Julian Koenig

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
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Adolescent girls at familial risk for depression with more advanced adrenarche have altered gut microbiota https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669149v1

Here's your weekend reading: the July issue of our #ECAP journal is out now: www.escap.eu/ecap-journal...

Editorial: Psychobstetrics or obstetrical psychiatry: a new discipline? by Inmaculada Baeza: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#childpsychiatry #adolescentpsychiatry #mentalhealth

Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, biomed engineering, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2

Going full circle: we first met in Vienna in 2010, when our hosts booked only one taxi pick-up from the airport for „Julian“. We are sharing the ride since then, from Brooklyn to the Bay. When they go low, we go high! 5/5

What is even better than receiving this year’s award? Your former post-doc supervisor @ohiostatepress.bsky.social (Julian F. Thayer, @ucirvine.bsky.social) receiving the lifetime achievement award in the same session! 4/5

the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, the Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (@bsamjournal.bsky.social), and @sbm.org 3/5

Now trying to bring this beauty home to the @unicologne.bsky.social and @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social without breaking it! Humbled to be the first German scientist to receive the award! Thanks to all member organizations, in particular the German Association of Behavioral Medicine and Modification 2/5

Very honored to receive the 2025 Outstanding New Investigator Award by the International Society of Behavioral Medicine at #ICBM2025 in Vienna. Award granted in view of our scientific work on early biological markers of susceptibility to illness, and the development of innovative treatments. 1/5

To the biosensor crowd ⌚. Have you used the Withings Scan Watch 2 in your research, and were you happy with the data and the service? We are using Corsano Cardiowatch Bracelets, but their recent price hikes prompted (forced?) us to explore alternatives. #neuroskyence #interoception

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Publication Alert 💡
Our new commentary is out in @npp-journal.bsky.social:
"Menstrual cycle and mental health in adolescents: A developmental neuroendocrine perspective"

For full-text: rdcu.be/ezkcJ

Double the discovery, double the momentum 🚀

Europe doubles down on research competitiveness with a major boost to #HorizonEurope:

€95.5 billion foreseen for 2021-2027
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€175 billion proposed for 2028-2034
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➡️ Keynote beim Deutschen Suchtkongress 2025 „Digitale Psychiatrie trifft Suchtmedizin: KI-gestützte Früherkennung und individualisierte Interventionen für vulnerable Zielgruppen“
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📍 15.–17. September 2025 | Berlin
#Suchtmedizin #DigitalHealth #KI #AImeetsHealth

Call for Ambizione

Ambizione grants are aimed at early-career researchers who wish to conduct and lead a project of their own. Interested in learning more about this call? Take part in our online info event on 14 August 2025.

Submission deadline: 4 November 2025

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Gates Foundation commits $2.5 billion to 'ignored' women's health The Gates Foundation will spend $2.5 billion by 2030 on women’s health, it said on Monday, with founder Bill Gates saying the area, including conditions from preeclampsia to menopause, had been neglected for too long.

The Gates Foundation will spend $2.5 billion by 2030 on women’s health, it said on Monday, with founder Bill Gates saying the area, including conditions from preeclampsia to menopause, had been neglected for too long.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...

@tranmai.bsky.social handed in her PhD thesis! Celebrating in style with egg coffee from Hanoi, Mai's place of birth. P.S.: Mai is looking for a PostDoc position! Check out her latest RNA nanostructures for synthetic cells @natnano.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Late September 1980 I started to get paid to think about philosophy. Since then I’ve been paid continuously to keep on thinking. Today’s the final day.

A biological phenotype of suicide attempt in adolescents with nonsuicidal self-injury: a machine-based learning approach - Neuropsychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology - A biological phenotype of suicide attempt in adolescents with nonsuicidal self-injury: a machine-based learning approach

Can we predict suicide attempts in adolescents based on a host of biological markers? Our latest research suggests yes (to some degree). To learn more about model comparisons and blood-based markers with best performance, read the full text now published

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

🚀 Unsere Arbeitsgruppe an der TU Dresden sucht Verstärkung!

Wir bieten eine Postdoc-Stelle (E13 TV-L, Elternzeitvertretung) ab 01.10.2025 an der Professur für Klinische Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie.

Bewirb dich bis 15.8. und werde Teil unseres Teams!

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tud.link/gs7b7p

Timing matters: modeling the effects of gestational cannabis exposure on social behavior and microglia in the developing amygdala - Neuropsychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology - Timing matters: modeling the effects of gestational cannabis exposure on social behavior and microglia in the developing amygdala

Excited to see our most recent project published in @npp-journal.bsky.social !
We show that the timing of THC exposure during development—prenatal vs. postnatal—leads to opposite effects on social behavior and microglial function in the amygdala. Timing matters!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Bitte teilen! Bei uns @cfmhlab.bsky.social sind ab 15.09.25 zwei Postdoc- oder WiMi-Stellen (50%, E13 TV-L, aufstockbar bis 100%) zu besetzen.

🗓️ Bewerbung bis 07.08./15.08.
Alle Infos 👉 tud.link/gs7b7p

Fragen gern via Mail oder PM.
@tudresden.bsky.social

fMRI Course Instructors

Online #fMRI course coming up August 6-8!
3-day intensive with lectures and hands-on analysis for all skill levels. #SPM, #ICA, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love teaching this course and meeting students from all areas! Info+Reg here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested!
More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

The ESCAP practice guidance on #autism is now also available in Bulgarian. The guidance paper was put together by Prof. Joaquin Fuentes, Dr. Amaia Hervás and Dr. Patricia Howlin and is available in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Turkish and Bulgarian: www.escap.eu/resources/gu...

Secret changes to major U.S. health datasets raise alarms A new Lancet study reveals that over 100 U.S. government health datasets were quietly altered in early 2025, raising alarms among researchers about transparency, political influence, and the reliabili...

🧪 A recent report in The Lancet reveals alarming changes to U.S. health datasets.

Researchers found over 100 government files were altered without public notice, with terms like "gender" often replaced by "sex," raising concerns for data integrity.

#MedSky #AcadmicSky

Sitagliptin as a therapeutic approach for social anxiety disorder: the role of DPP4 and NPY in modulating social fear and comorbid depressive-like behavior in mice Neuropsychopharmacology - Sitagliptin as a therapeutic approach for social anxiety disorder: the role of DPP4 and NPY in modulating social fear and comorbid depressive-like behavior in mice

This recent study shows that sitagliptin, a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP4) inhibitor, could be a promising early intervention strategy for social anxiety disorder and comorbid mood disorders

www.nature.com/artic...

A meta-analytic review of child maltreatment and interoception Nature Mental Health - Interoception, the perception of internal bodily signals, is crucial for mental and physical well-being, yet the origins of disruptions in interoception are not well...

My first dissertation paper is out in Nature Mental Health! 🤩

With colleagues from @tudresden.bsky.social and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, we conducted a meta-analysis on the link between childhood trauma and interoception — our ability to sense internal bodily signals.

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The #2025SPR Annual Meeting Online Registration Portal is now open! Early bird Registration Rates are available now through Tuesday, August 26, 2025. Register here: spr.joynmeeting.com/v2/
#AcademicSky #MedSky #PsychSciSky #HigherEdSky #neuroskyence