The Stress Peptide Advanced Research, Education, & Dissemination Center @McLeanHospital is dedicated to studying stress peptides in neuropsychiatric conditions.

Joined February 2019
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The @AtSpared team @McLeanHospital @harvardmed is so excited about the launch of the new open access @ACNPorg journal, NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience! Looking forward to following all of the innovative content to come @dpn_journal @npp_journal
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!!
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SPARED researchers show delayed sleep disruption reduces conditioned fear in male & female mice, substituting for extinction training (rdcu.be/dStKU).  Potentially beneficial effect?
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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👇
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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
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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.
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8 Aug 2024
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
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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…
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Please read the recent update on the ACNP Annual Meeting location. acnp.org/about-us/update-on-…
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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
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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…
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Our journal doors are wide open for manuscript submissions! We're looking forward to reading your work 🤓
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🚨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!
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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
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Absolutely thrilled 🤩 to have received the 2023 #NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from @BBRFoundation🙏 to study the involvement of non-neuronal cells in #PTSD in 🧠 & 🧫! 🙏Many thanks to @NikosDaskalakis, @McLeanHospital, @broadinstitute, @harvardmed, @AtSpared for the support!

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Kudos @artemis_iat 💫 in the lab for being awarded a 2023 #NARSAD Young Investigator Grant! 🙏 @BBRFoundation for funding research on #PTSD & #depression molecular underpinnings using 🧠 & 🧫 models! 🙏 co-mentors &collabs! @McLeanHospital @AtSpared @harvardmed @broadinstitute
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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. #TIPS2023 tips.societyconference.com/v…
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