Chung Jung Mun ("Moon")

Associate Professor @ASU + Clinical Psychologist + Dad.
I study pain, sleep, circadian rhythm, cannabis, kratom, and opioid use.

[Chung Jung Mun ("Moon") @Dr_Moon90]

@CWebbPsych Congratulations Caroline! Proud of you!

[Johannes Thrul @drjthrul]

New paper in Exp & Clin Psychopharm: Trials on cannabis for chronic pain often miss what matters most to patients: sleep, coping, function, opioid substitution. Time to look beyond pain scores. 👉 https://t.co/khIg52NB2c w/ @Dr_Moon90 @David_NeverDave

[Elena Llaudet @ellaudet]

Teaching/learning intro stats and R? #rstats

Explore my teaching materials, including syllabus, lecture slides, exercises, interactive graphs, and self-graded review exercises: https://t.co/YwGJttsk9y

Instructors using DSS: source files from PUP have just been updated!

[Michael Pyrcz🌻 @GeostatsGuy]

In response to requests from my students, I’ve built out comprehensive glossaries for my #MachineLearning and #DataAnalytics courses. It took a lot of work, but I’m absolutely stoked to share these as free resources in my open-access e-books.

📘 Data Analytics and Geostatistics Glossary
🔗 https://t.co/dgjNwFEQgb
🤖 Machine Learning Glossary
🔗 https://t.co/QVvBu9vR2b

I hope these glossaries help students and practitioners alike navigate key concepts more easily. Feedback is always welcome!

[Chung Jung Mun ("Moon") @Dr_Moon90]

@EmmaFisher1 Congratulations!!!

[Johannes Thrul @drjthrul]

Do you want to capture health behavior as it happens? My summer institute on EMA is coming up at the end of this month. Spots are limited - don't miss out! @JohnsHopkinsDMH @JohnsHopkinsSPH

[Michael Businelle @Stop_Smokin_now]

Last chance to apply! 3rd annual 3-day Insight mHealth Workshop (June 25-27). Deadline: April 21. Create your own Apple/Android mHealth app. Fee: $500. Please re-post. @SBMDigitalHlth @BehavioralMed @ABCTNOW @PsychJobs @ObesityWeek @ObesitySociety @srntorg
@CPDDorg @AACR

[The Journal of Pain @TheJournal_Pain]

Original: @RubensteinDana& colleagues (@DukeMedSchool, @DukePsychiatry) analyzed momentary data reported throughout the day by people with back pain who smoke

— Novel insights into short-term relationships between pain and smoking

Full: https://t.co/pQTiWO9I6a

[Chung Jung Mun ("Moon") @Dr_Moon90]

@RubensteinDana Congratulations, Dana!! So excited for you.

[Kahlert Institute for Addiction Medicine @Kahlert_UMSOM]

Six decades ago, hope surged for depression and opioid addiction treatments. Today, depression management has advanced significantly, while progress in #OUD treatment has been more gradual.

@DrKellyDunn explores this in a @medpagetoday #opinion piece: https://t.co/eWnFmstjzI.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Since legalization, new schizophrenia cases linked to heavy cannabis use have tripled.

🧵1/9

[Chung Jung Mun ("Moon") @Dr_Moon90]

@kirstenelins Again, examining chronic pain within the context of kratom research appears to be critical. I hope we can pursue this research soon with KEMA 2.0!

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Academics are paid nothing for peer review.

Yet journals made a total of over $8.3 billion on article processing charges alone between 2019-2023.

Make it make sense.

[Chung Jung Mun ("Moon") @Dr_Moon90]

@DrMatthewJReid This is awesome!

[Pain News Network @PainNewsNetwork]

Eight years after releasing the 2016 opioid guideline and two years after revising it, @CDCgov is finally making plans for a review of the guideline’s impact on #patients, caregivers, #doctors, and the practice of pain medicine. #chronicpain @CDCInjury https://t.co/2ap9SGUts5

[IASP @IASPpain]

Now in Pain Reports: “Assessing alexithymia in chronic pain: psychometric properties of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 and Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire” https://t.co/H3zX4Yrmul

[Chung Jung Mun ("Moon") @Dr_Moon90]

We evaluated the psychometric properties of two commonly used alexithymia measures among individuals with chronic pain @RachelVAaron

[PAIN Reports @PainReportsOPEN]

Now in Pain Reports: “Assessing alexithymia in chronic pain: psychometric properties of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 and Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire” https://t.co/xAPvnZRBtv

[Oren Gottfried, MD @OGdukeneurosurg]

Great one on Neurotransmitters

[Samuel Hume @DrSamuelBHume]

9. Restoring communication in motor neuron disease

In a patient with motor neuron disease (ALS) and loss of speech as a result, a brain implant read the neural activity of his attempted speech and produced it via a computer - in his own voice:

[Samuel Hume @DrSamuelBHume]

2. Progress in the prevention of HIV

The twice-yearly injectable, Lenacapavir, is 95-100% effective to prevent HIV: