The Cost of Defunding Biomedical Research at UCLA
A PhD Student’s Perspective on Funding Cuts to Neuroscience
Recently, the US Justice Department and President Trump cut funding to UCLA, threatening medical breakthroughs that provide lifesaving treatments. Science improves health, drives innovation, and strengthens our economy.
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Happy to share new results: we compared accelerated 5x5 rTMS (5 treatments per day for 5 days) vs conventional six week rTMS. Both protocols were effective in treating depression, and 5x5 patients who displayed limited initial response improved significantly ~4 weeks after rTMS.
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We are seeking participants in Los Angeles, California aged 18-65 who use cannabis and tobacco regularly. Join our study to explore the effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) on reducing cannabis and tobacco use. Free TMS treatment & up to $450 compensation.
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Comparing neuromodulation targets to reduce cigarette craving and withdrawal: a randomized clinical trial
Neuropsychopharmacology - Comparing neuromodulation targets to reduce cigarette craving and withdrawal: a randomized clinical trial
When assessing the impact of rTMS on cigarette craving and withdrawal, which target do you think produces the best outcomes - dorsolateral PFC, superior frontal gyrus, or posterior parietal cortex?
Find out in this new NPP paper from Peterson & team
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Four dimensions of individualization in brain stimulation for psychiatric disorders: context, target, dose, and timing
Neuropsychopharmacology - Four dimensions of individualization in brain stimulation for psychiatric disorders: context, target, dose, and timing
How can we individualize non-invasive brain stimulation protocols to improve treatment outcomes?
This review article highlights 4 potential opportunities, including context, target, dose, and timing
www.nature.com/artic...
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Research group leader (tmsfmri.com), Medical University of Vienna
usp: brainstimulation during imaging of precisely defined spatiotemporal targets
Deconstructing brain stimulation tools to build personalized treatments for mental health disorders.
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Neuroscientist 🧠👩🏼🔬, UCLA, studying the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habits.
Adventurer of outdoors, neuroscientist by accident, professor at ucla
Professor | Weill Cornell Medicine Radiology & Cornell University.
Computational neuroimaging, women’s brain health, neuroAI, psychedelics, brain-behavior mapping. Mom, jogger, avid reader.
Lab site: cocolaboratory.com
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I am Neurosynth Compose! I was forged in the fires of neuroimaging chaos… to help you get meta-analytic results in the cloud without breaking a sweat.
https://compose.neurosynth.org/
Associate professor of quantitative psychology at UCLA. Data analysis, research methods, statistics, psychology, teaching.
neuroscience phd candidate @ stanford.
knight-hennessy, nsf graduate research fellow, quad fellow, NASEM ford fellow. formerly yale, dzne_en, and umn neuroscience.
Professor, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University / Clinical Psychologist
Assistant Professor at UCLA studying neuro and addiction. Views are my own. She/her/hers
Raymond D. Adams Endowed Chair and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School / Mass General Brigham; Director of the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics @braincircuits.bsky.social
Stanford postdoc | K99/R00 awardee | brain stimulation, alcohol & substance use disorders, neuroimaging | 🏳️🌈 he/him
The largest nonprofit of scientists & physicians devoted to understanding the brain & nervous system. SfN.org
PhD candidate in the McMahon Lab at URI, visiting student sometimes at KAUST. Interests include marine lipids, coral metabolism, and coral reproduction.
UC Davis Ecology PhD student • interested in mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity • she/her • all opinions are my own🔬🧬🐟🐚
Official account of the University of California system. 10 campuses, 6 academic health centers, 3 national laboratories and a network of agricultural and natural research centers. And 71 Nobel Prizes, not that we're counting.
Psychiatrist @VAProvidence & Professor @BrownPsychiatry
| mission to design, develop & deploy neuromodulation tx for #PTSD, depression & suicide. Opinions own.
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Organization for Human Brain Mapping - Student and Postdoc Special Interest Group (SIG). https://www.ohbmtrainees.com/
Posts are by Meg Sheppard and Joshua Tan on behalf of the SP-SIG
