The CoNeCT Lab

Digital phenotyping uses smartphone & wearable data to study mental health, but many methods rely on static summaries. @ConstantAxel, @lena_pl & co propose dynamic digital markers that better capture how behavior & physiology change over time nature.com/articles/s4427…

Just released: UMR’s FY2025 data on the national and state-by-state impact of @NIH research funding. The numbers underscore why we must #keepNIHstrong Read our report here: unitedformedicalresearch.org/annual-economi…

In this morning's article, I share my experience at a remarkable scientific meeting organized by Dost Ongur around Metabolic Neuropsychiatry. A new field has emerged focusing on the energetic basis of brain function and mental health. Exciting times! open.substack.com/pub/martinpica…

⁦Not on X much BUT..@BiAffect⁩ goes #circadian rhythm❤️ ⁦@LoranKnol⁩ Mindy Ross, ⁦@Anisha__Nagpal⁩ ⁦⁦⁩and @eisenlohr_moul⁩ CF Beckmann and AF Marquand Unobtrusive inference of diurnal rhythms ⁦⁦@npjDigitalMed⁩ nature.com/articles/s4174…

ACNP was proud to support "Decoding Stigma: The Neural Science of Mental Health" Congressional Briefing on Capitol Hill today. The bipartisan Congressional Neuroscience Caucus promotes a better understanding of how the brain develops, functions, and ages.

Why on earth does tDCS do anything given how low the fields are? Here is a nice paper: nature.com/articles/s4159… -- also from one of the labs whose webpage is in the dark due to their Tehran location.

Today is the Day of Action. ACNP urges Congress to increase FY26 funding for medical research. ✅ unitedforcures.org/day-of-action #SupportCures #FundMedicalResearch #CuresCantWait

Brain lovers: over the years the New Yorker has published several neuro-related stories; a few years ago they collected up the best ones (including a profile piece on my research). Good selection of articles to scratch any cerebral itch 👍 newyorker.com/books/double-t…

Our first Deep Dive of 2026 covers a recent Perspective calling for recognizing and removing the barriers faced by researchers with lived experience of mental illness or SUDs who work in our field. By @UmaRChatterjee, @SchumerMaya, @devin_effinger & colleagues. youtu.be/y5fymczeNFc

The Psychiatry Holiday Party was a blast! Thank you to everyone who organized such a festive event filled with holiday cheer and camaraderie. It was really nice to celebrate the holiday season with CoNECt lab members. 🎄✨🤗🪩

Congratulations to Sophia Vinogradov, M.D. on being awarded the 2025 Julius Axelrod Mentorship Award! #ACNP2026 Please click here ➡️ tinyurl.com/3b7jdtcy to watch the acceptance video by Sophia Vinogradov, M.D.

Congratulations to Gwenn Smith, Ph.D. for being awarded the Advocacy Award! 😀 #ACNP2026 @SmithGwenn Please click here ➡️ tinyurl.com/2s3ut4v7 to view the acceptance video by Gwenn Smith Ph.D. for the Advocacy Award.

$100K visa fee could worsen rural doctor shortage: Study ow.ly/MPhg50Xkm2q

The performance of generative A.I. models for clinical reasoning are not holding up to increased scrutiny arxiv.org/abs/2509.18234 @MSFTResearch ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… @NEJM_AI @AdamRodmanMD @LiamGMcCoy

Our Special Projects/Social Media teams are constantly looking for ways to expand the reach of the science YOU choose to publish with us... so much so, that former NPP intern Hayley Thorpe (+ @BriKChen) explored data-driven ways to improve our efforts👇 nature.com/articles/s4138…

Hurry! The deadline is fast approaching! ACNP is accepting applications for new Associate Member, Member, and promotion to Fellow! The deadline: September 25th. Apply today! #ACNP Click tinyurl.com/ypa4mund for more information.

The American Psychiatric Association urges the administration, as it moves forward with the recommendations of this report, to base every action on rigorous scientific evidence, and involve psychiatrists and other medical leaders. ow.ly/wN5r50WUbLz

Check out this @dpn_journal podcast episode on how smartphone language use patterns can be linked to mental and physical symptom severity after a traumatic event. Nowadays our phones are digital extensions of our bodies, and they may provide clues about our wellbeing.

Taxpayers: you reap enormous rewards from your modest investment in scientific research. American science is in grave peril. nytimes.com/2025/08/24/opi…

An infant with an inherited life-threatening metabolic condition has responded to a tailored therapy that uses CRISPR to correct a specific mutation go.nature.com/4mMURJg