Findings in a new study in Translational Psychiatry suggests that what adolescents’ brains are doing during reward processing, other than directly processing rewards, might interfere with treatment. bit.ly/4nDR9ma
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Rui Peixoto, PhD, is an expert in developmental neuroscience and investigates abnormalities in cortical and striatal development associated with autism spectrum disorder. He is senior author of recent papers published in Cell Reports and Molecular Psychiatry. bit.ly/4gV8ioY
02.10.2025 13:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
JAMA Pediatrics: Role of Sleep and White Matter in the Link Between Screen Time and Depression in Childhood and Early Adolescence
Pitt Psychiatry scientists have found that increased screen time in late childhood contributes to heightened depressive symptoms in early adolescence, with much of this effect mediated by shorter sleep duration and significant changes in brain white matter. bit.ly/4nJRBiv
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Dr. Samaras, Dr. Scott, and Dr. Tessier
Welcome to the faculty! Dr. Samaras provides care through UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital's geriatric services; Dr. Scott investigates the role of biological rhythms in psychiatric illness; and Dr. Tessier is a psychiatrist with WPH’s outpatient addiction medicine services. bit.ly/4683lp5
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Hello from Pitt Psychiatry! We are thrilled to welcome our newest class of clinical psychology interns, Nicolas Camacho, Victoria Guazzelli Williamson, Rowan Hunt, John (Kai) Kellerman, and Claire Klein! Meet them here: bit.ly/3K36eih
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Join the fight to cure #mentalillness. Since 1987 BBRF has awarded more than $475 million in #mentalhealth research grants worldwide. Give the gift of recovery: https://bbrfoundation.org/donate?BlueSky
Assoc Prof at U Pitt Dept of Psychiatry. Suicide researcher. Mom to a small human and two cats. Views/opinions expressed are entirely my own.
A cross-university research and educational program between CMU and Pitt to investigate the cognitive and neural mechanisms that give rise to biological intelligence and behavior.
https://www.cnbc.cmu.edu
neuroscience PhD candidate at Pitt interested in the development of cognitive and affective control, typically + transdiagnostically
Postdoc in the Phillips lab at the University of Pittsburgh | focused on focused ultrasound and the brain | 🏳️🌈 also: sniffy sports 🐶 and prancy sports 🐴
Psychology & Neuroscience Researcher at Pitt & LRDC | Studying the Impact of Early Life #Adversity on 🧠 Development | #Stress | Reposts ≠Endorsements
MD/PhD Candidate in the Lab of David Lewis, MD at the University of Pittsburgh. Interested in: Cognitive Deficits in Psychiatric Illness, Postmortem, MRI, Development, Transcriptomics and Genetics \also\ Bagpipes, Tree Frogs, and Dogs. He/Him.
Clinical psychology postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh. Research in parenting, interventions, divorce and separation.
Clinical Psychology Intern | Pitt & UPMC
Clinical Psychology PhD Candidate | Duke University
GRFP Fellow | National Science Foundation
Measurement & Developmental Psychopathology
Pitt Postdoc | neuroscience | decision-making | olfaction | fMRI | motor skill learning
Physics and math enthusiast. Friendly with R, Matlab, and Python.
Postdoctoral Scholar at Pitt Psychiatry | Interested in positive affect, interpersonal relationships, and intergenerational risk for psychopathology
Writer, recovering scientist. Finalist @bookpipeline.bsky.social, long-listed @sfwp.bsky.social literary award. Stories @xraylitmag.bsky.social, @pipelineartists.bsky.social, @molotovlitzine.bsky.social, @maudlinhouse.bsky.social. Find me at lizfyne.com
NHLBI T32 Postdoctoral Scholar @ Pitt Psychiatry
Studying Stress/Stigma ➤ Mechanisms (Sleep, Interoception) ➤ Increased Eating Disorder + Suicide Risk
🌟✊🏿🌈 #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
T32 Postdoctoral Scholar @ Pitt Psychiatry
Perinatal mental health and trauma, parenting, and early child socioemotional outcomes
Assistant Professor at Pitt Psychiatry | Clinical Psychologist | Eating behavior, food insecurity, health equity & perinatal wellbeing | Mom 👦🏼👶🏻🐕
T32 Postdoc @PittPsychiatry | adversity, adolescent brain development 🧠, and mental health | she/her
Clinical + Developmental Psychology | Postdoc @ Pitt Psychiatry | moms, dads, depression, parenting; how to build child resilience to early life stress 🌱 | boy mom
Autism researcher, clinical psychologist. Prof at Pitt. Views are mine.
ACNP's peer-reviewed open access journal publishing on digital methodologies to advance the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and modeling of mental illness
https://www.nature.com/dpn
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Pitt Lab of Neurocognitive Development 🧠 she/her
brain development | plasticity | environment | multi-modal MRI
trying to fall down rabbit holes to recreate Alice in Wonderland
