It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function
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It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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officially and forever Dr. Rohl 🐊🎉
Curious about how trauma is talked about online?
Here’s our NEW preprint about #PTSD content on TikTok -my 2nd first-author paper!
1/3 of surveyed content contained misleading info, biggest risk = discouragement re: prognosis.
Pts w/PTSD are not “broken”!
preprints.jmir.org/preprint/712...
Emerging studies reveal that the brain & body maintain continuous communication via the Vagus nerve. In the Spring 2025 #FBINewsletter, Learn More about how a racing heart, increased breathing, or altered metabolism, informs the brain about #Stress 👉 reports.mountsinai.org/article/fbis...
You might have heard that psychology has a WEIRD problem. Though it aims to understand human minds, many of its studies have historically been skewed towards WEIRD minds.
In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17
In ~2 weeks I'll begin launching my lab, the Brain Lesion and Neuromodulation Lab! I'm looking to fill 2 roles: 1 RA & 1 postdoc. If you're interested in intracranial electrical stimulation, lesion-deficit mapping, and/or neuropsychology, reach out! Official postings to come.
Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.”
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
No kings NYC ✊🏻
Send us your published op-eds to add to the growing map 🌱. Use the map to find fellow scientists from nearby hometowns. We’ll help you contact your REGIONAL newspaper to pitch a story about homegrown scientists 🏠 🧪
sciencehomecoming.com
My @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social editorial about the importance of federal scientific funding was published today in the Babylon Beacon, my hometown newspaper on Long Island. www.babylonbeacon.com/articles/new...
I had SO much fun giving my last didactic presentation today for my internship teaching requirements. As a soon-to-be UF alum I had to bring it back (to the future!) with the BPA. I genuinely believe I have the coolest job.
Very cool “Art of the Brain” exhibit this evening @sinaibrain.bsky.social @mountsinainyc.bsky.social 🎨🧠
Bringing science out of the lab and into the community is critical, now more than ever. Can’t wait to check out the rest of the ongoing exhibit at the Guggenheim.
I am also an artistically-inclined neuro person moving to Pitt in August! See you around perhaps!
every time it’s like I’m waking up on the conference table at Lumon. Who am I?
Remembering Dr. Alan Hart for Pride, trans man from the early 1900s. He revolutionized the detection of tuberculosis, saved thousands of lives, and died using his name, as the man he always was meant to be.
We have always been here.
“You work so hard to put yourself in a position where you don’t have to worry, and then that’s taken away from you,” said Camila Valderrama-Martínez...She can get a job, but that “takes away time from my research and my time in lab and focusing on my studies and my thesis.” 🧪
Scientists,
I am asking us to do something that goes against our nature:
Step away from fine-grained, nuanced arguments. Zoom WAY out. Share the big picture. Don’t soften the seriousness of this moment with “xxx may be ok in xxx circumstances” talk.
It’s uncomfortable AND necessary.
APS and psychological scientists from seven states (AZ, GA, MA, PA, TN, TX, VA) are headed to the Capitol this morning to advocate for #NSF and #NIH funding.
#PsychologicalScience #HillDay
Honored to be a part of this panel addressing financial elder abuse, a significant and important issue in our country. Grateful for the work of the National Center on Elder Abuse to protect and advocate for all of us so that we can age with dignity and financial stability. Link here: bit.ly/3FclBTv
Academic workers across the country are calling 📞 Legislators to ask them to sign on to bipartisan letters ✉️ in support of robust NIH funding and opposing the 15% indirect cost caps. Take 5 minutes to call your legislators today. Deadline is May 19th.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
It’s worth saying again, but with notes: Alzheimer’s Studies Are Diversifying (which is a scientific necessity because Black older adults are 2x & Latinos 1.5x more likely to get it, pointing to social determinants of health as important for dementia). WILL SCIENTISTS BE ABLE TO FINISH THE JOB?
3/9 The most surprising aspect of this work is not only that 8 laboratories have collaborated to contrast both proposals, but also that the main proponents of both theories have agreed on a series of predictions to test them : )
(blog) theconversation.com/how-does-con...
https://www.amazon.in/BIRDS-MIND-Synthetic-Illusion-Multiple/dp/B09LM5XJFM
1/9 Clashing theories of consciousness
They have finally published the first result of the ARC-COGITATE initiative after comparing the best known theories, the “global neuronal workspace (GNWT)” and the “integrated information theory (IIT)”.
(paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Things that have helped me a lot:
-focusing on stuff in my control
-learning how to encourage myself
-telling myself what I'm proud of every day
-learning to ask for help
-helping others
-remembering I'm smart and prepared for many worst-case scenarios
-"just do 5 min"
-friends
-therapy
-ADHD meds
I have sent my first query email to write an op-ed for my hometown newspaper as part of @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social and I am nervous but very excited! I believe in this so much - there is such a need for scientists to connect with their communities. Fingers crossed!!!
You may not know that the Department of Defense funds medical research designed to address the health needs of Service Members & Veterans.
This research has advanced care of conditions like Alzheimer’s Disease, TBI & PTSD.
Tell Congress to restore this funding www.congressweb.com/rallyfoundat...
Anthony Correro & I led a special issue w/ The Clinical Neuropsychologist. We highlight key LGBTQIA+ research: 1) Foundational efforts, 2) Pediatric neuropsychology for transgender & gender diverse youth living with autism, 3) Lifespan & adult neuropsychology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We heard a few days ago, but it bears repeating:
WT actual (U)F are you doing.
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As federal funders desert mentorship programs for marginalized students, trainee-led initiatives fill the gap
www.thetransmitter.org/community/as...
If you want to feel small and insignificant, stare up at the stars in the sky. If you want to feel how immensely profound, impossibly complex, and just outright improbable your existence is, gaze at the stars in this 1mm^3 cube and realize it's less than a millionth the volume of your own brain.