Silvana De Pirro

Neuroscientist // Drug Addiction, Neuroimaging, Human Neuropsychopharmacology, interested in #opiates and #psychostimulants @drsilvdepi.bsky.social

[Silvana De Pirro @SilDePi]

For the Third Mission activities of the @DipFisioFarm at @SapienzaRoma in the #OverdoseAwareness day 2024 we launch the #THN_ROME Project in collaboration with @VillaMaraini @crocerossa on opioid overdose prevention.

[Silvana De Pirro @SilDePi]

@ginevradottavio @Huda_Akil1 @NIDAnews @yavinshaham 😊 congratulations! 👏🏻

[Nature Rev Neurosci @NatRevNeurosci]

Early life experiences, the neural epigenome and affective disorder risk — a Review by Ashley M. Cunningham & Ian Maze

https://t.co/jlB51IGI06

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Anesthesia may be humanity's greatest achievement, alleviating inconceivably vast amounts of suffering, and delivering profound evidence on the most fundamental question of existence, our own consciousness: the fact that chemicals can turn it on and off shows that it is a physical process. My Harvard colleague Emery Brown is studying how it works (believe it or not, we don't fully know) and how it can be administered without post-op delirium and dysfunction (his proposal for "closed-loop" real-time EEG monitoring and automatic calibration is a, pardon me, no-brainer). | What Happens to the Brain Under Anesthesia | Harvard Medicine Magazine https://t.co/PhrJKAbbIV)

[Daniël Lakens @lakens]

I built a website that tracks open source tools that provide automated checks for scientific manuscripts: https://t.co/z2Kdc8GrWu

It provides a summary through RSS feed that you can subscribe to. It tracks 13 repositories - if you want your repo to be included, let me know!

[Keith Humphreys @KeithNHumphreys]

Appreciate the chance to present these results in @famstudies. Still agog that in the hottest employment market in my lifetime, there were still over 10 million working age men not in the workforce, education, or training.

[Daniël Lakens @lakens]

Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! https://t.co/lVrQcNDVJT

[Dr. Sheri Madigan (she/her) @sherimadigan]

📢 Publication alert in The Lancet Public Health! Our meta-analysis on the prevalence of #ACEs was a huge collaborative effort with contributions from Canada, UK, South Africa, and Ireland. https://t.co/yzOjsJAEM6 @UofCr4kids @UCalgaryArts @proftyler_chs

[Keith Humphreys @KeithNHumphreys]

Spoke with @Thomas__Graham about China's role in the fentanyl trade.
https://t.co/PcrBYx960t

[Addiction Journal @AddictionJrnl]

Excess mortality following discharge from substance use disorder treatment in Chile https://t.co/LO6FERXYxf

[Silvana De Pirro @SilDePi]

@wkepner @KeithNHumphreys Agree :)

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

You don’t have to answer a question to make progress; it’s more than enough to formulate one well.

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Control over the many small muscles that create facial expressions—a key communication channel in primates—comes from the neural circuitry that produces voluntary movements, according to new Science research in macaques.

The findings suggest facial expressions are more than a reflexive “readout” of emotions, as has been often thought, but are also produced by higher-level cortical neural systems of intentional control. https://t.co/bn69FPvowq

[Keith Humphreys @KeithNHumphreys]

In the new episode of @hubermanlab, Andrew and I talk about the roots of and solutions to addiction, whether moderate drinking improves health, and also a bit how we all face death. https://t.co/rAcYi07NzV

[Keith Humphreys @KeithNHumphreys]

Today in @ScienceMagazine my colleagues and I address the mystery of why opioid overdoses in the US and Canada suddenly began dropping dramatically. We assemble traditional and novel evidence to point to an illicit drug supply disruption, probably in China. 1/8

[IDPC @IDPCnet]

🌱 Women coca growers in Colombia are essential to the coca economy — yet regularly sidelined by government programmes.

Drug policies must recognise their labour, safety, and economic autonomy.

Learn more: https://t.co/DmM0o3MdU7 #EVAWUD2025

[Rune Ellefsen @RuneEllefsen3]

New article: "Relational hope and despair: heroin-assisted treatment as experienced by the patients’ family members"
Findings emphasize how treatment impacts both the individual receiving care and their family members
https://t.co/HHM5PrMjjr

[Silvana De Pirro @SilDePi]

Very interesting article on The NYT on Drug Policy and Fentanyl - https://t.co/DhBhfg0Ji0 via @NYTOpinion

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

Researchers with lived experience of mental illness or SUDs bring vital expertise & insight to our field, yet remain underrepresented and face barriers to participation and leadership.

This Perspective from @UmaRChatterjee, @SchumerMaya, @devin_effinger, @viscidula, @noelvest, Michael Cahill, @BStaglin, @EricJNestler calls for breaking these barriers and proposes actionable strategies to build more inclusive environments by reforming admissions, mentorship, and leadership pathways.

https://t.co/0OiWDFJO47

[Addiction Journal @AddictionJrnl]

Socio-economic differences in the effectiveness of pharmacotherapy use in alcohol use disorder: A cohort study of 148 626 individuals in Sweden https://t.co/Lh9sJ9lTGV

[Imaging Neuroscience @ImagingNeurosci]

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Jeanette A. Mumford, Russell A. Poldrack, et al:

Unintended bias in the pursuit of collinearity solutions in fMRI analysis

https://t.co/gJqDYdWpnq