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Congratulations to the poster prize winners at this year's Annual Retreat - Anja Torsvik, @KiraHoeffler and Alina Sartorius 🎉 Impressive work on gene expression in mental illness, epigenetics in schizophrenia, and evolution of oxytocin genes 🧬

We’re looking for a new research assistant at the KG Jebsen Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (KGJ Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders) 🧠 If you’re fluent in Norwegian and English and interested in neurodevelopmental disorders you should check out this position 👉 jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillin…

New preprint🥳 An evolutionary timeline of the oxytocin signaling pathway osf.io/42b8g We show that ancient oxytocin pathway genes support cellular processes in humans. More recent genes sustain adaptive functions, bone preservation & are upregulated in the brain. 🧵⬇️

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We just finished our lab’s first ‘paper in a day’ event in collaboration with Dr. Claudia Barth (Dr. Claudia Barth (@nifti12.bsky.social).bsky.social) 🎉 Together we wrote over 5000 words today! Great job Alina Sartorius, @nifti12, Heemin Kang, Emilie Kildal, Ben Glaser + @kristin_aud (joining us remotely)

My second PhD paper is out today in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience🥳 Based on covariance in functional brain networks, we derived replicable dimensions of psychopathology in a developmental clinical sample. [1/9] doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.…

New preprint! 🎉 osf.io/cbjxd/ Oxytocin is known for its role in social cognition, but are its effects exclusive to the social domain? To help answer this question, Heemin Kang led a meta-analysis (and created a web app!) investigating oxytocin's non-social effects 🧵

New paper alert 🚨 In this study we investigated the brain processes supporting clinician empathy and how it affects pain, using fMRI hyperscanning 🧠🧠 pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107… Vitaly Napadow Arvina Grahl Alessandra Anzolin (she/her) and others @ the amazing hyperscanning team at MGH Martinos Center

In our new preprint led by Bernt Glaser, we introduce the ESDist R package for calculating field-specific effect size distributions for better understanding the magnitude of study results and for planning new studies. Let me walk you through it... 🧵 osf.io/preprints/psya…

Our new paper on the interplay of oxytocin & sex hormones is now published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 🎉 doi.org/10.1016/j.neub… We used evolutionary, developmental, mechanistic & survival perspectives to unravel how sex hormones facilitate oxytocin's diverse roles