SPARED Center at McLean Hospital

The Stress Peptide Advanced Research, Education, & Dissemination Center @McLeanHospital is dedicated to studying stress peptides in neuropsychiatric conditions.

[SPARED Center at McLean Hospital @AtSpared]

The @AtSpared team @McLeanHospital @harvardmed is so excited about the launch of the new open access @ACNPorg journal, NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience! Looking forward to following all of the innovative content to come @dpn_journal @npp_journal

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

Hello 👋! We are excited about the upcoming launch of this new open access journal, NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience. We are an official publication of @ACNPorg & affiliated with @npp_journal. Follow us for updates in the coming weeks!!

[SPARED Center at McLean Hospital @AtSpared]

SPARED researchers show delayed sleep disruption reduces conditioned fear in male & female mice, substituting for extinction training (https://t.co/4jxVbfDuCD).  Potentially beneficial effect?

[Dr. Briana Chen 陳 家 瑩 @BriKChen]

Please consider applying! It was one of the best decisions I've ever made, and I learned so much from the position. Feel free to reach out or DM me with questions!

[SPARED Center at McLean Hospital @AtSpared]

The leadership also wanted to honor the mentors, and specifically highlighted Dr. Brian Kangas as a star faculty member who has consistently demonstrated commitment to the MMHRSP, his mentees, & science education. This award was presented in honor of the late Dr. Elena Chartoff.

[SPARED Center at McLean Hospital @AtSpared]

Today we were honored to feature and celebrate the 8 trainees that successfully completed the McLean Mental Health Research Summer Program (MMHRSP). They truly blew us away with their talks and we know they will go far!! @McLeanHospital @harvardbrainsci @harvardmed

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Precision mapping of a gut-brain circuit w/ functional impact.
Glands in the small intestine (Brunner's) have GLP-1 receptors, are stress-sensitive, connect to the brain via the vagal nerve, modulate bacterial species in the gut microbiome, and regulate immunity
https://t.co/IQlcwSXGBU @CellCellPress

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

Article alert! @valeritweety et al. used smartphones to sense social connectivity & loneliness in people w/ severe mental illness.
The number of important contacts a person communicates with is a promising marker to capture subjects perceived loneliness:
https://t.co/bCOofZL0bK

[Ubadah Sabbagh @neubadah]

Got a thank you card today for a guest lecture I gave to @McLeanHospital MMRSP students, signed by the students themselves and it made my week :) What a lovely gesture. Thank you to the organizers and to @josie_mcgowan again for the invite!

[SPARED Center at McLean Hospital @AtSpared]

Join us to feature emerging leaders in psychiatry for a virtual panel discussion: "Troubled Teens: Strategies & Solutions to Address the Teen Mental Health Crisis" moderated by @WBUR reporter @wburdebbecker! @DrLuanaMarques @McLeanHospital @harvardmed

[SPARED Center at McLean Hospital @AtSpared]

We were thrilled to have @denisejcai here today to talk about recent preprint work on memory linking across time. Beautiful data and what a great talk! @McLeanHospital @harvardmed

[Dr. Josephine McGowan @josie_mcgowan]

The Carlezon Lab hosted its first ever Cookie Baking Competition for @McLeanHospital MRC building scientists! The competition was stiff & scores were close, but the WINNER for our first bakeoff was Zenith from Dr. Kwang-Soo Kim's lab!! CONGRATULATIONS!! @harvardmed @AtSpared

[SPARED Center at McLean Hospital @AtSpared]

We are so pleased to welcome Dr. Nicholas Gilpin @The_Gilp for our second in-person @McLeanHospital Neuroscience Seminar series to talk to us about the #amygdala as a hub for traumatic stress effects on alcohol-related behaviors. @harvardmed

[ACNP @ACNPorg]

Please read the recent update on the ACNP Annual Meeting location. https://t.co/oyIbXmf2gM

[SPARED Center at McLean Hospital @AtSpared]

We were honored to have @BrenhouseLab here today as part of McLean's Celebrating Women in Medicine & Science Month! She spoke elegantly about her work on early life adversity and pubertal timing, and gave career advice to trainees on campus. #McLeanSpared #WomeninScience

[Neuropsychopharmacology @npp_journal]

Now online in @npp_journal, "Early life stress moderates the relation between systemic inflammation and neural activation to reward in adolescents both cross-sectionally and longitudinally"

https://t.co/NqNxqLwcp7

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

Our journal doors are wide open for manuscript submissions! We're looking forward to reading your work 🤓

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

🚨We are happy to announce that @dpn_journal is now accepting manuscript submissions!🚨
If your research involves digital technologies or computational approaches relevant to the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and study of psychiatric illnesses, consider publishing with us!

[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

Synaptic pruning - a fascinating process in the 🧠 and a great example of the intricate relationship between #neurons and #microglia! Strengthening circuits and removing redundant synapses: underdo it and you can have autism; overdo it and you can develop schizophrenia. #Science

[Artemis Iatrou @artemis_iat]

Absolutely thrilled 🤩 to have received the 2023 #NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from @BBRFoundation🙏 to study the involvement of non-neuronal cells in #PTSD in 🧠 & 🧫!
🙏Many thanks to @NikosDaskalakis, @McLeanHospital, @broadinstitute, @harvardmed, @AtSpared for the support!

[Institute for Technology in Psychiatry @tech_in_psych]

Submit your poster by August 15! TIPS is a great venue for students/researchers to network with colleagues from academia and industry. Don't miss your chance to be a part of the conversation at this year's poster session in Tampa, FL on Dec. 1. #TIPS2023 https://t.co/Huh63VVZCt