Gio Ramos, PhD
@El_GioRamos
Assistant Professor of Clinical Science @UCBerkeley | Researching mental health inequities, culturally robust care, & digital mental health treatments
Max Garduño, a PhD student at @UCIrvine, credits his colleagues and donors for his development as a neuroscientist. His current research focuses on natural animal models for Alzheimer’s disease. Learn more about him and his research, as well as his work with @UCI_NeurCircuit.
Meet Max Garduño, a UCI neuroscience Ph.D. student and CNCM team member, whose journey from a childhood dream to groundbreaking Alzheimer’s research exemplifies perseverance. His work with natural animal models offers promising insights. Full article: news.uci.edu/2025/06/27/ach…
Only a few short weeks until hashtag#ISRII13 in San Diego. This week we are going to highlight some of the sessions we are really excited about. Check out the conference program here (lnkd.in/gKcs6edM) and don't forget to register!
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FORTHCOMING Anime, Religion, and Theology bloomsbury.com/us/anime-relig… Chapter Two contains my essay The Rose in the Castle: The Marian Feminism of Revolutionary Girl Utena
Grateful to be in DC to participate in the 2025 APA Think Tank on Educational Equity and Workforce Development. PS: My professional outfit screams, “business in the front, party in the back”
See you there!
Are you an #ECR attending the #ISRII13 conference? Make sure you add these events to your calendar. This is your opportunity to meet and connect with other #ECRs working in #DigitalHealth from across the world! Aren't registered yet..go to isrii.org/isrii-13th-sci…
We’re lucky to have had such an impressive group of T32 postdoctoral fellows this year! ✨ 📖 Read the story below to get to know our fellows and discover how they plan to build on their inspiring work in the next phase of their professional journeys tinyurl.com/5yh8dd76
Great new paper by @js_yarrington comparing engagement and perceived helpfulness of six different digital cognitive/behavioral interventions. Free download link good through Sept 3. on next slide
Congrats to lab member @hadarfisher and her new paper showing that emotion rigidity (assessed via EMA) in youth predicts future depressive symptoms over a 2 year follow-up.
🚨New paper on emotion rigidity as a risk factor for future depression now out in BRAT! Thanks to @ChrisWebbPhD, @DiegoPizzagalli, and the awesome Tedylab team, @NigelJaffe , KristinaPidvirny, and @AnnaTierney8 for wonderful teamwork! 🙌 Free50d access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lRqe1KMdl0p0
Transdiagnostic-focused apps produce comparable effect sizes to disorder-specific apps — our new meta in @npjDigitalMed
What if we did not need so many specialized health apps? What if transdiagnostic apps that can help across many conditions worked just as well? New review led by @j_linardon has the answer-transdiagnostic as good as specialized apps! Free in @npjDigitalMed nature.com/articles/s4174…
This might be a long shot, but would anyone want to collab on a systematic review looking at internalized racism and Black youth mental health? I just wrote one for my comps, but it's gonna need work to be published. DM me if interested! #blackinpsych
Smartphones can help people stay healthy by monitoring their sleep, steps and heart rate, but they also can help reveal issues tied to mental health, new research shows. In a study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers from the University of Michigan @umichLSA, University…
bueno bueno, defendimos (hace un tiempito ya) la disertación titulada "Exploring the Lived Experiences of Immigrant Afrolatina High School Students" en Inglés y en Español ya que las respuestas de mis estudiantes fueron en español 🥳
Digital health tools need user engagement to work well. In this new review/consensus statement, we 1) lack of agreed-upon metrics for engagement, 2) lack of evidence on how better engagement improves outcomes, and 3) lack of standards for user involvement. nature.com/articles/s4174…
💫Hiring a research coordinator💫 The Research on Excessive Persistent and Emotion-based Actions and Traits (REPEAT) Lab in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University is recruiting to fill a Clinical Research Coordinator position. 1/7🧵
New paper by Cheri Levinson and her team with myself and Michelle Craske describing an effort to develop a digital therapeutic for eating disorders
Hey, need to learn the fundamentals of machine learning for your work? Check out this livestream workshop by @jeffreymgirard and @ShirleyBWang It runs from July 14th-17th, 930am-430pm EDT and is very popular. Last few days to sign up! smart-workshops.com/ml-info
@UCBerkeley researchers have unveiled the Berkeley Humanoid Lite, an open-source, 3D‑printed compact humanoid robot designed to make robotics accessible for beginners, educators, hobbyists and small labs. Read more: bit.ly/4lhVOcn #Robotics #OpenSource @UCBerkeleyEECS
«TIERRA, SANGRE, CONOCIMIENTO: SOBRE EL MOVIMIENTO DE LA TIERRA» ha ganado los premios como: ⭐ Mejor Manga del Año ⭐ Mejor Manga de Suspenso ⭐ Mejor Anime de Suspenso ⭐ Mejor Guión En el evento Japan Expo 2025, que se está llevando a cabo en Francia. 🇫🇷 #CHI
On this July 4, liberate the field from cross-sectional “mediation analysis” - check out this new paper discussing an alternative. I bet it’s an instant classic. My sense is that folks continue bad practices bc they don’t know what else to do. This helps psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-35…