Blackford NeuroScience Team

fMRI Peeps - I remember reading a paper, years ago, focused on identifying regions for brain-association analyses based on peak inter-individual variance (rather than peak activation), but a 20-min search failed to recover it. Suggestions? Thx!

Figure shows average trajectories for the full sample (left) and trajectories by subgroup (right) with sustained (red), high (blue), and low (green).

Excited to share our new paper @acerjournal.bsky.social showing that there are distinct subgroups based on trajectories of anxiety and depression symptoms in alcohol use disorder.
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Manesh Gopaldas, @lizzieflook.bsky.social, Meg Benningfield, Nick Hayes.

Group (early abstinence vs control) x anxiety x sex interaction on neural responses to unpredictable threat.

Congrats to the BNSTeam’s @neurozabik.bsky.social on receiving the @acerjournal.bsky.social Journal Award for Early Career Investigator Outstanding Paper!

A closer look at the nationwide impact of NIH cuts Nearly half of U.S. counties will see economic losses of at least $250,000 from cuts to indirect funding by the National Institutes of Health.

Half of all US counties will lose at least $250K in revenue!
Cuts to NIH affect ALL americans! Check out this new analysis and look up your county here:
www.axios.com/2025/04/09/n...

MMI's Katelyn Kelley is April's Gold U recipient From a summer intern to a clinical research program manager, Kelley has found a career she loves.

Our lab lead—Katelyn Kelley—received the highest accolade at @unmc.bsky.social this week! We are so proud of her!

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We will be using this page to highlight the amazing work from our team and colleagues, and soon to be highlighting individual team members and their roles in our science! Please follow and tell your friends about us :-)

Image of a logo with a blue brain on top of the phrase "blackford neuroscience team". The "b", "n", "s", and "t" in the phrase are in orange, highlighting the brain region studied (BNST).

Good morning #Skyence people! We are the Blackford NeuroScience Team — hailing from University of Nebraska Medical Center and led by @jenniblackford.bsky.social . We use functional neuroimaging to study the bed nucleus of the stria terminals (BNST) in #anxiety and #alcoholusedisorder .