Today marks 3 big events: finishing residency, launching my lab
@MountSinaiPsych
@SinaiBrain
, & receiving my 1st R01:
@NIMHgov
$4.2M BRAINS Award! Here’s to kicking off new beginnings + a warm welcome to my lab manager
@sam_mbp_
, grad student
@emma_andraka
& the growing team!🧠🐁
I’m excited to announce I’ve accepted a position at
@IcahnMountSinai
@MountSinaiPsych
& will be officially opening my lab this summer as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry & Neuroscience! The Sweis Lab will be recruiting scientists at all levels! 🐁🧠
#newPI
👇
After 8yrs, 2 white coat ceremonies, a dissertation defense, match day, and 2 graduations, today, I completed the MD/PhD program! I’ve learned so much over the years, it makes my brain hurt. Thanks to everyone who has supported me! It has been real MN✌🏻hello NYC!👨🏻🔬👨🏻⚕️
#doubledocs
🚨📝New pub in
@BiologicalPsyc1
@SOBP
featuring a new 2-hit stress model. After chronic social defeat stress (1st hit), we challenged mice in a closed-economy system across months, where escalating budget constraints (2nd hit) can have dire consequences🧵👇
I’ve officially
#matched
into a
#psychiatry
residency program! I won’t know where officially until Friday but I’m excited for the next chapter! This 8-yr chapter in the MD/PhD program at the University of
#Minnesota
has been one hell of a journey! 🤓🧠🐁👨🏻⚕️👨🏻🔬
#umnproud
#doubledocs
Check out the 4th chapter in our
#neuroeconomics
story translated across species in
@sciencemagazine
! Subtle differences in deliberative & foraging processes reveal hidden aspects of information that is both processed & ignored, conserved across evolution
A huge congrats to
@BrianMSweis
, who has been selected to receive the 2022
@NIMHgov
Outstanding Resident Award! This award recognizes residents with outstanding research & academic potential.🙌
Learn more about the program:
Learn more about Dr. Sweis 👇
Honored to be part of this
@BWFUND
physician-scientist cohort! Exciting opportunity as I step into my role of
becoming an independent investigator. Thankful for the incredible amount of support from
@MountSinaiPsych
@SinaiBrain
& many mentors across institutions! 🧠🐁
#doubledocs
“What....wait what.........WHAT?!” <-me as I kept reading this abstract that keeps going and going and going 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 🧠 🦠. Ok, science. You win today.
I’ll be at
#ACNP2023
! I’m Brian Sweis, chief resident
@MountSinaiPsych
, past travel awardee, & I’ll be presenting 3 posters w/
@neuromano
&
@ables_lab
on
#neuroeconomic
🐭🐁 decision-making studies of aggression, energy balance in diabetes, & 🧠-wide imaging of regret processing!
It's me, hi 👋 Welcome to
#ACNP2023
If you'll be attending
@ACNPorg
, drop an introduction to help yourself & others connect 🔄
Share your name, your science, tell us if you're a first timer or regular, promote your poster/talk - whatever you'd like! 🧠
See you all soon! 😁
The 3rd chapter of our behavioral economics story is out!
@NatureComms
Abstinence from different drugs produce disruptions in distinct stages of the conflict between wanting highly desired rewards vs. seeking smarter alternatives
#addiction
#neuroeconomics
Check out our latest work in
@PNASNews
using optogenetics to augment separable aspects of neuroeconomic decision making via circuit-specific plasticity in the accumbens!
Congratulations to Dr.
@BrianMSweis
(PhD 2018), 2019 recipient of the "Best Dissertation Award" in the Biological and Life Sciences from
@UMN_GradSchool
!
Been a long journey. Definitely feel like I’ve earned my PhD. Thank you all for your support! Couldn’t have asked for better advisers than Mark Thomas and David Redish. Stay tuned for papers rolling out soon. Off to a little bit more of medical school!
@UMNeurosci
@UMN_MDTA
*New! Short & sweet review. 1st paper since joining the Cai lab last summer*
“Dynamic & heterogenous neural ensembles contribute to a memory engram”
Fun working w
@denisejcai
@MauseWhisperer
@SimaRabinowitz
on this!
Want an update engrams? See thread👇
Thank you
@animalsocaging
for funding the next stage of this pilot grant in collaboration with
@neuromano
exploring the neural correlates of social regret and neural representations of missed opportunities for social contact in health & disease!🐭 🧠
@MountSinaiPsych
@SinaiBrain
🚨📝New pre-print paper alert!!📢🚨 This project was an exciting collaboration w/
@ables_lab
led by now
@SinaiMSTP
student
@ChinoNwakama
characterizing altered decision-making strategies in a diabetic mouse model🩸🐭on our
#neuroeconomic
foraging task🧵👇
Check out the 5th paper in our
#neuroeconomics
story expanding the perspective of addiction as not only a storage disorder of learning & memory, but also a circuit-specific access disorder of decision-making information processing.
#computationalpsychiatry
Congrats to 2022 Pilot Project Awardee:
Brian Sweis -
@BrianMSweis
Brian uses a neuroeconomics approach to quantify how the physical limits of the brain give rise to biases in making complex choices.
Read more about the pilot project awardees here:
Check out the precursor to our
@PNASNews
paper in
@PLOSBiology
. Mice learn to avoid regret in a neuroeconomic task by switching from typical rodent foraging behaviors to a deliberative strategy independent of any additional gains in rewards
#neuroeconomics
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the 2019 Best Dissertation Award Winners! One graduate student from the arts & humanities, biological & life sciences, physical sciences & engineering, and social sciences & education, was chosen by faculty. 📝🏆
🧠🤓👨🏻🔬🐁➡️👨👩👧👦👨🏻⚕️Excited to be awarded a 2yr
@UMN_CTSI
grant to translate my PhD discoveries into the clinic during my final years of med school! An awesome funding mechanism to bridge MD/PhD training!
#doubledocs
Computational Neuroeconomics in Addiction
Excited to present @ my 9th
#SfN
in my hometown this year! Looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones🧠🤓
#sfn19
Come see my poster Monday morning, BB27 (335.04): Human cocaine users, like cocaine-treated mice, display unique disruptions on a
#neuroeconomic
task
@MeganNantel
@AcademicChatter
I was told something similar by many individuals during my PhD....which ended up turning into 5 first author papers including one in Science and several best PhD awards. I have zero tolerance for negativity in academia. Let’s create a fun environment with obnoxious optimistism :)
I’m incredibly lucky to have
@KafuiDzirasa
as my mentor, ever since my 1st email w/ him in ‘17 after reading his article on redefining the path for
#physicianscientists
, <13min response time, in between flights, he helped kickstart the new research-track residency
@UMN_Psychiatry
Any neuroscientists out there looking for a post doc in NYC, I highly suggest you reach out to
@denisejcai
👇👇👇 🧠 🧠🧠 she has been an incredible mentor to me and many others 👏 🐁
📢 We’re recruiting neuroscience postdocs! 🧠
The Cai Lab is on a mission to unravel the neural processes behind memory stability and flexibility across the lifetime. If you’re interested in working in these areas, please send an intro and CV to denisecailab
@gmail
.com.
For those interested in research positions at all levels, including technician, graduate, and post-doctoral positions, for Summer 2024 and beyond, please don’t hesitate to reach out and message me! brian.sweis
@mountsinai
.org 📧
#hiring
#newPI
More information to come shortly!
My lab will investigate the behavioral & neural processes governing how the brain makes complex decisions, translating how such mechanisms are conserved across evolution & can contribute to mental illnesses, with a focus on applying principles of
#neuroeconomics
across species
Thanks for those who came by our first poster tonight
@ACNPorg
! Come check another 2 on Wed leveraging whole-brain tissue clearing & head-mounted
#miniscopes
to image HPC / AMG neural activity dynamics in vivo during economic decision-making! 🧠 🐭
@MountSinaiPsych
@SinaiBrain
I can’t endorse this enough! I’ve had the pleasure of working with
@FreddysonJ
since day 1 at Mount Sinai - actually even before I physically arrived there! Excited to see what’s to come in this next chapter
@UFNeuroscience
@UFMBI
!!! Congrats! 🎉 🎉🎉🎉🐭 🧠 👏
📢📍The Martínez-Rivera Lab focused on (Mal)adaptive & Neurobehavioral Plasticity is opening this summer/fall at
@UFNeuroscience
@UFMBI
. We'll be hiring at all levels, please share! Academia might not be perfect, but it gave me purpose in life. 🙌🏽 💫💎☀️🎉🐊
Fun fact: I made this “cover art” using Dall-E 2 w/ a few prompts like “mice waiting in line spending time for food” & after a few generative rounds, iteratively editing outputs & passing them back in, produced this lovely AI-based illustration 🖼️ 🐁
#OpenAI
@CommsBio
@SinaiBrain
Hey
#ACNP2022
! Don't miss
@BrianMSweis
's poster tonight between 5:30 and 7:30pm — some very cool data on decision-making and aggression:
"Poster M83 - Linking Brain-Wide Activity Patterns During Neuroeconomic Decision Making to Aggression"
Hope to see you there ☀️
Step 1: get Trader Joe’s cookie butter.
Step 2: melt and pour over ice cream.
Step 3: resume arctic weather shelf studying in a slightly better mood.
You’re welcome 🙃
1/2 Boards are over. On an extremely fun & one of my last rotations of med school catching a glimpse of what my career could look like - both seeing patients & doing research with them side by side. Getting my first weekend to finally relax in my new apartment 🥰 💆🏻♂️
#cueSimsmusic
Hey science twitter, what’s something outside of science you’re proud of / mastered / geek out 🤓 over? There’s this idea that being a long distance runner 🏃🏼♀️, musician 🎻, or something of the sort is predictive of
#grit
. Found this gem back home with the fam over the weekend🥋
Can’t thank the folks at
@DukePsychiatry
&
@DukeNeuro
for inviting me to speak at their Grand Rounds today! Special shout out to
@KafuiDzirasa
for being an amazing mentor and just a really cool guy. Plus, I’d come back for the food alone, let alone their science & medicine 🤤🧠🤓
Special thank you and congratulations to first-author
@neuromano
who continues to be an exceptional colleague and makes doing science together all the more thought provoking and fun!
🚨📝New pub in
@BiologicalPsyc1
@SOBP
featuring a new 2-hit stress model. After chronic social defeat stress (1st hit), we challenged mice in a closed-economy system across months, where escalating budget constraints (2nd hit) can have dire consequences🧵👇
1/ Do mice hallucinate? And how would we know? Answering this would help us to study the biological roots of psychotic illness.
🔥Our paper on hallucination-like perception in mice is out
@ScienceMagazine
🔥With MBosc
@OttTorben
@fitzsturgill
@KepecsLab
Go check out the
@UMNeurosci
booth at
#SfN2022
! I graduated in 2018 and had an absolutely amazing experience there with an incredible community! 🧠 Happy to answer any questions, feel free to DM me.
#UMNproud
@SfNtweets
That feeling when you get your 2nd R01...and on a Friday! 🙉🙊
Super excited about this one as we will be partnering with the fabulous
@kenkishida
and Read M to record neurotransmitters in awake humans receiving
#DBS
surgery
@SinaiBrain
!!!
#ComputationalPsychiatry
@NIMHgov