Dr. Sarah Sperry

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🌟Announcing the next cohort of the DPN Editor’s New Investigator Waiver Award recipients🌟

Dr. Nicole Zürcher, @nicolerzurcher.bsky.social
Dr. Jennifer Goldschmied, @jengoldschmiedphd.bsky.social
Dr. Sarah Sperry, @drsarahsperry.bsky.social

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😊 thanks @friesgabriel.bsky.social. So honored to be a new Associate Member with @acnporg.bsky.social !!!!!

Modifying an intervention to increase use of the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline among patients with bipolar disorder in community mental health Although the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is considered a suicide prevention best-practice approach, national survey data show low rates of utilizati…

🚨New pub alert - first one of 2026!

Learn more about how we modified a 988 Crisis Line Facilitation intervention for adults with Bipolar Disorder in a CMH setting

Led by Drs. Lindsay Bornheimer, Adrienne Lapidos, Mark Ilgen, and @drsarahsperry.bsky.social

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Grateful to be in the Bahamas for #ACNP2026!!! Came a few days early to enjoy but am excited for the science to start on Monday!

Great! I’m not fancy enough to make a whole r package but hopefully it’s still helpful!

Citation: Sperry, S., Murphy, V., & Mongefranco, G. (2025). DepressionCenter/EMA-CleanR: v1.0.1 (v1.0.1). Eisenberg Family Depression Center. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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🚨My trainee Victoria Murphy, data architect Gabriel Mongefranco, and I are pleased to share 🌟EMA-CleanR: R code to pre-process, clean, and visualize ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data!

Documentation: teamdynamix.umich.edu/TDClient/210...

Code: github.com/DepressionCe...

✨✨2025 was a great year for the EmoTe Lab - my trainees continued to inspire me and our work together continued to push the bipolar disorder field forward 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

✨✨2025 was also a great year for me personally - my biggest project yet began🤰🏼! We have a baby boy joining the lab in spring 2026 👶🏼

2025 Leading Research Achievements | Brain & Behavior Research Foundation We are pleased to present you with the 2025 Leading Research Achievements by BBRF Grantees, Prize Winners & Scientific Council Members.

Honored to be named a 2025 Leading Research Achievement by the @bbrfoundation.bsky.social for the work that came from my Young Investigator Award!

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Clinical Psychology Assistant Professor The Department of Psychology at UNC-Greensboro invites applications for a tenure-track position in Clinical Psychology (Assistant Professor level), to begin August 1, 2026. The Department of Psycholog...

UNCG will be hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in child clinical psychology! We are late in the cycle, so please help us circulate to any interested parties:

spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/33557

🆕 DPN article from @drsarahsperry.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that daily physical activity may improve mood in people with bipolar disorder ⬇️

Integrating active and passive digital phenotyping to study the temporal dynamics between physical activity and mood in bipolar disorders NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience - Integrating active and passive digital phenotyping to study the temporal dynamics between physical activity and mood in bipolar disorders

Proud of my PhD trainee Audrey Stromberg on this work! Check out her new paper, “integrating active and passive digital phenotyping to study temporal dynamics between physical activity and mood in bipolar disorders” in @dpn-journal.bsky.social

Love my lab! A great dinner at SRP!

Don't miss the EmoTe Lab/Prechter Program presentations at #SRP2025 this year!

Modeling and predicting mood instability in a longitudinal cohort of bipolar disorder Nature Mental Health - Sperry et al. used machine learning approaches to investigate profiles of mood instability and create a prediction model for clinical and functioning outcomes using data from...

Check out the final paper from my @bbrfoundation.bsky.social Young Investigator Award, now published in Nature Mental Health!

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Heading home after 10 days in Japan full of travel and conference fun! Thrilled my symposium went well - thank you to Maria Faurholt-Jensen, Kathleen Merikangas, and Benito Frey for standing beside me and talking all things mood instability in bipolar disorder!

Off to Japan for ISBD!!!!

Join the Prechter Program and the U-M Addiction Center for our webinar, "Mind Matters: The Intersections of Substance Use, Suicidality & Bipolar Disorder," on 10/7 from 6:30-8:30 PM ET. I’ll be speaking along with Dr. Mark Ilgen. Register here: michmed.org/dYkRq

I will be reviewing applications for the University of Michigan Clinical Psychology doctoral program this fall. If you are interested in applying, here’s some info I prepared for applicants: sites.lsa.umich.edu/aidangcw-lab...

It was so wonderful working with Fleur during her Fulbright Scholarship here at UofM! So excited to see this work available!

Check out our new Seminar on bipolar disorder in @thelancet.com! Was wonderful to work with these co-authors, led by Balwinder Singh.

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Development and validation of a short version of the Hypomanic Attitudes and Positive Predictive Inventory (HAPPI): Measuring extreme appraisals of internal states and bipolar risk Mood instability is often experienced by those with and at risk for bipolar disorders (BD). The Integrative Cognitive Model proposes that mood instabi…

It was so fun to collaborate with Alyson Dodd (UK) and Tamsyn Van Rheenen (AUS)! We created a short, more psychometrically valid, measure of appraisals of internal states based on the Integrated Cognitive Model of Bipolar Disorder:

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Society for Affective Science is great for emotion/affective science. Less psychopathology. If you want a mix of all of them Society for Research in Psychopathology.

Addiction destroys lives.

And the current administration is dedicated to destroying the careers of scientists who seek to alleviate the pain and suffering of Americans with addiction. I cannot think of a more certain way to do this than by defunding training grants for early career scientists.

Yesterday was @julialsmith.bsky.social’s last day in the lab 😭 In addition to being a wonderful human and trainee, she single handedly ran my K23 and finished 4 years of recruitment in 2. It’s so bittersweet. She is off to IUI to do her PhD in Clinical Psych with Melissa Cyders and I’m so proud!

The association of negative urgency and sustained attention: Evidence from the late positive potential Urgency reflects the tendency to act rashly in the face of intense emotion and has been associated with a host of maladaptive outcomes spanning psycho…

Check out our new paper on the relationship between the Late Positive Potential (LPP) and negative urgency! Led by my collaborator (& internship buddy) Brian Albanese's PhD student David Johnson!

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We are excited to welcome Gjulia Camaj to the EmoTe Lab! Gjulia graduated from the UM with High Honors Distinction in Psychology & completing her thesis in Dr. Luke Hydes MIND lab. Gjulia will be the new study coordinator for EBI-BD (K23)!

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When your preliminary results support Aim 1 of your K23 😅