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Layla Banihashemi, Ph.D.

@laylabraindoc.bsky.social

Neuroscientist examining stress-control neural circuitry, childhood adversity and mental health.

159 Followers  |  147 Following  |  9 Posts  |  Joined: 12.11.2023  |  1.7192

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πŸ”₯πŸ”₯🧠PhD positions are open in my lab, studying brain development and neurodevelopmental disorders based on neuroimaging MRI scans. Due: Dec 1, 2025. If you are interested, please DM me.

21.10.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years But the agency has spent nearly its entire budget for this fiscal year, which ends tomorrow.

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...

30.09.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Looking for a role between postdoc & faculty?

We're hiring TWO Senior Research Scholars at Purdue Indianapolis. You'll lead cutting-edge research on #epigenetics of #depression or using baby teeth for mental health #biomarkers 🧬🦷

Learn more & apply: www.thedunnlab.com/join-the...

30.09.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Age-related patterns of resting EEG power in infancy: Associations with prenatal socioeconomic disadvantage www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

13.09.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you're looking at pre-6.0 ABCD results with subcortical rs-fMRI correlations, the labels are all wrong! We reported a result as Auditory - L Putamen, but it it was actually Default Mode - L Cerebellum. docs.abcdstudy.org/latest/docum...

10.09.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”₯🧠Excited to announce that I am recruiting PhD students this fall. Our lab uses neuroimaging (MRI) and computational modeling to study the mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders, bridging genetic factor, brain circuitry, early life stress, and psychopathology. Please feel free to DM me.

04.09.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience - Communications Psychology Programming is essential for modern research in neuroscience and psychology, but it can quickly become a source of frustration and error. This Primer introduces ten practical principles guiding resear...

h/t @foxdotdrew.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

27.08.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Prenatal Household Income Instability and Infant Subcortical Brain Volumes Prenatal stress exposure may negatively influence the development of the amygdala and hippocampus. Although there is significant income instability during pregnancy, and it can increase stress among ...

Prenatal Household Income Instability and Infant Subcortical Brain Volumes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

19.08.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

10.08.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 391    πŸ” 137    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 35
ABCD-BIDS community collection

Looking for @theabcdstudy.bsky.social fMRI timeseries data?It's all in the 6.0 data release, thanks to @drdamienfair.bsky.social and team at ABCC 🧠: docs.abcdstudy.org/latest/docum...

30.07.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Welcome to the Stress, Aging, and Relationships (STAR) Lab at Texas Tech University, led by Dr. Ryan L. Brown. We’re excited to share our logo for the first time!

Through this page, we'll share ongoing research in the lab, highlight student projects, & disseminate related research. Follow along!

04.08.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

If you are a published author, check your name on the LibGen database which list works illegally used by Meta to train AI.

30 of my books and papers are in this database.

The sheer scale of this intellectual theft is beyond imagination.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

03.04.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No, you're not one of those people! πŸ˜†

15.07.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Copy Number Variant Architecture of Child Psychopathology and Cognitive Development in the ABCD Study | American Journal of Psychiatry Objective: Late childhood is a crucial period for individuals with psychiatric disorders. While common single-nucleotide polymorphisms explain a large proportion of inherited risk, structural variatio...

Finally out!!! Our new study described the CNV landscape of the ABCD study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. We identified its associations with dimensions of chid psychopathology and cognitive development. Thanks, Aaron, Joe and all co-authors.
psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

11.06.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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A recent study investigated the role of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in sustaining remission in patients with treatment-resistant depression.

Full article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

24.06.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
APA PsycNet

psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... Early childhood behavioral inhibition predicts altered social and emotional functioning in early adulthood: An ecological momentary assessment study.

24.06.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stress-related genetic factors modify the effect of socioeconomic status on cardiovascular risk Neuropsychopharmacology - Stress-related genetic factors modify the effect of socioeconomic status on cardiovascular risk

This study explore how stress-related factors interact with socioeconomic status to impact cardiovascular risk

www.nature.com/artic...

24.06.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#Depression #Anxiety Hello Bleeps! Recommendations for best or newest meta-analyses of rsFC/iFC and pathological anxiety/depression? Relevant big-N papers also useful. Thanks in advance!

09.05.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Household Income, Neighborhood Poverty, and Epigenetic Age: ... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine compared with men. Some research documents an even stronger SES-health link among women. The present study investigated gender differences in SES-epigenetic age associations. Methods: Using data fr...

How are one's socioeconomic status (SES) and epigenetic age linked at midlife? Do associations differ by gender? Dr. Jennifer Robinette and Theo Moran examined these questions using individual and neighborhood indicators of SES from MIDUS.

Free to read for the week: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

09.05.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

On the Stress Puzzle, @dalmeidapsu.bsky.social shared good news about aging from a daily stress perspective!

He highlighted that we experience fewer stressors AND have less affective reactivity to daily stressors as we age. #psychscisky #affectivescience #devpsych

Listen: tinyurl.com/dailystress

09.05.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Quote by Kristi White that states, β€œHealth psychology and behavioral medicine have ample opportunities for addressing the health impacts of climate change through prioritizing co-benefit solutions in clinical practice and educational settings. How we respond to this call to action represents an important inflection point for our fields at this critical juncture in history.

Quote by Kristi White that states, β€œHealth psychology and behavioral medicine have ample opportunities for addressing the health impacts of climate change through prioritizing co-benefit solutions in clinical practice and educational settings. How we respond to this call to action represents an important inflection point for our fields at this critical juncture in history.

I invite you to join me & my colleagues on Monday, April 21 for APA’s Essential Science Conversation where we will discuss how Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine can transform to address the #ClimateCrisis.

πŸ—“ April 21, 2025
πŸ•™ 10:00 AM CST
πŸ”— apa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

18.04.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So sorry to hear this... at a complete loss.

15.03.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trauma Research Foundation is hiring a Research Associate. "This position may be ideal for someone who has recently completed a BA or MA in a related field who has aspirations of pursuing doctoral level work that integrates research and practice in a mental-health related field." DM for more info

11.03.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a batman costume is holding a megaphone and saying i have an announcement ALT: a man in a batman costume is holding a megaphone and saying i have an announcement

I'm excited to announce that this spring/summer Statistics, Methods, and Research Training (SMaRT) Workshops are live!

Check out the offerings here: smart-workshops.com/workshops

Please repost and share widely!

Some more info in 🧡

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06.03.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4

πŸ“£ Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA) @repsummerlee.bsky.social will speak at the Stand Up for Science rally in #Pittsburgh πŸ”₯

Join us to stand up for facts, research, and the future TOGETHER!

πŸ“’ RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

Please repost πŸ”ˆπŸ”ŠπŸ”‰

@standupforscience.bsky.social
#StandUpForScience

06.03.2025 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Pittsburgh folks please keep spreading the word about the Stand Up for Science rally with the community! πŸ’ͺ🏼

@standupforscience.bsky.social
#StandUpforScience
#StandUpforScience2025
#ScienceforAll
#ScienceNotSilence
#Pittsburgh

28.02.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Check out our paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social:

27.02.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Pittsburgh researcher warns NIH cuts could harm patient care, economic growth Pittsburgh's economy once relied heavily on the steel industry, which lined Second Avenue with miles of mills. When that industry collapsed, medicine and education filled the economic void.

From the WTAE Pittsburgh stories (to re-air this weekend as well). Individual to my interview and related pieces to follow.

www.wtae.com/article/pitt...

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28.02.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

@bita137.bsky.social Thank you for sticking up for Pittsburgh. πŸ€—

27.02.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And I have to shout out papers by Linda Rinaman and Michael Bienkowski's labs. ☺️

27.02.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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