Ahmet O. Ceceli
Instructor @ Mt. Sinai. Studying the neuroscience of addiction, reward, habits, and some related things with NIDA K99.
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- Reposted by Ahmet O. Ceceli🚨 Prospects of GLP-1 Therapies for Addiction and Mental Health Comorbidities—Quo Vadis? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @jamapsychiatry.com
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- Wrapping up my 4th #ACNP while savoring this view. Grateful to the presenters as I learned a ton from the panels and posters at #acnp2026. Looking fwd to returning in 2027! @acnporg.bsky.social @sinaibrain.bsky.social
- 📸 One last favor: Share your favorite photo from the meeting and tag us! We’d love to see #ACNP2026 through your eyes. Until next year... stay inspired!
- Come talk addiction cogneuro (or anything else really...) with me at poster TH54 @5p! @acnporg.bsky.social @sinaibrain.bsky.social #acnp2026
- In attendance with the @narcatms.bsky.social lab! Excited to see old friends and meet new ones. And for everyone to check out poster TH54 on Thursday 5-7p where I'll talk about goals and habits in addiction! #acnp2026
- In attendance with the @narcatms.bsky.social lab! Excited to see old friends and meet new ones. And for everyone to check out poster TH54 on Thursday 5-7p where I'll talk about goals and habits in addiction! #acnp2026
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- Reposted by Ahmet O. CeceliThis paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!
- Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Ahmet O. CeceliThis is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
- Greater automaticity -> greater devaluation sensitivity?? my mind -> blown
- Reposted by Ahmet O. Ceceli"Socioeconomic status (SES) — not IQ or psychopathology — showed the strongest associations with both resting-state functional connectivity and cortical thickness in the ABCD Study." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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- Reposted by Ahmet O. CeceliAI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i... - my latest in @thetransmitter.bsky.social
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- Objective estimates of drug-biased behavior outperform subjective drug use measures in predicting addiction treatment outcomes?! Read more about it in our new paper in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social GOS w/ @nataliemcclain.bsky.social @narcatms.bsky.social et al! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Ahmet O. CeceliExcited to share our new GLP-1 receptor agonist study! Chronic semaglutide potentiates motivation for small food rewards and associated cues, but reduces intake when food is freely available—surprising twist! #GLP-1, #behavior #neuroscience #pharmacology 1/ 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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- Reposted by Ahmet O. CeceliNew lab paper: "Emotional learning selectively distorts the temporal organization of memory: A quantitative synthesis." Across 17 different studies, fear conditioning consistently distorted temporal source memory for information encoded before and after. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Ahmet O. Ceceli1/2 New open access paper in which we apply the Nyquist-Shannon thereom from signal processing to 2 EMA datasets to figure out the optimal sampling frequency for EMA assessments. 🧪 #psychscisky #statssky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Very interesting paper framing decision biases as habit-like choice repetitions. I wonder if any element of non reinforced preference change (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) is at work here.
- Very happy that this is out www.nature.com/articles/s44.... Together with @stefankiebel.bsky.social we show that decision biases in context-dependent decision making, previously attributed to different forms of value normalization, are very well explained by habit-like action repetition.
- Big thanks to @pnas.org Kudos for highlighting our work showing PFC recovery with methylphenidate + memory modulation in cocaine addiction www.growkudos.com/publications...
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- Reposted by Ahmet O. CeceliWe have at least TWO postdoctoral fellowship openings on our @unm.edu @casaa.bsky.social T32 NIAAA Training Grant, best consideration date for applications is Nov 15 2025. Join our phenomenal community and enjoy incredible quality of life in beautiful New Mexico. casaa.unm.edu/training/ins...
- Excited to share our new paper in @pnas.org!! Combining methylphenidate with memory updating (retrieval–extinction) normalized ventromedial prefrontal cortex function in people with cocaine addiction. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
- Reposted by Ahmet O. CeceliExcited to share this review in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social on using transfer learning to leverage large MRI datasets & enhance precision psychiatry!! www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000... Fun collab with rockstars @diawang.bsky.social @bttyeo.bsky.social @avramholmes.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ahmet O. CeceliOur new paper is out! It offers a tool to assess collinearity impact on contrast estimates *and* uses simulations + MID data to show how common collinearity avoidance strategies can bias results. Huge thanks to @russpoldrack.org , M Demidenko, and the ABCD folks. 🔗 direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
- Reposted by Ahmet O. CeceliNew paper out in cognition with @arikahn.bsky.social, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social, Cate Hartley, and @katenuss.bsky.social !! We show that children 👶 use predictive representations (e.g. SR) to guide their choices, providing an account of how they can make flexible choices in a changing world
- Reposted by Ahmet O. CeceliReally interesting work by Bakhurin and colleagues challenging the reward prediction error hypothesis of dopamine: www.nature.com/articles/s41... I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).
- Reposted by Ahmet O. CeceliMotivations are like emotions about (what we know about) possible outcomes. Sometimes incentives spur urgency to act, other times to comprehend. Neuromodulatory systems reflect these motivational moods and shape memories. Out now w @jiahou-poh.bsky.social! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
- Reposted by Ahmet O. CeceliExcited to share recent collaborative work led by Hayley Thorpe published in Molecular Psychiatry: Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Ahmet O. CeceliI will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle. Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit. share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...
- Overwhelmed (in the best way!), speechless, and many other adjectives..Thank you, @bbrfoundation.bsky.social for propelling my research in addiction neuroscience with the 2025 Young Investigator Award + thanks as always to @narcatms.bsky.social and Mount Sinai for the unwavering support!
- Reposted by Ahmet O. CeceliNeat registered report from @mattmattoni.bsky.social @dvsmith.bsky.social @mindimager.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social diving into the tension between nomothetic (group-level) v. idiographic (individual specific) in functional connectivity models. #Neuroskyence direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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- Reposted by Ahmet O. CeceliOk, reinforcement learning fans: RL is great, but what do we do when there's no obvious reward from the environment? What about perfecting a golf swing or a foxtrot or a musical performance? We may have an answer. A tale of 🐦 🎶 + 🧠. 🧵1/ #bioacoustics #prattle 💬 #neuroai #compneuro
- I am happy to share our new preprint! In this work, we proposed a theory about how zebra finches bootstrap their error signals for self-guided RL via predictive coding 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Ahmet O. CeceliOnline #fMRI course coming up August 6-8! 3-day intensive with lectures and hands-on analysis for all skill levels. #SPM, #ICA, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love teaching this course and meeting students from all areas! Info+Reg here: sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...
- A colossal effort from the NARC lab: we reviewed the recent advances in drug addiction research from the lens of the impaired response inhibition and salience attribution model. A one stop shop for theory, severity, recovery, and novel directions. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Super excited to contribute to this book with our chapter "Enhancing Ecological Validity in Habit Research via Naturalistic Methods" (with Elizabeth Tricomi). Thanks, @dvsmith.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, and @dfareri.bsky.social for organizing! osf.io/preprints/ps...
- 🚨📚 New book! I’m thrilled to share that our edited volume, Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions (Springer Nature), will be out later this year. Co-edited with @thepsychologist.bsky.social and @dfareri.bsky.social — huge thanks to all our brilliant contributors. 🧵 (1/12)
