Sophia Levis, MD, PhD

Psychiatry PGY-1 @UCIrvineHealth | MD/PhD from UCI MSTP | early life adversity, reward circuits, addiction | sclevis on 🦋

[Sophia Levis, MD, PhD @sc_levis]

So excited to be staying at home at @UCIMedSchool for residency!! Zot zot! #Match2024

[Sophia Levis, MD, PhD @sc_levis]

I matched!!! Can’t wait to start my training as a Psychiatrist! #Match2024

[Danny Huang, MD @YuhaoHuangMD]

Stress can either forge resilience or trigger depression. A captivating @Nature study reveals that a hippocampal-amygdala pathway encodes the resilience trait, and stimulating this circuit can even reverse stress-induced depression.

[Tallie Z Baram @z_baram]

JUST dropped! Neuron Review on the Evolving Neurobiology of Early-life stress with @mtbirnie . Where is our field? what are our challenges? Where and how are we going? 300 refs. https://t.co/pI78Zua3V3 @UCIrvine @UCIMedSchool

[Diego A. Pizzagalli, PhD @DiegoPizzagalli]

Dear colleagues & friends: In light of recent announcements, the search committees and I wanted to reassure potential candidates that the faculty search (three faculty openings) for our new UCI Depression Institute continues as planned. Please RT

[Diego A. Pizzagalli, PhD @DiegoPizzagalli]

1/9: Delighted to announce that our faculty cluster hire for the newly established Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries at UC Irvine is now live. The submission deadline is April 9, 2025.

[Tallie Z Baram @z_baram]

No, despite appearances, these are NOT my frying neurons, but axon projections of CRH/GABA expressing BLA neurons to dorsomedial striatum. Paper dropping soon. By the amazing yuncai . it is #FluorescenceFriday somewhere

[Sophia Levis, MD, PhD @sc_levis]

@martydoesneuro Congratulations!!!!!! Proud of you!

[Sophia Levis, MD, PhD @sc_levis]

Many thanks to @svmahler @z_baram @PainlabQ @mtbirnie @yiyannnn and twitterless co-authors!

Thanks also to our reviewers for crucial feedback and to the editorial team at Addiction Neuroscience for making the process so easy. Highly recommend publishing in this new journal!

[Sophia Levis, MD, PhD @sc_levis]

Happy to share that the final chapter of my PhD is now online as part of a special issue of Addiction Neuroscience on stress and addiction! We explore the link between adversity, addiction, and the role of delta opioid receptors in mediating that link:

https://t.co/uGAlfJQNYs

[🍒 Serge Ahmed 🍒 @sergeahmed.bsky.social @SergeAhmed]

A rat model of operant negative reinforcement in opioid-dependent males and females

https://t.co/KlB0LNdvzQ

[Ka I Ip @drkaiip]

📢Excited to share our new pub in Dev Psychobiology! with @prof_suyeongkim
https://t.co/ZJnv6o0SPt We examine how neighborhood and household contexts influence hair cortisol levels—a biomarker of chronic stress—in Mexican-origin adolescents from low-income immigrant families.

[ACNP @ACNPorg]

Join us in congratulating the 2024 ACNP Travel Award Class! https://t.co/Q8H0Xdr6II @AArulpragasam @estef_azevedo @igorbandeira @ABoscutti @CarinaSBrown @brendacabreram @therealRYC @SSebastianChoi @not_kristie @ANeurogirl @PashaDavoudian @KevinFDowling @ScientificRuvvy @CassieLHendrix @deedsou @mkvarta @sj_lamontagne @lujanpema @carolinamak15 @PeteManza @DavidJMarcus2 @Molas__S

[Sophia Levis, MD, PhD @sc_levis]

@JessicaLBolton @staci_bilbo @GSUBnB Congratulations!!! So well-deserved!

[Lin Tian, PhD @LinTianPhD]

New paper out in @NatureNeuro!

Collaborating with several labs, we developed genetically encoded biosensors to track opioid pharmacology in the brain & provide powerful new tools for dissecting complex circuit-specific dynamics 🔧🧠

https://t.co/d1p1lh9J8O

[Neuropsychopharmacology @npp_journal]

🚨 NEW @npp_journal paper alert 🚨

Barbano, Morales, & team report that VTA glutamatergic projections to the nucleus accumbens suppress psychostimulant-seeking behavior in 🐭

https://t.co/kzKQFk8uvq

[Leah Mayo @MayoOnTheBrain]

Don't forget to register for @EurBehavPharm - early bird prices end July 12 (this Friday!) ⏳

The #EBPS2024 lineup is 🔥🔥 so you definitely don't want to miss this one! 👇

Register & more info here: https://t.co/4slg3YJu09

[Anna Darling @AnnaDarling01]

So happy to say that I officially have my first publication🥳 Thank you to @DemaestriC and congratulations on another amazing paper🌟 Check it out: https://t.co/q0LP8IQDvj

[Silvia Castany @CastanySilvia_]

New paper out! 🐁🐀🧠
We show that inflammatory responses can be socially transmitted among conspecifics, especially in the postnatal period.
@BrainBehavImm @CSAN_LiU

Thanks to all the team 😄
https://t.co/FTlemTm5cd.…

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

A brief moment of bliss

[Katie Thompson-Peer @ThompsonPeerLab]

I'm delighted to share my grad student Vini's publication! https://t.co/nsDIbUaQSG (open access to all) One of the first major publications to come from my lab.

He started off with a very basic question: how do neurons **sense** injury to their dendrites?