Asst Prof at MCW. Substance use, neuro, genetics, & development. NIAAA K99/R00. Rock climber & dad https://xitter.cf/t.co/JjCpVpp5ON
Milwaukee, WI
Joined July 2008
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I am recruiting a postdoc to study the neurobiology of addiction! Looking for someone who would be excited to lead current projects in the lab and develop new directions in related areas. More info: bearlab.science/opportunitie…
New work from us, with one possible answer to the question "What to do about the low reliability of task fMRI?"
Enhancing task fMRI individual difference research with neural signatures medrxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #medRxiv
I'm shutting down @PsyArXiv_bot_v2 until further notice. You can still get #Psyarxiv notifications on @bluesky.
Question for my fellow task #fMRI folks: A frequent assumption I see (including in my own work) is that regions that are the most 'activated' in a contrast will also show the largest associations with individual differences. Is there any empirical work showing this is the case?
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Remember back in 2022, when we didn't need to worry about a 2nd Trump Presidency, but were concerned about how many participants it would take to map links between personality & brain activity? (cf work by @smarek0502 & @ndosenbach)
We have good news 👇
nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
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Excited to share that this manuscript has now been published @NatMentHealth! nature.com/articles/s44220-0…
PREPRINT ALERT! We conducted a PheWAS testing associations between latent psychopathology polygenic scores (PRS) and >1,200 phenotypes in ABCD! Thanks to @karcher_dr, Ryan Bogdan, @BarchDbarch, @e_covey_johnson, @AlexanderHatoum, @SMCColbert, @GorelikAaron, @David_Baranger (1/8)
Woo another fun collab in the books! Enjoyed getting comfortable with multilevel log-linear models for this one.
🥳New pub! Kappa opioid receptor agonists are clinically effective in treating chronic itch, but how do they work? We've found which neurons carry itch from the spinal cord to the brain and show kappa agonists inhibit these cells to suppress scratching 🦟 science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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🔬The Sheahan Lab at MCW is looking for a research technician! This position is great for someone interested in gaining more neuroscience experience in the realm of itch/pain prior to applying for graduate or medical school. Please share! More info here: careers.peopleclick.com/care…
I've gotten multiple questions about how to visualize white matter tracts with the ABCD, but I don't think there's an easy way. Is it time for a ggsegAtlasTrack?
Spin tests and such are great if you're comparing brain maps of distributions (mean/variance/etc). But if the maps are from regressions - use permutations!! Better error control, and can be applied to any measure type (volume, connectivity, white matter), not just the surface.
We had the less common experience of going on the academic job market as couple. @tayler_sheahan and I wrote some reflections and advice about how we once again navigated our "two body problem". Hope it's helpful! davidbaranger.com/2024/08/06…
We're heading to Milwaukee!
So stoked to be able to share that I'll be joining the Medical College of Wisconsin @MedicalCollege as a TT Asst Prof and opening my lab in July 2025!
Keep an eye out for more from the Brain, Environment, and Addictions Research (BEAR) Lab! 1/4
I owe so much to the mentors and colleagues who supported me along the way - thank you all!!! And a particularly huge thanks to Ryan Bogdan @BRAINLab_WUSTL, who has been a pillar of my career and so generous with his time and resources. 3/4
Our article exploring the neurobiological correlates of prenatal cannabis exposure is now out! "Prenatal cannabis exposure, the brain, and
psychopathology during early adolescence" rdcu.be/dMJqH
Earlier thread on the preprint: xitter.cf/David_Baranger/status/…
Some of the figures have improved, but the results are the same!
New preprint! Prenatal cannabis is associated with worse adolescent mental health. Could this be because of an effect on brain development? medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Check our latest work where we assess the reliability of longitudinal MRI based data and the effect of follow-up time, number of observations, sample characteristics, and preprocessing pipeline
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
