal. Follow us for updates in the coming weeks!!
SPARED researchers show delayed sleep disruption reduces conditioned fear in male & female mice, substituting for extinction training (rdcu.be/dStKU). Potentially beneficial effect?
Please consider applying! It was one of the best decisions I've ever made, and I learned so much from the position. Feel free to reach out or DM me with questions!
Don’t forget – you have just under 2 weeks left to apply to be our 2025 @npp_journal Editorial Intern – applications are due August 30! ⌛️
See below to learn more about our previous Editorial Interns, their Special Projects, & what else they gained during their internship👇
Today we were honored to feature and celebrate the 8 trainees that successfully completed the McLean Mental Health Research Summer Program (MMHRSP). They truly blew us away with their talks and we know they will go far!! @McLeanHospital@harvardbrainsci@harvardmed
The leadership also wanted to honor the mentors, and specifically highlighted Dr. Brian Kangas as a star faculty member who has consistently demonstrated commitment to the MMHRSP, his mentees, & science education. This award was presented in honor of the late Dr. Elena Chartoff.
Precision mapping of a gut-brain circuit w/ functional impact.
Glands in the small intestine (Brunner's) have GLP-1 receptors, are stress-sensitive, connect to the brain via the vagal nerve, modulate bacterial species in the gut microbiome, and regulate immunity
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…@CellCellPress
Article alert! @valeritweety et al. used smartphones to sense social connectivity & loneliness in people w/ severe mental illness.
The number of important contacts a person communicates with is a promising marker to capture subjects perceived loneliness:
nature.com/articles/s44277-0…
Got a thank you card today for a guest lecture I gave to @McLeanHospital MMRSP students, signed by the students themselves and it made my week :) What a lovely gesture. Thank you to the organizers and to @josie_mcgowan again for the invite!
Join us to feature emerging leaders in psychiatry for a virtual panel discussion: "Troubled Teens: Strategies & Solutions to Address the Teen Mental Health Crisis" moderated by @WBUR reporter @wburdebbecker! @DrLuanaMarques@McLeanHospital@harvardmed
We were thrilled to have @denisejcai here today to talk about recent preprint work on memory linking across time. Beautiful data and what a great talk! @McLeanHospital@harvardmed
The Carlezon Lab hosted its first ever Cookie Baking Competition for @McLeanHospital MRC building scientists! The competition was stiff & scores were close, but the WINNER for our first bakeoff was Zenith from Dr. Kwang-Soo Kim's lab!! CONGRATULATIONS!! @harvardmed@AtSpared
We are so pleased to welcome Dr. Nicholas Gilpin @The_Gilp for our second in-person @McLeanHospital Neuroscience Seminar series to talk to us about the #amygdala as a hub for traumatic stress effects on alcohol-related behaviors. @harvardmed
We were honored to have @BrenhouseLab here today as part of McLean's Celebrating Women in Medicine & Science Month! She spoke elegantly about her work on early life adversity and pubertal timing, and gave career advice to trainees on campus. #McLeanSpared#WomeninScience
Now online in @npp_journal, "Early life stress moderates the relation between systemic inflammation and neural activation to reward in adolescents both cross-sectionally and longitudinally"
nature.com/articles/s41386-0…
🚨We are happy to announce that @dpn_journal is now accepting manuscript submissions!🚨
If your research involves digital technologies or computational approaches relevant to the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and study of psychiatric illnesses, consider publishing with us!
Synaptic pruning - a fascinating process in the 🧠 and a great example of the intricate relationship between #neurons and #microglia! Strengthening circuits and removing redundant synapses: underdo it and you can have autism; overdo it and you can develop schizophrenia. #Science
Submit your poster by August 15! TIPS is a great venue for students/researchers to network with colleagues from academia and industry. Don't miss your chance to be a part of the conversation at this year's poster session in Tampa, FL on Dec. 1. #TIPS2023tips.societyconference.com/v…