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Using large language models as a scalable mental status evaluation technique - NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience Mental health services struggle to keep up with growing demand. This study explores how a RoBERTa large language model can help by analyzing text for signs of anxiety or depression. It uses online the...

Mental health services struggle to meet demand. Wagner et al tested whether a RoBERTa LLM can detect anxiety or depression in text, showing accuracy similar to human experts and paving the way for more accessible, scalable mental health evaluation.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Congratulations to Gwenn Smith, Ph.D. for being awarded the Advocacy Award! 😀 #ACNP2026 @SmithGwenn

Please click here ➡️ tinyurl.com/2s3ut4v7 to view the acceptance video by Gwenn Smith Ph.D. for the Advocacy Award.

Congratulations to Harriet De Wit, Ph.D., for being awarded the Barbara Fish Memorial Award! ☺️ #ACNP2026

Please click here ➡️tinyurl.com/2ndexz5k to watch the nominator video by Abraham Palmer, Ph.D.

Congratulations to Sophia Vinogradov, M.D. on being awarded the 2025 Julius Axelrod Mentorship Award! #ACNP2026

Please click here ➡️ tinyurl.com/3b7jdtcy to watch the acceptance video by Sophia Vinogradov, M.D.

Thank you so much to @acnporg.bsky.social
for this absolute honor! Grateful to all I've worked with particularly mentors who've given such amazing examples, to brilliant mentees, & my friend for such kind words!
The work is the important thing & I'm so grateful we get to promote it this way!

Attn all human MRI/fMRI folks! The Dept of Psychology at Northeastern University is hiring a new Director of the NU Biomedical Imaging Center at the level of Associate or Full Professor. Bonus: you'll have the best Chair EVER 😉 Full ad here: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Please click here ➡️ tinyurl.com/22fd8eje to view the acceptance video by Jared Young, Ph.D. for the Dolores Shockley Advancement Award. @jaredwyoung.bsky.social

Congratulations to Dr. Guzman and DPN Editorial Board member, @jaredwyoung.bsky.social! Can’t wait to celebrate at #ACNP2026 🎉

In @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025, we recognize 25 early-career researchers who have made outstanding scientific contributions and demonstrated a commitment to mentoring and community-building in neuroscience.

#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience

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Using large language models as a scalable mental status evaluation technique - NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience Mental health services struggle to keep up with growing demand. This study explores how a RoBERTa large language model can help by analyzing text for signs of anxiety or depression. It uses online the...

Mental health services struggle to meet demand. Wagner et al tested whether a RoBERTa LLM can detect anxiety or depression in text, showing accuracy similar to human experts and paving the way for more accessible, scalable mental health evaluation.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Chad Camp, PhD

Congratulations to Chad Camp, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the Benke Lab, on receiving a one-year grant for his project, “Probing the GluN2B-CaMKII Interaction in GRIN2B C-Tail Variants,” from the Autism Research Foundation. We look forward to these exciting discoveries!

Please join us in congratulating the selected mentors and mentees for the 2026 Near-Peer Mentorship Program! More info: tinyurl.com/2v2phzza

Mindbench.ai: an actionable platform to evaluate the profile and performance of large language models in a mental healthcare context - NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience AI chatbots powered by large language models are increasingly used for mental health support, yet they can give misleading or unsafe replies. To address this, our team created MindBench.ai, an open pl...

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LLM-based tools are increasingly used for mental health support, but AI can give unsafe replies. Dwyer et al created MindBench.ai, an open platform that helps patients, clinicians, researchers & regulators evaluate AI systems transparently and consistently.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

YouTube video by NPP - Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience (DPN) Everyday speech patterns hold medical clues that may help diagnose and track schizophrenia

Take a Deep Dive into a recent DPN article showing that negative symptoms of schizophrenia can be detected using speech spectrogram-based convolutional neural network analyses.

Work by Gleb Melshin, @lenapl.bsky.social, et al:

youtu.be/nEr7X-YuujQ?...

Congratulations Max E. Joffe, Ph.D. for being awarded the NEECA Award for the top paper from an early-career researcher, from their own independent lab, published in print in NPP during 2024 tinyurl.com/yfha88u9!

A powerful DPN Perspective from @umarchatterjee.bsky.social, @mayaschumer.bsky.social, @deffinger.bsky.social, @viscidula.bsky.social, Noel Vest, Michael Cahill, Brandon Staglin, & @ericjnestler.bsky.social.

DPN is grateful for the authors' dedication to writing this!

Researchers with lived experience of mental illness/SUDs bring vital insight to our field, yet remain underrepresented and face barriers to participation & leadership

This Perspective calls for removing such barriers & proposes reforms to build inclusive environments

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Hi All @sfn.org attendees #SfN2025!
Please come see what's happening in the lab & support some excellent researchers (whilst getting out of the rain!).
With topics ranging from #HIV, #psychedelics, #fiberphotometry, #social rewards, #risky decision making, to #opioid withdrawal cog deficits!

Taking a look at your speech: identifying diagnostic status and negative symptoms of psychosis using convolutional neural networks - NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience Short snippets of everyday speech hold medical clues. Using computer vision techniques on sound pictures (“spectrograms”) from short speech fragments, researchers trained a neural network on recording...

Read the article here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

YouTube video by NPP - Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience (DPN) Everyday speech patterns hold medical clues that may help diagnose and track schizophrenia

Take a Deep Dive into a recent DPN article showing that negative symptoms of schizophrenia can be detected using speech spectrogram-based convolutional neural network analyses.

Work by Gleb Melshin, @lenapl.bsky.social, et al:

youtu.be/nEr7X-YuujQ?...

In case you missed it, tune into our most recent DPN Deep Dive covering research by @zivacooper.bsky.social et al ⬇️

It's Tuesday again - fresh reads, sharp minds, new #ThisWeekInNPP 🧠
This week we are back with insights on trauma, development, and psychedelics.
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Optimizing social media initiatives to promote Neuropsychopharmacology (NPP) publications Neuropsychopharmacology - Optimizing social media initiatives to promote Neuropsychopharmacology (NPP) publications

This paper, led by former NPP intern Hayley Thorpe, tracks the impact of our NPP social media efforts (which we are now sharing on social media - so meta!) on facilitating engagement with articles and driving website traffic

Very excited to share that Department of Biomedical Engineering @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social is hiring for open rank tenure-track faculty in #Biomedical #DataScience!

🔗 apply.interfolio.com/177042
Apps starting to be reviewed Dec 5 and ongoing after!

🧪🧬🖥️🧠 #StatsSky #WomenInSTEM

The Computational and Cognitive Neural Sciences lab (ballardlab.org) at UC Riverside is recruiting psychology PhD students to join our team! Check out the flyer to learn about the lab and our stellar research community at UCR. Apply by 12/1!
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Want to see what a Neuromatch course is like…on your own time? Our full course materials are freely available for anyone to explore, anytime.

While the live courses include team projects, TAs, and learning pods, the content itself is always open.

➡️ neuromatch.io/open-educati...

I am accepting graduate students for the UCI Cognitive Sciences PhD program for Fall 2026. Check out my lab website - www.relcoglab.org for our recent themes. Our funded work focuses on combinatorial reasoning, moral decision-making, and conceptual cognition in humans and large language models.

Neuromatch will be at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting #SfN,2025 (15–19 Nov, San Diego, USA) and we’d love to meet you at our community meetup!

➡️Let us know if you're attending & we will send you the meetup & our booth details: airtable.com/appWO8lu7xm3...

Molecular & Cellular Physiology (MCP) Monday

We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to join the Dept of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford. Apply to be our colleague. Please repost. 1/n
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

🔴 Funding opportunity! 🔴

science-foundation.org/what-ifs-2025/

What if… you had 10K in a gift fund at your institution for curiosity-driven #science?

Apply to “What Ifs…?” @sciencefoundation.bsky.social
Applications open 11/10, close 12/1