Diego A. Pizzagalli, PhD

Identification of conserved frontal neurophysiological markers of cognitive flexibility in humans and rats - Communications Biology Integration of a probabilistic reversal learning task aligned between humans and rodents demonstrates concordant behavioral, computational, and neurophysiological measures of cognitive flexibility bet...

Excited to share this publication from my work as a research assistant in the lab of @diegopizzagalli.bsky.social . Such an honor to train under this all-star team! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Progressive BP would certainly be preferred over sucrose preference or forced swim test.

So well deserved, Shiba! Well done

And to clarify: our search committees are very grateful and rather energized by the many outstanding applications we have already received; this extension is just to provide more time to applicants who might be navigating challenging situations.

Open Rank Cluster Hire in Depression Research University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

3/3: Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences (Assistant/Associate Professor): recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09508
Henry Samueli School of Engineering (Assistant/Associate Professor): recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09510

Open-Rank Faculty Cluster Hire in Depression Research University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

2/3: For more information about the research priorities and submission guidelines, see the following links:
School of Medicine Position (Open Rank): recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09507

1/3: in light of recent developments across the US academic landscape, which might have presented challenges to colleagues, we decided to extend the submission deadline for our three faculty openings focused on depression until May 14, 2025.

Generalizability of Treatment Outcome Prediction Across Antidepressant Trials This prognostic study examines whether neuroimaging and clinical features predict response to sertraline and escitalopram in patients with major depressive disorder across 2 multisite studies using ma...

2/2: Most critically, this marker generalized across independent studies (EMBARC and CANBIND) yielding important generalizability. Details at jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

1/2: Important new findings by Peter Zhukovsky, a former postdoc in the lab and now faculty at CAMH, who identified a neural (rsfMRI) marker that predicted SSRI treatment response.

Open-Rank Faculty Cluster Hire in Depression Research University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

2/2: To be considered, applicants should submit their material electronically at:
School of Medicine Position: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09507
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09508
Henry Samueli School of Engineering: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09510

🧪🧠 1/2: Final reminder that the deadline for the faculty cluster hire (3 faculty positions) within the newly established Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries at UC Irvine is April 9, 2025.

Dear colleagues & friends: In light of recent announcements, the search committees and I wanted to reassure potential candidates that the faculty search (three faculty openings) for our new UCI Depression Institute continues as planned. Please circulate

beautiful and impactful review paper!