Uma R. Chatterjee, M.S., MHPS

I’m overjoyed to share that I’m starting my Ph.D in Neuroscience at @UWMadison this fall! 🧠 From surviving OCD, PTSD, cancer… to studying the very psychiatric conditions that once debilitated me - I’m BEYOND grateful! 🙏🏾 #NonTraditionalStudent #DisabledInSTEM #AcademicTwitter

In January 2019, a snowboarding accident left Dr. Edward Twomey with a brain bleed and an emergency craniotomy. It also changed the course of his science. 🧠 In the latest post from the One Mind Lived Experience Blog, Dr. Ed Twomey, a neuroscientist and Associate Professor at @HopkinsMedicine (@JohnsHopkins), and 2025 One Mind Rising Star Award recipient, reflects on how his journey through traumatic brain injury and debilitating anxiety redirected and informed his research. Dr. Twomey's work has since uncovered how temperature affects neurotransmitter receptor function, revealed the mechanism behind the brain's primary signaling chemical, and opened a promising new path for neuropsychiatric drug development. "My lived experience changed how I think and changed how I do science," Dr. Twomey writes. "Experience can be heavy but also clarifying." Read the full post: onemind.org/lived-experien… #LivedExperience #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealth #MentalHealthMonth #OneMind #Anxiety #TraumaticBrainInjury

This Mental Health Awareness Month we're shining a light on members of our community who are living out the One Mind mission—meet Dr. Joshua Gordon. Joshua A. Gordon, MD, PhD, received a One Mind Rising Star Award in 2010 for his groundbreaking work, investigating the Circuit Basis for Psychiatric Diseases at @Columbia. His research advanced understanding of how genetic mutations and neural circuits contribute to disorders such as schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression—laying foundations for more precise, biologically informed treatments. Today, Dr. Gordon is Chair of Psychiatry at Columbia University and former Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, where he advanced precision medicine and national suicide prevention efforts. For 20 years, the Rising Star Awards have invested in bold ideas and exceptional scientists like Dr. Gordon. Since 2005, One Mind has supported 54 awardees across 37 leading institutions, investing more than $14 million in breakthrough science spanning depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, OCD, and more. Learn more at onemind.org/RSA #Neuroscience #Psychiatry #Psychology #Research #BrainHealth #MentalHealth #Science #OneMind #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #MHAM2026 #MentalHealthMonth

Please see this article from today by Husseini Manji, Patrick Kennedy, and me on the importance of including psychiatric disorders in plans to promote brain health. It's impossible to have brain health without mental health. @SinaiBrain statnews.com/2026/04/28/bra…

I had the honor of a lifetime this evening by being inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. I want to thank the many PhD students and postdocs in my lab over the past almost 40 years whose hard, creative, and impactful work made this possible. @SinaiBrain @IcahnMountSinai

BIG thank you to Martin Paulus @mpwpaulus for his talk "Using AI to Compare What-If Treatment Paths in Depression Care" Stanford AI for Mental Health (AI4MH) Appreciate your inspiring conversations w our faculty and trainees! #AI @eadeli @JKim_1003 @DrCoreyKeller @manishsaggar

Consider applying for a One Mind Rising Star Award. A great opportunity for research funding and career training. @OneMindOrg onemind.org/what-we-do/one…

✨ One Mind is now accepting applications for the 2026 Rising Star Awards! ✨ The Rising Star Awards support early-career scientific investigators with $300,000 research grants to fuel breakthroughs in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental health conditions. In addition to the grant, award recipients receive access to our Science Leaders Program, which equips awardees with leadership, communication, entrepreneurship, and systems-level skills needed to translate discovery into action and influence policy, practice, and public trust. Apply for an award on our website: onemind.org/what-we-do/one… #MentalHealth #Research #FundingOp #MentalHealthResearch #MHResearch #PsychScience #Psychiatry #Neuroscience

Recruiting for #OCDresearch at Stanford Medicine Stanford Medicine is enrolling adults ages 18–65 with #OCD for a research study examining ketamine’s effects on the brain. 💰 Up to $450 compensation 📍 Stanford University 📧 ocdresearch@stanford.edu 🔗 med.stanford.edu/ocd-research/r…

Thank you @kwanalexc for an outstanding Stanford Psychiatry Grand Rounds "Making Synapses with Psychedelics" @StanfordBrain Tsai Neurosciences!! Appreciate @TheBorisLab and Austen Casey for your kind hosting.

In the latest blog post from the One Mind Lived Experience community, Tracie Ibrahim shares a powerful perspective on the realities of mental health in the workplace. Drawing from her experience as both a mental health executive and someone who has lived with serious mental illness since childhood, Tracie explores the invisible labor of “masking,” the cost of hiding symptoms at work, and why psychological safety must be built into workplace structures. If we want healthier, more sustainable workplaces, mental health must be part of how we design systems—not just how we support individuals. ▶︎ Read the full article: onemind.org/lived-experien… #MentalHealth #LivedExperience #MentalIllness #Workplaces #Leadership #PsychologicalSafety #OneMind

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the International OCD Foundation celebrates the girls and women helping shape the future of OCD research, diagnosis, and treatment. 🥼 From advancing our understanding of the brain to improving evidence-based care like exposure and response prevention, women in science play a critical role in reducing stigma and expanding access to effective OCD treatment. Supporting women and girls in science means investing in better outcomes for people affected by OCD and related disorders. Learn more 💙 iocdf.org

If you didn’t attend #ACNP2026 and missed this study group, check out the Perspective authored by the panelists on this topic: nature.com/articles/s4427…

Thank you @UmaRChatterjee @SchumerMaya @devin_effinger @noelvest for this call to action. Special thanks to our MC, @brittonrae5 🤩

Recapping the #ACNP2026 study group, “Centering Lived Experience in Psychiatric Neuroscience Research” We asked the panelists, what could NIH leadership do to be more supportive of trainees with non-traditional career paths, which is common among researchers with lived experience of mental illness?

Chronic corticosterone shifts behavior from flexible to inflexible by differentially regulating striatal plasticity genes: Cort ⬇️ plasticity gene expression in the dorsomedial striatum & ⬆️ plasticity programs in the dorsolateral striatum nature.com/articles/s4138…

A prism doesn't create new light. It refracts and transforms a single beam into its constituent wavelengths. Our multi-layered pattern of life is no different, where energy dynamics are refracted through our health, experiences, and our ability to *just* be. This is why we are writing. To explore energy from biophysics to mitochondrial psychobiology, and to hold that science alongside the human experience it gives rise to. It is a journey we are on with our colleagues, and with anyone willing to think across disciplines rather than stay inside them. Grateful to be sharing this reflection with @MitoPsychoBio on our @Substack: martinpicard.substack.com/p/why-this-mea…

I’m excited to be launching a new publication on Substack today: The Science and Experience of Energy! The last few years have invited me, like many of us, to clarify my place in the world. I’m a scientist who’s devoted his career to bridging mitochondrial science and psychobiology. But I want to do more than just publishing papers for other academics—it’s important, but not sufficient. I am moved to bridge science and experience not just in the lab, but in life as well. That’s why I’m writing the ENERGY book. And why starting this Substack makes sense now. It feels like a coming out of sort, from my academic shell: sharing some things that non-scientists may not know about, and sharing experiences that scientists typically don’t talk about. That bridging of science and experience, I feel, will propel us forward towards a deeper truth about who we are and how we can fulfill our potential. I’m excited to share this journey with you. In this publication, you’ll find three types of pieces: 1. The ENERGY SCIENCE pieces will share the latest advances in mitochondrial science. 2. The BEHIND THE PAPER category will describe how a specific study came to be, or the backstory of a discovery. 3. The LIVED EXPERIENCES will allow you to connect with other human beings willing to share their energetic experience of growth and transformation. Everything in this publication will always be free. I’ll put energy in each post. And as the publication grows, we’ll invite others to contribute their energy as well, including my wonderful wife @msahsorin. Please join us by subscribing. And if you feel so compelled, sharing with your community. martinpicard.substack.com

Very excited to be launching our new Substack, "The Science and Experience of Energy" w/ @MitoPsychoBio and the rest of the wonderful team. We are used to studying the world through molecules and mechanisms, but our lived states are also patterns of energy and information. Our goal with this new digital space is to reach beyond the scientific silos to share ideas, connect with you, and build community to reshape how we understand health, experience change, and remain aware of what is now clearly emerging. Here we go....! martinpicard.substack.com

Thank you to everyone that came out to our symposium earlier today @ACNPorg ✨️ Special shoutout to our panelists Victoria Arango, @DWWilliamsLab, and David Jentsch for sharing your experiences overcoming distinct types of adversity. #ACNP2026

A truly wonderful opportunity to present on the importance of lived experience in neuroscience research. Thanks to @ACNPorg for highlighting this awesome study group.