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12 Dec 2022
Excited to be part of the @acamh team ๐ฅณ If you are interested in Child and Adolescent Mental Health- this is the place to be!
Welcome to @MarcDFerger our new ACAMH Ambassador! Marc is a medical student from Germany, a research fellow at the Group of Biological Child & Adolescent Psychiatry @UKKoeln, and the 2022 ACAMH Undergraduate Clinical Trainee of the Year. Check out more at acamh.org/about-acamh/young-โฆ
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
24 Dec 2025
So many reasons to celebrate with this team this year, but I'm most grateful for how fun they keep this job๐ฅณ
Happy holidays from the PaCT Lab ๐๐
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
10 Dec 2025
New @Nature study maps the genetic risk shared across psychiatric disorders.
In News & Views, I discuss what it means when that genetic risk overlaps with normal traits, including education-related outcomes.
News & Views: nature.com/articles/d41586-0โฆ
Study: nature.com/articles/s41586-0โฆ
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
10 Dec 2025
Neuropsychiatric disorders impose a substantial burden on individuals and societies worldwide.
๐ข This Special Communications reflects the broad consensus of experts to advance the agenda for precision psychiatry.
ja.ma/4iK7Yu6
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
2 Dec 2025
The @pact_lab has been celebrating some major wins recently -
Last Thursday, @abby_lunge successfully defended her MSc ๐
Yesterday, @AnaDeutsch8 advanced to PhD candidacy ๐
Feeling super grateful to work alongside this team of all-stars๐คฉ
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
24 Nov 2025
"We therefore issue an urgent call to action: psychiatric associations and guideline committees should explicitly evaluate and consider #GLP-1RAs as a strategy to manage psychotropic-induced weight gain."
Learn more in this Viewpoint: ja.ma/43Lrsby
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
18 Nov 2025
17 Nov 2025
Dr. Tansey's research focuses on using multimodal neuroimaging techniques (mainly functional MRI, but also magnetic resonance spectroscopy & diffusion MRI) to gain a deeper etiological understanding of psychiatric disorders & develop novel treatments ๐ง ๐ #ACNP2026
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
13 Nov 2025
Super proud of my PhD student's first paper published in @PsychopharmEBPS We found dysfunction stress response to social rejection of the #endocannabinoid 2-AG in individuals with chronic #opioid use #OUD
Check it out:
rdcu.be/eOkoh
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
31 Oct 2025
๐ Congratulations to our Social Media Editor, Dr. Leah Mayo (@MayoOnTheBrain), on being named to Calgaryโs Top 40 Under 40!
Her research on stress, psychedelics, cannabinoids & mental health continues to make an impact โ in and beyond the lab
๐ avenuecalgary.com/top-40-undโฆ
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
13 Oct 2025
Excited to share recent collaborative work led by Hayley Thorpe (from @JKhokharLab) published in @molpsychiatry : Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals: nature.com/articles/s41380-0โฆ CADM2, now also for cannabis use frequency!
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
6 Oct 2025
Congrats to @pact_lab PhD student @AnaDeutsch8 on her 1st first-author paper from the lab!๐
She explored how MDMA & methamphetamine impact cortisol, endocannabinoids, & BDNF levels in healthy humans how this relates to the subjective drug experience๐
link.springer.com/article/10โฆ
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
11 Sep 2025
Looking for a comprehensive primer on how endocannabinoids modulate affective behavior and stress adaptationโฆ.
We got you covered with our new Review Article โฆ@NatRevNeurosciโฉ with (soon to be defending) โฆ@NiharikaLoombaโฉ ๐๐พ๐๐พ๐๐พ nature.com/articles/s41583-0โฆ
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
21 Sep 2025
Heading home after an AMAZING #EBPS2025 where @pact_lab was well-represented w/ 3 talks (incl. @AnaDeutsch8 1st talk as a PhD student), 2 IDEA panelists & 4 posters (incl poster winner @AubinKeira) ๐คฉ
Now for a [much needed] record-breaking 3 months without conference travel โ๏ธ
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
23 Aug 2025
Wow It was a wonderful experience cochairing the #CannabinoidsGRS2025 this year alongside Gavin.
I have learned so much but also really enjoyed getting in touch with wonderful young scientists in the #Cannabinoids community.
Absolutely grateful ๐ฅน
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
23 Aug 2025
Incredible time at the Cannabinoid GRC! @DrJKhokhar & Cece Hilliard knocked it out of the park! It was an honor to be discussion lead for the GRS session on therapeutics too. As always, so proud of my friend/mentor @MayoOnTheBrain, chosen as the 2029 chair w/@RyanMcPickle
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
22 Aug 2025
Thanks to @DrJKhokhar & @CeceHillard for another fantastic Cannabinoid GRC! The #cannabinerd crew is unparalleled & I couldn't be more excited for the opportunity to organize the 2029 meeting with @RyanMcPickle
22 Aug 2025
And just like that #CannabinoidGRC2025 comes to an end! Big thank you to my co-chair @CeceHillard and all the attendees and speakers! Congrats to @mayoonthebrain and @ryanmcpickle on their selection as chairs for the 2029 meeting!
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
21 Aug 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Valerie Taylor, MD, PhD, Mathison Centre and Hotchkiss Brain Institute member, on being elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS)! ๐Learn more about Dr. Taylor and the Fellowship: bit.ly/4oKb3gp
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
22 Aug 2025
And just like that #CannabinoidGRC2025 comes to an end! Big thank you to my co-chair @CeceHillard and all the attendees and speakers! Congrats to @mayoonthebrain and @ryanmcpickle on their selection as chairs for the 2029 meeting!
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
19 Aug 2025
Wonderful session on Cannabis, Trauma and Society with @AZAAllsop, @anahitabassir, @ed_chesney, Gavin Petrie and Nate Harnett with discussant extraordinaire Debra Karhson! #CannabinoidGRC2025
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Marc Daniel Ferger retweeted
16 Aug 2025
Wishing all the #Cannabinerd trainees a Happy Cannabinoid GRS kickoff!
Grateful to see @pact_lab well represented - with talks from Ryann Tansey & @abby_lunge, @MarcDFerger as a discussion leader, & Gavin Petrie as GRS co-Chair (and a later speaker at the GRC) ๐ช
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๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ฃ ๐๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ง๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐น ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฒ โ ๐๐ฝ๐ฝ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ป! We are excited to announce that the IACAPAP Education Travel Grant 2026 will officially open for application on 15 August 2025!
iacapap.org/events/iacapap-eโฆ
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