Julian Koenig

Mental health of children and young people in the WHO Europe region Most mental health disorders start before adulthood. They are highly prevalent, disabling and often treatable. This Series paper discusses the current problems that contribute to the growing child, ad...

#Mentalhealth of children and young people in the WHO Europe region - now published in @lancetrh-europe.bsky.social
This Series paper discusses the problems that contribute to the growing child, adolescent & youth mental health crisis in Europe:
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#youthmentalhealth

PNIRS 2026

📣 #PNIRS2026: Save the Date‼️

🗓️ June 22–25, 2026
📍 New Orleans, Louisiana 🇺🇸

✨ Whether your PsychoNeuroImmunology research emphasizes the P, N, or I — we look forward to seeing your work and connecting in The Big Easy!

📻 Stay tuned for more info re: call for abstracts. Please spread the word 🙏🏼

job alert 🚨 come join us in beautiful Würzburg 🏰🌳🍷🫧this 3yrs Postdoc position is for German speakers interested in child&adolescent clinical psych. Although initially limited to 3 years, this position offers a possibility of tenure! happy to answer any question in advance-shoot me an📨&pls share🙃

Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback for Substance Use Disorder This randomized clinical trial evaluates the effects of second-generation heart rate variability biofeedback on negative affect, positive affect, craving, and alcohol and other drug use in adults with...

Really excited to share the results from our recent Randomized Clinical Trail of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback for those in early SUD recovery just published in JAMA Psychiatry led by the intrepid David Eddie.

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Dr. Jane Goodall was one of my science heroes throughout my life. May we contribute as much, be as fascinated by nature and science as much, and do as much good and instill as much hope as she did. RIP, Dr. Goodall.

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

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Union dringt nach Zwischenbericht auf schärfere Cannabis-Regeln Anderthalb Jahre nach der Teillegalisierung von Cannabis liegt ein erster Zwischenbericht vor. Der Bericht stellte "keinen dringenden Handlungsbedarf" fest. Dennoch sehen Unionspolitiker ihre Vorbehal...

Wozu evaluieren wir die Folgen von Gesetzen wissenschaftlich, wenn die Politik am Ende doch nur der eigenen Ideologie folgt?
Cannabis-Konsum steigt bei Erwachsenen nicht, sinkt bei Minderjährigen. Entkriminalisierung verhindert viel Leid, auch das gehört zur Abwägung!

resolved: sandwiches taste better when cut diagonally

Top-down brain circuits for operant bradycardia Heart rate (HR) can be voluntarily regulated when individuals receive real-time feedback. In a rat model of HR biofeedback, the neocortex and medial forebrain bundle were stimulated as feedback and re...

Super cool biofeedback stuff in rats here 👇🏻

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Call for Editorial Fellows at Developmental Psychology!

*Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD)

*Commitment to addressing the needs of underserved populations or increasing access to psychological knowledge & publishing

*1-yr term; $1,000 USD

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@apajournals.bsky.social

Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health Numerous studies in humans have demonstrated a strong link between heart and brain function at different timescales. We conceptualize this functional …

Interested in the link between cardiovascular and mental health or, in other “words” the ❤️ and 🧠 through brain-body states? A new paper by our speaker and fellow Arno Villringer with @michaelgaebler.com and Vadim Nikulin sheds more light on these interactions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Less than one week left to apply 👇 Exciting project, great team, and a stimulating environment!

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.

Appointing James Hetfield to head the CDC and announcing breakthrough research proving a correlation between lifestyle and deathstyle.

Sensitive periods to social adversity in immune and metabolic development: A systematic review Childhood exposure to social adversity – including experiences such as poverty, discrimination, violence, family separation, household dysfunction, an…

❗PNEC Article Highlight:

Sensitive periods to social adversity in immune and metabolic development: A systematic review

"Early life social adversity is associated with increased inflammatory markers and worse cardiometabolic outcomes."

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#ISPNE #PNEC

🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨

We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes:

⚡ Neuropixels recordings
⚡ Opto/chemo
⚡ Behavior
⚡ Neural network modeling

If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏
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Super cool preprint by @msicorello.bsky.social and @dkolar.bsky.social adapting the S-DERS for EMA studies. 👇🏻👇🏻

Wer - wie ich - die hier diffamierten KollegInnen gut kennt, weiß das alle sehr differenzierte Haltungen haben. Hier sind auch die Fachgesellschaften gefordert, klar Stellung zu beziehen 2/2

Transaktivisten bedrohen Wissenschaftler Eine internationale Konferenz mit ExpertInnen zur Gender-Medizin in Berlin musste geheim stattfinden. Transaktivisten hatten „Fahndungsplakate“ ins Netz gestellt und gedroht: „Transfeinden aufs Maul!“...

Das ist inakzeptabel und der LGBTQ+ Bewegung nicht dienlich. Unabhängig der eigenen Position - bei sehr überschaubaren Evidenz - schadet dieses Verhalten dem Diskurs. 1/2

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🧠Out now @natcomms.nature.com !
Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵

We can only speculate, but maybe greater interoceptive awareness may drive session perception.

YouTube video by CECAD Cologne CECAD: Our Scientific Mission

⏰🔬⏳What if we could prevent age-related diseases before they even start? At #CECAD Cologne, that’s exactly our #mission! In this new video, Prof. Dr. Carien Niessen shares our vision uncovering the biology of #aging to improve #health.

#HealthyAging @unicologne.bsky.social

youtu.be/9ALNLpG3oYc

Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing Click on the article title to read more.

Just published in World Psychiatry our study "Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing" . Amazing work led by @ophirnetzer.bsky.social with the brave survivors of the Nova festival attack. Huge team effort, thx to all!
👉 doi.org/10.1002/wps....

FPVS: general methodology & experiments. Top: Schematic of a 6Hz visual stimulation frequency involving presentation of five base stimuli (b) and one oddball stimulus (o) per cycle. Bottom: Schematic of the three experiments: 1 Face Identity Discrimination; 2. Category Selectivity; 3. Duty Cycle

What's special about a #SuperRecognizer (SR) #brain?

Testing lab-identified SRs from the #BerlinPolice with 3 Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation #FPVS #EEG experiments, we targeted general visual & face-specific processing.

I agree. Most recent data on prescription rates for antidepressants in the US suggest ~4,5% (2022, 12-25 yrs). The real problem is non-help seeking. Spreading these lies adds to the stigma and that - at best - is not preventing suicides.

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Why Young People With Eating Disorder Symptoms Do Not Seek Help—Exploring Barriers to Help‐Seeking Objective Rates of help-seeking and treatment uptake are low in eating disorders. Delayed initiation of treatment has a negative impact on prognosis and treatment outcome and leads to a higher burde...

Now published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders 2/2

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Why Young People With Eating Disorder Symptoms Do Not Seek Help—Exploring Barriers to Help‐Seeking Objective Rates of help-seeking and treatment uptake are low in eating disorders. Delayed initiation of treatment has a negative impact on prognosis and treatment outcome and leads to a higher burde...

Of the many challenges we face, the lack of help-seeking for mental health problems, is a major barrier to reach those in need. Here we adressed factors associated with help seeking in a fairly large sample of adolescents with eating disorder symptoms. 1/2

Beyond Self-Reports: Integrating Cortisol Measurement in Psychotherapy Process Research among Adolescents with Borderline Personality Pathology Abstract. Psychotherapy is the primary treatment for adolescent Borderline Personality Pathology (BPP), yet its mechanisms remain unclear. Given potential self-report biases due to alexithymia and imp...

Full paper now in press with Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2/2

karger.com/pps/article/...

Bridging clinic and research will always be fundamental to our work. Here we collected saliva samples - from patients and therapists - at the start and end of >1000 psychotherapy sessions. Interestingly, cortisol only correlated with session ratings in therapists (not patients). 1/2