Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠

MD/PhD student @PittCMU_MSTP: translational psychiatric neuroscience, genomics, development, post-mortem, MRI, cognition and bagpipes He/Him

[MIDB @UMN_MIDB]

Better brain science starts with better design! 🧠

A new study co-authored by #MIDB researchers and published in @Nature shows how selecting diverse participants improves the reliability of brain-wide association studies. Read more ➡️ https://t.co/I4vdlRORN9

[Joshua Roffman MD, MMSc @joshuaroffman]

New in @biorxivpreprint: tools to improve the rigor of #ABCDStudy sMRI analyses, based on manual reviews of >12,000 scans. Major effort by @safia_elyounssi, @psykeiko @kevinfdowling @sattertt @barchdbarch and many others. https://t.co/4cS5Q8s7pT

[Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 @KevinFDowling]

@zfreyberg @PittPsychiatry @PittHealthSci Congratulations!!

[Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 @KevinFDowling]

@SabinaSpigner Especially the disturbingly big snakes in Frick Park

[Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 @KevinFDowling]

@mgranovetter Big Bird?

[Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 @KevinFDowling]

Interested in how prenatal exposures relate to subsequent risk for psychopathology? Check out our new paper out today in @PLOSONE led by @joshuaroffman @ErenDSipahi1 @ErinDunnScD #abcdstudy

[Joshua Roffman MD, MMSc @joshuaroffman]

Our new paper out today: common adverse prenatal exposures associate with steep increase in risk for psychopathology at age 9-10 https://t.co/Li2SpzNmUB @MGH_RI @MGHNeuroSci #ABCDStudy

[Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 @KevinFDowling]

Interested in how manually editing MRI images as part of rigorous scan QC impacts measures of cortical morphology in youth? Come visit @SOBP poster F183 to learn more!

[Allison Bond @AllisonRBond]

Would be cool if we could all start calling it a “chief concern” instead of a “chief complaint.”

[Dr. Bryan Leyva @DrBryanLeyva]

America: we need diversity in medicine.
Also America: let’s make med school and the application process so expensive (and racist) that people who are poor (and Black and Latinx) can’t become doctors.

This is the hill I will die on.

[Allegheny County Health Department @HealthAllegheny]

ACHD has opened additional vaccine appointments for those 65 and older at its Monroeville clinic. Appointments are required for the site and remain in great demand. Links to the clinics and more information is available here: https://t.co/blK86zCAHH

[Carnegie Mellon University @CarnegieMellon]

Researchers from CMU and @PittTweet are developing and testing a new hybrid microneedle array platform capable of delivering vaccines directly into the skin.

It could have an impact on COVID-19 vaccination in the developing world.

https://t.co/8XJTaZVj83 via @CMUEngineering

[Andy Nowalk @IDBugDoc]

Most cases ever and headed to 400-500 daily which will close our hospitals and endanger even the uninfected. With Thanksgiving ahead we are in DANGER. Time to lock down for the common good. People are dying.

[Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 @KevinFDowling]

@AfternoonNapper @PittCMU_MSTP Great question, they sure did! If interested you can read the full-text of the oath within the link below https://t.co/mSEEXKwq7n

[Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 @KevinFDowling]

Shout out to @PittCMU_MSTP's Sean Sweat for contributing to this awesome oath!

[NPR @NPR]

University of Pittsburgh medical students wrote a new version of the Hippocratic Oath, which calls on doctors to combat disinformation to improve health literacy and be an ally to minorities.
https://t.co/UMrRuwfsrI

[Erin Dunn, ScD, MPH @ErinDunnScD]

Advice from @BalaChaudhary and @aaberhe about how to build an anti-racist research lab. Preprint of paper they wrote (to be published in Plos Computational Biology) here: https://t.co/pYrf0VJfKo. Excited to get into the weeds on this paper during our next lab journal club.

[Michael Granovetter, MD PhD @mgranovetter]

Today is National Voter Registration Day! You can go to https://t.co/PQDpAMRJrb to check your registration and make sure you have a plan to vote and to vote early! #VoteReady

[Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 @KevinFDowling]

@PittPsychiatry Congratulations @finncalabro !!!

[Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 @KevinFDowling]

@LoveUSNJ @KP_MD2018 There are ways to get free Naloxone/Narcan in NJ, see: https://t.co/yNuWWZ4HNj most states have a mechanism for bystanders to get trained and be able to get narcan — it’s a great thing to do if you’re interested!