https://t.co/3Dfc35PB0I
The first animal model for bipolar disorder with human genetics validity has just been published.
Psychiatry is a highly therapeutic specialty.
Psychiatric disorders are inherently complex, polygenic, heterogeneous, and multifactorial.
Despite that, the field has excellent therapeutics.
The field continues to move forward rapidly.
Ignore the skeptics.
#MedTwitter #PsychTwitter
I'm hiring a postdoc to work with me on problems related to meta-learning and probabilistic representation learning in the brain.
Perks:
i) the amazing research community at @bcm_neurosci and @RiceNeuro.
ii) Houston food is DELICIOUS (and cheap)
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Akap11 mutations greatly increase risk for #bipolar disorder and #schizophrenia. Not much was known about this gene when we started. Here’s what we learned!
https://t.co/nCeX4r8ucA
Thanks to Morgan Sheng, @ajgrange, Yang Ge, Borislav Dejanovic & crew @broadinstitute
Our @CurrentBiology paper about proprioceptive neurons in crawling fruit fly larvae is out today! Movie shows real-time 3D data collected at 10 volumes per second using #SCAPEmicroscopy (color denotes depth). Collab with Wes Grueber @ZuckermanBrain https://t.co/ytz0vRoZtU
Meet Elizabeth on Humans of HBI: “As scientists, we should be driven by a desire to truly understand the biology – whether or not the answer is as we had hoped.” https://t.co/ikW0xqzXNl @harvardmed@BostonChildrens@maxwellheiman@HarvardGSAS