The CoNeCT Lab

Computational NeuroImaging and Connected Technologies Lab

[Max Kozlov @maxdkozlov]

NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the US, leaving labs reeling.

“I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”

[Agustin Ibañez @AgustinMIbanez]

Brain–body-environment interactions must move beyond isolated exposures toward the expotype: the dynamic configuration of physical, social, lifestyle, and internal factors that jointly shape brain–behaviour phenotypes. At @NatRevNeurosci (https://t.co/FIMA1E1dxM), we propose a future agenda to assess the exposome as a complex, time-varying system that requires nonlinear models to capture interactions, thresholds, synergistic effects, and cross-domain buffering mechanisms. Although predictive machine learning can support individual risk estimation, the next frontier is to move from prediction to mechanism, from association to dynamic synergetic inference. Multivariate learning, causal machine learning, aging clocks, longitudinal designs, and generative biophysical digital twins are beginning to provide this bridge. Brain–body–environment diversity can reveal how ecology becomes biologically embedded. We call for a future exposomic neuroscience that integrates nonlinear temporal modeling, generative mechanisms, and population diversity to understand, simulate, and modify trajectories of brain aging and disease. Congrats Sarah Genon, @MasoudTahmasian & @INM7_ISN

[The CoNeCT Lab @UIConect]

Commencement is always a special time but this year, @UIConect lab is proud to have two of our graduates get their doctorates. Congrats to Dr. @aksuugunay and Dr. @michelleksheena!

[Olu Ajilore, MD, PhD - @pshrink.bsky.social @pshrink]

An important policy position statement from the leading peer-support network for people living with mood disorders in the U.S., @DBSAlliance

https://t.co/FokwudnG66

[The CoNeCT Lab @UIConect]

Very proud of our @UIConect students presenting their excellent work at #SOBP2026

[Stanford PMH 🧠 @Stanford_PMHW]

Rising Star spotlight at @SOBP✨

Catch Dr. Jeesung Ahn’s (@JeesungA) talk: Personalized Treatment Selection in Depression Using Clinically Interpretable Neuroimaging Biotypes

What if matching patients to treatments based on brain circuit profiles could more than double remission rates?

This work uses fMRI to turn neural circuitry into actionable, individualized treatment decisions—moving precision psychiatry closer to reality.

📅Fri, May 1 | Rising Star Oral Presentations (3–5 PM EDT)
⏱️Talk: 4:05-4:25pm EDT
📍SOHO Complex

#PrecisionPsychiatry #fMRI #DepressionResearch #SOBP2026

[ACNP @ACNPorg]

ACNP Travel Award Applications open TODAY for the ACNP 65th Annual Meeting: January 10-13, 2027, San Diego, California. Deadline to Submit is May 14, 2026, at 5:00 pm Central. https://t.co/tciCGq4ELQ #ACNP2027 #travelawards

[NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience (DPN) @dpn_journal]

Digital phenotyping uses smartphone & wearable data to study mental health, but many methods rely on static summaries. @ConstantAxel, @lena_pl & co propose dynamic digital markers that better capture how behavior & physiology change over time

https://t.co/3uHRp9MizV

[United4MedResearch @UMR4NIH]

Just released: UMR’s FY2025 data on the national and state-by-state impact of @NIH research funding.

The numbers underscore why we must #keepNIHstrong

Read our report here: https://t.co/hK6EwX6yPf

[Martin Picard @MitoPsychoBio]

In this morning's article, I share my experience at a remarkable scientific meeting organized by Dost Ongur around Metabolic Neuropsychiatry.

A new field has emerged focusing on the energetic basis of brain function and mental health. Exciting times!

https://t.co/tRssBAr5WU

[Alex Leow @alexfeuillet]

⁦Not on X much BUT..@BiAffect⁩ goes #circadian rhythm❤️ ⁦@LoranKnol⁩ Mindy Ross, ⁦@Anisha__Nagpal⁩ ⁦⁦⁩and @eisenlohr_moul⁩ CF Beckmann and AF Marquand Unobtrusive inference of diurnal rhythms ⁦⁦@npjDigitalMed⁩ https://t.co/Nr1ABCI4FJ

[ACNP @ACNPorg]

ACNP was proud to support "Decoding Stigma: The Neural Science of Mental Health" Congressional Briefing on Capitol Hill today. The bipartisan Congressional Neuroscience Caucus promotes a better understanding of how the brain develops, functions, and ages.

[Kording Lab 🦖 @KordingLab]

Why on earth does tDCS do anything given how low the fields are? Here is a nice paper: https://t.co/o7wOeh40BY -- also from one of the labs whose webpage is in the dark due to their Tehran location.

[ACNP @ACNPorg]

Today is the Day of Action. ACNP urges Congress to increase FY26 funding for medical research.

✅ https://t.co/ca3BJHAXIW

#SupportCures #FundMedicalResearch #CuresCantWait

[David Eagleman @davideagleman]

Brain lovers: over the years the New Yorker has published several neuro-related stories; a few years ago they collected up the best ones (including a profile piece on my research). Good selection of articles to scratch any cerebral itch 👍
https://t.co/VsRFWU276k

[NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience (DPN) @dpn_journal]

Our first Deep Dive of 2026 covers a recent Perspective calling for recognizing and removing the barriers faced by researchers with lived experience of mental illness or SUDs who work in our field.

By @UmaRChatterjee, @SchumerMaya, @devin_effinger & colleagues.

https://t.co/Qb3ZRpy2Ss

[Whitney Wyche @WhitneyWyche]

The Psychiatry Holiday Party was a blast! Thank you to everyone who organized such a festive event filled with holiday cheer and camaraderie. It was really nice to celebrate the holiday season with CoNECt lab members. 🎄✨🤗🪩

[ACNP @ACNPorg]

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

Please click here ➡️ https://t.co/BeWOZRNAPc to watch the acceptance video by Sophia Vinogradov, M.D.

[ACNP @ACNPorg]

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

Please click here ➡️ https://t.co/buBM2vqI3l to view the acceptance video by Gwenn Smith Ph.D. for the Advocacy Award.

[American Psychiatric Association @APApsychiatric]

$100K visa fee could worsen rural doctor shortage: Study https://t.co/2J2p5X01cl