Tiffany Cheing Ho

The exposome and the developing adolescent brain: understanding mechanisms of neuroplasticity - Neuropsychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology - The exposome and the developing adolescent brain: understanding mechanisms of neuroplasticity

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This 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥 from @tiffanycheingho.bsky.social discusses how the exposome - the sum of internal, external, and contextual exposures - shapes adolescent neuroplasticity & mental health risk and could present a novel opportunity to guide strategies to promote adolescent 🧠 health

YouTube video by NPP - Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience (DPN) Does smartphone language use reflect depression risk in teens?

Does smartphone language use reflect depression risk in teens?

This Deep Dive covers a study finding that adolescents with depression used more self-focused & negative emotion words, and fewer future-focused words. Brain activity was tied to these language patterns.

youtu.be/2U7M40Hl_dw?...

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...

Health is more than the absence of disease, and depends on harmony across multiple brain-body systems. We need more research on whole-person health! The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) @thenccih.bsky.social funds vital whole-person research. RP and #KEEP_NCCIH!

Call for papers for a Brain, Behavior, and Immunity special issue on precision immunopsychiatry of depression! If you have a project in the pipeline that fits the bill, we encourage you to submit.

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

@pnirs.bsky.social

Judge rules some NIH grant cuts illegal, saying he's never seen such discrimination in 40 years A federal judge says it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants issued by the National Institutes of Health.

NIH researchers were working on treatments, health equity, and saving lives—but their work was cut for being ideologically inconvenient.

Now a federal judge says: illegal.

Recently, NIHers risked everything to speak out. Stand with them here ➡️zurl.co/rqq7T

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A chart showing cancelled NIH grants

“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ

Could be huge. Especially for those terminated in the anti-DEI purge.

"...NIH will allow individuals whose mentored career development awards prematurely ended on or after January 1, 2025, to be eligible to apply for a new mentored career development award"

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Screenshot of a bird sound identification app in use. The screen shows an audio recording at 27.3 seconds, with a green pause button at the center. Above the timer is a spectrogram visualizing the bird sounds as a series of dark and light horizontal and vertical patterns on a gray background. Below the timer, the app provides a list of "Best suggestions" for bird species based on the recording. The top suggestion, highlighted in yellow, is "Common Chiffchaff," with a thumbnail image of a small brownish bird. Other suggestions include "Great Tit" (a black, yellow, and white bird perched on a branch), "Rose-ringed Parakeet" (a green parrot with a red beak), and "European Robin" (a small bird with an orange-red breast). Each entry includes a small arrow for more information.

I've been taking early walks in the park to watch and listen to birds for my sanity, and the Merlin Bird ID app has been indispensable for identifying bird songs.

Merlin was funded by a grant from the NSF, the science funding agency that Trump is trying to destroy.

www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

Without NIH funding for research, "your mother's cancer will wait for a cure. Your child's genetic disorder will wait for a breakthrough. The research that could save lives may be delayed or never come." ~Melissa Byrn, UChicago @standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpForScience2025

Post-Doctoral Research Associate at King's College London Recruiting now: Post-Doctoral Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

If you are looking for a postdoc focused on how environmental factors shape brain development using publicly available data check out this position at King’s College London with the incredible Dr. Divyangana Rakesh:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX655/p...

People who work or have worked at HHS, NIH, FDA, CMS, CDC, HRSA and other health agencies - we want to hear from you.

Researchers who rely on federal funding from any of these entities, we also want to hear from you.

Reach out to us: www.propublica.org/tips/

Or find me on Signal: 347-549-0332 🔎

Thank you for the warm welcome Dan 🥰

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Welcome to BSky @tiffanycheingho.bsky.social

Tiffany is the Director of the Research in the Cognition Affect + NeuroDev in Youth lab- Follow her to keep up with her team's great, developmentally centered, neuropsych research covering early adversity, PNI, and other factors in depression risk :)

New paper in print @ JoPaCS!

1st registered report
1st study published w/ data I collected

🧵on the Anger Incentive Delay Task as a reward-salient stressor that is more synergistic to many reward-focused theories of health than the TSST 1/12

psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

🎉We are hiring 1-2 postdoctoral fellows in my lab (webbslab.com) to work on NIMH/NCCIH-funded projects focused on the causes and treatment of depression in teens. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️
webbslab.com/job-postings