Last week the @pact-lab.bsky.social colluded with my family to throw a surprise roller rink party to celebrate my promotion 🎉

[Temporarily overlooking their ease in lying/deceiving me in the planning of this event] I am incredibly grateful to work alongside this team 💪

‼️ 📝 It's time for a PaCT Lab publication round up! 📝 ‼️

What has the lab been getting up to in the past year or so (other than many great meals together)?

See this thread ⬇️

Very happy to hear the news last week about receiving a CIHR CPRA Fellowship!! And thank you to my wonderful mentor @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social as I am sure a large reason of why my application was competitive was because of the excellent training and resources she has been providing ✨

I love my lab 💞 very grateful to be part of such a wonderful & productive group of scientists!!

OHBM 2026 SEA-SIG Social (with Climate Fresk)! The OHBM Sustainability and Environmental Action Special Interest Group (SEA-SIG) is hosting the annual SEA-SIG social during the 2026 OHBM Annual Meeting in Bordeaux, France! This year we have an es...

🗓️ MARK YOUR CALENDARS: We are organizing a SEA-SIG SOCIAL event in Bordeaux during the OHBM Annual Meeting on the evening of Tuesday, June 16th (location TBD)!

Enjoy drinks, food, and for the first time - a #ClimateFresk workshop! 🍃 🍽️ 🥂

RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

EVERYONE GOING TO OHBM 2026: Please join us (the SEA-SIG) for our social event!!!

Environmental context can shape how our brains function! 🌟New work🌟 led by all-stars @niaberrian.bsky.social and @monicarosenb.bsky.social shows that environmental exposures in youth are reflected in brain networks that keep our attention focused! 🧠🌲
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devpsy #neuroimaging

Mountain Forms
Lawren Harris
1926

🛰️ 🌍 We have done a write up on the first ever OHBM Satellite Meeting, organized by the SEA-SIG in collab with OHBM!!

This meeting was a great success, and we're excited to open the doors to more sustainable ways to connect with other OHBMers in the future ✨

Check it out here! ⬇️

I will be presenting much of the cannabinoid work I have been doing in the Mental Health and Addiction Program Rounds. My talk "Pharmacological Manipulation of the Endocannabinoid System" ties together my work with @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social and my current work with @brainsbeesbikes.bsky.social

The Manning Lab - we are small yet mighty!

From left to right Sarah Rodriguez-Valtierra, me, Alena Ionova, and Grace Burns

Thank you to my co-authors @neuroip.bsky.social @connorhaggarty.bsky.social @raeganmazurka.bsky.social @madeleinejones.bsky.social @cannabrain.bsky.social @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social and all the others who do not have bluesky.

And of course the greatest thanks to the patients who participated!

I'm so happy this is finally out! My first empirical paper from my postdoc, and my first time wading into fMRI in a clinical sample.

See inside: FAAH inhibition may not have done anything beyond exposure CBT in PTSD, but the DLPFC may play more of a role in treatment response than we thought...? 🤔

Proud father to a beautiful, 14 paper special issue 🥲

HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!
Get in, support your fellow postdocs!

Happy new year OHBMers! ✨Are you (or someone you know) a superstar when it comes to incorporating sustainability into research?

Make sure to submit a nomination for the OHBM 2026 Sustainability Award! 🍃🌱🌍🏆

Due Feb 3 @ 11:59 PM EST! More info here: www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/in...

Congrats to @abby-lunge.bsky.social on her first first author paper!! 🎉🎉

A network of basolateral amygdala projection neurons contributes to stress-induced activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis A network of basolateral amygdala neurons, but not singular projections, contributes to the neuroendocrine response to stress.

New lab paper drop, this one has been a long time coming! Driven by Rob Aukema (now a postdoc with Kerry Ressler) this paper in Science Advances answered the lingering question of what role the amygdala plays in stress-induced neuroendocrine responses.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

So excited to be a part of this stellar group of travel awardees this year!! See you at #ACNP2026 🏝️☀️🔬

Happy New Preprint Friday!* Thrilled to share new results in collab with Sarah Lichenstein & @yiplab.bsky.social showing our brain's functional connections reflect the environments we grow up in!
tinyurl.com/exposomeConnectivity

#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #DevPsy #cognition
*can this be a thing??

Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals

Excited to share recent collaborative work led by Hayley Thorpe published in Molecular Psychiatry: Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The effect of methamphetamine and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine on peripheral endocannabinoid concentrations: a study in healthy adults - Psychopharmacology Rationale Stimulant drugs such as methamphetamine (MA) and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) can impact neurobiological systems implicated in stress, reward processing, and drug use. Although recent preclinical evidence implicates the endocannabinoid (eCB) system in these processes, little is known about the acute effects of stimulants on eCB levels in humans. Objectives The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of acute administration of the prototypical psychostimulant MA and the psychostimulant-empathogen MDMA on circulating eCB levels in healthy adults. Methods Using a within-subject, double-blind design, this study assessed the acute effects of MA (20 mg), MDMA (100 mg), and placebo on plasma eCB levels in healthy human participants (N = 22) during three separate sessions. Blood samples assessing concentrations of the eCBs anandamide (AEA) and 2-Arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) were collected between 150- and 180-minutes post-drug administration, and subjective measures of drug effects were collected at regular intervals. Results MA, but not MDMA, was associated with significantly lower 2-AG plasma concentrations compared to placebo. Neither drug impacted AEA concentrations. However, during the placebo condition, higher AEA concentrations were correlated with disliking the ‘drug effects’, suggesting a possible relationship between AEA levels and negative expectations of subjective drug effects. Conclusions These findings provide novel insights into how stimulant drugs act on the eCB system and may help to develop treatments for SUDs.

Congrats to @pact-lab.bsky.social PhD student @anadeutsch.bsky.social on her 1st first-author paper from the lab! 🎉

She explored how MDMA & methamphetamine impact cortisol, endocannabinoids, & BDNF levels in healthy humans and how this relates to the subjective drug experience 💊👇

OHBM Sustainability & Environmental Action Special Interest Group (SEA-SIG) | LinkedIn OHBM Sustainability & Environmental Action Special Interest Group (SEA-SIG) | A group within the Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) working to reduce the environmental impact of neuroimagi...

The SEA-SIG is now on LinkedIn!! 💼

Come connect with us over there as well!

www.linkedin.com/company/ohbm...

@ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @ohbm-dic.bsky.social @ohbm-com.com @ohbmbrainart.bsky.social @ohbmossig.bsky.social @ohbm-australia.bsky.social

‼️ If you're interested in getting involved with the SEA-SIG, we are accepting nominations for the roles of Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer until OCTOBER 5! ‼️

✨ 💫 🌍 🌱 🍃

@anadeutsch.bsky.social lead her first symposium on stress and psychedelics at #ebps2025 including her own talk alongside Dr. Gibson Cook and Dr. Helena Aicher. Go Ana 🥳

Everyone!! Make sure you attend our first seminar back for the fall tomorrow - it's going to be great!!

Happening on Thursday week!

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The carbon footprint of conferences is large – but fully virtual meetings can reduce the environmental impact by 99%! You can keep sustainability in mind while learning & connecting with researchers around the globe by attending the OHBM Satellite Meeting September 10-12!

A Garden in September
Mary Hiester Reid
c. 1894

🗓️ Only ONE WEEK to register for the OHBM Virtual Satellite Meeting, hosted with the SEA-SIG @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social! There will be an educational course, 3 symposia, and a can’t-miss keynote from Dr. Michael Breakspear! You won’t want to miss it!