Biochemical Regulation of Brain Kynurenic Acid Synthesis and Inhibition in Rats Is Sensitive to the Time of Day Neurochemical imbalances, including elevations of the tryptophan metabolite kynurenic acid (KYNA), an endogenous antagonist of glutamatergic and cholinergic receptors, are linked to cognitive and slee...

📢🌟New paper in ACS Chemical Neuroscience! 📢🌟
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Congrats to @courtney-wright.bsky.social (first-author)!

KYNA (linked to 🧠😴) varies with time of day, and KAT II inhibition is more effective in the active (dark) phase.
Timing matters for neurochemical therapies!

UAB is recruiting neuroscience faculty at two different levels - come join our vibrant neuroscience community!

Some shit is about to go down with NIH study sections, friends. Keep your eyes peeled for change that may affect your grant submissions.

Which Came First? Utility of Preclinical Models in Cracking the Chicken-or-Egg Relationship between Cannabis Use and Schizophrenia - Current Addiction Reports Current Addiction Reports - The association between cannabis use and schizophrenia is a growing public health concern, particularly in vulnerable populations. This review synthesizes insights from...

Back to back paper drops: Which Came First? Utility of Preclinical Models in Cracking the Chicken-or-Egg Relationship between Cannabis Use and Schizophrenia: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New deep learning tool allows automated analysis of sleep patterns using EEG data YouTube video by NPP - Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience (DPN)

Our latest Deep Dive covers a study that developed a deep learning model to classify sleep stages from single channel EEG recordings in rats🐀. It predicted key parameters of sleep architecture, reducing the need for labor-intensive manual annotation.

youtu.be/kEgCbyqC0jU?...

@dranap.bsky.social

Just spoke to The Hill about how the dismantling of the NIH is impacting science in America. We still face a cliff of unfathomable heights, w easily 1000+ labs poised to close in the next year due to funding ending. A generation of young scientists lost because there is nowhere for them to train.

Why we need basic science to better understand the neurobiology of psychedelics Despite the many psychedelics clinical trials underway, there is still much we don’t know about how these drugs work. Preclinical studies represent our best viable avenue to answer these lingering…

@deffinger.bsky.social and @melissaherman.bsky.social argue that, though many human psychedelic clinical trials are underway, preclinical studies remain our best bet to answer fundamental questions about the neurobiology of psychedelics.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/psychedelics...

So excited for this piece by me and @deffinger.bsky.social to be out! It was inspired by science and discussion from many venues from @sfn.org to #GRCPsychedelics 🧠

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

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‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk

The Most Detailed Maps of H-1B Visa Holders Joining America's Top Research Institutions A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers — and how this…

EXCLUSIVE: A new analysis by The Xylom's @alexip718.com shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate balance might be disrupted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on legal immigration.

Our department is hiring!
Tenure-track, OPEN RANK, social psychologist.

Looking for someone loves undergrad teaching but also has or wants to build a serious research program.

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?s re: department/school/location? DM me.

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Congrats, Ryan! Awesome update!

American Insomnia Tossing and turning through our national sleep crisis

The tips one commonly reads to get better sleep—eight hours a night, avoiding naps, cool rooms—are abundant. They’re also as insipid as they sound, @jennifersenior.bsky.social writes.

From The Atlantic’s August issue, what Americans get so wrong about sleep:

A deep learning software tool for automated sleep staging in rats via single channel EEG - NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience Our study presents a new deep learning model for automatically analyzing sleep patterns in rats using EEG data. This model was trained on one dataset and tested on two others, showing it can adapt to ...

🌟 New paper alert 🌟 Collaboration with computer science 💻colleagues using #DeepLearningModel to classify #sleep stages #NREMsleep #REMsleep #wake in single channel EEG recordings from rats 🐀

Published in @dpn-journal.bsky.social @acnporg.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Functional Impairments in Learning and Signal Propagation Following Prenatal Kynurenine Treatment in Mice The levels of kynurenic acid (KYNA), a metabolite of the kynurenine pathway (KP) of tryptophan degradation, are elevated in the brain of persons with schizophrenia (SZ) and may be linked to cognitive...

📣 📣 New publication alert 📣 📣 Long-lasting impairments (behavior, electrophysiology) in mice 🐭 that received prenatal exposure to elevated #kynurenine! International 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 collaboration made possible by support from NIMH P50 Conte Center! #schizophrenia

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

So excited for the INAUGURAL #GRCPsychedelics !! Can't wait to see everyone and hear some great science 🧠🧠

GenAI and the psychology of work

Opinion by Erik Hermann, Stefano Puntoni, & Carey Morewedge
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Canada Excellence Research Chair Positions Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

Come join us at @westernuresearch.bsky.social as a Canada Excellence Research Chair! DM me with questions/interest about theme 2! Be a part of a strong and well-equipped (e.g., imaging, behaviour) neuroscience community! uwo.ca/research/cer... @westernuwin.bsky.social @westernubrainscan.bsky.social

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🌟🧠 Are you conducting research in neuroscience across the lifespan using clinical, neuropsychological, genetic, and/or brain imaging approaches? APPLY HERE:
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Excited to announce an official scientific statement from the @americanheart.bsky.social!

"Multidimensional Sleep Health: Definitions and Implications for Cardiometabolic Health"

Special thanks to @m-pst-ongephd.bsky.social

www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

🥳 ⭐ 😍 Go Mike! Proud of you! Best of luck in the race!

If you’re a scientist whose funding has recently been cut or impacted, I would love to interview you and amplify your work!

Hoping to release our first two podcast episodes next week.

Please share widely!

Parental kynurenine 3-monooxygenase genotype in mice directs sex-specific behavioral outcomes in offspring - Biology of Sex Differences Background Disruptions in brain development can impact behavioral traits and increase the risk of neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disord...

📣 ✨New Paper Alert✨ 📣 Parental kynurenine 3-monooxygenase genotype in mice directs sex-specific behavioral outcomes in offspring published in @ossdcomm.bsky.social Biology of #SexDifferences 🐀😴 🧠 #sleep #mitochondria #cognition #breastmilk bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

ACNP Travel Award Applications open TODAY for the ACNP 64th Annual Meeting: January 12-15, 2026, Nassau, Bahamas. Deadline to Submit is May 8, 2025, at 5:00 pm Central. acnp.org/annual-meet... #ACNP2026 #travelawards

THE Michael Meaney

Incredible experience participating in this Resilience workshop @nationalacademies.org. Inspired and committed to this important research

ACNP Travel Award Submissions open on Thursday, March 31, 2025. For more information, visit https://t.co/zSCC9OJZ51 #ACNP2026 #travelawards

The time is now: accounting for time-of-day effects to improve reproducibility and translation of metabolism research - Nature Metabolism This broad group of authors summarizes the impact of circadian factors on metabolic biology and offers recommendations on how to account for and report biological, environmental and experimental facto...

The importance of considering time of day for metabolic experiments

www.nature.com/articles/s42...