NARC at Mount Sinai NY

A colossal effort from the NARC lab: we reviewed the recent advances in drug addiction research from the lens of the impaired response inhibition and salience attribution model. A one stop shop for theory, severity, recovery, and novel directions.
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Our research shows how #cannabis affects the developing brain. I spoke to Dr. Delaney Ruston about how #THC exposure in adolescent rats alters cell communication vital for cognitive function.

Watch more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Eb...

🎉Excited to share that Dr. Rita Goldstein, Director of Icahn Mount Sinai's Neuroimaging of Addictions and Related Conditions (NARC) Research Program, has been awarded an @bbrfoundation.bsky.social Distinguished Investigator Grant. CONGRATULATIONS Rita! Learn More👉
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Symposium 2 chaired by Rita Goldstein, is focused on dopamine and its function in behaviour outside of the traditionally considered reward research sphere. #EBPS2025

Shared orbitofrontal dynamics to a drug-themed movie track craving and recovery in heroin addiction Kronberg et al. measured fMRI responses to a drug-themed movie in individuals with heroin use disorder. Responses in the orbitofrontal cortex were biased t

Learn More in Brain
Shared orbitofrontal dynamics to a drug-themed movie track craving and recovery in heroin addiction
- Greg Kronberg, Ahmet Ceceli, Yuefeng Huang, Pierre-Olivier Gaudreault, Sarah King, Natalie McClain, Nelly Alia-Klein, Rita Z Goldstein
👉 academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Dr. @ericjnestler.bsky.social & @paulkennyphd.bsky.social were thrilled to present Dr. Rita Z. Goldstein w/ the Neuroscience Mentorship Distinction Award at the 17th annual Friedman Brain Institute Neuroscience Retreat! A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS Rita! So we'll deserved💯👏🎉! @mountsinainyc.bsky.social

Congratulations to the 2025 Distinguished Investigator Grantees!
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Read the Press Release: ow.ly/oVn050Vk6vx
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#mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #neuroscience #depression #anxiety #schizophrenia #autism #OCD #PTSD #BPD #bipolardisorder #ADHD #ADD

NARC lab for science!

If anyone is still having trouble accessing Pubmed, this worked for me!

If pubmed is inaccessible at the moment, try @europepmc.org

I always realized one key advantage of tDCS is that the technology can be made really cheap. But didnt realize it could even be disposable systems. Fascinating exploration by Marom Bikson.

Pharmacokinetics trumps pharmacodynamics during cocaine choice: a reconciliation with the dopamine hypothesis of addiction - Neuropsychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology - Pharmacokinetics trumps pharmacodynamics during cocaine choice: a reconciliation with the dopamine hypothesis of addiction

An eternally long delay to drug reward

In this work, we trained rats to report, so to speak, a subjective estimate of the delay of i.v. cocaine reward

Their verdict: few tens of seconds, an eternity for rats which explains why cocaine is so low on their value ladder

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

Grateful for the chance to share my thoughts on responsible use of LLMs in psychology research @spspnews.bsky.social #spsp2025. Here's a summary of my presentation for those who missed it. Thanks to @ashwinia.bsky.social for organizing this panel!

How should LLMs be used in psychology research? 🧵

The biology of addiction Insights into the biology of addiction and their potential translation into advances in therapy are discussed.

... in understanding how drugs of abuse cause addiction in vulnerable individuals. This knowledge provides an increasingly powerful foundation upon which to develop more effective treatments for substance use disorders. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

SAMHSA website is back-up. Now is a great time to download NSDUH data, for those interested in these data.

fMRI Course Instructors

Hello Bluesky!
@vcalhoun.bsky.social, Kent Kiehl and I are teaching our 3-day
#fMRI course live online Feb 5 - 7, 2025!
#SPM, #ICA, path analysis, #DataScience

We've been at it for >20 years & love talking methods & connecting with colleagues!

Register at:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

This paper is magical.

Wonderful times #ACNP2025 for the NARC current and former members

We are women in neuroscience, co-leading a lab

We do Neuroimaging in people with drug addiction and related conditions

"Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" w @ken-lxl.bsky.social
and braingpt.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. nature.com/articles/s41... 1/8

Sex and hormonal effects on drug cue-reactivity and its regulation in human addiction Objective To study the sex and hormonal effects on cortico-striatal engagement during drug cue-reactivity and its regulation focusing on drug reappraisal. Methods Forty-nine men (age=41.96±9.71) with...

Our new preprint on sex differences and hormonal effects in drug cue reactivity and its reappraisal in human addiction - an fMRI study
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Using precision approaches to improve brain-behavior prediction Predicting individual behavioral traits from brain idiosyncrasies has broad practical implications, yet predictions vary widely. This constraint may be driven by a combination of signal and noise in b...

📅 New lab review article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social with allydworetsky.bsky.social, & @laboranathan.bsky.social
Check it out here: go.illinois.edu/ticsReview
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroimaging #neuroscience
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Our newest in Brain by Greg Kronberg to serve as our first post here!