Layla Banihashemi, Ph.D.

We are excited for the new pilot study by our team on a digital stress management intervention: Using the intervention following stressful events in daily life reduced stress and negative affect in a student sample. Want to know more?
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I just asked the university library for something to be digitized from 1952. :)

Excited to share our new review “Mapping interactions between adversity and neuroplasticity across development” in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. We discuss how experience - particularly adversity - interacts with neuroplasticity during human development authors.elsevier.com/c/1mB5U4sIRv...

What a gift to the neuroimaging community from @anniegbryant.bsky.social 🧠🎨!

Circuit-Based Approaches to Understanding the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is essential for monitoring ongoing behavior, regulating affect, and guiding social interactions. Altered ACC structure and function are implicated in a host of psy...

www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...

Health Psych Research Network Website - Summer Institute

Are you a Postdoc or Early Career Faculty interested in health psychology, behavioral medicine, or mind-body science?

Apply to the Pittsburgh Mind-Body Science and Health Summer Institute - July 13-15 in Pittsburgh!

Travel and accommodations supported by the Institute

Application Deadline Jan 9

🔥🔥🧠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.

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-...

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...

🔥🧠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.

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...

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...

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...

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!

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...

No, you're not one of those people! 😆

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/...

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...

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

#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!

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...

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

Quote by Kristi White that states, “Health 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.

🗓 April 21, 2025
🕙 10:00 AM CST
🔗 apa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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

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

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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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📣 Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA) @repsummerlee.bsky.social will speak at the Stand Up for Science rally in #Pittsburgh 🔥

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

📢 RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

Please repost 🔈🔊🔉

@standupforscience.bsky.social
#StandUpForScience

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

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

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

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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