Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠

Happy Halloween!! 🎃 👻 #Halloween #TrunkorTreat #postdoc #neuro @wsuthinklab.bsky.social

Detroit, I love you. 💙🧡🐅 #Detroit #DetroitTigers #baseball #city #urban

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✨ Just hit submit on my first tenure-track application this cycle! Feeling excited to officially be on the market!

My work sits at the intersection of psychiatry, environmental health 🌍, and neuroscience 🧠.

If you know of open positions, I’d love to connect! #Neuro #Academia

Last day of #ISESISEE2025! Make sure to stop by the last poster session at 3:30! Come discuss my prelim data from my ongoing pilot study examining #ClimateChange anxiety in Detroit emerging adults! #neuro #environmentalhealth #postdoc

Wonderful and inspiring opening remarks from Dr. C. Arden Pope III! Although many things are uncertain right now, we keep moving and keep doing the BEST science we can. #ISESISEE2025 #AirPollution #EnvironmentalHealth

Thrilled to be in Atlanta for #ISESISEE2025 conference! Looking forward to sharing ideas and learning from colleagues across environmental health and exposure science! #EnvironmentalHealth #postdoc #neuro

Thrilled to be selected for an #ACNP2025 Travel Award! Excited for my first ACNP and to connect with so many incredible scientists! 🧠✨ #neuro #postdoc #science

Omg the first season and this one!! Absolutely horrifying

✈️ Last week I traveled to Washington, DC to advocate for #ScienceFunding with an incredible group of early career scientists from Wayne State and Sci-pol Detroit. Uncertainty in funding affects people, progress, and public health. We showed up to make that clear. 💪🏻👩🏻‍🔬 🧠 #ScienceAdvocacy

Circulating endocannabinoids in children and adolescents: associations with anxiety and the impact of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors - Neuropsychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology - Circulating endocannabinoids in children and adolescents: associations with anxiety and the impact of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

🚨 New paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We combined data from 3 studies (including an SSRI RCT) to explore how endocannabinoids relate to anxiety & treatment response in kids + teens. Team science w/ Jeanne Barcelona, Jeffrey Strawn & more!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@wsuthinklab.bsky.social

Neuroinflammation across neurological diseases The brain’s response to injury includes the activation of intrinsic microglia and the influx of leukocytes, collectively constituting neuroinflammation, the “flame” of the brain. Although details diff...

Inflammation in the brain can be beneficial or pathogenic. It varies across neurological diseases. And many new ways are emerging to modulate it
An outstanding new review
@science.org
science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Detroit is experiencing some awful air quality this week, thanks to the Canadian wildfires. Ever wonder what those particles (PM2.5) that I study look like? This is it!! Stay indoors folks! #AirPollution #wildfires #Detroit #EnvironmentalHealth

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Why is it that in #academia we constantly feel like we’re falling behind? I opened my RPPR convinced I was off track—turns out I’m exactly where I should be. Taking this small win and celebrating it. #postdoc #neuro #SmallWins

Longitudinal associations between greenspace exposure, structural brain development, and mental health and academic performance during early adolescence Greenspace exposure is associated with positive mental health and academic outcomes. This preregistered longitudinal study examines whether the influence of greenspace exposure on structural brain dev...

🌳🧠 Nature shapes the mind

A study of 7,100+ US adolescents found that living near greenspace was linked to slower brain thinning, greater surface area, & better mental health outcomes – via changes in brain structure.

🔗 www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

#SciComm #Greenspace 🧪

Exclusive: US veterans agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearance Move that seeks political control of doctors’ and scientists’ published research fits a pattern of censorship by the Trump administration, veterans advocates say

I studied Gulf War vets’ health in grad school. The PACT Act was meant to expand care + research on toxic exposures. Now the VA is slashing positions and censoring doctors from publishing findings.

This is dangerous.

Guardian: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#VeteransHealth #PACTAct

Poor air quality from pollution is a HUGE concern linked to deaths, shortened life expectancy and conditions including asthma, COPD, cancer and cardiovascular disease likely in large part to impacts on immune function. Its vital we monitor air quality so we can understand mechanisms & impacts 🧪🧵

Frontiers | Outdoor air pollution and psychiatric symptoms in adolescents: a study of peripheral inflammatory marker associations IntroductionFine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution is associated with increased internalizing symptoms (e.g. depressive and anxiety symptoms), particu...

🚨New paper out now! 🌄

We found that higher exposure to outdoor air pollution was linked to greater anxiety symptoms in adolescents and elevated levels of anti-inflammatory lipid mediators 🧪

Read more: tinyurl.com/Zundel2025

#AirPollution #EnvironmentalHealth #Neuro #Youth

Honored to hear @brainsbeesbikes.bsky.social give today’s @sfnmichigan.bsky.social keynote. She shared her journey from researcher to patient—and why listening to patients must guide our science. With NIH trials being halted, her words were a powerful reminder of what’s at stake. #ScienceHero ❤️💪🏻

#misfn2025 annual meeting at Wayne State University on May 19, 2025.

Visit www.mi-sfn.org for more details.

Click here for Abstract booklet - drive.google.com/file/d/1qR0X...

Click here for full program - drive.google.com/file/d/1A6kF...

A majority of registered voters want federal agencies to increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming - Center for Climate Change Communication Many Americans understand that climate change harms health, and an increasing percentage believe climate-related health harms will become more common in their community over the next 10 years. Federal...

Trump and Musk have eliminated virtually every federal program intended to protect our health from the ravages of climate change, yet our poll last December found that most voters want the government to do MORE, not less.

@docsforclimate.bsky.social @lisapatel.bsky.social @bfrist.bsky.social

Several Members of ACNP are in Washington D.C. today to meet with elected officials including Representative Dr. Neal Dunn of Florida. This photo includes ACNP Executive Director Sarah Timm, Dr. Hilary Marusak, and Dr. Sara Nixon.

Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter During Pregnancy Is Associated With Hippocampal Development in Offspring www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The NSF building, photo courtesy of Duke University

📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵

Adolescents participating in climate action by cleaning up trash on a beach.

Research shows that adolescents are especially concerned and conscious of #climatechange, and are uniquely inspired to find solutions and participate in climate action.
Learn about how climate action can impact young people in our new blog post: developingadolescent.semel.ucla.edu/blog/item/th...

Sources and components of fine air pollution exposure and brain morphology in preadolescents Air pollution is an emerging novel neurotoxicant during childhood and adolescence. However, little is known regarding how fine particulate matter (PM2…

We’re now learning that air pollution sneaks in to shape developing brain in children and adolescents. Our latest @hertinglab.bsky.social study looked at brain MRIs from 10,095 children and found that exposure to specific sources of PM2.5 is related to differences in gray matter morphology… (1/2)

A Letter to the Next Environmental-Justice Leaders Over the past 45 years, the father of the environmental-justice movement laid the path for a new generation.

#EARTHMONTH: Dr.Robert D. Bullard Writes to the Next Environmental-Justice Leaders | TIME time.com/6958830/eart... #EarthAwards #climatejustice #Actonclimate

Hanging around for the late breaking poster session? Come check out my wonderful research assistant’s work examining subjective financial stress in parents and effects on adolescent mental health and brain development!
#SOBP2025 #Neuroscience #Psychiatry

Come talk with me about peripheral inflammatory markers in youth exposed to outdoor air pollution exposure!! #SOBP2025 #Neuroscience #EnvironmentalHealth #Psychiatry