Neuroscience, Computational Psychiatry, Neuromodulation, Allometry, Vipassana, Fatherhood.
University of Minnesota
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Excited to announce that @daviddarrow and I have launched our joint Psychiatry-Neurosurgery lab: hermandarrowlab.com
We are hiring at all levels for human research in neural mechanisms of reward-based decision making and brain stimulation for addiction, pain and depression.
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Check our new preprint on cortical pain targets for neuromodulation based on the "somato cognitive action network": osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/u4…
Very much an embodied view of central pain.
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Pain in the brain!
check out the thread:
bsky.app/profile/drdamienfai…
on the new preprint:
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/u4…
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They’re building nuclear plants to power current AI—let alone AGI. Your brain runs on just 20 watts. Clearly, brains work fundamentally differently.
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A huge thank you to @bgurley and @B3_MillerValue!
What a wonderful space for all of us at @sfiscience.
santafe.edu/news-center/news…
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1/10 We need better ways to measure brain excitability in psychiatric disorders. The prefrontal cortex—key target for brain stimulation treatments—is particularly hard to assess. Our new studies tackle this with systematic mapping! bit.ly/4cjHknX &bit.ly/3PW8RCx
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Anxious people tended to explore more, viewing their environment as rapidly changing. In contrast, apathetic individuals explored less and saw changes as random
check our new paper on BPCNNI 🫰sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Beyond proud is a perfect description of how all of us felt leaving that auditorium. Congratulations DR. @lauraabusta on a terrific defense, and thank you for filling that space with your wisdom, compassion, and advocacy! 👏🏻👏🏻
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a bit late but finally finished the COSYNE2022 blogpost. In it:
1. some works I found particularly interesting at the main conference
2. musings on "how to conference"
3. a report about our (best!) workshop on neural timescales with @roxana_zeraati
rdgao.com/blog/2022/03/28/
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An overview from Vikaas Sohal @sohallab @UCSF proposes that understanding how specific cellular and synaptic loci within cortical microcircuits contribute to cortical gamma oscillations may reveal treatments for cognitive impairment. bit.ly/3qWnr0z
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#Psychedelics continue to make a comeback in #mentalhealth research but we must remain circumspect about the hype. Important new study today in @nejm 6 week double blind RCT of #Psilocybin versus Escitalopram for #Depression nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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Yesterday I learned what my breaking point is: receiving an email for an event about life after the PhD that features 4 recent grads who secured academic jobs.
I cried, I screamed, I called, I emailed, I received calls, I cried again.
Depts./programs: please stop this insanity.
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Yesterday, @WIRED detailed Faculty Co-Director @jblumenstock's pioneering research w/ @GiveDirectly supporting the gov't of Togo in targeting economic support for its most vulnerable residents. Read about it: wired.com/story/clever-strat…
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Thank you Dr. Arif Hamid for speaking today in our MDT on Addiction seminar series. Your talk about striatal dopamine waves as a mechanism for spatiotemporal credit assignment was extremely interesting and informative! @UMN_MDTA
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Drs. Rahel Nardos and Damien Fair, a married faculty duo, return to Minnesota so they can make an impact in different fields of medicine. ➡️ ow.ly/p1kx50BtHCO
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Excited to see this work come out with first author Junyu Cao at UT Austin and also @doctorpoe @AlexHermanMDPhD and Geoffrey West @sfiscience !
The #sleeping brains of infants and toddlers are focused on learning + memory support until ~ 2.4 years of age, when brain activity shifts to spend more time on maintenance + repair, according to @ScienceAdvances study by @VanMSavage. Story @colinaoconnor aaas.org/news/primary-role-s…
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At least one of the Bartley’s is publishing, congrats @CMBartley
biologicalpsychiatryjournal.…
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So you’ve decided to finally buy those antiracist books. Support this indigenous owned bookstore in Minneapolis while yer at it.
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I’m proud to endorse my friend @JoeBiden for President of the United States. Let's go: x.com/i/broadcasts/1PlJQmrlR…
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Proudly announcing our 2020 resident class: Dr. Isabela Pena Pino and Dr. Birra Taha. They bring amazing backgrounds to this next step in their journey | Neurosurgery Dept | University of Minnesota | med.umn.edu/news-events/depa…
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