Farid Aboharb

Beyond delighted to see this paper -- our first from the SYPRES initiative -- now out at Nature Mental Health. Check out Parker's awesome explainer below, w/ links to dashboard + all code + data.

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @Reuters reuters.com/world/pope-leo…

Open access free text available now: Effectiveness of transcranial magnetic stimulation for PTSD. I pulled the most important figure - very large PTSD symptom improvement. Over 30 #VA clinics represented - real world results from real-world people. brainstimjrnl.com/article/S1935-…

What brain regions are involved in causing psychotic symptoms? Take a moment away from the existential dread about the future of science, and join me in this summary of some incredibly cool stuff that could help patients! 1/n🧵 jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Donald Trump’s biggest resistance in MAGA country? Not Democrats. Not the media. Pope Leo and the Catholic Church. thelettersfromleo.com/p/under-pope-l…

I’ve been thinking about this David Foster Wallace quote more and more recently “The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. Which is all right. In low doses, right? But if that's the basic main staple of your diet, you're gonna die. In a meaningful way, you're going to die."

𝗡𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗫 By Mars+Passingham "Understanding anthropoid foraging challenges may thus contribute to our understanding of human cognition" Going to top of reading list! doi.org/10.1016/j.neub…

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." cbsnews.com/chicago/news/p…

Bounty increased to $5,000

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists would devote their entire lives to deceiving you, but a con man proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

I created a course on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). Your students, residents and psychiatrists can register in this course free of charge using the below link till September 4th. udemy.com/course/transcr… Please let me know if I can be helpful in any other way.

Awesome preprint from @kwanalexc and colleagues - Structural rewiring in the brain after psilocybin is dependent on what is going on DURING the acute psychedelic experience! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New preprint + thread 🧵 #Psychedelics induce the formation of new synapses, but where do they connect? Our rabies tracing study reveals that #psilocybin shifts connectivity across specific cortical networks. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/12

I’m compiling a list of mental health treatment tools that have been developed using exclusively computational or in vitro approaches (as far as I can tell). Please add on: 1. Recent closed loop DBS 2. Theta burst TMS 3. Neurofeedback treatments 4. Genesight testing What else?

This is WILD. The reason Trump defunded the National Weather Service leading to the deaths of all those girls in the Texas flood is because PROJECT 2025 THOUGHT WEATHER PREDICTION SCIENCE WAS TIED TO EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE.

Who is one of the nation’s biggest opponents of the Big, Beautiful Bill? Pope Leo and the Catholic Church. Twenty bishops called President Trump’s cuts to Medicaid and food stamps “an affront to the dignity of human life.”

Appreciate being able to pen this piece - the experience brings into focus the importance of pragmatic precision brain stimulation. For the interested reader, see some recent outcomes of accelerated TMS for PTSD published in @brainstimj - brainstimjrnl.com/article/S1935-…

Academic influencers hyping results because p < .05 😃 Actual academics:

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