Laureate Institute for Brain Research

Hurricane Helene’s damage goes beyond infrastructure. Nick Obradovich from LIBR highlights how extreme weather impacts mental health. Recovery requires rebuilding minds too. 🌪️💙 Read more: laureateinstitute.org/news/the-hidde…

Congratulations to @EvanJWhitePhD on being selected as the first Fellow in the CIRCLE Fellowship program at the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health @JHUCIH!

Exciting new preprint led by Ning Li and @ClaireALavalley "Directed exploration is elevated in affective disorders but reduced by an aversive interoceptive state induction" (medrxiv.org/content/10.110…). Uncovers interesting opposing effects of state and trait anxiety. Thread below:

Enjoying the @aspenideas health fellowship! Amazing colleagues, amazing speakers, and amazing venue!

The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study at LIBR has an immediate opening for a Research Assistant. Send your resume or CV to Dr. Cassandra Sturycz at csturycz@libr.net to be considered for this opportunity!

Mental Health Awareness Month is a great time to raise awareness of the importance of mental health in children and teens. Keep an eye out for any social or behavioral changes in your children. You can learn more about the signs at bit.ly/3LLCvbP. #MHAM2024

April is Alcohol Awareness Month. We spoke with Dr. @robinaupperle and Elisabeth Akeman to discuss the effects of alcohol on the brain, limits, reducing consumption, seeking help, & LIBR's research contributions. #AlcoholAwarenessMonth laureateinstitute.org/news/april-qa-…

My friends/family often ask me about my research, which can sometimes be a bit of a challenge since computational psychiatry is fairly technical. So I wrote a short piece in @PsychToday trying to introduce this in an approachable way. Hope it might help! psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-ne…

My former RA Annie (now clinical psych grad student) just got her first first-author paper published (nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…). It’s a cool paper showing that despite being anxious/depressed, those with high resilience scores can still show good life satisfaction. Important stuff

Congratulations to Dr. Evan White on being selected as the @abctnow Spring 2024 Featured Researcher! The Spring Spotlight focuses on researchers doing work to eliminate health disparities. Learn more about Evan and his research here: abct.org/researcher-spo…

Researchers, like LIBR's Nick Obradovich, are pioneering global mental-health indicators tied to weather and climate data. These efforts aim to assess and mitigate climate change's mental health burden effectively. nature.com/articles/d4158…

New research, including work from LIBR's Nick Obradovich, highlights the mental health toll of climate change. Rising temps and environmental disasters are linked to increased mental health problems like depression and anxiety. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Anxiety is a ubiquitous phenomenon that can be adaptive or maladaptive. This article, which emphasizes the role of #interoception as a key component, is part of a special @newscientist series on anxiety. Worth a 👀 newscientist.com/article/mg2623…

April is National #MinorityHealthMonth If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health or substance use, help is available in English, Spanish, and other languages. #NMHM 💗 Help yourself & share to help others: samhsa.gov/find-help

The 2023 Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR) Annual Report is now available on our website. We hope you enjoy the publication and look forward to continuing our goal to improve mental health through neuroscience in 2024 and beyond! laureateinstitute.org/news/2023-libr…

Had a great time hosting @DrEricGarland at LIBR and seeing the impact of Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) on mental health. In this latest paper, an average morphine equivalent daily dose reduction of 21.6 milligrams. That’s real weight! ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap…

Excited to see this perspective published: Highway to the danger zone? A cautionary account that #GLP‐1 receptor agonists may be too effective for unmonitored weight loss (brief 🧵 below) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ob…

Enjoyed hosting @WynnLegonLab and learning about the present and future applications of transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) towards some of my favorite targets, such as the insula and ACC, including this gem: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38314779/

More evidence for neural circuits apart from the amygdala with a role in panic anxiety, this time in a mouse model: “A pontomesencephalic PACAPergic pathway underlying panic-like behavioral and somatic symptoms in mice” nature.com/articles/s4159…

Check out the 2024 LIBR Accelerates Summer Research (LASR) Internship for current college student or recent graduates interested in gaining more research experience! laureateinstitute.org/summer-interns…